Caspar Pound

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Singles
Fever Called Love ( feat.Plavka )
  UK 98 02/26/2000 (1 week)

Caspar Pound (* 1970 in Peterborough , † April 30, 2004 in London ), also erroneously written Casper Pound, was a British musician , producer , label owner and remixer .

In Germany he is best known for the techno project The Hypnotist , which he ran with Peter Smith .

Life

Almost nothing is known about his private life, as he never incorporated it into his artistic work or mentioned details in interviews. It is known, however, that he had a daughter named Sapho, after whom he named a label in 1992. The claim that he was supposed to be a direct descendant of the American poet Ezra Pound could not be confirmed.

Caspar Pound began his musical activity at the age of 19. Together with Marc Williams he started the trio A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd , which was best known for the single release Start The Panic and created the classic Total Confusion . In February 1991 he founded his first own label, Rising High Records , to which three sub-labels were affiliated in the course of its existence. On this label he mainly published his own productions and compositions, which were available under various aliases and side projects. Pound stood out in his home country mainly because he made harder paces of electronic music popular and, through licensing from Harthouse (UK), gave so-called German Trance Music access to the British market.

His best-known musical activity remains The Hypnotist to this day , in which he was active for five years with Peter Smith.

In the Rising High Collective (RHC) project he also worked with the singer Plavka , with whom he recorded the club classic Fever Called Love in 1991 and released it for the first time on R + S Records. The production was a long-running hit and was re-released several times on different labels. Among other things on Rising High Records or with new remixes under his real name on the Outline label .

The publications at the end of the nineties were also his last until his death.

Caspar Pound died on Friday, April 30, 2004 as a result of a heart attack. According to Dave Conway , who worked with Caspar Pound for a long time, he also suffered from a brain tumor that was discovered two years earlier. However, this has remained unconfirmed to this day.

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  1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
  2. ↑ sapho - label description on Discogs.com
  3. ↑ Rising High Records - Label description on Discogs.com
  4. ↑ Harthouse (UK) - Label description on Discogs.com
  5. ↑ Fever Called Love - First published on Discogs.com
  6. ↑ Death report ( memento of the original from January 10, 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. at Deathwatch Central (originally at http://www.trustthedj.com/SKRUFFF/news_article.php?news_id=2533 phi-dead link | date = 2018-04 | archivebot = 2018-04-03 16:20:58 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: //www.trustthedj.com/SKRUFFF/news_article.php? news_id = 2533}})  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / slick.org
personal data
SURNAME Pound, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician, producer, label owner and remixer
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterborough
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2004
Place of death London