Hansa Tonstudio

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Meistersaal facade on Köthener Straße

The Hansa Tonstudio (also Hansa-Tonstudios) is a recording studio located at Köthener Straße 38 in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. Amongst English-performing musical acts it used to be known as "Hansa Studio By the Wall", "Hansa by the Wall", or "The Great Hall by the Wall" in reference to the fact that it was adjacent to the Berlin Wall near Potsdamer Platz.

History

Interior of Hansa-Tonstudios

The studios were originally founded in 1964 (3 years after the building of the Berlin Wall) by brothers Peter and Thomas Meisel in the western Halensee part of West Berlin. They moved to their present location at Meistersaal in 1972. In the early and mid-1980s, all productions were overseen by English record producer Michael Blakey.

Operated as the recording facility of Hansa Records, the studios played host to many well-known acts, including Tangerine Dream, David Bowie,[1][2] Brian Eno,[3] Iggy Pop,[4] U2,[2] Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,[3] Claw Boys Claw,[5] Depeche Mode,[6] Marillion,[6] Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke, Boney M. and most recently Snow Patrol, Kent and Living Things. The roll of notable recordings and the darkly sonorous sound quality, at once rugged and spacious of many of them, have given the studio near legendary status, especially within the post-punk and synthpop genres.

Selected recordings

References

  1. ↑ "Frei gefühlt: David Bowie in Berlin". Die Tageszeitung (in German). 2006-07-10. Retrieved 2009-07-14. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Susan Fast, "Music, Contexts, and Meaning in U2," in Everett, Walter (ed.) (2000). Expression in Pop-rock Music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays. Taylor & Francis. pp. 33–76. ISBN 978-0-8153-3160-5.  p. 45
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Connell, John; Chris Gibson (2003). Sound tracks: popular music, identity, and place. Routledge. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-415-17028-4. 
  4. ↑ Trynka, Paul (2008). Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed. Random House. p. 326. ISBN 978-0-7679-2320-0. 
  5. ↑ "Claw Boys Claw: Biografie". Popinstituut Encyclopedie. Muziek Centrum Nederland. Retrieved 2009-04-23. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Miller, Jonathan (2004). Stripped: Depeche Mode. Omnibus Press. p. 161. ISBN 978-1-84449-415-6. 

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Coordinates: 52°30′20″N 13°22′35″E / 52.50556°N 13.37639°E / 52.50556; 13.37639

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