While at Hansa, I had started to feel a bit of tickles in my throat and a light cough. They even had a mousepad with artwork from DM's "Precious" with the mac.
I'm waiting for Tara to get mine back to me. We took pictures with the mixing desk too, but my camera had run out of charge. This tiny mixing area had everything from tape machines to MacBook Pros - anything an artist might need was right there. This desk is still in regular use today and has been complimented by all the necessary equipment to work with the latest tools. Studio One was pretty awesome because they still have some of the same equipment originally used in the Berlin period, including the mixing desk (great for technology geeks!). We'd come up the staircase used for several Black Celebration promo photos and not even realized! Because we're total geeks like that, we HAD to get a picture of us sitting on it from a similar angle (as you can see to the right). I wondered what was so interesting, so I took a look for myself. There was also a neat video with various producers talking about their work there.Īfter coming out of the ballroom, I saw a bunch of people leaning over the rail, taking pictures of something on the lower level. The tour guide was amusing, informative and had a lot of great, rare photographs of the various artists at work in and around the studio. U2 and Anton Corbijn also shot parts of the video for "One" in this ballroom. We toured the main remaining sound studio (Studio One) as well as the ballroom known for producing powerful, unique accoustics. Other music greats have also frequented Hansa, including David Bowie, U2 and Iggy Pop. We were due to take a tour of legendary Hansa Tonstudio, where Depeche spent their "Berlin period," recording Construction Time Again, Some Great Reward, and Black Celebration.
After a late night after the Leipzig show, we packed our bags and headed back to Berlin early the next morning.