Hans Nieswandt

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Hans Nieswandt

Hans Nieswandt (* 1964 in Mannheim ) is a German DJ , music producer , journalist and book author from Cologne . His music is a mixture of techno , house , disco music and generally electronic music .

biography

Hans Nieswandt has been playing records since his youth, and in 1983 he was paid for it for the first time. Since the beginning of the 1990s he has been a regular DJ in clubs and at parties on the weekends . During this time his successful Whirlpool Productions project was born . In addition to numerous own record releases, he also remixes for other musicians.

When WDR transmitter EinsLive he was active for many years as a moderator. He also writes for many magazines such as Spex , Groove , taz and others. He represented German culture in Brazil , Mexico , South Africa , the Middle East and Turkey for the Goethe Institute . In 2002 his first book plus minus eight appeared , in which he describes life as a DJ.

Justus Köhncke and Hans Nieswandt, “deeper than love” e´de cologne - July 8, 2007

Since January 2014, Nieswandt has been artistic director of the master’s degree in pop music at the Institute for Popular Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Bochum. At the start, there will be eight Master’s degrees per semester, but in the end it will be at least 32. Interdisciplinarity is a Folkwang specialty. The applicants for the master’s positions present themselves with their own art projects, which are then supported and accompanied by the institute if the application is successful. As artistic director, Nieswandt takes on the conceptual and interdisciplinary orientation of the institute, the development of an international network and the teaching staff and the operational management of the study program.

Discography

Albums

  • 1999: Lazer Muzik
  • 2004: The True Sound Center
  • 2011: Hans Is Playing House (14 remixes by Hans Nieswandt) (Bureau B)
  • 2012: Hildegard Knef Remixed - 12 Versions (Bureau B)

Singles and EPs

  • 1996: Alone in the studio EP
  • 1999: Freak, I see Life
  • 2001: Funny
  • 2002: You don't know shake it
  • 2000: Loom Service / Brothers and Sisters OK (with Mathias Schaffhäuser )
  • 2003: So fine

Remixes selection

literature

  • Hans Nieswandt: plus minus eight. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-462-03096-5 .
  • Hans Nieswandt: Disko Ramallah And other strange places to put on records. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-462-03668-8 .
  • Hans Nieswandt: DJ Dionysos stories from the disco world. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04231-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Institute for Popular Music starts work: Pop-Institut in Bochum ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), WDR report from January 2, 2014
  2. ↑ Teaching and learning started at the Bochum mine with a 4-semester master's degree in “Popular Music” , Institute for Popular Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts
  3. ↑ Kölner DJ directs Folkwang Institute , Kölner Stadtanzeiger of December 17, 2013, accessed January 3, 2014
  4. ↑ Remix albums The Lord lets mix , Spiegel Online review by Christoph Dallach on September 7, 2012, accessed September 22, 2012
  5. ^ Remix album: Klangkostüm für Knef , review of the Westdeutsche Zeitung on September 13, 2012, accessed September 22, 2012
  6. ↑ Review by M. Miersch on info-netz-musik , July 3, 2011; Retrieved October 5, 2014
  7. ^ Review by M. Miersch on info-netz-musik , September 22, 2011; Retrieved October 5, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Nieswandt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim