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ARAS 002EP
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Aras label owners André Galluzzi and Dana Ruh present Aras' second release -- this time, by well known hessian Johannes Heil. "Consciousness" is a massive 12-minute dancefloor killer, starting with a nice synth loop and some heavy kicks. Halfway through, the track turns from a warm, hypnotic break into a real peak-time monster. "Pure" starts a little bit deeper with sounds that will make you yearn for the sun.
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BNS 027EP
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Johannes Heil continues to deliver cutting-edge techno music. From Within is surely not only a landmark release for the label but also a highlight in a string of releases that has cemented Johannes´ standing as one of the main protagonists in German techno.
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COR 080EP
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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."
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COR 024LP
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COR 024CD
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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
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COR 077EP
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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.
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KA 088CD
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"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."
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KA 063CD
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"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."
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KA 049CD
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"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."
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