Founded in 2022, Hochspannung is a creative audio production company and record label operating out of The Famous Gold Watch in Berlin, Weissensee, offering recording, mixing, production, arrangement, and composition services across a wide range of genres. We specialize in deep, immersive sound. In detail that reveals itself slowly. In authenticity that cannot be simulated.
Working with solo artists, bands, and small ensembles, we provide a warm, well-equipped environment with high-end analog and digital tools, supporting projects at every stage of the creative process. Our approach combines technical precision with creative collaboration, from multitrack recording (in-studio or on location) to detailed mixdowns and full-scale production, including orchestration, sound design, and media composition. Rooted in a collective ethos, we value open dialogue, experimentation, and a strong team spirit, working closely in-house and with a trusted network of musicians and collaborators to bring each project to its fullest potential—whether for records, film, commercial work, or interdisciplinary artistic contexts.
The record label was born from the urge to bring deeply mesmerizing musical experiences to the world. Moving freely between tradition and disruption without compromise, we seek to unify mind and spirit in the search of common grounds for extreme contrast, with an affinity for both classical and contemporary approaches to music as well as the opposite spectrum of outsider art and post punk culture. We welcome projects with an open mind in regards to experimental and new approaches as well as those grounded in the classic methods of music and sound creation. We cover a wide spectrum of contemporary and traditional acoustic and electronic music (and everything in between).
Alexander Folonari is an Italian-German producer, sound engineer, composer, and musician based in Berlin, whose work reflects a deeply immersive engagement with sound across disciplines and traditions.
Educated in Recording Arts at Full Sail University in Orlando and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, he combines technical precision with a conceptual and exploratory approach to music-making. Emerging through electronic dance music and electroacoustic composition, he performed and released music internationally before expanding into instrumental practice.
His artistic voice is shaped by a meticulous and deeply romantic sensibility, where intellectual rigor meets spiritual and at times esoteric approaches to sound. He is constantly developing his unique musical language that draws from experimental traditions, folk, sacred and outsider music.
Alongside composing for brass ensembles and developing a range of collaborative projects, he remains deeply committed to the art of recording, production, and mixing.
Nishad Pandey is a guitarist, composer, producer and educator, who was born inIndia, grew up in Japan, the UK, USA and Australia, and has been based in Berlin since 2017.
As a result of this nomadic existence, Nishad has been exposed to a wide varietyof artistic and cultural practices, which find expression in his eclectic musicaloutput and his desire to synthesise seemingly disparate musical impulses. Following a degree in History and Politics at Oxford University, Nishad trained injazz performance at Monash University in Melbourne. He also spent a number ofyears in Kolkata studying with renowned slide guitarist Pt. DebashishBhattacharya.
Nishad continues to develop his practice as a composer, producer, stringarranger and session musician. He writes and records music across a range ofmusical genres, including jazz, Indian classical, cinematic music, world folk, andexperimental pop.