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Sash!

Sash!   (Germany)

EuroTrance group
Added : 24/01/2000
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It's My Life
Life Goes On
Life Goes On
Trilenium
Best Of - Encore Une Fois
S4!
10th Anniversary
Encore une Fois Greatest Hits
The Best Of Sash!
Life Is A  Beach
Life Changes
It's My Life
Encore Une Fois
Ecuador
Stay
La Primavera
Mysterious Times
Move Mania
Colour The World
Adelante
Just Around The Hill
Trilenium
With My Own Eyes
Ganbareh
Run
I Believe
Ecuador 2005
Ecuador 2007 Reloaded
Raindrops (Encore Une Fois Pt. II)
Ecuador 2009
Mysterious Times 2009
All Is Love
Hello South Africa
Mirror Mirror
What Is Life
The Secret
Summer's Gone
Can't Change You
Ecuador 2016
Colour The World 2020 Xmas Edit
Coming Home
Walking The Wire
Rainbow
The Ultimate Seduction
Children Of The World
Luna Llena
Encore Une Fois 2014
Easy Find
I Believe
Rock My Body
The Sunset
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Latest Sash! news

18/08/2023 : Sash! re-released a limited version (1000 copies only) of the Encore Une Fois vinyl

20/05/2023 : Sash!'s single will be a cover of the 1992 techno classic The Ultimate Seduction, featuring Sir Danny Cool and the original sampled voice by C'hantal

20/04/2023 : R3HAB and Inna teamed with Sash! to record Rock My Body, a triple collaboration due for release on April 28th

04/04/2023 : DJ Aligator, Martin Tungevaag and Ilira borrowed the melody of Sash!'s hit Ecuador for the upcoming single Feel Like Coming Home, planned for April 7th

21/12/2022 : Winners of this year's BBC real-TV dance show "Strictly come dancing" performed on a latino version of Sash!'s hit Ecuador

12/10/2022 : Sash!'s next single is a collaboration another legend of eurotrance, Gabry Ponte : Never Be Alone. It borrows the melody of Sash's hit Stay and it will be out tomorrow

16/08/2022 : Sash! will release a Massivedrum remix for his current single Rainbow

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Sash! albums

It's My Life It's My Life 30th Jun 1997
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Life Goes On Life Goes On 17th Aug 1998
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Life Goes On Life Goes On 2 CDs 3rd Dec 1998
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Trilenium Trilenium 3rd Apr 2000
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Best Of - Encore Une Fois Best Of - Encore Une Fois 2 CDs 13th Nov 2000
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S4! S4! 29th Oct 2002
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10th Anniversary 10th Anniversary 2007
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Encore une Fois Greatest Hits Encore une Fois Greatest Hits 2 CDs 19th May 2007
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The Best Of Sash! The Best Of Sash! 2 CDs 20th Oct 2008
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Life Is A  Beach Life Is A Beach 31st Aug 2012
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Life Changes Life Changes 8th Nov 2013
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Sash! DVDs and VHS

10th Anniversary 10th Anniversary 2007 DVD

 

Sash! singles

It's My Life It's My Life May 1996  
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Encore Une Fois Encore Une Fois (feat. Sabine Ohmes) 10th Feb 1997  
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Ecuador Ecuador (feat. Rodriguez) 22nd Apr 1997  
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Stay Stay (feat. La Trec) 3rd Sep 1997  
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La Primavera La Primavera 12th Feb 1998  
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Mysterious Times Mysterious Times (feat. Tina Cousins) 23rd Jun 1998  
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Move Mania Move Mania (feat. Shannon) 21st Oct 1998  
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Colour The World Colour The World (feat. Dr Alban) Jan 1999  
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Adelante Adelante 21st Oct 1999  
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Just Around The Hill Just Around The Hill (feat. Tina Cousins) 3rd Apr 2000  
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Trilenium Trilenium Promo only 24th Apr 2000  
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With My Own Eyes With My Own Eyes (feat. Inka) 28th Aug 2000  
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Ganbareh Ganbareh 1st Jul 2002  
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Run Run (feat Boy George) 4th Sep 2002  
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I Believe I Believe 10th Mar 2003  
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Ecuador 2005 Ecuador 2005 Compilation only 2005  
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Ecuador 2007 Reloaded Ecuador 2007 Reloaded 2007  
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Raindrops (Encore Une Fois Pt. II) Raindrops (Encore Une Fois Pt. II) (feat. Stunt) 2008  
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Ecuador 2009 Ecuador 2009 2009  
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Mysterious Times 2009 Mysterious Times 2009 4th Sep 2009  
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All Is Love All Is Love 2010  
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Hello South Africa Hello South Africa (vs Dr Alban) 2010  
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Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror 5th Aug 2011  
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What Is Life What Is Life 2nd Nov 2012  
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The Secret The Secret (feat. Sarah Brightman) 29th Mar 2013  
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Summer's Gone Summer's Gone 18th Oct 2013  
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Can't Change You Can't Change You (feat. Plexiphones) 7th Mar 2014  
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Ecuador 2016 Ecuador 2016 (vs Olly James) 25th Jan 2016  
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Colour The World 2020 Xmas Edit Colour The World 2020 Xmas Edit 11th Dec 2020  
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Coming Home Coming Home (feat. Shayne Ward) 15th Feb 2021  
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Walking The Wire Walking The Wire (with Christina Novelli) 3rd Dec 2021  
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Rainbow Rainbow (feat. Nicole Scholz) 15th Jul 2022  
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The Ultimate Seduction The Ultimate Seduction (feat. Sir Danny Cool & C'hantal) 26th May 2023  
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Sash! remixes

Encore Une Fois (Remixes Volume 1) Encore Une Fois (Remixes Volume 1) 1996  
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Encore Une Fois (Remixes Part 2 Made In U.K.) Encore Une Fois (Remixes Part 2 Made In U.K.) 1996  
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Ecuador (U.K. Remixes) Ecuador (U.K. Remixes) 1997  
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Stay Stay 1997  
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Mysterious Times Mysterious Times 1998  
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Mysterious Times (The Todd Terry & Viper Remixes) Mysterious Times (The Todd Terry & Viper Remixes) 1998  
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La Primavera La Primavera 1998  
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With My Own Eyes With My Own Eyes 4th Sep 2000  
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Run (The Boy George Mixes) Run (The Boy George Mixes) 2002  
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Ganbareh Ganbareh 1st Jul 2002  
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Run (The Remix Edition) Run (The Remix Edition) 26th Sep 2002  
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I Believe I Believe 28th Mar 2003  
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Adelante (Bobina Megadrive Mix) Adelante (Bobina Megadrive Mix) 5th Jan 2018  
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Coming Home Coming Home 27th Mar 2021  
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Together Again Together Again 23rd Jul 2021  
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Rainbow (Massivedrum remix) Rainbow (Massivedrum remix) 19th Aug 2022  
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The Ultimate Seduction The Ultimate Seduction 29th Sep 2023  
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Featurings and collaborations

Children Of The World Hand In Hand For Children - Children Of The World 23rd Nov 1998  
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Luna Llena Isla San Juan - Luna Llena 2003  
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Encore Une Fois 2014 Jack Holiday - Encore Une Fois 2014 11th Apr 2014  
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Easy Find Jay Frog - Easy Find 5th Jun 2015  
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I Believe Deepaim - I Believe 15th Apr 2022  
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Rock My Body R3HAB, Inna - Rock My Body 28th Apr 2023  
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Compositions

Never Be Alone Gabry Ponte - Never Be Alone 14th Oct 2022  
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Aliases - Records released under other names

The Sunset S4! - The Sunset 2002  
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Sash! biography

Records company : Byte Records. Sash! is a group consisting of 3 members, Sascha Lappessen, Thomas Lüdke (aka Thomas Alisson), and Ralf Kappmeier. Sascha is the frontman, the one who appears in the videos and performs live. They have sold over 22 million albums worldwide and earned more than 65 Gold and Platinum awards. They earned Guinness Book entry for having 5 number 2 hits in a row

Sascha met Thomas as they were both working in the same club : Thomas was the DJ, Sasha was the waiter. Then Thomas introduced Sascha to his friend Ralf. Ralf and Thomas had already contributed to eurodance project Minnesota and their cover of the 4 Non Blondes What's Up?. They also released a few tracks as Tokapi, which would became their producers' name for Sash! and the name of their studio. The new trio's first single was for a project called Careca, which released the 1993 single Indian Rave.

The first single released was It's My Life in 1995. It was at first planned to be released under the name Careca, but the records company refused. The single did very well in the club, especially in Belgium.

But the success started with the second record Encore Une Fois (meaning "Once Again" and featuring Sabine Ohmes' voice), released in 1997. The song raced through the club charts in Italy, Germany, Holland and the Scandinavian countries, then entered the top 10 in many countries, even topping the charts in Greece and Ireland, as well as Eurochart Hot 100. In the UK, it was #2 ans sold gold. In the US, it went #1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, staying on the chart for 14 weeks The song was actually recorded on one single day, which was Sascha's anniversary day. He liked the song, but he would have never guessed the success would have been so massive.

The music video was directed by Oliver Sommer. When the single was originally released, a pressing-plant error swapped the first two tracks (Original edit, used in the music video, and Future Breeze edit). This gave the Future Breeze remix accidental exposition, allowing it to become the official version. The records company then wanted the trio to reuse the successful formula on their next single, but they refused.

The third release was Ecuador, which proved to be even stronger as its forerunner. Featuring Adrian Rodriguez, it was a #1 hit in the Scandinavian Dance Chart and also made it to the Top 5 in the sales charts in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It was also on the Top 10 Music & Media European single charts. In the Summer of 1997 the album It's My Life was released and it was a success. The fourth release was Stay!, a powerful dance track featring LaTrec (Frankie McCoy who also contributed to the songwriting), in the same style as the previous two hits. Oliver Sommer directed the music video once again, it was shot in Paris, in La Défense business district. On MTV Europe, some scenes in the video were left out from the original music video.

Sash! released a single in March 1998 called La Primavera, the first one from their second album Life Goes On. It featured vocals by Patrizia Salvatore, who was not credited. The single was a Top 5 hit in at least six countries, including Ireland, the UK, and several Nordic countries. In July they released a song entitled Mysterious Time and it featured Tina Cousins on vocals. L'Oréal used the Future Breeze remix of Encore Une Fois for the promotion of their Elseve shampoo in TV ads.

On August 17, the long awaited sophomore album Life Goes On was released. It contained 11 new songs including the hits La Primavera and Mysterious Times and one Hit Mix by Oliver Momm. In late 1998 the single Move Mania featuring Shannon was released (Shannon scored many hits during the 80s, among them Let The Music Play which was covered by many eurodance projects), followed in January 1999 by Colour The World which featured no other than Dr Alban on vocals.

Apart from their own career they keep on collaborating with other groups. For example Basic Connection featuring Sash! whose song Angel (Don't Cry) did very well in some countries' charts... They also did many remixes, for 2 Unlimited, ATB, Jean-Michel Jarre, OMD, Savage Garden, Dario G, Kylie Minogue, Boney M...

Announcing a new album, a new single entitled Adelante! was relesed, followed by Just Around The Hill once again featuring Tina Cousins' voice.

The next one was With My Own Eyes, featuring the finnish singer Inka, to be released on August 28th. The video was shot outside Helsinki on June 11th. The single also included the song Rock The Block. In Spain and in Denmark Together Again was released instead. The fourth single was planned to be Together Again, set to be released in November. Actually it was never really released, it only aired on Spain and Denmark's radios. The next album was a greatest hits album, entitled Best of Sash! released the 13th of November.

As for Sabine Ohmes, she released soon Le Soleil Noir (meaning "The black sun", featured on the latest Sash! album) with her soloproject Encore. Meanwhile, Sash! made a remix of Dani's The Meaning of Love. There were 2 remixes on the Maxi version. It was the first Sash! remix for the year 2000.

February 2001 : Thomas Lüdke gave a few infos about the next album and single. The new single would not be called Don't Stop as first stated. But finally, nothing was released this year. Sascha Lappessen got married with the Spanish artist Mabel.

2002 : Sash was at last back for good with a single entitled Ganbareh. The next single was called Run and it featured Boy George. It was released on September 26th and the remix edition came on October 10th.

2003 : Sash released a new single from his current album : I Believe, in March. It featured T.J. Davis and went during its first week to #67 of the Top 100 Single Sales Chart List in Germany.

2005 : Sash produced a new project called Latinovela, featuring 3 girls. They released their new single Abeja Maya on 20th of June. A 2005 remix of Ecuador (done with DJ Lhasa) was released, apparently only on compilation. Sash kept on touring in many countries of Eastern and Northern Europe.

2007 : the long-awaited album is ready. Entitled 10th Anniversary, it included a bonus DVD.

2008 : Jens O did a cover of Move Mania

2009 : Sash! will feature eurotrance diva Jessy on his new single All Is Love. The long-awaited single will be out at the beginning of 2010. Lazy Monkeys released a cover of Colour The World.

2010 : Sash! left his current record company and searched for a new label. His album Life Is A Beach was postponed to 2011.

2011 : In February, Sash!'s hit Stay was covered by Den J Rose. In April, Sash!'s hit Ecuador was featured on the soundtarck of a movie currently being shot in Scandinavia... Sash! new single was entitled Mirror Mirror and featured vocals by singer Jean Pearl. Life Is A Beach album was once again postponed...

2012 : new single was entitled What Is Life, and Life Is A Beach album was finally released.

2013 : the melody from Ecuador was covered by Hot Banditoz in the chorus of their new single Get Down On The Floor. 2 new Sash! singles hit the stores : The Secret, and Summer 's Gone featuring Tony T. A new album was also released : Life Changes

2014 : for Soccer World Cup, Sash! published a video for the Samba Extended Remix of his hit Ecuador. He also teamed with former Scooter member Jay Frog on single Easy Find.

2016 : Sash! and Olly James released a new version for Ecuador

2018 : Bobina did a remix of Adelante. Once again, the melody of Sash!'s hit Ecuador was covered, on French singer Tal's new single Mondial, for Soccer World Cup 2018. The same year, another Ecuador cover was recorded, this time by FLGTT. Then Bobina & Christina Novelli recorded their own version of Mysterious Times.

2020 : Mysterious Times was covered by Thorisson & Kara Sun, while the melody of Ecuador was borrowed by Yves V and Alida in their single Home Now. The year ended with a Xmas edit of Colour The World.

2021 : Stay was covered by Disco Gurls feat. The Soul Gang. 2 new singles were released : Coming Home (featuring Shayne Ward) and Walking The Wire (with Christina Novelli).

2022 : Deepaim released a remix for I Believe.

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Thanks to The General, Anders Bøgh, DTM nolimits, Madenn, Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkine, DJ Stakan and Romain for the latest infos

Sash! biography was last updated Fri, June 17th 2022



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