Sash!   (Germany)

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

Sash! DVDs and VHS

10th Anniversary

2007

DVD

Sash! singles

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

Sash! remixes

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

Featurings and collaborations

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

Compositions

Gabry Ponte - Never Be Alone

14th Oct 2022

BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

S4! - The Sunset

2002

BUY X

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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