Sometime (1994)
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Let It Go On (1995)
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U bett's first single was entitled Sometime. It was released under the name U-bet. It was available in France under the label Panic Records, and in Spain under Area International. It was producer, arranged and composed by Morgan Horsford. It featured a trio of performers who weren't credited.
Let It Go On was released as vinyl only under Polydor and under Boju Records. It was produced and written by Morgan Horsford (who also co-wrote T-Spoon's Tom's Party). Let It Go On featured the voice of Natural Lee. Ragga-raps were done by Whata P.
Thanks to reBeL
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Heaven Can Wait (1995)
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Heaven Can Wait was produced by Claudio Accatino, Federico Rimonti and Stefano Ghilardi. Vocals were done by Daniela F. It was recorded, mixed and arranged at Live Music Studio Alessandria (Italy). Label: Domino Records
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He's Not Dancing (1993)
He's Not Dancing was produced by Marius Percali. It was licensed in Spain under Spyder Records.
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U-Boat (1994)
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Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (1995)
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U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot, which means "undersea boat" (submarine) . Single Dancing With Tears In My Eyes was a cover from Ultravox release under Discomagic Records.
Thanks to Gianni
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U-La ())
1.U-La, 2.Khodil Daleko, 3.Egoist, 4.Timeto, 5.Belyï Dojd', 6.Tantsuï v Temnote, 7.Leto, 8.Nacha datcha, 9.On On On, 10.Shake It, 11.Egoist (Mega mix DJ Max),
Ravetime (1995)
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Julia " U-la" Frolova is a composer, songwriter, vocal teacher and vocalist (she can sing up to 4 octaves). She collaborated with the project Caravan suring the early 90s, and also had a succesful solo carreer in Russia, releasing 3 albums : Sonata, Tvoï B-52 and Dien I Notch.
She teamed up in 1993 with the rappers Jimmy G and The Boss to release the single Ravetime. An album was also recorded.
Thanks to D-man '94
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You (13th Jan 1997)
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U-nit is a project of Nico Herz and Zeljko Lepierre featuring Charles Simmons.
Thanks to Abelito
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Das Boot (6th Mar 1992))
1.Das Boot, 2.Come 2gether, 3.Der Kommandant, 4.No Control, 5.Art Of U96, 6.I Wanna Be A Kennedy, 7.Ambient Underworld, 8.Sporty Animal-Loving Extrovert, 9.Sonar Sequences, 10.Das Boot (Klassik Version),
Replugged (4th Jun 1993))
1.War Of The Worlds, 2.Love Sees No Colour, 3.Young Girls, 4.Night In Motion, 5.The Rainbow Factor, 6.You Make Me Wonder, 7.Theme from Replugged Part 1, 8.Theme From Replugged Part 2, 9.Je Suis Selected, 10.Feel Like A Dum Dum, 11.The One Russian, 12.Brainkiller, 13.Without You,
Club Bizarre (17th Feb 1995))
1.Club Bizarre, 2.Jack, 3.Love Religion, 4.Die Mission, 5.Movin', 6.If Looks Could Kill, 7.Joy 8, 9.Dark Room Rituals,
Heaven (24th May 1996))
1.Heaven, 2.Are You Ready (Space Symphony), 3.A Night To Remember, 4.Venus In Chains, 5.Drag Queen, 6.Try, 7.Love Generation, 8.1-900-LOVE, 9.Heartline/Lifeline, 10.Life In Paradise, 11.Anthem,
Rhythm Of Life (unreleased) (1999)
Best Of 1991-2001 (21st Apr 2000))
1.Das Boot 2001, 2.Underwater, 3.Heaven, 4.Club Bizarre, 5.Love Religion, 6.A Night To Remember, 7.Inside Your Dreams, 8.Love Sees No Colour, 9.Night In Motion, 10.Energie, 11.I Wanna Be A Kennedy, 12.Venus In Chains, 13.Seven Wonders, 14.Rhythm Of Life, 15.Lost Paradise, 16.Love Generation, 17.Live At Electrogorsk, 18.Boot II,
Out Of Wilhelmsburg (2007)
1.Mr. DJ Put On The Red Light (Single Mix), 2.Underwater, 3.Ist das mein Leben, 4.Light Up My Life, 5.Most Of The Time, 6.Good Love Bad Love, 7.Follow The Sun, 8.Elektroland Is Here, 9.Fall Into All, 10.Vorbei feat. Ben (Single Edit), 11.Explain The Universe, 12.Das Boot 2001 (Radio Edit), 13.Vorbei feat. Ben (Dance Mix), 14.Mr. DJ Put On The Red Light (Reiss die Bude ab Remix),
Das Boot (28th Jan 1991)
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I Wanna Be A Kennedy (Feb 1992)
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Ambient Underworld (Jun 1992)
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Come 2gether / Der Kommandant (25th Sep 1992)
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Megamix (Das Boot / Kennedy) (Nov 1992)
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Night In Motion (19th Mar 1993)
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Love Sees No Colour (21st May 1993)
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Club Bizarre (17th Feb 1994)
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Inside Your Dreams (27th Feb 1994)
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Love Religion (14th Oct 1994)
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Boot II (1995)
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Movin' (1st Jun 1995)
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Heaven (22nd Apr 1996)
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A Night To Remember (5th Jul 1996)
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Venus In Chains (Oct 1996)
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Flash's Theme (1997)
Calling The Angels (1997)
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Seven Wonders (12th May 1997)
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In Your Mind (unreleased) (1998)
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Energie (11th May 1998)
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Beweg Dich, Baby (8th Aug 1998)
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Das Boot 2001 (14th Dec 2000)
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We Call It Love (2nd May 2003)
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Vorbei (3rd Mar 2006)
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Mr. DJ Put On The Red Light (Dec 2006)
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Das Boot (1991)
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Ambient Underworld (1992)
Come 2Gether (1992)
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Love Sees No Colour (Bass Bumpers Remix) (1993)
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Night In Motion (Bass Bumpers Remix) (1993)
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Inside Your Dreams (1994)
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Inside Your Dreams (Remixes Vol. II) (1994)
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Love Religion (1994)
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I Wanna Be A Kennedy (Jan 1994)
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Club Bizarre (1995)
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Movin' (1995)
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A Night To Remember (1996)
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Venus In Chains (1996)
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Seven Wonders (1997)
The year was 1991. Alex Christensen had the idea to present Klaus Doldinger's main soundtrack-theme of one of his favourite movies 'Das Boot' (by Wolfgang Peterson) in another version, a techno-version. This extremely dynamic and powerful track with a lot of electronic sounds and underwater effects took German floor entirely while it peaked the charts in many countries: Norway, England, Denmark, Sweden, France, Holland, Belgium and Finland. Interestingly enough, this track was made to US and was released by a virtually unknown American label named 'Cohiba Records'. Das Boot was the first Platin-Maxi Single by this group, it sold at more than 500 000 copies.
In the beginning of 1993 U 96 released their first album called Das Boot. Another song in this album which is worth mentioning was I Wanna Be A Kennedy. In many places it reminded a 1980 hit from Visage : Fade to Grey. It this album produced by Matiz and AC16 (the team that actually produced all the U 96 albums), as guests were performing Miss Melody (Come 2 Gether and Ambient Underworld), Miss Andromeda (Sportly Animal-Loving Extravert) and a rapper named Satchmo in Ambient Underworld.
In 1993, U 96 released their second album entitled Replugged. It was Alex's response to what MTV-Unplugged series were presenting : a lot of rock while he was introducing a techno-rave style in the dance music. The first hit from this album was Love Sees No Colour. A reference to Das Boot was the techno version of War Of The Worlds. While Das Boot was the only one single to be released in the US, Love Sees No Colour was advertised in the US as : 'The Euro-techno smash finally invades American shores !'. A version of Love Sees No Colour remixed by Bass Bumpers as also released. The album was mostly recorded in France (Paris), written and composed by mostly French artists : Lagonda, Castioni, Wycombe, Ac Beat. As usual the album was produced by AC 16 and Matiz. Both producers were already in demand by many stars like Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin or Jean-Michel Jarre. This team of writers brought a French flavor to this album which can be clearly heard in Jean-Michel Jarre alike track called The One Russian. Alex Christensen meanwhile produced and composed songs for other artists. Probably the most well-known track written by him was released in 1994 : United sung by the team Prince Ital Joe and the ex- 'New Kid In The Block' Marky Mark.
The album Club Bizarre released in 1995 brought a quite new dimension to U 96's music and left a major impression on the new direction Eurodance was taking. The title song Club Bizarre was a small revolution. It was mixing the blue-sounded harmony with a strong and sharp sound of Vocoder creating a hybrid of melancholy and trance. The cover of this album showed Alex in crucified position. In Club Bizarre was also featured Das Boot II and Love Religion featuring Daisy Dee's voice. The closing song in this album was the ambient-styled Dark Room Rituals with the leading motiv from classic movie by Steven Spielberg 'The Close Encounter of The Third Kind'. This album had a new set of writers and composers. Besides Alex, the music and the texts were also written by Ingo Hauss, Helmut Hoinkis and Hayo Panarinfo. Another revolution was the release of a CD-ROM version fully interactive.
Both 1995 and 1996 were some year of changes for Alex Christensen. First, U 96 was joined by Dea-Li (Dorothy Lapi) (23) a beautiful, dark haired professional dancer and choreographer from Frankfurt with an admixture of Sicilian blood. The second change was the fact that Alex bought a new house in Mallorca, a small palace with 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, large living room, kitchens, huge dining room, 3 fireplaces, obviously a pool. and 2 fountains. But Alex's love affair with Mallorca is also partially professional. He performs several times a year in the island, the most often in disco temples like BCM or Joy Parade, which are among the biggest dance floors in Europe. Alex was often invited to Mallorca by DJ Sammy, 'The King of Disco Heat', co-owner of Joy Parade who also helped Alex in purchasing his new house. Most of the songs in his new album were actually composed in here.
In May 24th, 1996 U 96 released their fourth album entitled Heaven in which Dea-Li was featured (she participated in the preparation of 4 titles). Right from the start the title song Heaven, first single to be released, became a hit. The controversy around this track was an almost obvious 'ripoff' of Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time. The major difference beside the text is the speed of the track (154 BPM). Besides Heaven, the album contained several potential hits such as Are You Ready (sort of Trip Hop track but with nice sequence lines and vocals), A Night To Remember (nice male vocal, danceable Euro-Energy sound), Venus in Chains (which repealed to Grace Jones' hit Slave To The Rhythm), or the completely instrumental Drag Queen (acid sound with help of tribal drums).
During the summer Alex came back to Mallorca, where in July he took part to the meeting gathering the leading DJ's from Europe (such as Charlie Lownoise, Mental Theo, DJ Hooligan or Mark 'OH...). From Heaven, many singles were released. In May the title song Heaven was one of the summer hits of 1996. It was followed by A Night To Remember in August and Venus In Chains in October. In May 1997 U-96 released a new single entitled Seven Wonders, where a new vocalist was introduced : Nicky. Seven Wonders brought back the unique U 96 sound, virtual dance techno sound at its best.
2000 : U 96 released an album called Best Of 1991-2001 with 5 new songs and a bonus megamix CD. In the album's sleeve, you can find Alex's a and U96's story. There was also a new version of Das Boot released as a single, entitled Das Boot 2001.
Meanwhile Alex began to work on other projects, among which Rollergirl (started in 1999) and ATC (started in 2000).
2002 : some rumours are going around that there would be soon an full album called like I Love Italo Disco... The new video shows Alex with a nice girl called Yasmin K, who took part to the real-TV broadcast Popstars - his "new" artist-name would be "Alex C.". His new title was an interesting cover (also dance-style) from Corona's eurodance classic hit Rhythm Of The Night... Then came the singles Angel Of Darkness (named after the new Tomb Raider game) and Amigos Forever.
2003 : U 96 comes back again, wtih a new single entitled We Call It Love. It contains a sample of a pop-song, as well as soundparts of the hits Das Boot and Inside Your Dreams.
2005 : Love Sees No Color was covered by the project Shokata
2006 : New single of U96 feature Ben and it's a slow track entitled Vorbei. It peaked to #28 in the German charts. In May Alex worked on the new Paul Anka album. He had just finished the new Allessandro Safina album, and did also the top single Erinner Mich from Ivonne Catterfeld.
The follow-up single featured the rapper Das Bo, and was called Put On The Red Light. It was absolutely not a dance track. The video shooting was on October, 14th in the H1 CreamClub in Hamburg. The new album Out Of Wilhelmsburg is planned for release in 2007.
2007 : Dea Li, after a long pause during which she appeared in a few movies, released an album entitled Hungry as a Hunter.
2010 : Das Boot was remixed by Manolo Fernandez. The result is Das Boot 2010 by Manolo Fernandez vs. U96, released at the end of last March.
Thanks to Ulrich Valtat, Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkine,
Tavi Meran, Nico and Shervin A.
Thanks to Christian
DTM NoLimits for the latest informations
Artists and groups featuring U96
Love Message - Love Message (1996)
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Ketasania ()
Give Me Time ()
Kufstein ()
Enough ()
Two Hearts ()
U Got The Rhythm (1995)
The rapper was named Cool Reg, the female vocalist was Christiane Eiben. The single was composed by Axel Breitung.
Another single was recorded and probably never officially released anywhere else than on compilations : Ketasania.
Give Me Time and Enough were also recorded under the project name Unit T. Two Hearts was later given to Indra, re-recorded without the male rap (unfortunately), and appeared on her album Anywhere. Kufstein was a sort of German folkloric dance song reminding of K2 featuring a rapper.
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Label UCA Records was founded in 1994. It parent label was UCMG Germany. Since 2004 UCA has been a part of Daredo Music labelgroup.
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Female vocalist of X-Perience
She was born on 15th of march 1976 in Berlin. She is 172 cm height. She attended master Georg-Friedrich H ändel college, did studies at Humboldt Universität and at Yamaha academy of music.
Her voice characterizes the distinctive sound character from X-Perience. Short after the first single was released she had enchanted many listeners with her voice.
2004 : she started the project Angelzoom.
2005 : she toured with Joachim Witt and Nik Page.
2007 : she left X-Perience
2010 : Claudia toured as support act for Blind passenger. She will release a new album entitled Nothing Is infinite with her current project Angelzoom. It should be out on September 24th under Wannsee Records. The first single from this album is called The things you said, and is expected on September 3rd.
2011 : Everyone Cares is Angelzoom's new single.
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Producer and songwriter based in Malmö, he contributed to many eurodance and bubble-gum projects, such as Look Twice, Poco Loco, Caramell, Bushman, Smile, Dr. Bombay, Mr Macdoo, Karma Club. More recently, he collaborated with Arash and Basshunter.
Artists and groups featuring Uhlmann (Robert)
Bushman - No 1 Else (1995)
Dr Alban - Long Time Ago (1997)
Gunther And The Sunshine Girls - Touch Me (2004)
Look Twice - Feel The Night (1995), Go Away (1995)
Poco Loco - Come Everybody (1996), I'm The One (1995)
X:Tend - I Don't Care (1994), Tell Me (1994)
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Bassfly (1999)
Free (2000)
On The Run (2001)
Friends (2002)
Tillman Uhrmacher is a German radio-deejay, TV-moderator and producer.
Between 1988 and 1990 he did a training as radio redactor in Radio Regenbogen and Radio RPR Eins.
In 1989 he contributed to Mysterious Art's first single Das Omen-Teil 1, which scored #1 in Media Control sales charts.
In 1990, he became moderator in the TV shows Reisefieber (in Hamburg) and Länderspielparty (on Fernsehen DFF 1 Berlin). He also created the radio program Maximal on Sunshine Live, that he still animates nowadays on fridays between 20h and midnight on Sunshine Live
The same year, he toured with Mysterious Art as opening act for Madonna's Blond Ambition Tour 1990 in Germany.
Between 1990 bis 1995 he animated the program Radiogalerie on Hitradio RPR Eins. In 1994 he scored a Guiness book World record by presenting a broadcast during 80 hours nonstop. Between 1995 and 2000, he was anchorman and moderator for the radio morning show Volle Kanne, still on the same radio station.
In 2001 and 2002, he was chosen to be the moderator for the German Dance Award in Hamburg. Between 2000 and 2002, he did the Tillmann Uhrmacher Show, always on Hitradio RPR Eins. He also became the stadium speaker of the 1. FC Kaiserslautern (football-Bundesliga)
He produktionen and remixed singles for many artists, including Jimmy Somerville, Mauro Picotto, Judge Jules, KMC, Benny Benassi, Construction, Tomcraft, Harald Faltermayer, Inner Circle, Marky Mark, Babyface, Culture Beat, etc.
He created many dance projects : The Asset, TNT Party Zone (with Nino Tielmann), Waldmeister (with Marc La Cruz), Candy Club (with Peter Ries), Lava (with Mauro Picotto), Construction (with Harold Faltermayer).
2010 : Tillmann still has his saturday evening show on RPR1. in May, he took part to ZDF Fernsehgarten show. With other VIPs, he held a flea market stand, telling nostalgic stories and presenting weird and crazy object. The show was also broadcasted on radio RPR1.
2011 : Tillmann presented his last radio show in March, then did a pause for health reasons. On June 8th, he was found dead in his appartment. He was only 44.
Artists remixed by Tillman Uhrmacher
BG
The Prince Of Rap - The Colour Of My Dreams
Babyface - Rock Bottom
Boom - Prayin
Chaya - Don't Turn Away, Hot Shot Lover
CRW feat. Veronica - Like A Cat
Culture
Beat - Anything, Got To Get It
DJ Tatana - Elements Of Culture
Goldtrix pres. Andrea Brown - Trippin
Hot Chocolate - Cry Little Girl
Ian van
Dahl - Try
Inner Circle - I Think I Love You
KMC feat Dhany
- I Feel So Fine
LOFT - Hold
On
Marky Mark - Hey DJ!
Mauro Picotto - Pulsar
Mr. President
- Show Me The Way To Your Heart, Coco Jamboo
Mystic - Spirit Of Ibiza
Paris Red - Gotta Have It
Pauline Henry - Feel Like Making Love
Revolution 9 - The Weapon
Rochus - High Noon
Safri Duo - Sweet Freedom
Sandy Reed - Dont Worry About It
Symbios - Beauty And The Beast
Taucher - Pictures Of A Gallery
Technocop - The Vision
The Clergy - The Oboe Song
The Spacelovers - Spacelover
Tomcraft - Loneliness
Velvet - China In Your Hand
XL Singleton
- Tequil Rap Rise
Releases, productions and co-productions
Big Apple - New York, New York
Brotha - Crazy world
Candy Club - Let The Love Go On, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
Construction
- What Is In Love, My Heart Is Always Open, Call Me
Culture
Beat - Get It Right
Frank-key feat. Paris Red - The Power Of Love
Hildegard Knef - Kriminaltango
Jimmy Somerville - Under A Lovers's Sky
Kurt Maloo - Captain Of Hear Heart
Labrador - 1st Of May
Lava - Autumn, Springtime
Leroy Gomez - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Minimal Animals - Boom Da Room
Mysterious Art - Das Omen (teil 1), Das Omen remix, Carma (Omen 2), Carma
remix, Requiem, Lovin You Awaken, Omen-The Story (album), Mystic Mountains
(album)
The Asset - Liberty One 0.4
Tillmann Uhrmacher - Friends, On The Run, Bassfly (feat. Peter Ries),
Free (feat. Peter Ries)
TNT Party
Zone - Vamos A La Playa 92, No Tengo Dinero 92, One Night In Bangkok,
Das Omen 94
Waldmeister - Kahlschlag
XY feat. Melina - Live Is Live
Official Liberty one Hymn 2004)
Artists and groups featuring Uhrmacher (Tillman)
Construction - Call Me (1997), My Heart Is Always Open (1996), What Is In Love (1996)
TNT Party Zone - Das Omen Teil I '94 (1994), One Night In Bangkok (1993)
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Italian producer Vito "Mastroianni" Ulivi is most well-known for his contribution to eurodance project Indiana (later renamed to Diana's). He also took part to Jaya, No Cindy Joke and MJ Maggi. He currently lives in London.
Artists and groups featuring Ulivi (Vito)
Diana's - All I Need Is Love (1995), You Are My Angel (1996)
Double You - Beat Goes On (2006)
Indiana - All I Need Is Love (1994)
Jaya - Falling In Love With You (1996)
Ma-Su - Lies In My Life (1995)
Maggi MJ - Passion And Feeling (1995)
No Cindy Joke - Don't Make Me Cry (1996)
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Tekno Junkies (1994))
1.Awesome, 2.Annihilating Rhythm (Pt.1), 3.Ultra-Sonic Vs Bass Baby (Pt.1), 4.React 1994, 5.Check Your Head, 6.Sugar Free Tekno (Live), 7.Annihilating Rhythm (Pt.2), 8.Blue Smiley's Plan, 9.Jupiter, 10.Obsession (12'), 11.Beyond The Clouds, 12.The Pulse (12'), 13.Arpeggio (Stomp Mix), 14.Love Me Right, 15.Eternity, 16.What Is Tekno?,
Global Tekno (11th Dec 1995))
1.1,2,3,4, 2.Out Of Control, 3.Hey Mr DJ, 4.Make That Move, 5.180 mph (Let The Bass Drum Go), 6.Tic-Tok, 7.Total Break-Up, 8.Let The Muzik Set You Free, 9.Dreamer Of Dreams, 10.In The Air Tonight, 11.There Is No Back-Up, 12.Do You Believe In Love?, 13.Joyriderz, 14.We Want One More, 15.Star Spangled Banne,
Live at Club Kinetic (1996))
1.Alpha II Omega, 2.We Want One More, 3.Check Your Head, 4.Hey Mr. DJ, 5.Party Non-Stop, 6.Make That Move, 7.Annihilating Rhythm (Pt I & II), 8.Do You Belive In Love, 9.1, 2, 3, 4, 10.Let The Bass Drum Go,
The Hour Of Chaos (1998)
1.Intro, 2.Take Me Away, 3.Where Angels Fear To Tread, 4.I Want Your Love, 5.1989, 6.Get Raw, 7.Right About Now, 8.Music For Ya, 9.Street Knowledge, 10.Open Up Your Mind, 11.Give Me What You've Got, 12.Outro,
The Best Of (2003)
1.Obsession (12'), 2.The Pulse (12'), 3.Arpeggio (12'), 4.Annihilating Rhythm Parts 1 & 2, 5.Check Your Head, 6.Love Me Right, 7.1,2,3,4 (12'), 8.Tic-Tok (12'), 9.Make That Move (12'), 10.Party Non-Stop (12'), 11.Do You Believe In Love?, 12.I Just Can't Stop!,
The Best Of (2003)
1.Alpha II Omega, 2.We Want One More, 3.Check Your Head, 4.Hey Mr. DJ, 5.Party Non-Stop, 6.Make That Move, 7.Annihilating Rhythm Parts 1 & 2, 8.Do You Believe In Love?, 9.1,2,3,4, 10.Let The Bass Drum Go, 11.Bust That Groove, 12.Give Me What You Got (12'), 13.I Want Your Love (12'), 14.Take Me Away (12'),
Obsession (Nov 1992)
The Pulse (7th Apr 1993)
Arpeggio (Oct 1993)
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Acid Circus (1994)
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Annihilating Rhythm (1994)
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Check Your Head (1994)
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1, 2, 3, 4 / Tic-Tok (Mar 1995)
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Make That Move (Oct 1995)
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Do You Believe In Love (1996)
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Party Non-Stop (1996)
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Asylum E.P. (1997)
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Bust That Groove (1998)
Give Me What You've Got (1998)
Annihilating Rhythm 2003 (24th Jan 2003)
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Dreamer Of Dreams (16th Aug 2004)
Angels (3rd Nov 2004)
Ultra-Sonic is a project of Rodger Hughes and Mallorca Lee, from Aryshire, Scotland (also known as Brooklyn Boy, Experimental Fluxtuation, Lord Michael). They signed a recording deal in 1991 with Scottish independent dance label Clubscene Records and released their first 12" record called Obsession (which would be re-released in 1994), touring the UK & Ireland. From 1991-1998 Ultra-Sonic released 14 singles (most of them were rather hardcore-oriented, unfortunately for euro fans), 4 studio albums, 1 live album and 2 full length tour videos. Albums sold over 50 000 copies in the UK alone (with pre-sale orders at 30 000) and around 400 000 in combined singles and albums in just under three years. Also the bands video sold 6 500 copies in four days, outselling Disney's The Jungle Book.
The eurodance single Do You Believe In Love featured 2 female vocalists : Chirley Temasen and Hilda Lorenzo. The CDM contained 6 versions. Label: Clubscene Records.
In 2004 they released a single including several of their former hits. Among them, a remix by Scooter of the track Check Your Head.
Thanks to Alex Capilé
Discogs.com
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Emotion (1992)
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Can You Hear Me (1993)
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Emotion (1992)
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Produced by Bruno Vangarsse, Philippe Van Mullem and Michel Nachtergaele. Published by Disco Smash Productions and released by ZYX Music.
Thanks to Vision
Gimme Your Heart (1996)
Gimme Your Heart appeared on the Polish compliation Promotion Dancehits Of April '96
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Samll Italian dance label based in Rimini, Italy
Love and Hate ()
It is not known wether this project has a relationship with the makina project Undad Virtual.
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Faces (1995)
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Label: Drohm
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Italian sublabel of SAIFAM Publishing Group
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Amore (1999))
1.Oh Baby Baby, 2.Horizon, 3.I Don't Know, 4.Remember, 5.Someday, 6.Amore, 7.Prince Of My Dreams, 8.A Better Tomorrow, 9.Eternal Paradise, 10.Dreaming, 11.Silver Rain, 12.Gravity, 13.Remember (Extended Version), 14.Amore (Extended Remix) (Japan Only),
Someday ()
Amore (1998)
Their first album was released under Scandinavian Records. Uniq features 3 ladies and a boy.
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Internity (16th Jun 1993))
1.Iko, 2.Gotta Keep Movin', 3.Loveline, 4.Body Heat, 5.Changes, 6.No Chance, 7.Respect, 8.Cartoon, 9.Tender Love, 10.Emotions, 11.Iko (Clung Mix), 12.Loveline (Long Distance Call Mix),
Level II (1996))
1.Break My Stride, 2.Do What You Please (Album Version), 3.Free, 4.My Love To You, 5.I Still Go On (Album Version), 6.For Tonight, 7.Six Hours (Instrumental), 8.Mermaids, 9.Dance All Night, 10.Take It, 11.Broken Heart, 12.Papa Was A Rolling Stone, 13.How I Feel,
The Remixes (23rd Sep 1997))
1.Break My Stride (MMC Remix), 2.Six Hours (MMC Remix), 3.For Tonight (MMC Remix), 4.Do What You Please (MMC Remix), 5.Free (Radio Remix), 6.Dance All Night (Lac Terra Remix), 7.Dance All Night (Next Level Remix), 8.My Love To You (Steve's Lession), 9.I Still Go On (MMC Remix), 10.Break My Stride (Next Level),
The Remixes (23rd Sep 1997)
1.Break My Stride (FM-Track), 2.Do What You Please (Album Version), 3.Free (FM-Track), 4.My Love To You, 5.I Still Go On, 6.For Tonight (FM-Track), 7.Six Hours (Instrumental), 8.Mermaids, 9.Dance All Night, 10.Take It, 11.Broken Heart, 12.Papa Was A Rolling Stone, 13.How I Feel,
Forever - The Album (Feb 2000))
1.Forever, 2.Take Me Higher, 3.I Thought It Was Love, 4.Lonely, 5.Smiling, 6.Don't, 7.Thoughts, 8.Nothing Changes, 9.The Way I Need To Go, 10.Around Me, 11.My Heart Beats Faster, 12.Forever (Tex & Tom Remix), 13.Real,
The Gold Experience (6th May 2002)
1.Break My Stride (Panamericana Radio Remix), 2.Loveline 2002 (MMC-Radio Mix), 3.Do What You Please, 4.Break My Stride (FM Track), 5.Forever, 6.Iko, 7.I Still Go On, 8.Take Me Higher, 9.The Way I Need To Go, 10.Loveline 2002, 11.Dance All Night, 12.2 Be As 1, 13.Do What You Please (MMC-Remix), 14.Forever (Eifel 65 Remix), 15.Colours, 16.2 Be As 1 (Tex & Tom Remix),
Iko (1992)
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Loveline (1993)
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Changes (11th Feb 1994)
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Free (16th Jun 1995)
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For Tonight (29th Apr 1996)
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Break My Stride (8th Jul 1996)
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Do What You Please (28th Nov 1996)
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Break My Stride (1997)
Dance All Night (1997)
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I Still Go On (Oct 1997)
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Around Me (1998)
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Forever (Jan 2000)
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The Way I Need To Go (Aug 2000)
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Take Me Higher (Oct 2000)
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Colours (Jun 2001)
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The Return Of Loveline (2002)
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2 Be As 1 (Apr 2002)
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Break My Stride (Re-work 2002) (Jun 2002)
Break My Stride (1996)
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Unique II is a band based in Wienna (Austria). It started with the vocalist Sandy Cooper and the rapper Def-Tone as performers. The producers were Erwin Geppner and Werner Freistätter. The two producers found their way into music from their technical interest, whereby Erwin Geppner stated from bands like Kraftwerk and The Art of Noise, that with a keyboard and a computer a substantially further sound spectrum could be opened. The same was for the guitarist Werner Freistätter, after discovering the electronic sequencers. When they had finished their HTL-education in electrotechnology and electronics they founded Unique II.
Many female vocalists and rappers contributed to the project : Sandy and Def-Tone did not stay very long with Unique II. They appeared on the debut single then left. Then came Jade Davies and B-Nice. B-nice born in Nigeria and moved with his familiy to South London, where he began to work with different bands during ten years. After finishing "business administration" - studies in at the London School of Economics, he moved to Austria 1991. There he rapped for groups like the Bingoboys and Beat 4 Feat. But it was with Unique II where he got the biggest success.
After Jade left (she started a solo carreer), she was replaced by Phoebe Caren, a blond Dutch singer. Phoebe had completed a theater education including singing, dancing, history, akrobatics, cabaret and musical. Parallel to it she had visited the conservatorium for Jazzsinging and popular music, which she completed in 1997 with a diploma. Besides her studies she was also a singer and dancer in several bands.
It all began in 1992 with their singles Iko, Iko, Loveline, Changes and the album Internity. The singles and the album made it to the top 10 in Austria.
In 1996 and 1997 the success continued with the singles Break My Stride (their most succesful single, a cover of Matthew Wilder), Do What You Please, I Still Go On, Dance All Night and the album Level II. These singles also became very popular internationally. They climbed high in charts in Scandinavia, Canada, Italy and many other countries.
In 1997, B-nice left the project to start a solo carrer. Everything became very quiet around Unique II.
In January 2000, they were back with a brand new single called Forever, featuring the brunette singer Sheila Fernandez (born in Manila). The new rapper and dancer was called Christian Troy (born in Chesterfield, England. He had worked before as an model and dancer. In 1999 he was "Black Model Of The Year" in Austria, where he's been living since 1997). It was a new start for Unique II, the single was followed by a new album in February 2000.
Later in the summer/fall of 2000, came the single The Way I Need To Go, including remixes of Eiffel 65. Then, the same year, the single Take Me Higher was released. In June 2001 the single Colours was released.
2002 : a best of CD was released, gathering 10 years of Unique II. The Gold
Experience inlcuded new remixes of their biggest hits Loveline and
Break My Stride. A tour was also planned, with the current Unique II-members
(Sheila and Christian). The same year, a 2002 re-work of the classic Break
My Stride was also released.
Thanks to Anders Bøgh and Florent "v_uba"
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Dance Artist Infos
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Move Your Body (6th May 1994)
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Live It Up (25th Nov 1994)
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Produced by WEA. Unit featured the voices of Melina and Red Bone. The project was produced by Toneway-Studio, co-produced by DMP.
Move You Body was composed by Jörg Wagner, Joachim Reis and Ulrich Bachmann. Lyrics were written by Jörg Wagner and Red Bone. Live It Up was written by Jörg Wagner and John Davis, composed by Jörg Wagner, Joachim Reis and Ulrich Buchmann, released under Maad records.
Not to be confused with the project Unit which released Who Do You Love and Who Knows What's Real.
Thanks to David Nivin "Captain DJ"
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Who Do You Love (15th Apr 1996)
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Who Knows What's Real (21st Oct 1996)
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Unit is a project of Shift Music, distributed by ZYX. They released 2 singles : Who Do You Love and Who Knows What's Real. Nothing about the perfomrers, but they could be called T-na and Transier since their name is mentioned in the credits.
Thanks to David Nivin "Captain DJ"
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No Secrets ()
Give Me Time ()
Enough ()
This project is produced by Axel Breitung. The female vocalist was Christiane Eiben. Enough was also recorded under the project name UC Colors.
Thanks to Necronomic and reBeL
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United (1995))
1.Intro, 2.Dotykaj Mnie Co Noc, 3.Zdrada I Falsz, 4.W Jaskini Zycia, 5.Co Sie Stanie, 6.Juz Nie Ma Sprawy, 7.United, 8.Mam Na Imie Julia, 9.Ja Jestem Muminkiem, 10.O Co Gram, 11.Canadian Dream,
Energize (1996))
1.Intro, 2.Landing On The Moon, 3.Jeszcze Szukam, 4.Energize, 5.Koniec Gry, 6.Here We Go, 7.I Wanna Dance, 8.Powiedz Kim Mam Byc, 9.Happy One, 10.Sny Kazimierza, 11.Master Mind, 12.Landing On The Moon (Mix), 13.Koniec Gry (Remix),
U-Xit-Me (1998))
1.Intro, 2.Naprawde Nie Wiem, 3.U-Xit-Me, 4.Ty I Ja, 5.Nie Wierze W To Juz, 6.I Love You So Much, 7.I Feel Allright, 8.I Co Bedzie Potem, 9.Nie Trac Wiary, 10.Go Baby Go, 11.Naprawde Nie Wiem (Remix), 12.U-Xit-Me ( Remix),
United Is Back (2000))
1.Intro, 2.Jeszcze Jedna Noc, 3.In Memory Of JFK, 4.Go Baby Go 2000, 5.Chcemy Robic Tak Jak Oni, 6.Stranger, 7.To Ja Max, 8.Naprawde Nie Wiem 2000, 9.No Powiedz Mi, 10.Come Get It, 11.United Is Back, 12.To Ja Max (Remix), 13.Chcemy Robic Tak Jak Oni (Remix), 14.To Ja Max (2001 Remix),
Koniec Gry (1995)
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B-52 (1995)
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Naprawde Nie-Wiem/U-Xit-Me (1997)
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Go Baby Go (1997)
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U-Xit-Me (1997)
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Jeszcze Jedna Noc (1999)
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United Is Back (2000)
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United was created in 1994 by Mariusz Rogowskiwgo and Bartk Piaseckiego. The members were Mariusz Rogowski, Grazyna, Aneta Nojszewska and Marcin Niewiadomski. They released 4 albums and 6 singles.
Initially the group did not have any name. After 3 months, they chose the name UNITED. First album was recorded during Spring and Summer of 1995. Zdrada I Fałsz and Dotykaj Mnie Co Noc topped the DJ charts in Poland. They received an award for best dance album. In the meantime, Mariusz worked as a music producer for artists Nazare, Kayah and Piaska. They did a successful tour across the U.S. and Canada, during which they met a warm reception in the Polish discotheques. After returning home, they gave concerts in Poland, often along other eurodance stars, such as Fun Factory, Culture Beat, DJ Bobo.
In 1996, United recorded their second album Energize. Album release was preceeded by the single Koniec Gry, which was massively played on radio and television throughout the country. They were awared best dance national group in Poland.
The third album U-xit-ME was released in June 1997, along with 2 singles, Naprawdę Nie Wiem and and the title song U-xit-ME. Both songs became a hit in short time. Video for the second track of this single was even spotted by German music channel VIVA, which did not have yet its Polish version. As for single U-xit-ME, it stayed druing 5 weeks on TVP charts, and was certified gold. Western records companies showed some interest in the single.
2001 : new album United Is Back immediately became a hit, selling 65 000 copies. Mariusz composed most songs and did arrangements. Most lyrics were written by Zbigniew Bieniak, who previously was the lead singer on songs Oddziału Zamkniętego and Yokashin.
Thanks to Madenn
Tell Me (1997)
Tell Me was a fast-paced eurodance track. It appeared on compilation Megacore 2 - 19 Happy Fun-Core Traxx on 1997.
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Let's Celebrate (1995)
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The project is made of a rapper and a female vocalist. The single was released under KLM.
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You're The One (1996)
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I Can't Wait A Minute (1996)
Label : Brunswick Records.
I Can't Wait A Minute, composed and written by Laszlo Bencker (keyboardist) and Leslie Mandoki (Hungarian drummer, producer and composer, who worked for Engelbert, Placido Domingo, and more recently for German versions of Disney movies), was featured on a compilation called Just The Best vol. 11. It was released and published under Red Rock Music / Bavaria Sonor Musikverlag and Polygram GmbH / Polydor GmbH.
You're The One was composed and written by Dr. Man & Bud A. Pesli. It was published by Bavaria Sonor Musikverlag/ Red Rock Music (excepted track 5 Jam-Session aus Marienhof Folge, which was published by Bavaria Sonor Musikverlag). Remixes were done by London Mix Factory. Rap on the Eurodance Mix were done by Proove.
The project had a guest appeareance on the german tv soap-opera Marienhof to advertise their songs.
Thanks to reBeL, Necronomic and Crazy4Music
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Everybody (1995)
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The single was produced by Al Barbero, co-produced by Laura Piazzai and Marco Poletti, with collaboration of Giovanni Loddo, who also did the arrangements. Lead vocals were done by Lori L aka Laura Piazzai, who took part to many Italian eurodance projects . Label : Dig It International.
Laura (now known as Rola) is now a member of a new UKD... the UKD Project which nowadays stand for United Kingdom of Delight. It was founded in 2006. Laura is vocalist and songwriter of the group, along with Anto. Their first album was released in 2007, entitled Beyond two worlds. It was described by them as a mix of pop, rock, soul and dance. Then came in 2009 the second album The Moon And The Water.
Thanks to Klems
The UKD Project
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Made with Pass!on (17th Feb 2012))
1.Welcome, 2.Made With Passion (Album Version), 3.Funky Town, 4.Take My Breath Away, 5.Generation Now, 6.Around The World, 7.I Will Go Home, 8.Jimbo To Jambo, 9.The Storm Is Over Now, 10.Rebirth, 11.Beat To Freedom, 12.I Will Go Home (Acoustic Version), 13.Made With Passion (Radio Mix), 14.Take My Breath Away (Extended Version), 15.Up (Megamix),
Rock The Night (12th Mar 2010)
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Rebirth (27th May 2011)
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Made with Pass!on (27th Apr 2012)
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Oh No (Mi corazon) (7th Dec 2012)
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Everything began on the 18th April 2009 in Kiel, Germany. Swiss Pat and Nick (formerly from eurodance projects Boundless and Groove Empire) decided to visit their long-standing German friend B.P (from B.P.M). They noticed that the chemistry between them was so good that they decided to do a project together. United Passion feat B.P was born. At the end of July 2009, after they had written and composed a track together, they went to Cosmic Sound Studio in VS-Weigheim to record their first track Rock The Night with the top producer Thomas Hauser.
2011 : they featured vocalist Carina for their next single. Recorded around February and planned in Spring 2011, Made With Pass!on release was delayed several times. In October, United Passion applied as candidates to represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Their first album of the same name should follow in Spring 2012.
2012 : Carina left the project on 1st August. Now, Pat and Nick represent United Passion.
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Ev'rytime (1995)
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Producer : Franco Diaferia. Label: Decade Records. Ev'rytime was produced and arranged by L. Torni and R. Sansone, recorded and mixed at Synthesis Studio Black in Turin (Italy), distributed by Dig It.
2 other singles were released in 1993 under the name United Powers (with an S) : I Never Love You and Tangled.
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Lila Traktor (1995)
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The rapper of this project raps in German. The music of Lila Traktor was composed by Witte, Niebergall and Weber, words were written by Matthias Gebhard, it was recorded and mixed by Witte, published by Beatdisaster publishing. It was released under ZYX
Thanks to Euro Kidala, Hickerman and Cyber-Dance
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Part Of You (1995)
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Part Of You was released in Germany under BMG, licensed under Sony in Czech Republic. It was produced by Mike Reichel, Andreas Behle, and Andreas Braun.
Thanks to Krasen
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Eddy Steaddy Go (10th Jan 1994)
Dancin' is Like Makin' Love (11th Apr 1994)
I Feel The Music (17th Mar 1995)
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Also known as the Unity Mixers, Luc Rigaux and Patrick Samoy remixed Rozlyne Clarke's hits, such as Eddy Steady Go. The singles were released under ARS Productions Belgium.
They created the eurodance projects Apotheosis and Paradisio (Bailando sold more than 1 million copies) and the acts Rozway, 4 X Sky Juice, Display, The Eliminator, Ex-Plain, Goal, Hyper Space, Isy Brown, Linnsky, Mastermixers Unity, MC Jack & Sister J, Pump Up To Rhythm, Rozway, Up Side .
They were behind the French Dance Computer compilations series, and they also remixed (and sometimes also produced) many artists such as Technotronic, P. Lion, Confetti's, Gibson Brothers, Break Machine, Corona, Latino Party, Santa Esmeralda, Natural Born Deejays, Benny B, Twenty 4 Seven...
Megamixmaster - Luc Rigaux official page
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Dancing In The Fire ()
Can U Make Me Say Yeah (1993)
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Take Me To The Climax (1995)
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Follow Me (1996)
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Unknown is the project's real name. It was created for Raymar productions (former 2 Unlimited rapper Ray Slijngaard's label).
Executive producers of Follow Me were Marvin Tholen and Ray Slijngaard. Lyrics and music (in collaboration with R. Van Valk) were done by Anoir Khabbazy who was also rapper. The single was produced by R. Van Valk and Anoir Khabbazy. Vocals were done by Chaira Borderslee.
Take Me To The Climax featured once again vocals by Chaira Borderslee and raps by Anoir Khabbazy, and, according to some, Shain Tosun. Label : CNR Music.
Chaira Borderslee later took part to musicals in the Netherlands, appearing in West Side Story, Miss Saigon, Fame, Mabel and miss Sherman Aida and Hair.
1999 : Anoir Khabbazy appeared on Da Salsa's single I'm Your Gigolo, produced by Axel Breitung.
2007 : Chaira Borderslee appeared on the collective album Tarzan: Songs En Unieke Beelden, she did the voice of Kala.
2008 : Anoir Khabbazy is the member of a urban project called Encore, under the scene name Face.
Thanks to Necronomic, Gianni and Cyber-Dance
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90s Never End (9th Aug 2013)
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90s Never End (12th Jul 2013)
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Unlimited Friends was created in 2013 by fans of 90s dance and especially of the 2 Unlimited. The performers are Dutch lead singer Irene (ex Music Idol participant), and 3 male rappers : Rainer (Germany), Danza and Enfortro (both from Australia). The sound is euro pop with a strong 90s feel. Their first single 90's Never End was released end of May, remixes followed in July, then came the CD in August.
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The Album ()
1.Move Your Body (Energy Radio), 2.I Should've Followed My Heart, 3.Dreamlover, 4.Time, 5.Changes, 6.Hard Love, 7.Holiday, 8.It's So Hard, 9.Bring It Back, 10.Move Your Body (Cabballero Maxi Remix),
Girls We Want More Girls (1995)
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Move Your Body (5th Feb 1996)
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Unlimited Nation is a Spanish project made of the composers Enrico Chirelli and Eric Kingsley, and the female vocalist Ayda.
They started as FUN Unlimited Nation and released the single Girls We Want More Girls in 1995. E. Chirelli was the rapper. The single was written by Sascha Graune, Hartmut Gerlach, D. Nuttelmann and E. Kingsley. Dominik Pirusdad also contributed to the Latino House mix. The single was ditributed by SPV GmbH.
Move Your Body was remixed by the Cabballero team. The single was released under Shift Records.
Thanks to David Nivin "Captain DJ"
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I Love You Baby (1995)
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This project featured the voice of vocalist Sandy Chambers. The single was released in France under Scorpio label. It featured an Extended mix, a Revenge mix, an Underground mix, and an Alternative mix.
Thanks to Marian Stoica
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Open Your Heart (29th Sep 1993)
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Take Me To Your Heart (2nd Nov 1998)
Up 2 Date is a German project of the label ZYX. It features the voice of Sarah E. Goldblum. The producer and musical team around this very nice eurodance track was made of Frank Bülow (who also contributed to some tracks of ATC, Culture Beat and Nina), Hermann and Peter Gräber.
In 1998 (November, 2) they released single called Take Me To Your Heart. Label is still ZYX.
No relationship with the Up 2 Date group which released this tracks This Is House Music and Turn Back The Hands Of Time / Coconuts (D:vision Records).
Thanks to reBeL and Anton "MC Kasper" Skaletsky and Necronomic
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Italian records company
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Real Groove (30th May 1994)
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Free Your Body (1995)
Atlantis (1995)
Real Groove (1994)
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Up'n Dance is a project of Nino Tielmann (who afterwards worked for Culture Beat).
Real Groove was composed by Jochen Gradwohl and Kai Menger, written by The MEGA (aka Erik Trinkaus, who was also the rapper), mixed and arranged by The Cross and Kaw Liga. A remixes CD of Real Groove was released in October 1994. They were released under the label UCA. Free Your Body and Atlantis were included on promo compilation UCA Records in 1995. An album entitled Now was announced, but apparently it was never released...
Thanks to Necronomic and Gianni
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Be My Girl ()
Alone (22nd Nov 1994)
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The single Alone featured the voice of Jamal. It was released under ZYX, written and composed by Markus Michels, Jamal Clutchett and Carola Adamczak. It was recorded and mixed at Ebel Studio I in Osnabrück. Vocals were done by Nicole & Linda, Skala.
Thanks to DJ Helmer and David Nivin "Captain DJ"
Dream Come True ()
Thanks to Steve
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High On A Happy Vibe (1st Feb 1994))
1.The Key The Secret, 2.Feels Like Heaven, 3.Walk Right On, 4.Yours Is The Love, 5.Dreaming In Colours, 6.Sail Away, 7.Worldwide Reunion, 8.Bring It On Home (family), 9.Hidden Land, 10.High On A Happy Vibe, 11.The Key, The Secret (Kamoflage Club Mix), 12.Sail Away (Judge Jules & Michael Skins Vocal Pop Funk Mix),
Tales From The Magic Fountain (12th Oct 1995))
1.The Rest Of My Love, 2.Feels So Good, 3.So Beautiful, 4.Virgin Breeze, 5.Witness, 6.Shoot, 7.Shame, 8.My Life, 9.Spend The Day, 10.Everybody Wants The Sunshine,
Very Best of Urban Cookie Collective (2000))
1.So Beautiful, 2.Feels Like Heaven (Maximum edit), 3.High On A Happy Vibe, 4.Rest Of My Love (Development corporation 7" mix), 5.Feels So Good, 6.Worldwide Reunion, 7.Shoot, 8.Witness, 9.Sail Away (Maximum development 7"), 10.Spend The Day (Original 7" mix), 11.The Key The Secret (Glamorously developed mix), 12.Champagne Supernova (The Cotton Club drum & bass adventure),
Very Best of Urban Cookie Collective (2000)
1.So Beautiful (12" mix), 2.Feels Like Heaven (Extended to the max mix), 3.High On A Happy vibe (Original 12" mix), 4.Sail Away (Maximum Development 12" mix), 5.The Key The Secret (Glamorously developed mix), 6.Champagne Supernova (The Cotton Club drum & bass adventure),
Lucky Stars (Aug 1992)
The Key, The Secret (3rd Jun 1993)
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Feels Like Heaven (14th Sep 1993)
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Sail Away (14th Jan 1994)
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High On A Happy Vibe (11th Mar 1994)
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Bring It On Home (15th Oct 1994)
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Spend The Day (21st Mar 1995)
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Rest Of My Love (14th Aug 1995)
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So Beautiful (26th Oct 1995)
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Champagne Supernova (1996)
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Ain't It A Shame (2nd Feb 1998)
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Mercedez Benz (2000)
The Key The Secret 2004 (2004)
The Key, The Secret 2010 (23rd Aug 2010)
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Behind Urban Cookie Collective stands Rohan Heath (born 19th July 1964 in Great Britain), keyboardist, who writes and produces the songs. He had formerly worked with Yargo and A Guy Called Gerald. The female vocalist is Diane Charlemagne, who also took part to the writing of some of the songs. The other members are Simon Bertall (born on the 17th October 1967) and Peter Samson (bongo player, born on the 15th of May 1968). Also were included, Marty (MC) and DJ Pete (DJ). Some guest rappers also took part to the project : Lovedog on High On A Happy Vibe, 8 Bar Wizard on Spend The Day.
R. Heath had learned classical piano as a child, going electric in time to perform with the latter two outfits. He had decided on music after abandoning a PhD at Vermont University. After a tour of Japan supporting the Happy Mondays, he left A Guy Called Gerald to release Hardcore Uproar as Together, which made number 12 in the UK charts in August 1990. After a brief stint with Eek A Mouse, he elected to concentrate on solo work, and inaugurated Urban Cookie Collective.
UCC achieved a major breakthrough in 1993 with The Key : The Secret, one of the most riveting dance tracks of the season, peaking #2 in the UK, and #5 in the sales charts in Germany. It was originally a track written at home by Heath, in a soul/hip hop vein, produced by Chapter And The Verse on the tiny Unheard Records imprint. However, after a remix provoked a massive club response it was picked up by Pulse 8, who also issued a double album the same year. A special UK remixes CD was also released for this single.
The follow-up Feels Like Heaven was also very successful, it reached UK charts position #5, and #12 in the German sales charts.
Then came the singles Sail Away, which reached #18 in UK charts and #25 in German sales charts, then High On A Happy Vibe, which only scored #31. The follow-up singles Bring It On Home, So Beautiful, Rest Of My Love, Spend The Day, Ain't It A Shame (featuring the voice of Rachel McFarlane from N-trance) and more recently Champagne Supernova were not very succesful.
The Key The Secret was recently covered by Phobos & Deimos. The Love Parade 2003 theme also used the same sample.
2013 : The Key The Secret was covered by SAIFAM project DJ Space 'C.
Timeline Diane Charlemagne at www.lostwishes.com
Thanks to Christian DTM Nolimits and Nico
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Waiting For Love (1996)
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Label: Drohm. Waiting For Love was recorded and mixed at Jumping Studio by DJ Daniel and René Sound, featured vocals by Bob Hill, and was produced by F. Cleopatra.
Thanks to aldo
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Ridim Of The Muzic (1994)
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Label: Z'UP.
Thanks to reBeL
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You're The One ()
Summertime ()
Shaitao ()
Face Of A Stranger ()
Wish You Were Here (6th Jun 1995)
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You'll See (27th Jan 1996)
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Producer : Axel Breitung. The gorgeous single Wish You Were Here (already covered by Rednex) was released with a Radio Edit, a Club Version, and 2 other tracks entitled Give Me One More Time and Loneliness (an instrumental track). The female vocalist was Christiane Lupp.
The second single was a cover of Madonna's hit You'll See. It came in 2 flavours : Radio version and Extended version. As B-side, 2 tracks : Voice Of Fortune and Arabian Stranger (composed and written by Axel Breitung).
Many other tracks were apparently recorded under the project name Urgent C. 4 of them were released on compilation You're The One (a nice euro-reggae track), Shaitao (excellent eurodance song with a Chinese flavor), Summertime (another euro-reggae song) and Face Of A Stranger (which was later officially released under the name Osmania).
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Tribes Of Love (5th Sep 1994)
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Tribes Of Love was produced by C. Ward, released under the label Chocolate Music / Edel records.
Thanks to Alex Capilé
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I Want You (Rockin') (1992)
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Usha released a song in 1992 called I Want You (Rockin' The Beat). The maxi contained 5 tracks; 3 versions of I Want You (You Want Me) and two versions of Rockin' The Beat. It was released under the label Bounce Records. The singla was mixed and produced by Terranza / Nich / Dee Jay Thimbles at the E & M studio.
Thanks to Vision
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Open Your Mind - The Album (1993))
1.Open Your Mind, 2.What You Gonna Do About My Love, 3.Sweat, 4.Drive Me Crazy, 5.Tear It Up, 6.Listen To My Prayer, 7.Come Bring Me, 8.You Are My Rhythm, 9.Sweat (Soakin´ Wet),
Open Your Mind (1992)
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Sweat (1993)
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Tear It Up (1993)
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Drive Me Crazy (1994)
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The Spaceman (1995)
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Infinity (1995)
Flying High (1996)
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In The Bush (1996)
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Open Your Mind '97 (1997)
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Trance Emotions (1998)
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Open Your Mind (1997)
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Giacomo Maiolini (sometimes also called Mark Kinchen, Kardivo and Gianni Coletti, no one really knows what his real name is) founded Usura (sometimes written U.S.U.R.A.) in the early 90's, together with producers like Alessandro Gilardi, Walter Cremonini (co-producer of both Jinny and Antares) and Roland Armstrong "Rollo" (producer, co-producer and remixer of many dance/techno projects during the 90's such as Felix, Livin Joy, Pet Shop Boys, Faithless, M-People, Captain Hollywood, BBE and many more).
The name Usura seems to be taken from Maiolini's mother who's name is Ursula. He also dedicaded their first single Open Your Mind to her.
They created a sound that gathered fans and success all over Europe. Their music was inspired by the "underground-techno" that was very popular in Italy at that moment, but they made it a bit more mainstream and often added some kind of guitar riff to separate their songs from others. Their first hit Open Your Mind was released in 1992 (under Deconstruction records) and became a smash hit all over Europe. The video was played on heavy-rotation on MTV. Their follwing singles didn't reach the success of Open Your Mind but they were still very popular among dance music fans, especially in Italy where their songs were played a lot on the radio stations. Sweat was released in 1993 under Deconstruction records and published by Jacomo Music. It gathered the creative talents of Cremonini, Varola, Comis and Spreafichi. Guitar was played by Newfield. Tracklisting varied according to releases : for instance the vinyl released under Time label in Italy included a High Density mix, a Radio mix, a Hazard mix and a Sintagma mix.
The Spaceman was released by Time Records and published by Sym Music. Drive Me Crazy was a very nice eurodance track with vocals of Nicole (who also released some solo singles such as Pump It Up or A Small Entrance To A Large Spectrum).
In 1995 they teamed up with their label mated Datura and the result was astonishing
! The single Infinity grabbed almost as much success as Open Your
Mind did. Usura was back for good, we thought, but we were wrong. The project
released a couple of more songs, followed by the remake of Open Your Mind
in 1997 (remixed by DJ Quicksilver) but they never found their way back
to the big scene, and Trance Emotions in 1998 seems to be their last
release.
Maiolini has been releasing several songs since the Usura-era, but he has been
using different names everytime so it isn't easy to locate him. Rumours say
that he has worked a lot with JK
and more recently for Whigfield's comeback.
883 - Non Ci Spezziamo (Usura Remix)
Silvia Coleman - All Around The World (Radio Usura Edit, Usura Mix)
Jinny - Feel The Rhythm (U.S.U.R.A Mix)
Masterboy - Everybody Needs Somebody (Higher & Higher Mix, EXP Mix)
Odyssey - Riding On A Train (Pulsar Mix By Usura, Procter Mix By Usura), Move Your Body (Usura. Remix, Green Willow Remix)
Ultra Naté - Free (Usura. Remix)
Vasco Rossi - Delusa (Usura Remix)
Thanks to Vision
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All The Way (1993)
Vocals : Kelly Llorenna and Ricardo Da Force
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Lesson In Love (1994)
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I Need Your Love (1993)
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Label : Dig It. The project features the voice of a vocalist called Violet. What a coincidence, when one knows that UVA stand for Ultra-Violet rays A...
Thanks to reBeL
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Felicia comes from England. She was the Bass Bumpers' female vocalist
When the Bass Bumpers produced an album for Amanda Lear, she did the backing vocals (for instance on a track called Fantasy). She also appeared on Vamoz - In The Summer '92, another Bass Bumpers production. She is also credited on 5 A.M.'s track Salvation Street (featured on the compilation Cool Struttin' Vol. One in 1993). More recently, her voice could be heard on Gardeweg's single All I Want. Unfortunately it did not have that much success.
She was also featured by Soul Mates for the single Love Is In The Air. The song was used for a German TV commercial for the Airfresh branc. It was also featured the compilation Superhits der Werbung 2, released in 1995. She also contributed to CJ Stone's The Sun Goes Down. She co-wrote the song Overload by Voodoo and Serano (once again a production of Bass Bumpers music).
She could also have contributed to some other Bass Bumpers productions. For instance in 2003, a single of Mike MH4 entitled You Are My Sunshine was produced by Bass Bumpers Music Production. It was featured on the German compilation Dream Club vol 10. The female vocalist realy sounded like Felicia.
She may also have contributed to the Rhythm Masters mix of Get Ready, a track of Woody van Eyden feat Felicia.
Thanks to Ulrich Valtat
Artists and groups featuring Uwaje (Felicia)
5AM - Salvation Street
Amanda Lear - Fantasy (1992)
Any Questions - Living On A Fantasy (1992)
BMR - Check It Out (Everybody) (1999)
Bass Bumpers - Bass Bumpers Megabump (1992), Good Fun (1994), Keep On Pushing (1995), Move To The Rhythm (1992), Runnin' (1993), The Music's Got Me (1992)
CJ Stone - The Sun Goes Down
DJ Pierre - Come Together (What Is House?), Put Ya Hands Up
Gardeweg - All I Want
Mike MH4 - You Are My Sunshine (uncertain)
Soul Mates - Love Is In The Air
Vamoz - In The Summer '92 (1992)
Woody van Eyden - Get Ready
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