Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Harthouse 1-6




Chapter 1: the Point of No Return 1993
Tracklisting:1 Spicelab Quicksand (3:28) 2 Metal Master Spectrum (6:41) 3 Marco Zaffarano MZ 5 (6:32) 4 Hardfloor Acperience 1 (8:58) 5 Overboust Tribal Groovy Hartbeat (6:41) 6 Arpeggiators Freedom Of Expression (5:28) 7 Spicelab Spicecowboy (6:30) 8 Pulsation It's So Simple To Do (5:40) 9 Futurhythm Butoh (5:45) 10 Spicelab Amorph (6:08) 11 Arpeggiators Xenophobe (5:11) 12 Marco Zaffarano MZ 2 (3:31) 13 Pulsation Pulsar (4:06)


Chapter 2: Dedicated to the Omen 1994
Tracklisting:1 Marco Zaffarano Clapconfusion (MZ 8) (5:00) 2 Spicelab The Spirit Of Fear (9:10) 3 Frankfurt-Tokio-Connection Astralis (5:12) 4 Cybordelics Adventure Of Dama (8:30) 5 Pulse Mikado (10:45) 6 Arpeggiators X-plain The Un-x-plained (5:42) 7 Resistance D Human (6:35) 8 Aurin Mecon (6:21) 9 Jiri.Ceiver Multiplex (6:20) 10 Progressive Attack The Secrets Of Love (6:45) 11 Curare Schneller Pfeil (7:21)


Chapter 3: Axis of Vision 1994
Tracklisting:1 Infinite Aura C-Trance (6:33) 2 Resistance D Airwalker (6:33) 3 Cybordelics Alice In Wonderland (9:06) 4 Marco Zaffarano Supernova (7:31) 5 Arpeggiators Discover Your Innerself (6:01) 6 Essence Of Nature, The Blue Lotus (7:17) 7 Braincell Shapechanger (6:43) 8 Jiri.Ceiver D51F2 (8:50) 9 Hardfloor Into The Nature (Hardfloor Remix) (7:48) 10 Ambush, The Ambush 2 (8:08)





Chapter 4: Global Virus 1995
Tracklisting:1 Spicelab Pyrospice (7:17) 2 Afrotrance Spiritual Energy (6:50) 3 Patrick Lindsey Torment (8:33) 4 Eternal Basement Taking Place In You (9:00) 5 Pulse Soul Hunter (9:29) 6 Resistance D Skyline (Eternal Basement Mix) (9:30) 7 Koxbox Acid Volume 3 (8:14) 8 Synesthasia Slope (Dub Mix) (7:03) 9 Hardfloor Fish & Chips (8:27)


Chapter 5: Bitter Fruits 1995
Tracklisting:1 Jiri.Ceiver Loom 1 (9:00) 2 Goldfish Rotor (6:22) 3 Alter Ego Soulfree (Luke Slater's Ortoe Circuit Rework) (9:23) 4 Spicelab We Got Spice (Humate Remix) (7:48) 5 Synesthasia Venom (Edit) (7:35) 6 Koxbox Insect (9:23) 7 Patrick Lindsey Engagement (7:06) 8 Eternal Basement Kraft (8:16) 9 Pulse Move (Oliver Lieb Remix) (7:42)


Chapter 6: Six Flags 1995
Tracklisting:1 Hardfloor Mahogany Roots (360 Sound Version) (07:08) 2 Soap Bouodulee Part I (09:04) 3 Braincell Higher Center (08:23) 4 Hippies With Altitude Heather's Trax (11:58) 5 Synesthasia Reptil (08:01) 6 Synthetic Progress Acid Future (12:10) 7 Virtual Symmetry Information (Original Version) (08:23) 8 Patrick Lindsey Nerv Crush (08:31)

Harthouse is a German record label specializing in techno music; during the early 1990s it was one of the biggest labels in the "techno-trance" scene that was the precursor to modern trance music. The label has been responsible for many success stories in the electronic world including Oliver Lieb, Eternal Basement, Hardfloor, Sven Väth and Koxbox. The company was founded by Sven Väth in the early 1990s. Harthouse took on the techno trend and explored the darker, more pulsating flavors of this music, soon becoming one of the front-figures of European techno. Like Väth, the Harthouse artists soon chose a more intellectual approach to music compared to some of the more rave- and party-oriented electronic music at that time. Tracks were long and abstract, with unpredictable rhythms and strange "alien" sounds.

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