Hansa By The Wall Studios

The studios were located in an incredibly impressive place, if you looked out of the large windows you could see the guards, the wall and the barbed-wire all around, the Cold War, East Germany. Everything contributed to creating that unique climate. There were no signs of housing, signs of civilization, it was in the middle of nowhere. Looking up, the only thing you saw were the Hansas and the "Death Strip".

Over the years the hansa has succeeded more than 100 arts and more than 300 productions, in these studies were recorded the songs that have made the history of music.
It all starts with David Bowie. After the period in the United States he needed a totally different environment from Los Angeles and the most complex city that came to mind in Bowie was West Berlin. A city that had already hosted David and Iggy a few months before to complete the album "The idiot"

Inside the Hansa Studios Bowie recorded "Low" and immediately after "Heroes", Iggy Pop created Lust for life, the Depeche Mode among those walls created "Some Great Reward". Here the British band define their sound, giving life to their Berlin albums. For artists and musicians, it was like a big playground, every corner of the building was exploited and used, even small stones on the terrace were used to generate music. They were rolled and the effect and their primitive sound were immortalized. Every bizarre idea was transformed into something creative within the Hansa Studios. Martin recorded "Somebody" completely naked in the big hall maybe it's a legend or maybe not. He claims that it is such an intimate song that this was the only way to be interpreted appropriately, without clothes, only you and the music. That strongly artistic environment influenced enormously their music and their path

There was an uncommon acoustics in those rooms, a magical energy. you could shake, beat and record anything that turned into music. in a short time berlin became the fulcrum for all the bands and musicians who were looking for inspiration, experimentation and who wanted to explore new and innovative ways.
Everything was allowed inside the Studios, the only limits were what you established yourself. The walls of the rooms rejected the music and sent it back with such force and grandeur. Perhaps it was the dust present in the air, an imperceptible matter that drove the artists and their creative process.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and with the disappearance of that strip that divided the two worlds. that strange and mystical atmosphere slowly faded and the interest and fascination with hansa studios diminished profoundly, but the magic and the music that was created in that place will remain forever suspended in the air, free to be breathed, free for to be able to enter into us.

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