After the rocking, electric-sounding album "Dance/Sleep" (2011), Cargo City break down their common sound cosmos. They write over 30 new songs, based on acoustic guitar, drums and the two-part vocals from keyboardist Nadine and songwriter Simon. The bandleader says, everyone in the band couldn't wait to bring "more percussive elements and instrumental gimmickry" to the songs. This love of experimentation has been the initial spark for the fourth album "Talking To Myself", which will be released in March 2013. The songs are both melancholic monologues and casual odes to art, music and everyday life. The track "Thank You Jonathan" is a tribute to the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer ("Eating animals") who immediately gave thanks to the band via E-Mail. A tribute to music itself is the single "Me And My Headphones" which not only describes how Simon's connection to music has changed over the years, but also unites the old and new aesthetic virtues of the whole band. Percussions, plucked guitars and the empathic vocals, overlay a driving beat. In this point, Cargo City stay true to themselves, but still move on.
Furthermore, the movie as an art form, is still fascinating the five musicians from Frankfurt, and so they chipped in some songs for the new German movie "Bastard", which will be in German cinemas in April 2013.
Their experience and their sense of music have made Cargo City more than a regular German Indie band. They are little pop-geniuses, who can conjure big emotions, who have grown older but never grown up.


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"DANCE/SLEEP" is the third album from the band from Frankfurt. The enormous development of the five-member band is clearly hearable. It is probably the most mature album so far. It's rougher and sometimes even darker, music-wise as well as the lyrics. Uptempo songs with drifty life-drums and deep synthie basses such as the title song "Dance/Sleep" and emotional ballads such as "The Choir" are cleverly combined and supplemented with grooving songs such as the duett "Let's Fail in Love" with the band's keyboard-player and singer Nadine Renneisen.

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"Lucy's Dream" is Ralf Hildenbeutel's first solo work since years. A cineastic sounding album like a soundtrack to a fictive movie with piano and string recordings. The album combines many influences. His second homebase Paris and his stayings in London are probably in a similar way influential such as his classical education and his colaborations with national and international artists. "Lucy's Dream" is kind of an essence from all of that, a filmmusic in his own style, even there's no movie yet. "Yet" because as the next step Ralf wants the album to be picturized by several directors.
The compositions are mostly a collection of piano-improvisations which have been worked out later on. Like this the composing itself could be kept intuitive which was a very important point to Ralf. The string arrangements followed afterwards and with samplelibrary on the computer he produced layouts. Afterwards, the stringrecordings were made. As all of the piano recordings were made in Ralf's own "Schallbau Studios" nearby Frankfurt some the strings were recorded in Spain and some of them in Frankfurt. Ralf could control the recordings live via internet.
Bringing and mixing together the string- and pianorecordings at he end of the production was a very special moment in the process of the album production. Ralf counts this album to one of his most important works so far.

For the cover art Ralf could gain the Austrian photographer Bernd Preiml. Preiml, international well established, is known for his mystical, sometimes abstractical and artistical photocompositions.


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Tracklist EP:
A1. Beyond Retouched A2. Disco Retouched B1. Misty Retouched B2. Lost Retouched
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After "Moods", an album full of fantastic and contemporary designs of electronic music which constantly flirted with modern classic designs Hildenbeutel releases the remix-EP, all produced by himself like he often used to do in former days.
The result is a package of five remixes (four on vinyl, the download version with a bonusstrack). You can hear the neo trance-influences of artists such as Kink or others as well as the fine feel for the understanding of peaks and arrangements without gimmicky showing off.
At the latest with the driving and upbuilding groove of "Lost - Retouched" the shaman in the desert peeps out from behind the cactus and offers psychedlische gifts. Henceforward it is: Everybody for himself and all together.


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Tracklist CD:
1. Misty 2. Beyond 3. Salt 4. Disco 5. Lucid 6. Fall 7. Lost 8. Spark 9. Ease 10. Curious

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Ralf Hildenbeutel - "Moods"
There have been many different ways in describing the personal stories behind the protagonists of the electronical music scene in the 90ies. It´s in the nature of things that especially producers, whose place of work is the studio, remained rather in the background.
One of them is Ralf Hildenbeutel.

He was the producer of Sven Väth´s most important releases such as "L'Esperanza" or "Fusion" and an essential creative part of the Eye Q label in the 90ies. His "Earth Nation" project was the first live act from that genre who was taking a drummer on the live stage, playing on international festivals and stages including the "Montreux Jazz Festival".
The vita continues. While many other musicians kept on working on techno, Hildenbeutel composed for artists such as Laith Al-Deen or Phil´s son Simon Collins and wrote filmmusic for movies such as "Hommage á Noir" which won the Goldmedal for music on the New York Filmfestivals.
The film adaption of Martion Suter's "Der Koch", "Ausgerechnet Sibirien", TV thriller such as "Kommissarin Lucas" or even the series of "Verbotene Liebe" have been scored by Ralf Hildenbeutel. His filmmusic for the international multi-awarded shortmovie "Momentum" was nominated at the Newport International Filmfestival.

On "Moods" Hildenbeutel finds more back to electronical music. Fans of artists such as Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm or Jon Hopkins will enjoy this longplayer. Hildenbeutel mixes complex string-arrangements and piano pieces with clicks & cuts and invents his own coherent language which allows both directions to live in harmony.
Elegiac compositions and vivacious, percussive breakouts as in "Spark" (for which an video by award-winning filmmaker Boris Seewald will be made) meet on this album.
An album which grows and gains depth with each hearing.



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Tracklist LP:
A1. Misty A2. Beyond A3. Salt A4. Disco A5. Lucid - B1. Fall B2. Lost B3. Spark B4. Ease B5. Curious

Short Info:
Ralf Hildenbeutel - "Moods"
There have been many different ways in describing the personal stories behind the protagonists of the electronical music scene in the 90ies. It´s in the nature of things that especially producers, whose place of work is the studio, remained rather in the background.
One of them is Ralf Hildenbeutel.

He was the producer of Sven Väth´s most important releases such as "L'Esperanza" or "Fusion" and an essential creative part of the Eye Q label in the 90ies. His "Earth Nation" project was the first live act from that genre who was taking a drummer on the live stage, playing on international festivals and stages including the "Montreux Jazz Festival".
The vita continues. While many other musicians kept on working on techno, Hildenbeutel composed for artists such as Laith Al-Deen or Phil´s son Simon Collins and wrote filmmusic for movies such as "Hommage á Noir" which won the Goldmedal for music on the New York Filmfestivals.
The film adaption of Martion Suter's "Der Koch", "Ausgerechnet Sibirien", TV thriller such as "Kommissarin Lucas" or even the series of "Verbotene Liebe" have been scored by Ralf Hildenbeutel. His filmmusic for the international multi-awarded shortmovie "Momentum" was nominated at the Newport International Filmfestival.

On "Moods" Hildenbeutel finds more back to electronical music. Fans of artists such as Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm or Jon Hopkins will enjoy this longplayer. Hildenbeutel mixes complex string-arrangements and piano pieces with clicks & cuts and invents his own coherent language which allows both directions to live in harmony.
Elegiac compositions and vivacious, percussive breakouts as in "Spark" (for which an video by award-winning filmmaker Boris Seewald will be made) meet on this album.
An album which grows and gains depth with each hearing.



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"Lucy's Dream" is Ralf Hildenbeutel's first solo work since years. A cineastic sounding album like a soundtrack to a fictive movie with piano and string recordings. The album combines many influences. His second homebase Paris and his stayings in London are probably in a similar way influential such as his classical education and his colaborations with national and international artists. "Lucy's Dream" is kind of an essence from all of that, a filmmusic in his own style, even there's no movie yet. "Yet" because as the next step Ralf wants the album to be picturized by several directors.
The compositions are mostly a collection of piano-improvisations which have been worked out later on. Like this the composing itself could be kept intuitive which was a very important point to Ralf. The string arrangements followed afterwards and with samplelibrary on the computer he produced layouts. Afterwards, the stringrecordings were made. As all of the piano recordings were made in Ralf's own "Schallbau Studios" nearby Frankfurt some the strings were recorded in Spain and some of them in Frankfurt. Ralf could control the recordings live via internet.
Bringing and mixing together the string- and pianorecordings at he end of the production was a very special moment in the process of the album production. Ralf counts this album to one of his most important works so far.

For the cover art Ralf could gain the Austrian photographer Bernd Preiml. Preiml, international well established, is known for his mystical, sometimes abstractical and artistical photocompositions.


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"Lucy's Dream" is Ralf Hildenbeutel's first solo work since years. A cineastic sounding album like a soundtrack to a fictive movie with piano and string recordings. The album combines many influences. His second homebase Paris and his stayings in London are probably in a similar way influential such as his classical education and his colaborations with national and international artists. "Lucy's Dream" is kind of an essence from all of that, a filmmusic in his own style, even there's no movie yet. "Yet" because as the next step Ralf wants the album to be picturized by several directors.
The compositions are mostly a collection of piano-improvisations which have been worked out later on. Like this the composing itself could be kept intuitive which was a very important point to Ralf. The string arrangements followed afterwards and with samplelibrary on the computer he produced layouts. Afterwards, the stringrecordings were made. As all of the piano recordings were made in Ralf's own "Schallbau Studios" nearby Frankfurt some the strings were recorded in Spain and some of them in Frankfurt. Ralf could control the recordings live via internet.
Bringing and mixing together the string- and pianorecordings at he end of the production was a very special moment in the process of the album production. Ralf counts this album to one of his most important works so far.

For the cover art Ralf could gain the Austrian photographer Bernd Preiml. Preiml, international well established, is known for his mystical, sometimes abstractical and artistical photocompositions.


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HEGEMUND is the name of the project-collaboration between Gottfried Tollmann & Ralf Hildenbeutel which started initially in 1994 in Los Angeles. The two musicians met working with the label Eye Q Records in Frankfurt where Hildenbeutel produced the albums of Sven Vaeth or his own project Earth Nation. Tollmann joined with releases like" Baked Beans" (with Helmut Zerlett & Nicolle Meyer) on Eye-Q's sublabel "Recycle or Die".
The two musicians found a common denominator in their love for modern art and master drawings as well as for Bach and the destructured electronic mind music of the 90'ies. In this spirit they released their first album called "TollmannHildenbeutel" in 1995. The music was conceived and recorded in Tollmann`s home town Los Angeles where the artists got stuck in their jeep in the national park of Yoshua Tree , CA, while filming the video "isn`t it a funny bird?" (1995) for the album recording ants in their hive.
It was obviously their sense of humour which made them survive a night in their 4wheel drive surrounded by rattlesnakes.
They had hunted & collected sounds of the southwest and the city and put it in the blender in Ralf`s studio in Frankfurt creating a vivid image of their Los Angeles impressions. The hybrid theory of the electronica and the grand piano, the detuned acoustic guitar, the cries of apes and hornbills.
after their adventures and fun Tollmann and Hildenbeutel decided to keep connected and started to randomly film and record sounds and noise in their newly found haven which should become their second home: Paris. Over a period of ten years they

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What actually is Ralf Hildenbeutel, the Frankfurt/M and Paris based musician, doing inbetween his numerous projects such as recently the filmmusic to the cinema hit "Vincent will meer"? He composes and produces music for his rare artist albums. Two years after his last longplayer "Lucy's Dream" he releases his new soloalbum in November 2010. "Wunderland" ist the perfect accompanist for these kind of evenings when it gets earlier dark and chilling outside. Autumn, redwine, piano, strings, accordeon and many more... "Start up" fort he head-cinema.

Ralf Hildenbeutel has produced the SVEN VATH albums on the legendary EYE Q label, played worldwide live with his electro-dance project EARTH NATION and released the award-winning soundtrack "Hommage á noir". However with numerous productions and remixes for artists such as LAITH AL-DEEN, ANNE CLARK, ROBERT PLAMER, YELLO and currently CARGO CITY the classical educated pianist shows his versatility and that he is since a long time not to accomplish just with electronic music anymore.


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"DANCE/SLEEP" is the third album from the band from Frankfurt. The enormous development of the five-member band is clearly hearable. It is probably the most mature album so far. It's rougher and sometimes even darker, music-wise as well as the lyrics. Uptempo songs with drifty life-drums and deep synthie basses such as the title song "Dance/Sleep" and emotional ballads such as "The Choir" are cleverly combined and supplemented with grooving songs such as the duett "Let's Fail in Love" with the band's keyboard-player and singer Nadine Renneisen.

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After the rocking, electric-sounding album "Dance/Sleep" (2011), Cargo City break down their common sound cosmos. They write over 30 new songs, based on acoustic guitar, drums and the two-part vocals from keyboardist Nadine and songwriter Simon. The bandleader says, everyone in the band couldn't wait to bring "more percussive elements and instrumental gimmickry" to the songs. This love of experimentation has been the initial spark for the fourth album "Talking To Myself", which will be released in March 2013. The songs are both melancholic monologues and casual odes to art, music and everyday life. The track "Thank You Jonathan" is a tribute to the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer ("Eating animals") who immediately gave thanks to the band via E-Mail. A tribute to music itself is the single "Me And My Headphones" which not only describes how Simon's connection to music has changed over the years, but also unites the old and new aesthetic virtues of the whole band. Percussions, plucked guitars and the empathic vocals, overlay a driving beat. In this point, Cargo City stay true to themselves, but still move on.
Furthermore, the movie as an art form, is still fascinating the five musicians from Frankfurt, and so they chipped in some songs for the new German movie "Bastard", which will be in German cinemas in April 2013.
Their experience and their sense of music have made Cargo City more than a regular German Indie band. They are little pop-geniuses, who can conjure big emotions, who have grown older but never grown up.


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The composers Stevie B-Zet & Ralf Hildenbeutel have been the ideal partner for this Movie. They created a modern yet timeless, suspenseful yet sensitive filmmusic which had an implortant influence on the mood of the film.
The two musicians had an essential influence on the sound of the 90ies in the electronical-scene. They've been responsible fort he main productions on the legendary EYE-Q label, producing Sven Väth, Odyssee of Noises, Zyon, Cygnus X and many others. In this time they also remixed artists such as Robert Palmer, Jean Michel-Jarre, Yello and Enigma.
In the late 90ies they produced succesful artists such as Laith Al-Deen, Yvonne Catterfeld or Simon Collins. In the meantime they've always composed filmmusic such as the awarded movie "Hommage á Noir" (gold award on the Newy York Film Festivals) and the with the German Filmpreis awarded movie "Vincent will meer".



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