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Harthouse

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Electronic music label founded in 1992 by Heinz Roth (together with Matthias Hoffmann & Sven Väth) in Frankfurt, Germany.
It was distributed via WEA Musik GmbH and Eye Q Musikproduktion GmbH.
In 1997 Sven Väth and Matthias Hoffmann left Harthouse and the label moved to Berlin in early February. On June 9th 1997 Harthouse had to declare insolvency.

Label codes: LC 5305 / LC 6450

The UK office continued operating and released a couple of records during the rest of 1997 with a totally different logo.
In 1998, UCMG Germany bought the licences to some Harthouse releases and the rights for the use of the label's trademark. Oliver Bondzio (of Hardfloor) became the new A&R and the "Retrospective"-compilation along with some new releases were published. After the bankruptcy of the UCMG Germany in 2003, was discontinued for the second time.
In 2004 Daredo Music took over the rights of the Harthouse brand. The label is now called Harthouse Mannheim, but the old design is kept intact. Since November 2017, the label Harthouse, now just called "Harthouse" belongs to UCM.One. Active A&R is Thorsten Kriebus.

Before Eye Q Music opened an office in London they had a licensing deal with Rising High. Releases with a catalog numbering scheme using HARTUK should be put under Harthouse U.K.

Parent Label:

UCM.One

Sublabels:

Harthouse America, Harthouse Digital, HH10

Contact Info:

Harthouse / UCM.ONE GmbH
Wrangelstraße 79
10997 Berlin
Germany

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  • Numanoid's avatar
    Numanoid
    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.
    • jezzfern's avatar
      jezzfern
      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...
      • alex_hexxen's avatar
        alex_hexxen
        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...
        • djfrankiebones's avatar
          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.