Haslinger, Paul

Artists: Coma Virus (Paul Haslinger)
P: 1996
This is music that some will find difficult to listen to. The soundscapes in the tracks will slowly lull you into a dream state and then like the nightmare where you find yourself falling into a deep pit suddenly shake you awake with a start.
Dark, brooding sounds hint at a presence just beyond the conscious mind (like the night creatures that wait for us to fall asleep?) characterize this album. And while Laudanum Vol. 1 (Fatagaga) and thepresentday (Jason Corder and Opium) are not antidotes they do mix well with Coma Virus and even potentiate its effects.
Coma Virus is a side project for former Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger. On "Hidden" he explores pure ambient territory, somewhat reminiscent of Lightwave. Mostly a construction of sounds as opposed to ambient offerings of, say Brian Eno. Melodies are barely hinted at here, as the focus is on the sonic aspects.

Artist: Peter Baumann & Paul Haslinger
P: 2019
This Blu-Ray+DVD video experience includes the amazing visuals of NEULAND within one non-stop movie format. Experience NEULAND the way it was meant to with stunning visuals specifically tailored for all 15 tracks!

"Long-awaited" doesn't even begin to describe Neuland. After all, its core synth cadets (former Tangerine Dream members Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger) first workshopped a record under a different name (Blue Room) nearly 30 years ago. Its promising sessions were ultimately shelved, but the project's creative process firmly established their friendship and a fruitful dialogue that defies explanation. Neuland started the way many long overdue projects do: with Paul Haslinger and Peter Baumann asking themselves, "Why isn't there anything out there like this?" In their case, that meant a deeply immersive debut album that’s respectful of their roots in Tangerine Dream but exists on its own astral plane, Far more restless than most ambient records, the pair's self-titled LP is both focused and freeing, alluding to everything from weightless grime melodies to windswept film scores. And while there are hints of many different modern artists here (Oneohtrix Point Never's sci-fi scapes, Zombi's prog nods, the mechanical animal melodies of Amon Tobin and Arca), Neuland is ultimately the sound of something entirely new.
"It all boils down to one word, transcendence" explains Baumann.

Artist: Peter Baumann & Paul Haslinger
P: 2019
"Long-awaited" doesn't even begin to describe Neuland. After all, its core synth cadets (former Tangerine Dream members Peter Baumann and Paul Haslinger) first workshopped a record under a different name (Blue Room) nearly 30 years ago. Its promising sessions were ultimately shelved, but the project's creative process firmly established their friendship and a fruitful dialogue that defies explanation. Neuland started the way many long overdue projects do: with Paul Haslinger and Peter Baumann asking themselves, "Why isn't there anything out there like this?" In their case, that meant a deeply immersive debut album that’s respectful of their roots in Tangerine Dream but exists on its own astral plane, Far more restless than most ambient records, the pair's self-titled LP is both focused and freeing, alluding to everything from weightless grime melodies to windswept film scores. And while there are hints of many different modern artists here (Oneohtrix Point Never's sci-fi scapes, Zombi's prog nods, the mechanical animal melodies of Amon Tobin and Arca), Neuland is ultimately the sound of something entirely new.
"It all boils down to one word, transcendence" explains Baumann.

Artists: Paul Haslinger & V.A.
P: 2001
Paul Haslinger can be heard on one track.
Boy from East L.A. meets girl from the "right" side of the tracks. Unfortunately, their relationship is threatened by mediocre music... er, societal pressures. For every worthy, evocative track that the Kirsten Dunst-starring Crazy/Beautiful's CD companion offers, two seem like recordings that a studio suit decided "the kids will relate to": Emiliana Torrini's Björk-lite "To Be Free," the Getaway People's Beck-lite "She Gave Me Love," and Osker's Blink-182-lite "Alright" might work in theaters, but here they just make the listener hope that the movie itself is better written than these leftovers. Save for the Dandy Warhols' "Sleep" (from 2000's masterful Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia) and maybe Fastball's "This Is Not My Life," the album hardly makes a good argument for the continuing validity of guitar rock--and was Seven Mary Three's "Wait" commissioned as a Goo Goo Dolls knockoff or a Bon Jovi homage? Latin hip-hop is better served, with excellent Mellow Man Ace and Delinquent Habits concoctions on board, but rock tunes by La Ley and Serralde are hardly as inspiring.

Artists: Paul Haslinger
P: 2011
Soundtrack for the same movie.

Artists: Paul Haslinger
P: 2020
"I've never been happy with staying in one particular style of music. The fun was turning things upside down, trying things out." As a former member of the legendary Tangerine Dream, Paul Haslinger is a man who knows how to build suspense, hold moods, illustrate contempt, lies, passion and pleasure; he can create fear, disgust and love - he has unleashed the nuances of such emotions in a highly successful career as a TV and film soundtrack composer ("Halt And Catch Fire", "Underworld" and the Golden Globe nominated "Sleeper Cell")
"Exit Ghost" is his long thought-out opus, a moment caught in time, leafing through reference points and taking an ethereal trip that permeates musical genres while being inundated with intricate sounds and intersecting rhythms. Originally built from the warmth of his grand piano, "Exit Ghost" swings with purity and power, from an uncanny and evocative in-between world that is both sweeping and rolling, then intoxicating and suffocating at the same time; modern composition in its most uplifting form; cerebral, solemn, intense and beautiful
"The search for souls in connection with this record was extensive. To find places of resonance, to give colour to memories. It was a greater challenge because it is not the narrative of another. Finding the core of your story can be the most difficult task of all."
The album, which was created over a period of eight years and is full of personal references, is a testimony to the search - a search full of hints, particles and suggestions.
 

Artists: Paul Haslinger
P: 1994
This is the first solo release by Paul Haslinger after 4 years, when he left Tangerine Dream in 1990. Totally differernt music than expected. Very rhythmic, melodic ethno stuff. Sounds a little bit like Enigma meets Mark Shreeve.


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Artists: Paul Haslinger
P: 2017
This soundtrack music is with a lot of melodies and sequences, that could have been with the old TD Soundtracks back in the 80s. Complete synthesizer score, excellent.

Artists: Paul Haslinger
P: 1998
Paul Haslinger was a member of Tangerine Dream in the mid-1980s, but while that German synth band cranks along like an alien Edsel that doesn't realize its time has gone, Haslinger has been building a catalog of cutting-edge music that will take us into the next millennium. Following on the heels of his 1997 ethno-techno blowout, World Without Rules, Haslinger steps into a space-age bachelor pad for Score. Although Haslinger is a classically trained keyboardist, he doesn't let that get in the way of his sample-and-paste aesthetic. On "Accidental Measures of Cool" he mixes live performances from singer-songwriter Julianna Raye's moaning voice and Bumi Fian's muted trumpet with a snarling electronic groove and dub bass line to create a techno-noir landscape. Then he uses Indian chanting, not for the ethnicity of it all, but just for the pure sonic joy as the chant calls out across what sounds like a klezmer band on acid. Juliana Raye returns on "When Worlds Collide," coolly intoning her surreal lyric cut-ups in this electronic ballad. Taiko drummers, talking tabla players, snakey jazz rhythms, and electronic abstractions swirl in a giddy head dance on Score. "Fantastic Voyage" reaches almost symphonic dimensions, in a loungey sort of way. Only once does Haslinger succumb to ethno-kitsch, that's on "Magheda" with what sounds like a Native American chant sampled over an electronica groove à la Deep Forest. Paul Haslinger not only challenges his space-music origins, but ups the ante for electronica with music you might hear in a cyber-lounge someday around 2010.

Artists: Paul Haslinger
P: 2003
This soundtrack is magnificent but dark never the less. The music rises like mist and fills my ears with clouds of color and sound, murky, pulsating and totally electrifying. I haven't listened to it for some time and when this album came on my iPod at random it shocked my senses during my moon lit midnight walk home. The music send a kick through my insides and by the time I got home I felt like the Terminator because this music makes you walk like something out of a movie. In this soundtrack there's no subtle slithering in dark corridors, the music is eerie with an obvious feeling of approaching dread, you know that something big and bad is coming....Not every tracks it loud, some has whispers and monk's chanting, soft piano and violins ( "Eternity and a Day" for example), while others sound like an industrial revolution in the tombs occupied by the vampires. I totally loved it, highly recommended to fans of soundtracks and of fans this movie.