ATC  (Germany) EuroPop group Added : 20/05/2002 Viewed 6696 times                     99 2000 2001 2002 2003

 

ATC albums

	Planet Pop	6th Feb 2001
	Touch The Sky	23rd Mar 2003

 

ATC singles

	Around The World (La La La La)	17th Jul 2000
	My Heart Beats Like A Drum	4th Sep 2000
	Thinking Of You	4th Dec 2000
	Why Oh Why	12th Feb 2001
	I'm In Heaven (When You Kiss Me)	15th Oct 2001
	Set Me Free	6th Mar 2002
	New York City	3rd Mar 2003

 

Featurings

Hand In Hand For Children - Never Give Up

25th Nov 2002

 

ATC biography

ATC is an euro-trance project directed and produced by Alex Christensen (U 96, Rollergirl...) in Hamburg, Germany. ATC means "A Touch Of Class". The members are Joe (coming from New Zealand), Tracey (England), Sarah (Australia) and Livio (Italy). Their first single Around The World (La La La La) was an instant hit : it stayed #1 during 7 weeks in the German Charts and was played 1500 times in one week on German radio. It peaked # 1 in Israel and # 15 in UK. It sold gold in France. It was actually a cover of a Russian song called Pesenka released in 1998 by the project Ruki Vverkh (Hands Up in English), and which had already been a big hit in there homeland. The video was shot at the basement of the International Congress Centre in Berlin. ATC released their first album in February 2001.

The follow-up to Around The World was entitled My Heart Beats Like A Drum. It was also very succesful. The video was shot in August 2001 at the Cinelicht studios in Hamburg. The following single Thinking Of You was shot in a castle in England. For this single they used a sample from Jacki Graham's 1986 hit Breaking Away.

2001 : Why Oh Why was the last single to be released from the album Planet Pop. The video was shot in the Göteborg studios in Sweden. Then came the very succesful I'm In Heaven, from the forthcoming second album, which was also shot in a studio in Sweden.

2002 : ATC were featured on the new version of Together that DJ Bobo recorded for his album Celebration. They were also a part of his show DJ Bobo & Friends. They took part to the writing of the single Future in your Hand, for the charity project Hand in Hand for Children. ATC was seen on the 25th of May, at the Grand Prix d'Eurovision broadcasted on ARD.

A new album was planned for release in June, the name was Victory, there were also rumors according to which the name could be different. Finally no album was released in 2002. The next single will be entitled Set Me Free (and not Call On Me), planned for 3rd of June. ATC also released a new single with Karaja called She Moves (La La La).

2003 : ATC has changed their name into A Touch of Class and recorded a new single called New York City. Their album will be available in March and will be called Touch The Sky.

ATC official homepage
ATC American fanpage
ATC Italian fanpage
Thanks to nolimits, Ben Smith, D-Man '94 and DJ Baboon
Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions

The biography was last updated Fri, March 22nd 2013

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22/03/2013 : Carolina Marquez feat. Flo Rida & Dale Saunders released a song strongly inspired from Ruki Vverkh Pesenka, which was already adapted by ATC under the title Around the World (La La La La La) (thanks to Andri)

05/02/2012 : ATC's Around The World melody was covered in Gromee Feat Tommy Gunn & Ali Tennant's You Make Me Say. (Thanks to Eurodance Blog)

07/01/2012 : The Disco Boys covered ATC's hit single Around The World (which was itself a cover of a Ruki Vverh song) (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

30/09/2010 : The melody of Ruki Vverh and ATC's hit La La La was covered by Auburn feat Lyaz. (Thanks to Tavi Meran)

17/03/2003 : ATC changed their name into A Touch Of Class.

20/05/2002 : the next ATC single will be entitled Set Me Free, the release date is 3rd of June (thanks to DJ Baboon).

Links to ATC

Fansites

ATC American Fansite
ATC Online Germany (closed)