Raveland
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| Studio album by Marusha | ||||
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Publication |
1994 |
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| Label (s) | Low spirit | |||
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
46:14 |
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Klaus Jankuhn , Marusha Gleiß |
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Studio (s) |
Low Spirit Studios, Berlin |
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Raveland is the debut album from German Techno - DJ and - producer Marusha . It was released on June 6, 1994 on the Berlin record label Low Spirit .
Emergence
Marusha produced all tracks on the album together with techno producer Klaus Jankuhn ( Members of Mayday ). Keyboard player and music producer Bernd Burhoff (Beat in Time, Dune ) also worked on the last track Upside Down .
The title Somewhere over the Rainbow was based on a song by Harold Arlen (music) and EY Harburg (text) from the classic film The Magic Land from 1939. All other pieces were new compositions.
The tracks Go Ahead, It Takes Me Away and Somewhere over the Rainbow had previously been released as a single. The track We Are the Bass was also an older production and was previously used by Marusha as the theme music for her music show Feuerreiter .
Track list
- We Are the Bass - 2:00 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Raveland - 5:36 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Somewhere over the Rainbow - 5:30 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Voltage Pulse - 4:28 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- It Takes Me Away - 5:01 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Girl I House You - 4:08 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Go Ahead - 5:01 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Ravechannel - 4:47 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Audio Space - 4:27 (Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
- Upside Down - 5:16 (Bernd Burhoff, Klaus Jankuhn, Marusha Gleiß)
Cover design
The cover shows Marusha in a dance pose in front of a colorful, psychedelic pattern. The photo of the artist comes from the photographer Bernhard Kühmstedt. In the upper right corner, the words "marusha" and "raveland" can be read in lower case .
reception
The album received average to negative reviews in the majority of German music magazines. This is how the critic Christof Hammer judged in the magazine Stereoplay :
“Who knows better what the little ones like? Marusha, the kindergarten aunt in the rave circus, wallpapered her "Raveland" soft-poppy with harmonies of the brand " Hänschenklein " and " Alle meine Entchen " - teen techno for kids who are crazy about dancing. "
In the international press, however , Raveland was received more positively. The US music magazine Billboard wrote :
"The album," Raveland ", reflects Marusha's good-humored, techno party spirit."
On the occasion of the Marusha album Heat , released in 2007, Der Tagesspiegel judged in retrospect that Raveland was “cool and staccato”, but marked their biggest hit to date with the single Somewhere Over The Rainbow .
success
The album entered the German album charts on June 20, 1994 and stayed there for a total of 24 weeks. Raveland achieved the highest ranking in the week from July 18 to 24, 1994 with number 4 in the German album charts.
The album was also placed in the Austrian charts (6 weeks, highest position 31st) and in the Swiss charts (15 weeks, highest position 15).
With Go Ahead , It Takes Me Away , Somewhere Over the Rainbow and Raveland , four pieces from the album were also released as maxi single. Except for Raveland , all singles were released before the album was released. The most successful release was Somewhere Over the Rainbow , which stayed in the German single charts for over 30 weeks and was at number 3 in the charts for three weeks.
In the techno scene itself, chart successes by Marusha and other low-spirit artists such as WestBam or RMB were seen as ambivalent. On the one hand, Raveland was one of the first techno albums to make it into the charts, on the other hand, the low-spirit sound was often rejected as "too mass-compatible".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marusha - Raveland at musicline.de, accessed on August 13, 2010
- ↑ Feuerreiter broadcast 1993 at youtube.com, accessed on August 13, 2010
- ^ Marusha - Raveland: Images , accessed August 13, 2010
- ^ Marusha - Raveland: Review , accessed August 13, 2010
- ^ Casebook Marusha , accessed August 13, 2010
- ↑ Marusha: Well presented - article at tagesspiegel.de, accessed on August 13th
- ↑ a b Marusha - Raveland: Chart tracking ( memento of the original from February 19, 2013 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 musicline.de, accessed on August 13, 2010
- ^ Marusha - Raveland at austriancharts.at, accessed on August 13
- ^ Marusha - Raveland at hitparade.ch, accessed on August 13th
- ↑ Marusha Singles chart tracking ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at musicline.de, accessed on August 13, 2010
- ↑ Marusha - Somewhere Over The Rainbow: Chart tracking ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at musicline.de, accessed on August 13, 2010
- ↑ a b The Age of the DJ Mixer: 10 Years of Low Spirit. The interview with Westbam in Frontpage 95/08, accessed August 13, 2010
