In the seventies, there were virtually no magazines in Germany that dealt with contemporary music. Apart from the German Sounds, the only other option was to buy British music magazines in the international magazine shop in the capital. For a long time, Sounds was characterised by old hippies who found it difficult to make friends with punk and new wave. The inevitable happened - Sounds ceased publication and many of the journalists jumped ship to work for Spex in Cologne.
One of these music journalists was Hans Nieswandt, who favored writing about new electronic music and broadened my musical horizons with his clever reviews. He tried his hand at DJing at a young age and has since developed into a respected DJ and producer, with a preference for house, techno and electronic music in general.
His latest record is being released today and with Flureszent he has written a song that I can't get out of my head after hearing it for the first time. Over a motorik beat, he recites about his golden days when he first started dabbling on the decks.
