Tarred & feathered
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| Studio album from Hell | ||||
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Publication |
1994 |
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| Label (s) | Disco B | |||
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
54:32 |
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Hell, Richard Bartz , Mijk van Dijk |
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Studio (s) |
Looplab Berlin (Tracks 1, 5); |
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Tarred and feathered is the debut album of the German techno - producer Helmut "Hell" vultures . It was published in 1994 on Peter Wachas record label Disko B .
In 1999 the album was released as a cassette on the Bulgarian label Wizard . A re-release of the album appeared again on Disko B 10 years after the first release.
Emergence
The album was created as a compilation of different pieces that Geier produced together with various musicians such as Richard Bartz from Munich or Mijk van Dijk from Berlin .
Geier began working on Geteert & gefedert in April 1993. After he had released his single My Definition Of House Music (RS 92020) on the Dutch label R&S Records a year earlier , which quickly became a club hit across Europe, he wanted produce a follow-up single for R&S.
While working at the Berlin record store Hard Wax , Geier met the DJ and musician Mijk van Dijk, with whom he produced his first pieces. The first track was Herz , which was inspired by a voodoo scene from the thriller Angel Heart . Geier first sampled the heartbeat from the film scene and combined them with samples from an old Detroit techno piece.
The next track was Hot On The Heels Of Love as a techno reworking of the song of the same name by the British industrial band Throbbing Gristle from their 1979 album 20 Jazz Funk Greats . Here, too, Geier and van Dijk first sampled the drum sounds as well as some parts of the vocals and produced their version of the track on this basis.
Geier sent the first pieces to R&S founder Renaat Vandepapeliere , who, however, did not want to publish the material on his label.
During the recording, Geier's brother gave him a baby book with a cassette, which was supposed to recreate the hearing experience of unborn children. After his brother had reported to him that he would use the cassette when his son had difficulty sleeping, Geier began producing the track Im Mutterleib , which consisted largely of quiet and muffled sound sequences that dragged in a loop .
Hell had the Austrian production team Northstar ( Erdem Tunakan , Patrick Pulsinger , Electric Indigo ) make a remix for the club hit My Definition Of House Music , which was originally based heavily on classical cello sounds . The reworking of the club hit was extremely minimalistic and was also recorded very quietly. Hell had asked Northstar for a remix with "Low Budget Atmosphere". After he was initially not satisfied with the Northstar version, he liked the reduced production method after listening to it several times and so he ultimately chose the track for the album.
Geier continued the production of further pieces together with the musician Richard Bartz and produced with I Feel Love a comparatively hard and fast acid techno track as well as the dark and slow piece Allerseelen . After Geier did not get a positive reaction from Vandepapeliere for Allerseelen either, he wanted to re-record the track, with My Life Is Hell being the last track on the album .
In April of 1994 appeared Tarred & suspension then as catalog number db 20 on the Munich label Disko B . After Live At Caesar's Palace (db 11) of the Caesar project (including Tommi Eckart ) it was the second album release on Peter Wacha's label.
Track list
- Heart - 11:36 (DJ Hell, Mijk van Dijk)
- My Life Is Hell - 7:46 (DJ Hell, Richard Bartz)
- I Feel Love - 8:28 (DJ Hell, Richard Bartz)
- All Souls' Day - 9:01 (DJ Hell, Richard Bartz)
- Hot On The Heels Of Love (DJ Hell, Mijk van Dijk)
- Definition Of House (Northstar Remix) - 6:22 (DJ Hell, Remix by Northstar)
- In the womb - 3:12 (DJ Hell)
Cover design
The cover shows Geier in a black outfit full of feathers, which optically picks up on the reference to the eponymous torture method tar and feathers . In the background, different sized lettering of the artist's name and a Disko-B logo are shown.
In addition to the normal vinyl and CD versions, a record limited to 100 copies with a feather look was released. The record covers were welded in with springs in the press shop. In an interview with the frontpage, Hell remembered the production process:
“I really didn't know what that looked like. The records arrived and I open the box and there is only so much dust and the springs come towards me. At first I thought it couldn't be true. The tracklist wasn't in the envelope and I toyed with the idea of cutting the cover open again, but then left it that way. The plates were sent like this, only with feathers. At first I was shocked, but then I thought to myself that everyone has to deal with it. "
reception
The German techno magazine Frontpage gave the record an average review when it was released in 1994:
“A very personal record from DJ Hell. A record not in “one” style and not without a style. … My personal favorites are 'I Feel Love'… [and]… 'Hot On The Heels Of Love'… The Northstar remix of 'My Definition Of House', on the contrary, is so hypothermic and free of matter that, not only one is frightened and first of all about oneself, because one does not understand directly why there, where something should normally be, there is nothing or only something in the background. "
For the pieces I Feel Love and Hot On The Heels Of Love , the Frontpage editor awarded the high rating of six stars, with the remaining tracks the listener has to "judge for himself!"
On the music website Allmusic, the critic Andy Kellman gave the re-release of the record from 2004 an average rating of 2.5 out of a total of 5 stars. In retrospect, he judged that the album had more or less been forgotten in the wake of the 1998 follow-up album, Munich Machine . Hell mix on tarred & feathered House , Techno and EBM intermediate tones, but the result remains "mixed". He positively highlighted the pieces created together with Richard Bartz.
Music videos
Hell used the track Herz and the original version of the track Definition Of House in 1995 for his contribution to the X-Mix series of the label STUD! O K7 . As is usual with the X-Mix series, a music video with computer animation was created to accompany the DJ set, which was also released as VHS. The heart video segment from this mix was shown repeatedly in the mid-1990s on the Viva show Housefrau .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hell - Geteert & Gefedert at Kompaktkiste.de, accessed on August 7, 2010
- ↑ Hell - Geteert & Gefedert at discogs.com, accessed on August 7, 2010
- ↑ a b c DJ Hell - Geteert & Gefedert - Review at allmusic.com, accessed on August 7, 2010
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j DJ Hell interview in the front page 1994/04
- ↑ DJ Hell - My Definition Of House Music at discogs.com, accessed August 7, 2010
- ↑ Kaiser and DJ Hell: Music is not there to be understood ( Memento of May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) - Article at spiegel.de, accessed on August 7, 2010
- ↑ Geteert & Gefedert - Cover graphics at discogs.com, accessed on August 7, 2010
- ↑ a b Frontpage 94/04 - BRD Reviews at de-bug.de, accessed on August 7, 2010
- ↑ DJ Hell - X-Mix-5 - Wildstyle at discogs.com, accessed on August 7, 2010