Andreas Leifeld

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Andreas Leifeld († February 1, 2006 in Hanover ) was a German electronics musician and video artist.

Live and act

Leifeld studied electrical engineering, art, computer graphics and music. He completed internships at Telefunken and ZDF and later worked as a music teacher in Paderborn . Among other things, he led workshops in the computer museum Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum , the computer library and was a speaker at various music academies.

Leifeld already experimented in the 1980s with electronic music and made numerous at this time Home Recordings on. In 1990 Leifeld's first album Mysterious Messages was released on the Musique Intemporelle label by Bernd Kistenmacher , who specialized in electronic music and performed as an artist himself. Mysterious Messages mainly contained pieces created on the synthesizer from 1987 to 1990. Two years later, the second album followed, entitled Dance of the Elements , which was also released on Kistenmacher's label.

It was through Matthias Hoffmann that Leifeld became aware of the Harthouse label, founded in 1992 , which specialized in house and techno and was seen as a field of experimentation for new artists in the electronics scene. Leifeld's first single on Harthouse, Call Me , was released in 1995. Other singles followed and in 1996 the album Communication . On Harthouse he was known as a multi-instrumentalist. Later albums list him as a single player for percussion, synthesizer, bass, keyboards, piano, guitar and sitar. For many of his pieces he also produced the videos, which were mostly experimental in nature, but still ran on VIVA and MTV. Leifeld worked commercially in the field of video art for imm cologne and the North Rhine-Westphalia State Horticultural Show, among others . Internationally, Leifeld was also in demand as a DJ and in the field of live visuals.

Leifeld worked on various music projects in the late 1990s, including Trieb.Werk , Vocophone and FLUX . As FLUX , among other things, he was involved in the remix album Für Jasmin with the title Herz an Herz , on which electronic artists edited tracks by Blümchen . Further remixes were made for the groups Box of Frox (Peter Musebrink & Björn Gerhard alias Deep Dive Corp., 2000 and 2001) and Dissidents (2001). After a long break Leifeld 2005 published under the pseudonym Natural Frequencies with Ornamental Journey a new album. Another album called Tranquility in Motion was already finished and should be released in 2006. Leifeld died on February 1st, 2006, after being seriously ill for several years, of acute organ failure in a hospital in Hanover. Tranquility in Motion was published posthumously in 2007.

reception

allmusic praised the Discoveries albumas "futuristic in conception and execution"; Leifeld succeeded in integrating rock and pop elements into his music, while remaining progressive. Leifeld's music stands out from the crowd, defies categorizations and floats between composition and improvisation, wrote allmusic in relation to Leifeld's third album Dance of the Elements . Leifeld is a brilliant but little-known artist and a "living example of the cyberpunk mentality".

Discography

Singles
  • 1995: Call Me / Temptation ( Harthouse / Eye Q Records )
  • 1995: Vodoo (Harthouse / Eye Q Records)
  • 1996: Caruso (as FLUX ; on a thousand records / Edel Music )
  • 1996: Tetrode (as Trieb.Werk ; on Underworld Records)
  • 1998: Rotation (as Trieb.Werk ; on Underworld Records)
  • 1998: Move (on Conflict Records and Underworld Recordings)
  • 1999: Floating Room (as Trieb.Werk ; on Underworld Records)
  • 2004: Basteroid / Vocophon (as Vocophon ; on Sender Records)
Albums
  • 1990: Mysterious Messages (on Musique Intemporelle)
  • 1991: Discoveries (on 4 U / Cms M, Bell Music)
  • 1992: Dance of the Elements (on Musique Intemporelle)
  • 1993: Something Happens (on 4 U / Cms M, Bell Music)
  • 1996: Communication (on Harthouse / Eye Q Records, EP)
  • 1998: Next Step (Conflict Records)
  • 1998: Harthouse Traxx (on generator / MZ)
  • 2000: Phase One (Conflict Records)
  • 2005: Ornamental Journey (as Natural Frequencies ; on ozella lounge)
  • 2007: Tranquility in Motion (as Natural Frequencies ; on ozella lounge)
Sampler (selection)
  • 1998: Return To Technology - 10 Years of Technology Sounds ( Le Poison ; on BOY Records)
  • 1999: Organic Wax (Title Interferences , on Dam Music)
  • 2000: Computermusik 1.0 (title The "B" , on Ware Records)
  • 2005: The World Of Acid (Title Move , on ZYX Music)
  • 2007: The Sound, Vol. 1: Pure Downtempo Magic (Title Hurikea , on Ozella Music)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See groups.uni-paderborn.de ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / groups.uni-paderborn.de
  2. ↑ See information on Leifeld on cue records .
  3. ↑ Viva special on Eye-Q ( online ).
  4. ↑ See e.g. B. Tranquility in Motion Credits .
  5. ↑ See obituary on tokafi.com .
  6. ^ "Futuristic in conception and execution"; “Leifeld has managed to add rock and pop influences without losing his progressive edge.” See review of the album Discoveries on allmusic.com
  7. ↑ See CD review for Dance of the Elements on allmusic.com
  8. ↑ "a living, breathing example of the cyberpunk mentality" Cf. biography on allmusic.com
  9. ↑ Complete overview of publications by Harthouse Frankfurt
personal data
SURNAME Leifeld, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Natural Frequencies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 2006
Place of death Hanover