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Halle Weissensee

  • Cat No: rb127
  • Release: 2024-03-29
  • 2024-05-06

Format

12inch 2590 JPY

〈Permanent Vacation〉や〈Multi Culti〉などレフトフィールドなダンスレーベルからもリリースしているベルリンのSascha Funkeが〈Running Back〉にカムバック。90年代にレイヴの舞台となったベルリンの工場跡地"Halle Weissensee"にインスパイアされたEP。

Running Back主宰のGerd Jansonと Sascha Funkeも参加した、伝説のレイヴMaydayが93年にベルリンで開催された時の舞台、レイヴ・ウェアハウス「Halle Weissensee」をタイトルに4トラックス。ストレートにレイヴ懐古なサウンドという訳では無く、「コンピュータ・マッドネス」やRELEIFオールド・シカゴゲットーサウンドやブリープにインズパイアされたような「Reality」、同様の展開からドリーミーなシンセが展開される「Fantasy」など、オールドスクールなテイストとモダンな感覚がミックスされたダンストラックス。空間性、電子音やサンプル使いの面白さ、リズム、数、時間進行のマジック。トランス・エンターテイメントです。 (サイトウ)

Track List

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Halle Weissensee (or Weißensee if you wish) starts where Sascha Funke’s last Ep for Running Back stopped. Mesmerizing house and techno music that interweaves classic forms with modern means and looks through the lenses of nostalgia with an open mind.
The Halle was a former engine plant in Berlin that got converted into a rave areal for the now legendary Mayday raves and one of the birthplaces and leading spots of the nineties. Coincidentally and unknowingly, 1993’s winter edition was attended by Funke and Gerd Janson and a conversation about it spawned this record. Don’t be mislead: this is not a retro rave fest, but an ode to the esprit of the times, the possibilities if an envisioned future and maybe most of all an afterglow. While Reality (sounding like a Relief record if the label would have been a topic at Bauhaus university) and the warped bleepiness of Halle Weissensee itself come closest to the actual sound aesthetic of that very night, Fantasy invokes the language of contemplative deep house from vintage New York, while Puzzle evokes a notion of what the same thing could be with the prefix progressive instead. Reality often falls short behind fantasy, but once in a while both complement each other very well.


Short: Halle Weissensee is Sascha Funke’s second Ep for Running Back. Named after the legendary rave warehouse, its four tracks far from being a retro rave. Mesmerizing house and techno music that interweaves classic forms with modern means and looks through the lenses of nostalgia with an open mind. An ode to the jackin’ Relief sound meets bleep tracks, contemplative deep house and progressive hypnotism.

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