Rico Puestel HHV Records 19 Items

The Air, The Sun, The Sea

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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There's something in the air! Can you feel the sun and the gentle breeze from the sea? Summer is near and Rico Puestel delivers the tune for those wishful days!

„The Air, The Sun, The Sea“ is a highly uplifting and timeless homage to peak summer and festival moments – an anthem, you might not have known you would need in your life...

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LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Time In The Special Practice Of Relativity)

Jenni II

28,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Classical Music

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LP incl. Album CD

Label Name: Time In The Special Practice Of Relativity

Genre: New Age / Soundtrack

Tracklist 12":

A1 – Miss/Take
A2 – Never Been Said
A3 – 2021 12 16
A4 – Sorry.
A5 – A Distance Defined By Proximity
A6 – Peer/Less
B1 – What Happened?
B2 – The Yellow Sky
B3 – CTK
B4 – 2021 11 22 / 19 03
B5 – Just Like It Has Been

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Rico Friebe returns with a second part to JENNI, his initial full length album from early 2022.

The furthermore ongoing personal story of empathy, tragedy and hope continues with a cycle of orchestral compositions, leading Friebe's work into unforeseen directions.

A soundtrack of the soul with the uniquely natural and timeless touch of orchestra music...

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The Verge, The Rope & The Rooftops

2LP+CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

30,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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„Techno. Simply Techno. The way I see it and like to hear it.“ is the simplistic idea behind Rico Puestel's new album THE Verge, THE Rope & THE Rooftops. And that's what is delivered on this LP – 12 high density Techno productions following his highly anticipated 2021 album OBI Thine XI.

Besides the two special Electro jams OUT OF THE Bounds and Saved Again, all tracks deliver a coherent forward motion that have an inner connection while being able to work seperately and individually in a functional as well as special-moment-way throughout any Techno DJ set.

While there happens to be a deeper connection within, Rico Puestel himself recorded an album DJ mix, giving another perspective on how these tracks are intertwined.

As the opening of the CD is declaring: „This sound is relentless. It knows no stops. Standing on the verge. Climbing on the rope. Echoes from the rooftops.“

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Obi Thine Xi: The Remixes Tom Wax & BOWMN Remixes

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Following his late 2021 LP „Obi Thine Xi“, this extensive remix EP leads the last Rico Puestel album into its final conclusion, serving up substantial interpretations by Tom Wax, Bowmn and two further monikers from Rico Puestel himself! As if this wasn't enough, the highly anticipated, formerly unnamed and allegedly lost track „otx“ is in on it too.

On the A-side, Tom Wax delivers his stronghold and contemporary Techno design of „id“ while Rico Puestel hauls out the big analogue guns and „classical“ approach as „Modern Minimals Sound Research“ on the remix of „Voluptuous Antics Enter The Hemisphere“, reinterpreting his own work from another perspective.

Side AA brings you Bowmn with his forceful and psychedelic interpreation of „Modest“ before Rico Puestel comes in another time as „Tetzlaff“ and turns in the 80s-inspired earworm remix of „Thine“.

Last but not least, „otx“ happens to be the concluding track of this record that people have been waiting and asking for since 2020 – finally delivered!

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Obi Thine Xi Deluxe Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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With its first track produced in early 2017 (that crowds worldwide were listening to already in 2018), the OBI Thine XI album by Rico Puestel took up the time of 4 years to become the wild-at-heart ride at hand. The fantasy concept of OBI Thine XI (based on an anagram of the label name Exhibition) tells stories from a wonderous kind of holistic place in space with two dualistic layers and velocities of perception present: On the one side of Space, the main plot is based on the idea of an exhibition-walkthrough, representing the culmination of the Exhibition label itself. Throughout these acts of promenading from exhibit to exhibit, the journey passes different angles of Rico Puestel’s musical mindset from the uniquely designed depths of OBI XI or Ritualist to the blunt uplifts like Modest or ID (a cooperation with scene-bedrock Tom Wax), finally peaking with the retro-game styled melodies of Thine that close this primal arc. On the other side of Time, there’s a 12“-exclusive mini-album within the album itself that pays tribute to the vinyl record (and all of its fans) with four tracks at the end of each side, telling tales at their own pace and reflecting their perspective on the main course of the album like reflective and feverish dreamscapes from places without any conception of time.

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12.07.1997 Single Sided Vinyl Edition

12" | 2021 | EU | Original (A Damn Fine Side)

10,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Single-sided Techno/Neotrance collectible by Rico Puestel. Hand-stamped and numbered limited edition of 150 copies only.

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3LP | 2021 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

Exhibition 1/2/3

19,99 €*

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Limited vinyl-bundle including the Exhibition series 1 to 3 by Rico Puestel – coming in an exclusively designed canvas tote bag together with a download-code of all three records!

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

Exhibition 4: Solling II

11,99 €*

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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One town, three times of the day, a triarchy of Techno music, rolling into the deep – coming as green marbled vinyl with an exclusively designed festival wristband! Rico Puestel rears a monument to his growing-up-town „Uslar“ with three different approaches on this second part of the home-loving „Solling“ series that dig deep into a downscaled and natural framework of sound (all recorded and produced right at that place).

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12" | 2019 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

Exhibition 1

11,99 €*

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Welcome to the exhibition! After his renowned tour de force on Cocoon Recordings, Rico Puestel continues with his dedicated streaks of unique and progressively driven Techno on his brand-new imprint Exhibition.

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12" | 2018 | EU | Original (Cocoon)

973272

11,99 €*

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Although Rico Puestel has been producing since 2005, he still seems to be something of an insider tip. Since "Caravel" though, his August release on Cocoon Recordings, things have taken a dramatic turn with Puestel currently enjoying "man of the moment" status, especially when it comes to progressive techno and peak time action on the dance floor.??"973" picks up exactly where "Caravel" left off, kicking powerfully with irresistable, effect-loaded breaks that really twist your melon. This one really works you over but there's also feeling and a touch of elegance, in fact we can't remember hearing anything like this since Len Faki's Dustin Zahn Remix! "973" proves that "Caravel" was no flash in the pan, just one tantalising glimpse into the musical world of Rico Puestel and that's not the end of it...??"272" is a little more stripped down and chilled to start with, but soon opens up into the same crazy atmosphere as "973". This is dominated by an up-and-running arpeggio synth, which combines with the now familiar effects-break motif to create an incredible hypnotic effect. A little less brutal than "973" but drenched in more reverb, "272" is something like "kicking Deep Techno" with a nod to the Tech House corner in the style of Mark Broom or Joris Voorn.
Mr. Puestel serves up two choice cuts here and there's no question that 973272 will be with us for a while. Buckle up, hold tight and off we go!

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

Caravelle

14,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Genre: Techno

Tracklist 12":

A1 – Caravelle
B1 – Esta

Info:

Rico Puestel calls these unreleased tracks from 2017 the "female counterparts to some well-known others from back then" and drops some serious fire!

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12" | 2024 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

We Are Younger

16,99 €*

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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12" | 2024 | Original (Exhibition)

Endless Summer

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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A surprising, timeless summer anthem by Rico Puestel like it was born on Ibiza!

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The Undeniable Classics Volume 1

12" | 2024 | Original (Exhibition)

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Two undeniable classics from Rico Puestel are back! Remastered in their truest idea of sound and for the first time on vinyl (AA1)!

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#Technohasleftthebuilding - The Aftermath

2LP | 2024 | Original (Exhibition)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Rico Puestel always has a surprise in store: #technohasleftthebuilding ain't finished yet! We've come a long way baby... The original recording sessions has been more extensive than previously known of, based on the incentive question: If Techno has left the building, what is actually left of it?

In the aftermath of it all, Rico Puestel bounces back to the true-bred heart of Techno and its traits that really made him fall in love with it in the first place. He initially kept these additional and special tracks to himself throughout the first album part, but the time has come to deliver them subsequently now.

Literally point by point, Rico Puestel designes a mesmerizing trip into the greater depths of early club nights, thinking of a world without any trials and tribulations of smartphones or the internet - just dancing and loosing oneself in the magic of the the 4/4-impulse and a tapestry of sound woven around our being.

In times, when people felt as a unit-of-one movement on the dancefloor, with Techno being its undeniable soundtrack and moment of truth, diversity was no issue, so #technohasleftthebuilding's aftermath also dives into the realms of Trance and beyond, because way back: Techno was just Techno and it's all about the music in the end.

Starting with a warning from a dystopian point in time, this further album part is an admonition and a refined view back from outside the building...

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#Technohasleftthebuilding

2LP | 2023 | Original (Exhibition)

31,99 €*

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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180g 2xLP / Gatefold

Genre: Techno

Tracklist 12":

A1 - dek
A2 - nau
AA1 - ok
AA2 - sep
AA3 - ses
AAA1 - kvin
AAA2 - kvar
AAA3 - tri
AAAA1 - du
AAAA2 - unu
AAAA3 - nulo

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This is the last album from Rico Puestel. After somehow three decades, Rico misses the cultural impact of Techno music as it has been and declares its spirits gone – at least personally. There's nothing more to tell. The self-consuming scene has reached its grotesque climax and left an empty shell of something once filled with so much passion, warmth, strength, heart and hope. The times just haven't changed – they lost their self-fulfilling purpose and authenticity.

Heavily influenced by prehistoric, tribal rhythms and trance-inducing dances within redundant structures, Techno music once had a natively true and unadulterated essence. A free spirit on the run. Rico found the right spot in time to gather all of his origins in Techno music for a last act of connecting to it. Being on an all-time high as a producer, he crafted the whole album on a course of twelve hours and relived all those deeply rooted moments and memories with Techno in fast motion. While the track titles are counting down from ten to zero in Esperanto, Rico clears up in peace and balance...

What once was, is now without form and void.
I left.
Everybody left.
Techno has left the building.

Farewell!

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12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Exhibition)

Make A Way (For Women)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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"Stop Violence Against Women" has been the life-long credo from Rico Puestel and "Make A Way (For Women)" is a stomping protest of 11 minutes and 11 seconds that proclaims the fortitude of women! Playing this one out there is more of an solidary act than just "a track being played"...

What Rico himself has to say about it: "With my 2022 Friebe-projects 'Jenni' and 'Jenni II', I started to make a public appearance on this topic of violence against women musically. Back in childhood days, I already felt an intensely unjust manner and imbalance regarding women in society and an almost predetermined non-equality. The violence always seemed so ever-present, even in the smallest details of behaviour and the associated self-understanding of men within their deeper planted attitude towards. I always felt an honourable glory and profound importance in women that seems impeccable and unreachable for men. It's clear that men would just be memories and ghosts without women... Musically speaking, while grewing up with Gabba and Trance i. a. in the 1990s, I simply feel no charm to nowadays reflection on these times with productions and releases that somehow just sound insincere and scheming. I'm missing the real attitude, feel and groove that doesn't even care if it's Techno, H ouse or whatever and I'm also missing some of the stylistic approaches as well as the spirit from the "Minimal"-era. Based on all those thoughts, "Make A Way (For Women)" became this clenched fist - raised for good!"

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I Don't Get Techno Anymore...

12" | 2023 | Original (Exhibition)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance

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Genre: Techno

Tracklist 12":

A1 - It Used To Hold A Mystery
A2 - It Used To Tell A Truth
B1 - It Used To Give Courage
B2 - It Used To Have Soul

Info:

Ladies and gentlemen, it's 2023 and Rico Puestel doesn't get Techno anymore. What happened? They might have grown apart... So he just did his thing and after twelve months of not producing anything electronic, he just wallowed in independence of doing what he always loved...

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The Gen Z Archives (Lost Tracks From The '00s) Blue Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | Original (Exhibition)

30,99 €*