Rest in peace, Kurt!

He was musically a phenomenon of his time, an exceptional talent, the whole glamor hype and the Disco Fever simply do not interest him.
Nevertheless, his pieces were - of course the hits - in the discos then up and down played. That this partially concerns compositions which also act 35 years later still fresh and surprising, of course, no one noticed, even myself back then not.

This album from 1977 (1987 is the CD appeared) represents a cross-section of Supermax 'work his heyday. Of course with this is the Earcatcher 'Love Machine', which everyone has heard that before, but interesting, I think 'Reality', 'Camillo' and 'Be what you are.' In 'Camillo' and 'I wanna be free' occurs Hauenstein's apparent affinity for reggae and funk, the even more takes his music later.

After this is a record which thankfully appears to have been transferred to untreated CD, you have to be content with the few pieces and by today's standards, unfortunately, short-term nature. I could imagine that here the album 'Fly With Me' with the smash hit 'Is not Easy' and the awesome-cool 'Is not Gonna Feel' append would have been fair. For me The latter piece is always like a little soul shower.

Supermax was in its time a top international number, largely ignored in his native Austria, and later completely forgotten, as he gave great concerts especially in Eastern countries. In Bulgaria, I often frequented 2000-2007, there was no one who knew and revered Supermax not, and would not have had at least one or two CD's at home by him. Meanwhile, you could not even buy a CD from him, except maybe a compiler with his famous hit Registered.

'Supermax, WOS is the' me have already asked many colleagues. 'One that have heard all, but no one knows here' I say then, 'The Kurt Hauenstein from Vienna.' And the perplexity is of course larger than before.

PS: the 'old' Supermax one can on the album 'The Max Is Gonna Kick Ya' from 1992, especially in 'Back Home'. The grooved (or however you spell that)!