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Portrait: Christian Hornbostel Techno and alchemie

Beat / What do techno and alchemy have to do with each other?

Christian / I don‘t know if a concrete connection between a musical genre and an ancient branch of natural philosophy can even be imagined. But if connection is meant as affinity, then there is a connection, since both, a compositional process and an alchemical one, are transformative in nature. The basic premise is that the composition meant is not a quick copy & paste work, but a careful, experimental musical exploration with intuition and harmonic boldness. A studio session of this kind can even put the composer or producer into a trance-like state. Then we can actually talk about a transformation of the elements. What is chemical in alchemy will be mental, emotional and spiritual in composition.

Beat / Where does your fondness for Latin come from?

/ As we know, Latin appears particularly often in

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