Hans Nieswandt is an author, music critic and DJ for electronic music from Cologne. In the early 90s, he was the co-founder of "Whirlpool Productions" and in 1997 they released their hit single "From Disco to Disco".
The number of (highly recommended) remixes done by him exceeds the number of his own songs. In 1999, Hans even remixed the carnival song "Die Karawane zieht weiter" by local folk group "De Höhner". 2002 saw the release of his first book "plus minus acht" describing his experiences as a DJ. His last solo album "The True Sound Center" was release in November 2004 including the single "Ich vermiss die Zeit (Bleib)".
Hans Nieswandt went on several tours together with the Goethe Institut to represent German music culture abroad. His travelling led him to Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, the Middle East and in November 2006 to South East Asia including a gig in KL's Zouk. In an interview with the Malay Mail he was asked to come up with one-liners for certain music genres. I can totally relate to his one-liner on Hip-Hop - "Used to be so good".
As Cologne-based music critic M.B. rightly said: "Der Hans, der kann's!", I hope that Nieswandt will return for another gig to South East Asia!
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