Browse by Artist: NIESWANDT, HANS

Artist:	NIESWANDT, HANS
Title:	Lazer Muzik
Label:	LADOMAT 2000 (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	LADO 2084CD

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."

Artist:	NIESWANDT, HANS
Title:	You Don't Know Shake It
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.00
Catalog #:	WARE 032EP

"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."

Artist:	NIESWANDT, HANS
Title:	So Fein
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	WARE 040EP

"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."

Artist:	NIESWANDT, HANS
Title:	The True Sound Center
Label:	WARE (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	WARE 047LP

"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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