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Snap   (Germany)

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Latest Snap news

04/01/2025 : Snap's anthem The Power was used recently in a commercial for Poland's electronics & appliances store chain Media Expert (thanks to Trance Love)

16/05/2024 : Geo Da Silva & George Buldy released a cover of Snap's Rhythm Is A Dancer

26/02/2023 : Snap's classic Rhythm Is a Dancer was covered by Stee Wee Bee feat. Jolie & Honey B Sweet

26/08/2022 : DJ Gollum & Yanny released a cover of Snap's hit Rhythm Is A Dancer

18/02/2022 : For the 30th Anniversary of Snap's hit Rhythm Is A Dancer, Dj Castello will release a cover version next month

21/05/2021 : Snap's hit Rhythm Is A Dancer was covered by Josh Nor

25/01/2021 : Snap's hit The Power was used in Red by SFR's current TV ad campaign

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Snap albums

	The Best Attack!		BUY X
	World Power	14th May 1990	BUY X
	The Madman's Return	1992	BUY X
	Welcome To Tomorrow	1995	BUY X
	The Attack! (The Remixes) 2 CDs	1996	BUY X
	One Day On Earth (Never released)	2000	BUY X
	The Power of Snap - The Greatest Hits	11th Dec 2001	BUY X
	The Cult Of Snap 1990 - 2003 2 CDs	14th Jul 2003	BUY X
	We Want Your Soul	Apr 2006	BUY X
	The Power Greatest Hits 2 CDs	19th Oct 2009	BUY X

Snap DVDs and VHS

	Snap! Attack		VHS
	The Best	18th Aug 2003	DVD

Snap singles

	The Power	1989	BUY X
	Ooops Up	Sep 1990	BUY X
	Cult of Snap	Jan 1991	BUY X
	Mary Had A Little Boy	Apr 1991	BUY X
	Believe The Hype	Jun 1991	BUY X
	Megamix	Sep 1991	BUY X
	Color Of Love	Mar 1992	BUY X
	Rhythm Is A Dancer	30th Mar 1992	BUY X
	Exterminate	Mar 1993	BUY X
	Do You See The Light	4th Jul 1993	BUY X
	Welcome To Tomorrow (feat Summer)	24th Jul 1994	BUY X
	The First The Last Eternity (Till The End) (feat. Summer)	6th Feb 1995	BUY X
	The World In My Hands (feat. Summer)	4th Sep 1995	BUY X
	Rame (feat. Rukmani)	12th Feb 1996	BUY X
	The Power '96	14th Jun 1996	BUY X
	Rhythm Is A Dancer '96	9th Oct 1996	BUY X
	Gimme A Thrill	29th May 2000	BUY X
	See The Light 2002 (vs Plaything)	2002	BUY X
	The First, The Last Eternity 2002 (vs. Tom Novy)	4th Feb 2002	BUY X
	Rhythm Is A Dancer 2002	8th Oct 2002	BUY X
	The Cult of Noise (vs Infernal)	2003	BUY X
	Rhythm Is A Dancer 2003	27th Jan 2003	BUY X
	The Power Of Bhangra	9th Jun 2003	BUY X
	Ooops Up 2003 (vs Tomekk feat NG3)	Sep 2003	BUY X
	Cult Of Snap Remix (vs Infernal)	27th Mar 2004	BUY X
	Beauty Queen (feat Loc)	15th Aug 2005	BUY X
	We Want Your Soul Promo only	2006	BUY X
	Excited (feat. Sarah Martin)	9th Dec 2006	BUY X
	Rhythm Is A Dancer 2008	18th May 2008	BUY X
	Jumping Promo only	17th Aug 2008	BUY X
	2009 remix EP	2009	BUY X

Snap remixes

	Mary Had A Little Boy	1990	BUY X
	The Power	1990	BUY X
	Ooops Up	1990	BUY X
	Cult Of Snap	1990	BUY X
	Rhythm Is A Dancer	1992	BUY X
	Color Of Love	1992	BUY X

Snap biography

Producers : Benito Benites (Michael Muenzing), John 'Virgo' Garret III (Luca Anzilotti)

Snap began with the many pseudonyms used by the two Frankfurt based producers and composers, Michael Muenzing and Luca Anzilotti. As DJ's they were only too aware of the preconceived notions about German productions and decided to list themselves in the credits of Snap's first album as Benito Benites and John Virgo Garrett III. The mystery continued with the comings and goings of the singers who occupied the stage

With their dancefloor anthem The Power the name Snap became, practically, overnight, the world-wide trademark for top class dance music. The record was at first a white label created in just one week. Then it was released on the Wild Pitch Records label in America with the credit "Power Jam featuring Chill Rob G". Chill Rob G was among the many artists sampled on the record (the raps came from the track Let The Words Flow). The "I got the power" was a sample of Jocelyn Brown's single Love's Gonna Get You . The song also borrowed sounds from Kool & The Gang, The Magic Disco Machine, Bob James, Original Concept, Pleasure and Chaka Khan. It also sampled King Of The Beats by Mantronix and opened with a somewhat enigmatic line in Russian talking about Personal Companion device, a computer for visually impaired people which was launched in 1990.

After the first 30,000 sales, problems with Chill began to manifest themselves. Snap! did not have the right to use his raps out of Germany so they sought a replacement. This is how Turbo B became Snap's rapper. Jackie Harris (according to some, Turbo B met her at a concert when she was working for Moses P, according to others she was Turbo's cousin) was credited for providing "guide" vocals, and appeared in interviews. But she was only be a lipsyncer while Penny Ford was the real vocalist of the group.

Snap were described as unconventional musical trailblazers, and soon become one of the most internationally successful German pop acts in history. Their fame was strengthened by the succession of hits that followed – Ooops Up (inspired from The Gap Band's funk anthem), Cult Of Snap and Mary Had A Little Boy, which was covered by Stax.

Their debut album, World Power, was released in May 1990 went on to become one of dance music's few mega-sellers. Almost 30 years later, Janice Robinson (Livin' Joy) revealed that she toured with the project as vocalist during year 1991.

The second album, The Madman's Return was out in 1992 and produced another #1 smash with Rhythm Is A Dancer. Featuring the voice of Thea Austin, inspired from the melody of Newcleus - Automan, it was the second most sold single in France for the year 1992. Strangely, at the beginning, it was not chosen to become a single. Turbo B did not like it, so Colour Of Love was released instead, and flopped. Eventually Rhythm Is A Dancer was released without Turbo's agreement. This may be one of the reason why the collaboration with Turbo ended.

One year after, the follow-ups Exterminate, then Do You See The Light, featuring Niki Harris, were released. They did not include any male rap. Niki had sung with Madonna for 7 years, she was introduced to Snap's producers via Penny Ford. Exterminate became another million-seller.

With Welcome To Tomorrow the story continued. The first single and title track, reached the charts back in October and the second, The First The Last Eternity was released in March. The next single to be lifted from the album is to be The World In My Hands, once again featuring Summer (Paula Brown) on the vocals and supported by an amazing new futuristic video due to be debuted during late August around Europe.

Then followed the oriental-like single Rame which was sung by  Rukmani. It did not have that much success. The Power '96 was recorded with Einstein. All the recent videos were made in-house by the producers themselves and shot using the creative talents of their long-time collaborator Angel as director.

2000 : After some years of silence, Snap was back with a new single Gimme A Thrill. Turbo B was back back too, with a new female vocalist named Maxayn. She previously worked with stars like Tina Turner, Michael Bolton, Cher or Whitney Houston. The video was shot in Mexico.

2002 : Snap kept on with remix versions of their old hits. After See The Light 2002, they released a track called Eternity 2002, followed by Rhythm Is A Dancer 2002.

2003 : and the cover releases continue... They released a new remake of their anthem The Power. It is called The Power Of Bhangra. They were said to be recording a new album with Turbo B.

In July they released a remixes compilation called Cult Of Snap 1990 - 2003. The first CD contained remixes (by well-knows DJs and remixers such as DJ Tomekk, Tom Novy, Fragma, Xavier Naidoo etc) and the second CD contained the original versions. On the Danish version of the album, CD1 has a 16th track, wich is Infernal vs Snap The Cult of Noise.

In September Ooops Up 2003 was out.

2004 : in January, Snap featuring the 4 girls of NG3 appeared live at the German winter show Apres-Ski Hits 2004. They sung their current single Ooops Up 2003.

Snap's biggest hit The Power was used for the latest T-online ad campaign. It appeared previously on the soundtrack of the movie Bruce Almighty.

Infernal vs. Snap! Cult of Noise reached highest position #9 in the Danish Charts. Released on the 29th of March, it included mixes by Infernal and Roy Malone, as well as mixes by the two Rmx Contest winners Chris Korte and Michael Bruder. The names of all participants in the contest had been printed onto the inner sleeve.

2005 : Benito Benites and John VIRGO Garrett III spent the summer in Los Angeles and New York recording tracks for the new album which was planned to be released in 2005. They met Sarah J. and Loc in Los Angeles and decided to record with them the forthcoming album. The new single is called Shake That Ass which was spontaneously recorded on the last studio day in New York with Loc and the Jettsonz who are the producer team behind Nina Sky (Move your Body).

Meanwhile, everytime a TV appearance was needed, Thea kept on performing on Rhythm Is A Dancer, while Turbo B along with Ouided Khachnaoui (who had been vocalist for the Garcia project), or sometimes Penny Ford, appeared on The Power.

August : the album was finished and the chosen new single was finally entitled Beauty Queen. It featured Loc the new singer, who recorded the song in New York earlier this year. It was released on vinyl on the 15th of August. The 12" club mix of Beauty Queen was backed by a Richard Grey remix as well as The Power of Shanghai, again a new remix of The Power by Snap vs Motivo. Another remix was done by Mark Spoon.

2006 : in January the video of Beauty Queen was released. The brand new album should be entitled We Want Your Soul and it was at first planned for release during Spring. But nothing came out yet...

The next single to be released was entitled Excited, featuring a female vocalist (Sarah Martin). A promo vinyl was released on the 26th July. The same day, another promo vinyl, this time containing 2 songs, We Want Your Soul (based on a Clash London Calling sample) and Shake That (which contained a musical sample of Jean-Michel Jarre), was also released.

Excited was finally released as vinyl in December.

2007 : new single The Power by Tom Novy vs The Rock & Snap covered Snap's original hit.

2008 : Snap will be among the projects featured on the All 90s concert in Copenhagen on 31st May. In September, a new single entitled Jumping, performed by Sarah Martin and Loc, was released.

2009 : in March, I Got The Power sample was used by Big Ali feat. Dollarman on their single Hit The Floor. Niki Harris released a duet with Perry Twins entitled Bad, Bad Boys, on 24th March.

During summer, they released a promo EP with 5 new versions of their biggest hits. Vitamin T did a remake of Snap! hit Rhythm Is A Dancer, released under Lab records. In September they released a new club remix to the song Exterminate made by DJ Tom Novy.

2010 : Snap is currently represented on stage by Penny Ford and the new rap artist Benjamin Lowe. Like almost every year, Snap are releasing new remixes of their hit Rhythm Is A Dancer. Entitled Rhythm Is A Dancer Remixes 2010, it will also include the original version.

2011 : Romanian singer Anda Adam recorded her own version of Colour Of Love.

2014 : Damon Paul released a cover of Snap's classic Rhythm Is a Dancer, featuring Simone Mangiapane. Snap is currently fronted by Penny Ford who tours with singer/rapper Jesse Kolb aka JL.

Remixes done by Snap :

Clubland featuring Quartz - Let's Get Busy (Pump It Up) (1990)
The Human League - Don't You Want Me (1995)
Poltergeist - Vicious Circles (1996)

Dance Artists Infos
BMG
Snap official website
Snap at Free Album Network
Thank to Apho, Anders Bøgh, Zubochistka, Nico, Anton "MC Kasper" Skaletsky, Apho, Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkine and Nico for the latest infos

Snap biography was last updated Fri, March 12th 2021

Charts (singles)

The Power	#13	#3				#15	#2	#5	#4	#1	#6	#3	#3	#1	#1	#2
Ooops Up	#4	#2				#34	#2			#2	#8	#2	#2	#2	#5	#35
Cult of Snap	#27	#2					#3			#6	#15	#5	#12	#5	#8
Mary Had A Little Boy	#18	#9					#4			#3	#13		#7	#4	#8
Megamix		#22					#15			#5	#7		#17	#5	#10
Color Of Love		#4					#9			#6	#36	#6	#6	#4	#54
Rhythm Is A Dancer	#3	#1		#11		#1	#1	#1	#1	#1	#11	#4	#2	#1	#1	#5
Exterminate	#50	#9				#18	#3	#2		#5	#4	#9	#7	#2	#2
Do You See The Light		#8				#40	#13			#9			#20	#10	#10
Welcome To Tomorrow		#11					#4			#9			#32	#13	#6
The First The Last Eternity (Till The End)							#7								#15
The World In My Hands							#53								#44
Rame		#34	#24				#34			#28			#40		#50
The Power '96					#12										#42
Rhythm Is A Dancer '96													#58
See The Light 2002							#66								#14
Rhythm Is A Dancer 2003	#32	#10			#13		#7			#46				#35	#17
The Power Of Bhangra							#21								#34
Ooops Up 2003							#69						#6
Rhythm Is A Dancer 2008															#23

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