Wolfsheim

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

German musician Joachim Witt counts among the few survivors of the German New Wave that dominated the airwaves in the early '80s: After years of struggling to regain the popularity he found with his hit single "Goldener Reiter" (Golden Rider), he managed to launch a serious comeback in the second half of the '90s with his album Bayreuth 1 and a single called "Die Flut" (The Flood), whose Wagnerian pomp-meets-heavy-guitars aesthetic fit into the Neue Deutsche Härte (new German heaviness) trend spearheaded by Rammstein. …

Frankreich, Land der Revolte, Land der Leidenschaft. Eng umschlingen sich Macht und Liebe in großartiger Inszenierung. Der Schauspieler Dietmar Mues erzählt von den Schätzen einer Kultur, die der französische Philosoph Diderot in der "Leidenschaft, glücklich sein zu wollen" begründet sah. …

Nick Carraway moves from the Midwest to New York a bond salesman and finds himself the neighbor of Jay Gatsby. He's a wealthy bootlegger and forger, who has a huge estate bordering his modest cottage. Gatsby is well-known for throwing fabulous, hedonistic summer parties in 1922 West Egg, Long Island. Gatsby befriends Nick and enlists him in to broker a meeting between him and his former love Daisy Buchanen, Nick's cousin. She is now married to the snobbish and selfish Tom Buchanen, who flaunts an extramarital affair he is having with the proletarian wife of a local garage owner. Nick consents to arrange a meeting with Gatsby and Daisy, a rendezvous that will have tragic consequences.

Following collaborations with Paul Van Dyk and Schiller, Solo is the first full-length studio release from German singer/songwriter Peter Heppner since his acrimonious departure from influential synth pop outfit Wolfsheim. Produced by Peter-John Vettese (Annie Lennox) and Jose Alvarez-Brill (Kosheen), its ten English and German-language tracks include the single "Alleinesein."

With this release Major Records and re-flexion start a compilation series of a special kind. Nearly all tracks are unreleased or rare club-remixesfrom your favourite artists with their official approval. The remixers did their very best to make those wonderful tracks shine in a different light and not to destroy the original magic of the songs. Some of the tracks used to be successful singles, others were album tracks originally, but they all have one thing in common: we love them!
Soft Cell, Erasure, Boytronic, Alphaville, De/Vision and many more.