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Fluoreszent is the new solo album by Cologne based artist Hans Nieswandt and his third for Hamburg's Bureau B label. Hans Nieswandt is a long standing and highly respected key figure in the music scene of Cologne, of Germany and beyond. As a pioneering DJ since the mid-eighties, as writer and editor for the mighty Spex magazine in the early nineties, and as a music producer, solo and with his group Whirlpool Productions, he helped shape the Sound Of Cologne from the mid-nineties onward. A lot of his musical work at that time took place in the studio owned by legendary band CAN. With his 12-year-running, weekly radio mix show 'Elektronische Melodien' on WDR (the Cologne radio station that built the first studio for electronic music in the 1950s) he suffused generations of listeners with cutting edge electronic music both old and new. Having left Germany to live in Seoul in late 2019, Hans Nieswandt suddenly found a lot of time to check back and immerse himself in all the forms of music that shaped him ever since he was a little glam rock kid in the early seventies -- before becoming a hippie boy, then a punk, then a house head. Now he is all these things rolled into one and the time has come for a proper, new solo album having released mainly collections of remixes, edits and cover versions over the last 20 years. Recorded in 2024 in Seoul, you will find on Fluoreszent ten shiny, fresh, joyous songs taking you to many wonderful places; from Kraut to goth, synth wave to art pop, cosmic to comic -- and all the way to the end of the rainbow. Important contributions came from unexpected sides: legendary German krautrock drummer Wolfgang Seidel gave him permission to use a lot of his beat recordings, a connection was made by Seoul-based German free music pioneer Alfred Harth, (who also took the album cover photo), more drums came from Philipp Janzen of the band Von Spar (who also did the final mix of the album) and the mastering is by Jörg Burger, another living legend of the Cologne electronic music scene. Housed in a cover designed by top illustrator Felix Reidenbach, Fluoreszent marks the happy return of one of Cologne's finest to the international stage.
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LP version. Fluoreszent is the new solo album by Cologne based artist Hans Nieswandt and his third for Hamburg's Bureau B label. Hans Nieswandt is a long standing and highly respected key figure in the music scene of Cologne, of Germany and beyond. As a pioneering DJ since the mid-eighties, as writer and editor for the mighty Spex magazine in the early nineties, and as a music producer, solo and with his group Whirlpool Productions, he helped shape the Sound Of Cologne from the mid-nineties onward. A lot of his musical work at that time took place in the studio owned by legendary band CAN. With his 12-year-running, weekly radio mix show 'Elektronische Melodien' on WDR (the Cologne radio station that built the first studio for electronic music in the 1950s) he suffused generations of listeners with cutting edge electronic music both old and new. Having left Germany to live in Seoul in late 2019, Hans Nieswandt suddenly found a lot of time to check back and immerse himself in all the forms of music that shaped him ever since he was a little glam rock kid in the early seventies -- before becoming a hippie boy, then a punk, then a house head. Now he is all these things rolled into one and the time has come for a proper, new solo album having released mainly collections of remixes, edits and cover versions over the last 20 years. Recorded in 2024 in Seoul, you will find on Fluoreszent ten shiny, fresh, joyous songs taking you to many wonderful places; from Kraut to goth, synth wave to art pop, cosmic to comic -- and all the way to the end of the rainbow. Important contributions came from unexpected sides: legendary German krautrock drummer Wolfgang Seidel gave him permission to use a lot of his beat recordings, a connection was made by Seoul-based German free music pioneer Alfred Harth, (who also took the album cover photo), more drums came from Philipp Janzen of the band Von Spar (who also did the final mix of the album) and the mastering is by Jörg Burger, another living legend of the Cologne electronic music scene. Housed in a cover designed by top illustrator Felix Reidenbach, Fluoreszent marks the happy return of one of Cologne's finest to the international stage.
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2LP version. Hans Nieswandt -- the Jack of Clubs around the world -- has completed countless remixes throughout his life. This release is the first collection of remixes that he has done for his favorite artists, compiled and annotated by Nieswandt himself. Browsing the track list, Nieswandt confesses: "Looking at this collection of remixes I did for some of my favorite artists, I realized: all I can do is disco (and house -- but that's basically the same to me). Remixing, for me, essentially means making disco versions of songs. Whatever the song, I discofy it, I house it up. It's especially fun to do it with a song that never knew it could be disco in the first place. Maybe that's why I've remixed so many songs with sophisticated German lyrics, lately -- there's a global shortage of that type of disco. What the world needs now is more disco with smart German text. So, in all humbleness, that's the kind of disco I'm delivering here. Welcome to my haus!" Includes free download code.
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Hans Nieswandt -- the Jack of Clubs around the world -- has completed countless remixes throughout his life. This release is the first collection of remixes that he has done for his favorite artists, compiled and annotated by Nieswandt himself. Browsing the track list, Nieswandt confesses: "Looking at this collection of remixes I did for some of my favorite artists, I realized: all I can do is disco (and house -- but that's basically the same to me). Remixing, for me, essentially means making disco versions of songs. Whatever the song, I discofy it, I house it up. It's especially fun to do it with a song that never knew it could be disco in the first place. Maybe that's why I've remixed so many songs with sophisticated German lyrics, lately -- there's a global shortage of that type of disco. What the world needs now is more disco with smart German text. So, in all humbleness, that's the kind of disco I'm delivering here. Welcome to my haus!"
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"Finally -- a new album by Hans Nieswandt! The former Whirlpool Productions protagonist has already released the two EPs on Ware: So Fein (ware 40) and You Don't Know Shake It (ware 32). His first solo album Lazer Muzik was released on Ladomat in 1999, which happens to be the same year that Nieswandt and Mathias Schaffhäuser started working together. 'Loom Service' (ware 4) and a remix of Schaffhäuser's 'Desire' (ware 3) were the fantastic results. Five years after their first collaboration, The True Sound Center is yet another highlight. Aside from Nieswandt's typical deep H-Music excursions, the album also features a heart rendering cover version of Rio Reiser's 'Dr. Sommer', most beautifully sung by Isis Zerlett. The lyrics to 'Wir Sind Kalt' were written by none other than Erobique. 'Ich vermiss die Zeit (Bleib)' is a folksong by Gabriel Ananda (who also sings on it), arranged and produced by Hans." [CD version will be on Mute in the US]
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"Some -- Peter Kremeier aka Losoul for example -- find So Fein so great that they spontaneously decide to produce remixes, despite having other things to do in this multi functional business world than to pursue nerdy musical passions. Others simply don't get it, even though they do understand the words. 'What's all that about? Why does Nieswandt write such a simple text, when he was only recently celebrated as a novelist?' Their confusion is understandable because one wouldn't guess that 'So Fein' isn't about a super woman in a summer dress, but about Hans's little daughter. Once you know that, a line like 'du bist so fein, ich will mit dir zusammen sein' (You're so fine, I want to be with you) makes much more sense. And it can even move people who are on the same wavelength. But that's not all -- this track grooves like hell. Plus, there are two more unbelievable pieces on this maxi that open up Nieswandt's artistic horizon even further. 'Gloria' is House without lyrics, and yet it sounds like a hit and wants to be played all the time. 'Please Let Me' is a song without real vocals, generated from samples and crazy programming, which has something quite soothing. All this gives you an idea of how much there is to expect from Hans's next album."
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"THE house pioneer in Cologne, one of THE first in Germany, number one in Italy for a long hot summer with 'From Disco To Disco', the Whirlpool Productions anthem. 'You don't know shake it' is now the first Ware record that Hans has all to himself. The original version of the song is a fluffy, late-summer house-chanson, which Hans sings with his wife Andrea Nieswandt. On side A is a stomping remix of the track by Ware's ever-so-diligent Decomposed Subsonic -- a clear case of club-hit! 'Keep 'em busy' demonstrates Nieswandt's slightly more abstract side -- which he doesn't show quite so often."
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Another fine quality addition to Ladomat's roster (following recent releases by the likes of Turner, Sensorama, Forever Sweet, etc.) Elegant house with pop leanings. "Hans Nieswandt has been making music since the late 1980s. As DJ, journalist and member of Whirlpool Productions. Nieswandt is well-known and there should be no club in Germany that he hasn't played in. Later as 'Jack of all Trades" pop star and head of the trinity that is Whirlpool Productions, he has not only given us joy in the form of 'From: Disco To: Disco' but has also simultaneously won all kind of (Olympic) Games, hasn't he? Lazer Musik is a leisure dome, a panopticum of 'H-Musik' (who's nothing but 'Hans Musik'), because 'Lazer' means leisure and is also a gamble with meanings. There are many ways but never pretend to know the right one. 'Freaks, I see life' -- it echoes towards us when Hans Nieswandt sharpens his sight. 'The house next door' does not always have to be the club around the corner and pop ballads are not necessarily evil. No, it's not over yet, it has only just begun. Lazer Musik is art, a grown necessity. It is also this way with records that draw their strength from fragments of history."
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