Canzona, Passamezzo & Capriccio

Johann Vierdanck (battezzato il 5 febbraio 1605 - 1646) Canzona, Passamezzo [4:33] & Capriccio [11:56]. Parnassi musici: Margaret MacDuffie, Matthias Fischer e Wolfgang Greser, violini; Stephan Schrader, violoncello; Sergio Azzolini, fagotto; France Beaudry-Wichmann, contrabbasso; Hubert Hoffmann, arciliuto; Martin Lutz, organo e clavicembalo.

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Literaturkritik.de: Essay- Die Verknüpfung der alltäglichen mit der phantastischen Welt. Zahlreiche Neuerscheinungen würdigen den 200. Todestag von E.T.A. Hoffmann – von Manfred Orlick

Literaturkritik.de: Essay- Die Verknüpfung der alltäglichen mit der phantastischen Welt. Zahlreiche Neuerscheinungen würdigen den 200. Todestag von E.T.A. Hoffmann – von Manfred Orlick

Literaturkritik.de: Die Verknüpfung der alltäglichen mit der phantastischen Welt. Zahlreiche Neuerscheinungen würdigen den 200. Todestag von E.T.A. Hoffmann – von Manfred Orlick Hördauer ca. 35 Minuten) https://literaturradiohoerbahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Literaturkritik-Orlick-ETA-Hoffmann-upload.mp3 „Die Wochentage bin ich Jurist und höchstens etwas Musiker, sonntags am Tage wird…

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1990s German Trance Playlist (YouTube)

Chicago had house, Detroit had techno, and with both of those world-changing dance genres managing to resonate so profoundly throughout much of Europe, you just knew that that continent was gonna then take all that inspiration from those two styles and eventually create something of their own that could stick too. And the big genre that they came up with was trance, which in its earliest days, was heavily nurtured like no other in the city of Frankfurt, Germany.

Now, although he's not strictly known as a trance musician or DJ, it's safe to say that trance music would not exist in its current form if it weren't for the legendary Sven Väth. Sven, a native of Frankfurt, co-founded Harthouse Records in the early 90s with some other folks, and that label would then prove integral to both the rise and spread of trance and hard trance. Sven was someone who had spent many a vacation in the party capital of the world, Ibiza, Spain, and he had also been to the tiny, coastal Indian state of Goa as well, where the beach parties there had DJs spinning all sorts of psychedelic tunes in order to induce their revelers into a state of trance 😵.

And Harthouse's first release was a trance record by Sven himself, along with his trusty sidekick Ralf Hildenbeutel, who seemed to have more of the technological knowhow in order to make Sven's ideas into a reality. Together, under the name of Barbarella, they released "My Name Is Barbarella," a 1992 song that sampled a line of dialogue from the French-directed Jane Fonda sci-fi flick that they had taken their own name from, and also sounded deeply inspired by Ibiza as well. As an undisputed early trance classic, the 9-plus minute version of this one is currently sitting at over 163,000 plays across a bunch of different uploads on YouTube, and it's the song that kicks off this little ten-song playlist here.

And right after "My Name Is Barbarella" then came another Harthouse classic: "Spectrum," by Metal Master, which was a duo that Sven Väth was also a part of, along with one of Harthouse's other co-founders, Matthias Hoffmann. The record that this song comes from, Vol. 1, is the one that started to establish Harthouse's harder edge towards trance, as its first Barbarella release was actually a much softer affair. True to the name that they'd given themselves, Sven and Matthias seem to have incorporated some metal guitar into this one, in the form of long, atmospheric, and distorted chords, which when combined with string synths, really manage to cinch the whole song together, making for quite an astounding piece of dance music 🤩. Currently nearing 112,000 plays with its multiple uploads on YouTube.

But while those two tracks are wholly important in the history of trance music, I also bring them up here because Sven Väth's other halves from both of those duos happen to have trance tunes of their own that are excellent too. Ralf Hildenbeutel had a song that's really hard to believe was made all the way back in 1993—because it sounds so much more modern!—called "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)," which he released as Progressive Attack. As its title suggests, this one is indeed hypnotic, as well as deep, and more than any tune in this playlist that precedes it, also feels like a blueprint for what trance would soon become. And across multiple YouTube uploads, it currently has under 18,000 plays.

And Matthias Hoffmann's contribution is simply one of the most breathtaking pieces of trance that I've ever heard in my life. Back in 1994, he released a song as Brainchild called "Symmetry (C-Mix)," which was put out on another label that he and Sven Väth had also helped co-found called Eye Q Records, which was closely associated with Harthouse itself. Then in '99, "Symmetry C" was re-released on Multiply Records, a subsidiary of UK label Telstar, and on it came a whole bunch of remixes, including a "Breakbeat Remix" that was done by the UK's Lange. And this is a tune that currently brings the whole playlist full circle too, as it serves as the final song while also taking us back to trance's origin point of Frankfurt. Currently sitting at over 341,000 YouTube plays across many different uploads.

Now, we're almost done here, but I'd be remiss if I didn't, at the very least, make mention of a few more tracks on this thing, all of which come courtesy of Hardfloor, a duo from Cologne, who, although they'd become more known for their techno prowess, applied their mastery of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer (the machine that yields electronic music's famed acid squelch) to some trance tracks, including "Trancescript" and "Into the Nature," both of which appear on their acclaimed 1993 debut album, TB Resuscitation. "Trancescript" is currently at under 85,000 plays and "Into the Nature" has over 130,000. And I also included an excellent remix that they did of Chicago native Robert Armani's "Circus Bells" as well, which currently has over 146,000 plays.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible.

Barbarella - "My Name Is Barbarella" Metal Master - "Spectrum" Hardfloor - "Trancescript" Hardfloor - "Into the Nature" Robert Armani - "Circus Bells (Remixed by Hardfloor)" Marco Zaffarano - "For My Love" Progressive Attack - "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)" Paul van Dyk - "Words (PvD's Words for Love Mix)" Pitchrider - "I Know" Brainchild - "Symmetry C (Lange Breakbeat remix)"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music too.

So with this opening shot, we start with ten songs that clock in at a total of 75 minutes; a bunch of classic, historic tunes along with some that have lower play counts too.

And next week will not be nearly as much of a cohesive history lesson, but I'm planning on revisiting these German 90s with a slate of favorite techno bangers 👀.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

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ebertplatz // köln neustadt nord

the non-functional escalators at the ebertplatz entrances were transformed into very different works of art some time ago. this one, entitled "polemoskop", is by matthias hoffmann (mho), tim panzer (current practice), jan rothstein and wiebke schlüter (swstudio) and was completed in 2019.

camera: canon a-1 with canon fd 28mm

film: agfa apx 100

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Johann Vierdanck (1605-1646) - 00:00 - Canzona in C major           [Track01] 04:33 - Passamezzo in A minor    [Track07] 11:56 - Capriccio in C major          [Track20]

Parnassi musici : (Margaret MacDuffie, Matthias Fischer, Wolfgang Greser - violin Stephan Schrader - cello Sergio Azzolini - bassoon France Beaudry-Wichmann - double bass Hubert Hoffmann - arciliuto Martin Lutz - organ & harpsichord

La Musica E Vita

Elias, Op. 70, MWV A25, Pt. 1: Aber der Herr sieht es nicht by Hamburger Camerata, Matthias Hoffmann-Borggrefe & Kantorei St. Nikolai https://www.shazam.com/track/218187853/elias-op-70-mwv-a25-pt-1-aber-der-herr-sieht-es-nicht?referrer=share

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Kürzlich noch die Motörhead Graphic Novel gelesen und jetzt bin ich bei “Zur Sonne” von Katja Klengel, Matthias Lehmann, Nina Hoffmann, Sascha Herrmann. Erschienen im April 2023 bei Reprodukt. #zursonne #katjaklengel #comic #graphicnovel #lesen #bookstagram #germanbookstagram #instagood #picoftheday #photography #art #bücher #book #photooftheday #matthiaslehmann #bremen #ninahoffmann #drawing…

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Adam Beyer, B-Zet and YORK Remix Zyon’s Iconic 1992 Single ‘No Fate’

A collective formed by dance music heavyweights Sven Väth, Matthias Hoffmann and Steffen Britzake (B-Zet), Zyon were one of the first electronic acts to grace the iconic Eye Q Records, gaining immediate worldwide acclaim for their 1992 hit No Fate. The trance offering became a staple amongst the electronic music community, and following a cover by Scooter in 1997, it was clear that the record’s…

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Inventions, Vol. 7, Pages 46: Incorporating Human Preferences in Decision Making for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization in Model Predictive Control

Inventions, Vol. 7, Pages 46: Incorporating Human Preferences in Decision Making for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization in Model Predictive Control

Inventions, Vol. 7, Pages 46: Incorporating Human Preferences in Decision Making for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization in Model Predictive Control Inventions doi: 10.3390/inventions7030046 Authors: Thomas Schmitt Matthias Hoffmann Tobias Rodemann Jürgen Adamy We present a new two-step approach for automatized a posteriori decision making in multi-objective optimization problems, i.e.,…

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1990s Trance Playlist

I've been sort of pecking around the edges over the last bunch of weeks at the Harthouse Records catalog, but this week, to close out 2023, I'm finally diving right into its gooey muck and providing a bunch of tunes that really helped to make the label what it was: a pioneering trance music juggernaut 😤. Trance music really started to find its underground global audience in the late 90s, but the bridge to get it to that point—with its Tiëstos and Armin van Buurens and such—partially originates from the German city of Frankfurt, where Harthouse was originally headquartered, and first opened its doors in 1991.

Co-founded by the legendary Sven Väth, the label would issue its debut release in February of 1992, with a 12-inch called "My Name Is Barbarella," by Barbarella, which was a duo that consisted of Väth himself and his constant recording partner, Ralf Hildenbeutel. A good way to think of the relationship and dynamic between these two as producers is that of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Sven was basically the ideas man and Ralf then found ways to make those ideas into sonic reality. And with "My Name Is Barbarella," which sampled one of Jane Fonda's lines from the film that it was itself named after, we get a super chill tune that was clearly inspired by Sven's own summer holidays spent on the island of Ibiza, which throughout the 80s had developed itself into the undisputed party capital of the world 😌. This full version of the song is an early trance classic and it's currently sitting at over 115,000 plays on Spotify.

Another Väth tune that I added, though, is Metal Master's "Spectrum," which can be found on Harthouse's second-ever release, Vol. 1. Väth made this song with another one of the label's co-founders, Matthias Hoffmann, and true to the duo's name, it seems to incorporate slow, distorted, and majestic metal guitar into its production in order to form its own excellent lead melody 🤘. And this track, which is sitting at over 63,000 plays on Spotify, is another trance classic, but it is much less chill than "My Name Is Barbarella."

In addition to those couple tracks, I also added a few tunes from one of Harthouse's earliest signings, Hardfloor, a duo from Cologne who would soon become known as the master manipulators of the Roland TB-303 bass synthesizer, the machine that yields electronic dance music's famous acid squelch sound, which originated with mid-80s Chicago's own acid house scene. Hardfloor would go on to become far more known for their techno and tech-house exploits, but they also made trance tunes too, and in March of 1993, they released "Trancescript," soon followed by their debut album, TB Resuscitation, which had both "Trancescript" and another banger on it called "Into the Nature." And then in October of that same year, their popular remix of Robert Armani's "Circus Bells" would appear on a 12-inch that was put out on Dutch label Djax-Up-Beats. "Trancescript" has over 172,000 plays, "Into the Nature" has over 68,000, and that "Circus Bells" remix has over 407,000.

And to close out things on the Spotify side, I added a solo tune from Ralf Hildenbeutel as well, "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)," which he released in 1993 under the name of Progressive Attack. This deep, underappreciated stunner is the one add this week that truly feels most like a blueprint for what would become trance's future. Like, it kind of feels unbelievable that it's actually from 1993, when its vibe could fit on plenty of late 90s trance mixes. And it's the most obscure Spotify add of the week too, as it's currently only sitting at a little over 1,000 plays 😲. Soak it in!

Barbarella - "My Name Is Barbarella" Metal Master - "Spectrum" Hardfloor - "Trancescript" Hardfloor - "Into the Nature" Robert Armani - "Circus Bells (Remixed by Hardfloor)" Progressive Attack - "Hypnoticharmony (Part II)"

But folks, we're not done yet, because there are a couple tunes that I added to the YouTube version of this playlist too, which can't be found on Spotify at all. One of them comes courtesy of Stuttgart, Germany's Marco Zaffarano, who released a song called "For My Love" in 1993 on a Harthouse 12-inch called Minimalism Vol. IV. This song magnificently contrasts and pairs heavenly strings and other synth work with much deeper, ravey, pulsating, acid-addled stabs, and across its bunch of YouTube uploads, it currently has over 38,000 plays.

And the other YouTube add comes from Rotterdam's incredible Speedy J, who isn't really known for being a trance musician, but in '95, came through on Harthouse with an 11-minute track called "Fusion Live." And despite Speedy being a pretty well-known electronic musician, this tremendously constructed song of his only has a little over 900 YouTube plays.

Marco Zaffarano - "For My Love" Speedy J - "Fusion Live"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music as well.

So with this latest update, the Spotify version of this playlist is now at 19 songs with a total runtime of 2 hours and 36 minutes, but over on YouTube and YouTube Music, we have 25 songs that clock in at nearly 3 hours. So if you want the playlist that has a handful of more and rare goodies on it, check out the YouTube one!

Glad to get an important dose of history onto this thing. Next week we'll dip back into more Harthouse tunes, but we'll be turning our attention to a specific subgenre of trance that the label also happened to pioneer: hard trance.

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

Will you be there? Tomorrow morning?  Of course. Is there anything else I can do for you?  That's my mother’s address. Could you write to her that I took it like a man?