Hyperium Records
{{Short description|German record label}}
{{Infobox record label
| name = Hyperium Records
| image =
| parent = ZZO Recordings
| founded = 1991
| founder = Oliver Roesch / Oliver van Essenberg
| defunct = 2002
| genre = darkwave, neoclassical, gothic rock, ambient, ethereal
| country = Germany
| location = Nürnberg
}}
Hyperium Records was a German independent record label specializing in darkwave, neoclassical, ethereal, gothic rock, and ambient music, founded by Oliver Roesch[http://www.musicaldiscoveries.com/reviews/chandeen2004.htm Reviews] (also known as "Oli" Roesch) and Oliver van Essenberg in 1991.[http://www.lictd.com/pgs/history.html History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317054643/http://www.lictd.com/pgs/history.html |date=2007-03-17 }} Roesch died on August 1, 2002, in a motorcycle accident.[http://www.hertz-lion.com/archive/17august2002.html Hertz-Lion] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001248/http://www.hertz-lion.com/archive/17august2002.html |date=2007-09-28 }} (August 17, 2002)
Releases
=''Heavenly Voices'' compilations=
Hyperium released a series of Heavenly Voices compilation series, which featured prominent use of female vocals in a neo-classical, neofolk, world music, trip hop or ethereal style. "Heavenly Voices" has often been used as a genre term, particularly during the mid to late 1990s.{{cite web |url=http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?dept_id=20&sku=HYY00086 |title=Projekt: Darkwave - 'Heavenly Voices 2' |accessdate=2007-03-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118060942/https://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?dept_id=20&sku=HYY00086 |archivedate=2006-11-18 }} Love Is Colder Than Death claim that the series was inspired by their music.{{cite web |url=http://www.lictd.com/pgs/history.html |title=Official Homepage of Love is Colder Than Death |accessdate=2007-03-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317054643/http://www.lictd.com/pgs/history.html |archivedate=2007-03-17 }}
The first few compilations featured music by many of the label's own artists, as well as guest appearance by other notable bands of the ethereal/gothic/darkwave scene including Bel Canto, Faith & the Muse, Gitane Demone, In The Nursery, Miranda Sex Garden, Ordo Equitum Solis and The Moon Seven Times. In 1997, American independent label Cleopatra Records released a Hyperium licensed compilation called Heavenly Voices subtitled, "A collection of the finest female vocals in ethereal, darkwave & gothic".{{cite web |url=http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=CLE01982&dept_id=20 |title=Projekt: Darkwave - 'Heavenly Voices - Out of Print' |accessdate=2007-03-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061118030313/http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=CLE01982&dept_id=20 |archivedate=2006-11-18 }}
=Artists=
The following are artists with releases on Hyperium Records:
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- !Bang Elektronika
- Attrition
- Autopsia
- Calva y Nada
- Chandeen
- Claire Voyant
- Clock DVA
- Dark Orange
- Die Form
- Digital Factor
- Digital Poodle
- Eleven Shadows
- Forthcoming Fire
- Jarboe
- The Wake
- Louisa John-Krol
- Love Is Colder Than Death
- Mellonta Tauta
- Mynox Layh
- Regenerator
- Sleeping Dogs Wake
- Still Patient?
- Stoa
- Sweet William
- The Tors of Dartmoor
- Rise And fall of a Decade
- Speaking Silence
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The following artists were co-released by Hyperium Records and Projekt Records:
- Attrition
- Black Tape for a Blue Girl
- Bleak
- Eden
- Human Drama
- Love Spirals Downwards
- Soul Whirling Somewhere
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.discogs.com/label/Hyperium+Records Discogs page for Hyperium]
{{Authority control}}
Category:Record labels established in 1991
Category:Record labels disestablished in 2002
Category:German independent record labels
Category:Electronic music record labels