2001: A Space Odyssey (movie)
John Abercrombie
Alien Nation (TV show)
The Allman Brothers Band
Ashra
Bachman Turner Overdrive
Black Sabbath
Blade Runner (movie)
David Bowie
John Cage
Camel
Can
John Coltrane
Disaster Area
Miles Davis
Rory Gallagher
Golden Earring
Bo Hansson
Hawkwind
Isaac Hayes
Joe Hisaishi
Akira Ifukube
The Invaders (TV show)
Kraftwerk
Little Feat
Bennie Maupin
Monty Python
Mother's Finest
Neu!
Planet of the Apes (original movie)
The Prisoner (TV show)
Raumpatrouille Orion (TV show)
Terje Rypdal
Dmitri Shostakovich
Klaus Schulze
Slade
Solaris (both movies!)
Stalker (movie)
Star Trek TOS
Swing Out Sister
Toru Takemitsu
Tangerine Dream
The Temptations
Ralph Towner
T.Rex
UFO (TV show)
UFO (Band)
Barry White
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Roy Wood
Yes, Minister (TV show)
and a lot more stuff
Sounds Like
pure anti-matter
..or like what’s pounding in my head after a day of alternately listening to
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH 5th symphony
BO HANSSON attic thoughts
URIAH HEEP salisbury
MILES DAVIES bitches brew
JETHRO TULL songs from the wood
J.S. BACH brandenburg concertos
TERJE RYPDAL skywards
BLACK SABBATH sabbath bloody sabbath
and watching
YASUJIRO OZU's 'Tokyo Story' in the morning and RIDLEY SCOTT's 'Blade Runner' in the evening.
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And here's a Radio Show that gives you a constant stream of great electronic music. It also supports 'Hensel 3000' and the 'MyOuterSpace' project in a fantastic way. Have a listen:
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And this is by far the most extraordinary TV show website on planet Earth (and Moonbase, of course). Everything you ever wanted to know about UFO you will definitely find here:
And exactly as great is the fantastic German UFO site:
kepler mission
This track celebrates the great man himself, the International Year of Astronomy and of course the NASA mission of the same name. The track has great BIANCA ARISTIA on vocals. You can find it on MyOuterSpace Vol. 5
space and time
I recorded this track with GITTA MacKAY and EVERLING. Gitta is the original studio singer of SILVER CONVENTION’s US No. 1 hit single "Fly, Robin, Fly" and she's a fantastic singer! You find this track on MyOuterSpace Vol. 3.
voyager 1
BRIDGET WISHART on vocals and EWI here. The track was recorded for MyOuterSpace Volume 3 and is about the probe Voyager 1, now the farthest manmade object from Earth. It carries the Voyager Golden Record containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. It is intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or far future humans, that may find it.
confetti check a-ok
Sir ALAN DAVEY on bass here. Real nice guy. Great musician. One of the best bass players on planet Earth. Ex-Hawkwind. Got a cool new band now called Gunslinger. And a zillion other projects.
'confetti check' features another fantastic female singer: GABI BOTT from Germany.
ed straker
Homage to Commander Straker of SHADO. The English TV series UFO from 1970 is one of my favourite TV shows. Ever.
berliner schule
HARALD GROSSKOPF on drums here. I first heard him play in 1976 on the Klaus Schulze album 'Moondawn'. One of the best drummers on planet Earth.
My name is Frank Hensel. I grew up and still live in Gelsenkirchen, Germany (the so-called 'town of 1000 fires' then) in a typical Ruhrgebiet working class background. Coal-mines, coking plants, steel mills and chemical industry darkened the sky and the mind and thus I started to read science fiction extensively and listen to music intensively.
Right from the start I fell utterly in love with space and time and travelling through it, and it still has a huge impact on my work.
At the beginning of the 90's I found musicians good and patient enough for a big serious project: the trio called The Enemy Within.
For the next two years we played all over Germany and were local heros in the Ruhrgebiet. We recorded a self produced album in 1993 called Pulp but due to famous 'musically differences' dissolved in 1994.
I found the time to write two science fiction musicals: the rock musical The Libuda Conspiracy and Space Patrol (based on the German TV series from the 60's 'Raumpatrouille' - see my top friends).
'Too far out stories for the usual friend of musicals' and 'too expensive to produce' was the experts' opinion. Both never made it to the stage to day.
Apart from some sound installations for museums and music for short films I composed and produced the music for the highly acclaimed CD-Rom 'Industrial Heritage Trail'.
A lot of work goes into the MyOuterSpace project (see No. 1 in my top friends). For MyOuterSpace Vol. 1 I had the honour to record the track 'berliner schule' with one of my musical heroes, Harald Grosskopf, the legendary German drummer who played (among hundreds of others) on the Klaus Schulze 'Moondawn' album. With THE SLEGDE DOGS I had the chance to record the track 'spaceman'.
You can download 'berliner schule' in much better sound quality than on this site on the MyOuterSpace website for free. www.myspace.com/myouterspace3000
For MyOuterSpace Vol. 2 I had the honour to record the track 'Confetti check A ok' (based on the UFO episode of the same name) with Alan Davey on bass (Ex-Hawkwind, now with Gunslinger) and with the outstandingly gifted German female singer Gabi Bott on vocals. Be sure to hear more from her in the future here.
Here you find the short version of 'Confetti check'. You can download the long version in much better sound quality on the MyOuterSpace website for free. www.myspace.com/myouterspace3000
And it was BIG FUN to record the track 'time corridor' with the outstanding EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN.
For MyOuterSpace Vol. 3 I again had the honour to do some collaborations with great musicians from all over planet Earth.
I recorded a long and spacey track with my Argentinian friend FELINI called 'capitán del espacio'.
BRIDGET WISHART sang, spoke and played EWI on the track 'voyager 1' about the space probe being as of now the farthest manmade object from Earth.
And I had the chance to record the track 'space and time' with GITTA MacKAY (original studio singer of SILVER CONVENTION’s US No. 1 hit single 'Fly, Robin, Fly') and my buddy EVERLING.
And for MyOuterSpace Vol. 4 I had a wonderful collaboration with my Mexican buddy Arróniz. We created a fine track called 'spaceScape'.
You can download 'voyager 1', 'space and time' and 'spaceScape' in much better sound quality on the MyOuterSpace website for free. www.myspace.com/myouterspace3000
'MyOuterSpace' Vol. 1 (2008)
incl. 'berliner schule' with Harald Grosskopf
incl. 'spaceman' with The Sledge Dogs
'MyOuterSpace' Vol. 2 (2008)
incl. 'confetti check A ok' with Alan Davey
incl. 'time coorridor' with Emergency Librarian
'MyOuterSpace' Vol. 3 (2008)
incl. 'voyager 1' with Bridget Wishart
incl. 'space and time' with Gitta MacKay and Everling
incl. 'capitán del espacio' with Felini
'MyOuterSpace' Vol. 4 (2009)
incl. 'spaceScape' with Arróniz
'MyOuterSpace' Vol. 5 (2009)
incl. 'Kepler mission' with Bianca Aristía
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
