Harald Blüchel
Harald Blüchel ( born February 19, 1963 in Nuremberg, Germany) is a music producer. Under the stage name Cosmic Baby, he played an important role for the techno movement in Germany since the early 1990s. Since 2003 he also published under his real name, first in the framework of the project " Blüchel & Deylen ".
Life
Harald Blüchel received as a gifted child by the age of seven years at the Nuremberg Conservatory trained as a classical pianist. Fascinated by the music of Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk, how many talents of the early techno movement, he devoted himself soon in electronic music. The mid-1980s he played in the band Chanson Deux, which the album published in 1986 behind the things. Moreover, even a cassette appeared with the title for days and nights. 1987 moved to Berlin and enrolled Blüchel uphold the Art Academy. At the Technical University he studied sound engineering and learned the technical side of music production.
1989 published Blüchel then his first album as a solo artist: the (apparent) compilation " E" (or "E - Three Projects of De Luxe 63 "). On it are six compositions by three different artists ( Cosmic Baby, B -Culture and Star Trek) and as a producer were the name " De Luxe 63" was specified. All four names are pseudonyms by Harald Blüchel. At the beginning of 1992 he joined with Mark Reeders label MFS under contract and published in September of the same year his first Cosmic Baby album Stellar Supreme, which cemented his reputation within the techno and trance scene and known him beyond the country's borders made. Parallel to this, he cried with Paul van Dyk the project "The Visions of Shiva " to life and released the single Perfect Day, which quickly became a club hit. He also brought along with Mike van Dijk on the very first MFS -mixed Trance CD out: Tranceformed from beyond.
Appeared in 1993 in collaboration with Kid Paul under the name Energy 52 trance anthem Café del Mar, which this musical direction became one of the world's most famous songs. In addition, the second Visions of Shiva single was released: How much can you take, which could build on the success of its predecessor? . In the same year moved to Blüchel Logic Records and focused on his solo project. In January 1994, he released the single Loops of Infinity, which made it one of the first trance productions into the German charts. In April, followed by his second album Thinking about myself.
In 1995 he left Logic Records and founded his own label Time out of Mind, on which he clearly moved away from the classic trance sound and was very keen to experiment in the following years.
1996 was a soundtrack to Max Frisch's play Andorra for a performance at the State Theater in Stuttgart under the direction of Crescentia Dünsser & Otto Kukla.
Published in 1998 Blüchel at Intercord album Heaven and the two singles Lucifer and Sketches in Spring.
2003 Blüchel learned about a friend music producer Christopher Deylen know, the celebrated international success as Schiller. Commonalities such as love of music by Erik Satie and Philip Glass made sure that they could be well understood and also act in the studio after a short productively together. From the project " Bluechel and Deylen " was born. In January 2004, the first joint album Bi Polar appeared. Because of the good response from the buyers the following album Mare Stellaris appeared in the same year.
2006 Harald Blüchel has worked on the music for Max Frisch's play Andorra in the staging by director Tina Lanik for the Hamburg Schauspielhaus, which on March 19 was 2006 premiere. These are new compositions, which have no relation to the 1996 Stuttgart performance.
With its Magic Mountain Trilogy, Blüchels to Thomas Mann's novel ajar first solo releases under his real name, the musician creates rather gloomy " radio plays " which to contain little alone song structures or danceable techno elements and perhaps grossly in a " Dark Ambient " - or could put "modern art music " drawer. The report published in September 2006 first section, The Isle of the Dead, was inspired by a painting of the same name by Arnold Böcklin. In April 2007, the second part is published caged, a play on words, on the one hand on John Cage, on the other hand to the prisoner - His (English: = squirrel cage ) and the inner life of a person who is " the world has lost " (quote booklet / website ), refers.
In between, the artist has released in December 2006 as Cosmic Baby the much more catchy electro pop album Industrial & melody, a tribute to the 70s and 80s electronic pioneers such as Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream or Vangelis.
Furthermore, Harald Blüchel has also continued in early 2007 returned to his theater work, and Federico García Lorca's play House of Bernarda Alba, directed by Hans Neuenfels set to music for the drama Cologne.
In 2009 he composed the same for two plays the music in May was the premiere of After: How Robinson? in the Berlin theater under the roof instead ( by Arno Schmidt, Director: Lina Antje Gühne ). And in October 2009, was the premiere of The Murder Farm in Hamburg's Schauspielhaus ( by Andrea Maria Schenkel, Director: Crescentia Dünßer ).
2010 then again a collaboration between Harald Blüchel, director Gühne and the Berlin theater in the attic: the piece skating discussed the life and work of the poet Inge Müller ( Premiere: February 18, 2010, produced by the group of colleagues & Gühne ).
Other projects
As Cosmic Baby is (or was ) Blüchel also involved in other music projects: The Visions of Shiva (along with Paul van Dyk ), Veinmelter ( with Jonzon ), Energy 52 (along with Kid Paul ), Cosmic Inc., among others