Browse by Artist: HEIL, JOHANNES

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Loving
Label:	COCOON (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	COR 024CD

For more than fifteen years, Johannes Heil has been an essential part of the German techno scene and with his classics such as "Paranoid Dancer" (Kanzleramt, 1998) or "Calling" (Kanzleramt, 1999), he belongs to the acoustic long-term memory of techno. However, in the last few years, with his releases for Klang Elektronik, Anthony Rother's Datapunk label and several other imprints like JH Records, Metatron or, most recently, Shit Happens, Johannes remains one of the guarantors for musical enhancements. With his eighth studio album Loving, Heil takes stock of his 15 years of musical past, in a modern and at the same time traditional way. He uses influences from Detroit house only superficially; the history of modern dance music that he tells is that of music as the universal language between all continents. So, one can find broken rhythms, combined with African chants as well as a terrific, pumping electro bass line and pizzicato strings, hypnotically dancefloor-binding sub-bass runners or samba percussion tracks with marching band citations and weightless Detroit high-tech house -- all of them equally part of the comprehensive vocabulary of... yes, love. After all, love is an emotional condition that still feels the best in the present tense. Maybe the time of love is now, in the year 2010. "With Loving I want to embrace the whole world, because this journey to the origins of electronic dance music in between modern Detroit, high-tech soul and house is coming from the very bottom of my heart." --Johannes Heil, 2010

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Freedom Of Heart
Label:	COCOON (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	COR 077EP

Johannes Heil belongs to the long-term memory of German techno. However, he is equally well-known for continuous musical development. With this present teaser for his eleventh studio album Loving, Heil presents himself as more house-orientated than ever before. With references to both classic Detroit techno and modern high-tech house, "Freedom Of Heart" boasts jubilating strings and piano riffs. With its disco bass line á la John Paul Young and organ accents, "Could This Be" gives you a congenial high-flyer.

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Loving Remixes
Label:	COCOON (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	COR 080EP

Johannes Heil's eleventh studio album Loving (COR 024CD/LP) shows the producer's more house-orientated aspect to great acclaim. This exclusive remix package features remixes by Bülent Gürler aka Butch, Mark Broom and Gregor Tresher. Butch's version of "The Ace" is the perfect open-air hymn for the modern house generation. Mark Broom's remix of "Loving" combines the melancholy of Detroit techno with Ibiza house dubs and powerful hand-claps. Last not least, Gregor Tresher celebrates the return of the melody with his remix of "Twentythree."

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	The World
Label:	DATAPUNK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DTP 006CD

"The literal sense of music is to transport emotions not money. From the start my approach was to escape this circuit, also as an statement against the slicky and aseptic mainstream popmusic of the 21st century. The image of the critical artist, who is dealing with hushed up topics, does not exist in modern pop music anymore. The main themes are love, sex, richness, honour and the creation of surfaces for perfect marketing instrumentation and not the true & important contents, no matter, if they are in the lyrics or in the music. Consumption is the only content. Johannes Heil wants a lot. It has always been like that. From the first second on Johannes Heil was a huge supporter of Anthony Rother's plan to create a new platform called Datapunk in order to refresh Elektro."

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Future Primitive
Label:	KANZLERAMT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KA 049CD

"Johannes Heil seems to be like the chameleon. The colours of his music are changing from album to album. When people tried to catch him on the Reality to MIDI sound, he was already illuminating the planet. When they thought to got him at the dark mood of Illuminate the Planet he was again miles away on a trip to the future -- a primitive future. The new album is once again an undoubted typical Johannes Heil album, but again different from the one before. Back to the simple but very effective charming harmonies from the first album he's building up a little planet of sweet dreams and experiences of clubbing and ... Future Primitive with it's elements of Techno, Hip Hop, Electro or Ambient is the so far most versatile and meaningful J. Heil album in aspects of production and expression."

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Feiern
Label:	KANZLERAMT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KA 063CD

"Johannes Heil's new CD Feiern presents for the first time 13 of the most essential previous 12" only tracks of Johannes´s 5 years on Kanzleramt. Almost every single track can be named club-hit without any doubt. 'Calling' as well as the different parts of 'Feiern' or 'Pax', completed with the last years Love Parade hit 'Golden Dawn' are well known techno classics and have been played by almost every famous techno DJ for a long time. This is the first chance for all techno lovers, who are not able to by all 12inches, to get the first Johannes Heil club-hit selection."

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	20.000 Leagues Under The Skin
Label:	KANZLERAMT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	KA 088CD

"Johannes Heil is back with his 6th and best full length album for Kanzleramt on CD and LP. 20.000 Leagues Under The Skin tells from a deep ride under the skin in 12 adventurous chapters. (About microscopic worlds, mystic corporality, hidden procedures, emotional networks and even more.) It's the most epic and deep album Johannes Heil has produced so far. You can find more sensuality instead of radicalism. The album contains more stylistic influences and homogeneity than ever before. 20.000 Leagues is less rave, more music, still techno."

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Freaks R Us
Label:	KLANG ELEKTRONIK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	KLANG 009CD

"One of the most ingenious techno producers of the last decade. We're talking about Johannes Heil who has been making techno history since 1998 and produced six albums and countless EPs on Kobayashi, Kanzleramt, as well as his own J.H. Records label and many others. Johannes Heil has used his new album, Freaks R Us, to not only reinvent himself but also his music. At long last, he's back to the future of techno.The 12" single from the album, 'Freaks R Us', expresses everything we have always known. Chicago is in the house, newly chrome-plated, detox-treated and streamlined. A track that explodes at every given occasion. 'All For One' and 'Warrior Of Light' are also obvious testaments to Heil's new skills. This is where his unique talent for bass melodies comes to the fore again. This bass formulates one of the simplest subjects in the world: dancing on techno. Without ever becoming kitschy, Johannes Heil creates so much naïve beauty on this track that one can truly say this had been virtually unparalleled since Orbital. This is what Ibiza 2006 sounds like!"

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Remix R Us Pt. 1
Label:	KLANG ELEKTRONIK (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KLANG 111EP

"These are the first of a couple of remixes that have been drawn from the original tracks of Johannes Heil's notorious Freaks R Us album. Let's start with Germany's dyed-in-the-wool producer Thomas Schumacher's treat on 'The Magician.' Schumacher, who started his career 15 years ago, running his own label 'Spiel-Zeug Schallplatten' since 1998, has always been a non-purist DJ and producer, always swapping between a range of genres within his sets. Next in line is devilish duo Destillat who succeed to top 'Artology's happily jumping mood and deliver one of their finest works yet."

Artist:	HEIL, JOHANNES
Title:	Remix R Us Pt. 2
Label:	KLANG ELEKTRONIK (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KLANG 120EP

Johannes Heil's music already got the remix treatment on Remix R Us Pt. 1 by Thomas Schumacher & Destillat, but now it's time for Berlin's finest, Tobi Neumann and London-based Boardroom collective represented by Board & Victorville to twiddle some additional knobs. Neumann's "Swinging Remix" does swing indeed, but with reduced speed and a festival of synthesizers. Boardroom's mix has the same lightness as his predecessor and also an ease of handling the melodies. Their use of this mega bassline is just fantastic.

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