Harthouse

The golden age of HartHouse was 1992-1994, by 1995 the sound du jour was turning away from hard trance to trip-hop and jungle.The label had a massive output, over hundred 12 inchers released in less than five years, 1992-1996.

Harthouse all time, in almost chronological order:

1. Arpeggiators ‎– The Possible Future Of Mankind
2. Barbarella - My Name Is Barbarella
3. Hardfloor - Acperience 1
4. Cybordelics - Adventure Of Dama
5. Hardfloor - Into The Nature
6. Pulse – Mikado
7. Resistance D – Human
8. Curare - Schneller Pfeil
9. Cybordelics - Alice In Wonderland
10. The Essence Of Nature - Blue Lotus
11. Braincell - Shapechanger
12. Eternal Basement - Parkhouse
13. Resistance D – Space Baby
14. The Ambush – Casablanca
15. Resistance D - O-Conga
16. Der Dritte Raum – Grün
17. The Ambush – Terra
18. The Essence Of Nature ‎– Blue Orchidee
19. Afrotrance - Spiritual Energy
20. Eternal Basement - Taking Place In You
21. Resistance D - Skyline (Eternal Basement Mix)
22. The Ambush - Aton
23. Spicelab - Spice Is A Fulltime Occupation
24. MikeroBenics - Julika (Comes Too Late Mix)
25. Cybordelics - Peter Pan
26. Der Dritte Raum – Trommelmaschine
27. Assign - Thirtyone Years (Neo Tokyo)
28. The Ambush – Sun (Remix)
29. Resistance D - Beautiful Silence
30. Spicelab – Falling
31. Koxbox - Point Of No Return (Ionizer Remix)
32. Patrick Lindsey – Engagement
33. Synthetic Progress - Acid Future
34. Virtual Symmetry - Information (Original Version)
35. Resistance D - Unknown
36. Hardfloor - Dubdope

Still listening to these timeless classics 30 years later...

Good resume by the man like Frankie B. Don't forget that Harthouse were basically the platform for the very first forays into dance music by (now very well known artists, such as) Cari Lekebusch (as "Braincell", by the way if you haven't got "Man of Many Theories LP", I urge you to seek it out, a must for any techno collector) as well as the great Oliver Leib (as "Spicelab" and "The Ambush", apart from his early ZYX releases).

Unfortunately, the label tends to be overlooked these days with the advent of digitally-produced dance music and the (in my opinion, boring) in-vogue "minimal" sound that everyone's raving about these days...

A truly great label that trance, acid and techno heads alike will hold dear forever...

With the recent passing of Casper Pound, many will not know that from the single digit releases of Harthouse, Casper began a joint venture between Rising High & Harthouse, known as Harthouse U.K. The U.K. imprint was short-lived but was the sole factor of the later deal that became Harthouse U.S. through Moonshine. The actual German Harthouse label is responsible for jump-starting the trance genre and the formula of the big break-down, snare-roll effect found on 'Acperience' by Hardfloor. Hardfloor made the 303 sound become popular and also started an acid-house revival while Sven Vath became Germany's first high-profile DJ. At its high point Harthouse was an all around High-Profile label, releasing both techno, house & trance, sometimes fusing them together. Even when the label folded in the late nineties, Intergroove had a short run into the Millenium with good material, but by then the label's reputation had become history.