"So Weit Wie Noch Nie" (German for As Far As Never Before) is a 2002 song by German electronic musician Jürgen Paape.

"So Weit Wie Noch Nie"
Single by Jürgen Paape
B-side
  • "So Weit Wie Noch Nie (Playhouse Mix by ATA)"
  • "So Weit Wie Noch Nie (Dettinger/Mondschein Mix)"
Released23 July 2002
GenreMicrohouse, tech house, ambient house
Length3:36 (radio mix)
6:05 (original mix)
5:39 (Total 3 edit)
LabelKompakt
Songwriter(s)Jürgen Paape
Producer(s)Jürgen Paape
Jürgen Paape singles chronology
"Glanz"
(1999)
"So Weit Wie Noch Nie"
(2002)
"Nord Nord-West"
(2007)

The single is considered his signature song and was included on the Kompakt label's compilation Total 3 in 2001 and later on Paape's own album Kompilation. It was placed in The Pitchfork 500, with Pitchfork calling it a "swaying, heady blend of weighty bass, spray-can hisses, and warm-blanket synths", as well as "some of the most thoroughly pleasurable techno of the [2000s] decade".[1] The track samples the 1972 song "Vielleicht Schon Morgen" by Daliah Lavi,[2] using also vocals by Sonya Lübke.[3] It has been covered by Justus Köhncke for his album Was ist Musik (2002).

Track listing

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Taken from:[3]

Side A

  1. "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" (Original Mix) – 6:05
  2. "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" (Radio Mix) – 3:36

Side B

  1. "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" (Playhouse Mix by ATA) – 6:21
  2. "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" (Dettinger/Mondschein Mix) – 4:55

References

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  1. ^ Colly, Joe (19 August 2009). "The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s: 200-101 – Page 10". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 October 2018 – via Empirebeauty.
  2. ^ "So Weit Wie Noch Nie by Jürgen Paape". whosampled.com. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Jürgen Paape – So Weit Wie Noch Nie". discogs.com. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
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