A1The Seven-Game (Ring Of Smile - Reversed) (7:01)
A2Toy Planet (9:21)
A3Two Dolphins Go Dancing (3:26)
B1Yom Tov (3:24)
B2Springlight Rite (4:41)
B3Rapido De Noir (Last Train To Eternity) (6:55)
B4When The Waters Came To Life (4:46)
Irmin Schmidt (born 29 May 1937 in Berlin) is a German keyboard player and composer, probably best known as a founding member of the band Can.
Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 august 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.
Born in Zurich, he studied applied psychology in Basel and Zurich. He played the saxophone as a student, and toured with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg in Germany and Switzerland. In the early 1960s, he worked as a psychologist and career counsellor. He experimented with electrified saxophone and published the album Voice of Taurus in 1978.
Formed in Cologne, Germany, the core of Gina X Performance comprised charismatic Gina Kikoine (vocals and lyrics) and writer-producer-musician Zeus B. Held. Held had previously been a member of the group Birth Control, and split to record solo in 1978, beginning work with Kikoine that year.Between 1979 and 1984 the group released four albums of cool arthouse electro-disco: Nice Mover, X-Traordinaire, Voyeur and Yinglish. Their classic 1979 single No G.D.M. was a club hit on both sides of the Atlantic and remains a cult classic thanks to electro/synthcore compilations such as Nag Nag Nag. Slinky second single Nice Mover is also an established favourite, having appeared on the Andrew Weatherall compilation Nine O'Clock Drop.
Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart, Atom™, Señor Coconut; born August 27, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany), is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel and aciton (acid-reggaeton) music.
Partial discography
As Lassigue Bendthaus
The Engineers Love (1988)
Matter (1991)
Cloned (1992)
Cloned:Binary (1992)
Overflow (1994; single)
Render (1994)
Render (U.S. Remixes) (1994)
Pop Artificielle (2000; credited as LB)
Aliases
Almost Digital
Atom™
Atom Heart
Atomu' Shinzo
BASS
Bi-Face
The Bitniks
Brown
Bund Deutscher Programmierer
CMYK
Coeur Atomique
DATacide (a collaboration with Tetsu Inoue)
The Disk Orchestra
Don Atom
DOS Tracks
Dots
Dr Mueller
Dropshadow Disease
Erik Satin
Flanger (a collaboration with Burnt Friedman)
Flextone
Fonosandwich
Geeez 'N' Gosh
Gon (a collaboration with Dandy Jack)
HAT (a collaboration with Haruomi Hosono and Tetsu Inoue)
H. Roth
i
Interactive Music
Jet Chamber (a collaboration with Pete Namlook)
Lassigue Bendthaus
Le Diapason
Lisa Carbon
Lisa Carbon & Friends
The Lisa Carbon Trio
Los Negritos
Los Sampler's
Machine Paisley
Masters of Psychedelic Ambiance (a collaboration with Tetsu Inoue)
Midisport
Mike Mc Coy
Millennium
Mono™
M/S/O
+N (a collaboration with Victor Sol)
Naturalist
Ongaku
Pentatonic Surprise
Pornotanz
Real Intelligence
The Roger Tubesound Ensemble
Schnittstelle
Second Nature (a collaboration with Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell)
Semiacoustic Nature
Señor Coconut
Silver Sound
Slot
Softcore
Soundfields
Subsequence
Superficial Depth
Surtek Collective (a collaboration with Original Hamster)
Synthadelic
Urban Primitivism
VSVN
Weird Shit
01. Incubus Succubus
02. Zu Jung Zu Alt
03. Blut Ist Liebe
Xmal Deutschland
Incubus Succubus II 12''
1983
Gothic Rock
Germany
Tracklist:
01. Incubus Succubus II
02 . Vito
Xmal Deutschland
Qual 12''
1983
Gothic Rock
Germany
Tracklist:
01. Qual
02. Zeit
03. Sehnsucht
Xmal Deutschland
Schwarze Welt - 7''
1981
Gothic Rock
Germany
Tracklist:
01. Schwarze Welt
02. Die Wolken
Xmal Deutschland (pronounced: iks-mul doychlunt) was a musical group from Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 1980 with a completely female line-up, they became successful outside their native country. The lead singer of the band is vocalist Anja Huwe. Xmal Deutschland's last album was released in 1989.
Xmal Deutschland (often written as X-Mal Deutschland) was formed in 1980 by Anja Huwe (vocals), Manuela Rickers (guitar), Fiona Sangster (keyboards), Rita Simon (bass guitar) and Caro May (drums) in Hamburg, Germany. Their first single, "Großstadtindianer" was released a year later on Alfred Hilsberg’s ZickZack label. The band also contributed the to the label compilation Lieber Zuviel Als Zuwenig (ZZ 45). Around this time Rita Simon was replaced by Wolfgang Ellerbrock.
In 1982 the band released the Goth classic "Incubus Succubus". Drummer Caro May left the band and formed a new band, and the vacant drummer position was filled by Manuela Zwingmann the same year. While German audiences were less than receptive at first, a United Kingdom tour opening for the Cocteau Twins resulted in a label deal with independent label 4AD Records. Their debut album, Fetisch and the singles "Qual" and "Incubus Succubus II" were released in 1983, all 3 making the UK Independent charts, even though the band wrote and performed in German.
Manuela Zwingmann left the band after one year, being replaced by Peter Bellendir. This lineup, Huwe/Rickers/Sangster/Ellerbrock/Bellendir proved to be the longest running. 1984 saw the release of the single "Reigen" and the album Tocsin, followed by a world tour through 1985.
The Sequenz EP was essentially a remake of a John Peel session, which had been originally recorded April 30, 1985, and was broadcast May 13, 1985. The EP contained the tracks Jahr Um Jahr II, Autumn (the band’s first English lyrics, apart from brief snatches of English that appeared in Qual, Young Man and Tag für Tag) and Polarlicht but omitted Der Wind, which was played at the Peel sessions.
1986 saw the release of Matador, produced by Hugh Cornwell of The Stranglers. Xmal Deutschland also opened for The Stranglers at a concert at Wembley Arena in London. Their follow-up album, Viva was recorded in Hamburg and was released in 1987, followed by the single "Sickle Moon". Viva contains a large number of English lyrics, among others a poem by Emily Dickinson. It was during this time that the band were interviewed by Jamie Meakes for the infamous underground Goth Fanzine 'House Of Dolls'.
After the release of Viva, Manuela Rickers, Fiona Sangster and Peter Bellendir left the group. Anja Huwe and Wolfgang Ellerbrock continue to work with Frank Z. (Abwärts) on guitar. Producer Henry Staroste played keyboards, and German studio drummer Curt Cress completed the line-up that would record the 1989 LP Devils and the singles "Dreamhouse" and "I’ll be near you". This also proved to be the last release of Xmal Deutschland, showing a change of direction towards mainstream pop. 1990 saw a few scattered live appearances by the group, but eventually the group split up.
Discography
EPs and singles:
1981 7" Großstadtindianer
1982 12" Incubus Succubus
1983 12" Qual
1983 7" Incubus Succubus II
1983 12" Incubus Succubus II
1985 7" Sequenz
1985 12" Sequenz
1986 12"/CD The Peel Sessions (30.04.85)
1986 7" Matador
1986 12" Matador
1987 7" Sickle Moon
1987 12" Sickle Moon
1989 12" Dreamhouse
1989 12" I'll be near you Albums:
1983 Fetisch
1984 Tocsin
1987 Viva
1989 Devils
A1 Full Steam Ahead (5:19)
A2 Lunatic Love Song (4:51)
A3 Terrania (Electri City) (4:00)
A4 Android's Wedding (6:20)
B1 The March Of The Martians (9:00)
B2 Metagony (3:23)
B3 The Tower Of Osc. (7:22)
After spending some time with Peter Seiler in a duo called "Sirius", Michael Bundt (ex-Medusa) went on to record several solo electronic works that resembled both the space majesty of early Jean Michel Jarre and the quirky krautrockish kinetics of Moebius & Plank. The first album is known to feature old friend Peter Seiler.
Living in Weinheim in the early 70s Germany, Michael Bundt used to play the bass with several bands as Nine Days Wonder on We Never Lost Control and Only the Dancers, Wintergarden on Wintergarden III, Medusa on a CBS single, and German Band called Nerve. In the mid 70s he decided to play solo and released 3 LPs, Just Landed Cosmic Kid, Neon, and Electri City, whereof "The Brain of Oskar Panizza" is still used in many club mixes (Our friend Pilooski made a terrific edit of this track!)
Today Michael works as composer and producer of several bands and albums as Tritonus on Between the Universes. He lives in Mannheim, Germany and produces a jazz singer named Silke Hauck.
01.Julie Thru The Blinds
02.Are You Inventive
03.Brand New Toy
04.That's What I Call Love
05.Rome Wasn't Built In A Day
06.Fantastic Friend
07.Food And Coffee
08.This World
09.Starting To Pretend
10.Raintree Country
11.The End
The Jeremy Days, was a German pop band from Hamburg, which was founded in 1987. The band was innitially called "The Real McCoys" but their name has been changed to "The Jeremy Days" in 1988. The band originally consisted of Dirk Darmstaedter (vocals, guitar), Christoph Kaiser (bass, vocals), Louis C. Oberlander (keyboards), Stefan Rager (drums) and Jörn-Christof halibut (guitar).
In 1988 The Jeremy Days debut album was produced by the British producer-team of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley. The record sold about 150,000 copies and the single Brand New Toy came up to the 11th position in the German charts.
01 Man On The Run
02 On Fire
03 Stay With Me
04 Game Of Love
05 You'll Never Change My Mind
06 Unknown Town
07 Burning Down
08 Nobody Knows The Answer
09 Sweet Love
10 Hard Work
Daryl Van Raalte-bass/Michael Adam Admitz-PPG programming/Wolfgang Schlitzer-keyb./Ian Wilson-rhythm guitar, backing vocal/Michael Rolke-sax on track 08/Jürgen Pluta-bass on track 03/All Songs Arranged by Sign System
The members of Deo weren't profi musicians,all they had civil jobs.Harald Hoffmann was a photographer, Klaus Kranz was electrotechnician, Andreas Pasieka studied social pedagogy and Christoph Aengenheyster studied Latin and Greek.Deo has only one released album.
They reformed the band in 1984 under a new name,Sign System.The members were the same,but everything else changed around them.Their new label was Bellaphon with a new producer Ian Wilson (produced also Vasco Rossi),the new musical style was Synth-pop, Disco,Italo with english texts only.Their biggest hit was the Secret Service-like "Stay with me" (1984), appeared also on "I love Italo Disco vol.33" .I think the other songs are good too.Nothing punk or new wave,but nice easy-listening songs with typical 80's sound.
They made only one album.
01 - Der Dudelmoser
02 - Rocky Marciano
03 - Ivanhoe
04 - Pablo Picasso
05 - Billy The Kid
06 - James Bond
07 - Klabautermann
08 - Robinson
09 - Mata Hari
10 - Rubezahl
11 - Tut Ench Amun
12 - Helden Und Schurken
13 - Himalaya
14 - Mexico
Dschinghis Khan was a West German pop band, created in 1979 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest. The name of the band was chosen to fit the song of the same name, written and produced by Ralph Siegel with lyrics by Bernd Meinunger.
The band's song "Moscow" was a big hit in Australia in 1980, staying at number 1 for five weeks. The song was used as the theme music for the Channel 7 coverage of the Olympic games held in Moscow the same year.
The original members of the group were Louis Hendrik Potgieter, Steve Bender, Leslie Mándoki, Edina Pop and the husband and wife pair Wolfgang and Henriette Heichel.
Discography
Longplay
Dschinghis Khan (1979)
Rom (1980) (Rome)
Viva (1980) (Re-release of Rom without bonus tracks)
Wir sitzen alle im selben Boot (1981) (We're all sitting in the same boat)
Helden, Schurken & der Dudelmoser (1982) (Heroes, Rogues & the Dudelmoser)
Corrida (1983) (The Bullfight)
Huh Hah Dschinghis Khan - Ihre Grössten Erfolge (1993)
Die Großen Erfolge (1999)
Jubilee (2004)
7 Leben (2007) (7 Lives)
Singles(only German releases)
"Dschinghis Khan" (1979)
"Moskau" (1979) (Moscow) (AUS: #1)
"Hadschi Halef Omar" (1979) (Hadschi Halef Omar)
"Rocking Son Of Dschinghis Khan" (1979)
"Rom" (1980)
"Samurai" (1980)
"Machu Picchu" (1980)
"Pistolero" (1981)
"Loreley" (1981) (Lorelei)
"Wir sitzen alle im selben Boot" (1981)
"Klabautermann" (1982)
"Der Dudelmoser" (1982)
"Mata Hari" (1982)
"Himalaja" (1983) (Himalaya)
"Rose Four María Magdalena" (1983)
"Olé Olé" (1984)
Too Much5:32
Flash5:04
Concrete & Clay2:37
Rock'N'Roll Has Got To Go4:37
Girls I Love4:11
Loosin' Winnin'3:55
Let's Come Together4:25
The Birds5:04
Hong Kong syndicate was a German pop band of the 1980s.
In the beginning of the decade, the decorator and disc jockey Bruno Grünberg, a graphic designer Hartmut Möller and Gerd Plez, met in West Berlin and founded Hong Kong syndikat, and received after a short time a record deal and released their debut album First string .
The first single, Berlin Bleibt Doch Berlin , contains quotations from the former U.S. president Ronald Reagan .While the band on the first record are still predominantly German singing, they recorded the following albums in English, even to orient on the English-speaking market.
In 1984 gave Hong Kong syndicate their first concert in New York , in August of that year she participated in London, their second album Olympia , which was produced by Rusty Egan, a member of the band Visage .Followed the album Never Too Much in 1985. Were successful - in other European countries - the singles Too Much and Concrete & Clay , the latter a remake of an oldies Unit 4 + 2 .
In consequence, Hong Kong syndikat is not connected to the successes to date, the album Des Teutons Pas Nippon from 1987 was a flop .Two years later, in 1989, Hong Kong syndikat broke up.
01 The End (Disco) (5:08)
02 Unheimliche Schattenlichter (3:58)
03 Das Ding (4:15)
04 The Fog (3:33)
05 Christine (2:50)
06 Halloween I (3:22)
07 The End (Sound) (3:58)
08 Halloween II (3:27)
09 Die Klapperschlange (3:17)
Bonus :
10 Starman (Dance Mix)
11 Big trouble in little China (Dub Disco Version)
12 The End (Disco Mix)
The German group, Splash Band, pay homage to director and composer, John Carpenter. This set of tracks, basically the main titles to most of Carpenter's early film work (Dark Star, Assault On Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog ec) is given the electronic treatment and turns the themes into catchy dance mixes. Quite an interesting idea. There are some very unique interpretations here, some quite good, such as tracks taken from Dark Star and The Thing for example. This CD was originally an LP that came out in the mid 1980s. You can tell because Christine is the latest film of Carpenter's on the album (no Starman or Big Trouble In Little China or Prince Of Darkness or They Live).
A1I See Stars
A2Wutt Wutt
A3Bubbles + Smoke
A4Metaluna
A5The Wrong Song
B1I Can Sing
B2Butterfly Baccanal
B3Farewell Goodbye
B4Wutt Wutt II
B5Shine On Me
Supersempfft (also known as Roboterwerke) were one of the first if not first electronic musicians from Germany, starting back in the late 60's. They went on to release 3 albums in the late 70's, early 80's and were a huge influence on people such as Herbie Hancock, Afrika Bambaataa and even Kraftwerk. The video above and the artwork for the their first 2 LP's follow the adventures of a frog called Supersempfft and his journeys through the universe while high and carrying his little saxophone, AMAZING!
Artwork By [Pictures] – Franz Aumüller
Drums, Percussion – Roboterwerke
Mixed By – Claus Burkard (tracks: A1 to B4), Tammy Grahé* (tracks: B5)
Songwriter, Producer, Lyrics By [Words] – Franz Aumüller
Songwriter, Vocals, Performer [Instruments], Producer, Music By – Dieter Kolb
Vocals – Thommy Runklé (tracks: A5, B2), Toadettes, The (tracks: B1, B2)
Members:
Dieter Kolb, Franz Aumüller Aliases:
Roboterwerke, Wunderwerke
A1Bitte Beeilen
A2No Bees, No Honey
A3High On Tech
A4We Never Come Down
B1The Lion Sleeps Tonight
B2Pinhead Pinball
B3Concrete Jungle
B4Rockbots
Robotwerke, aka Dieter Kolb and Franz Aumüller, were one of the first groups to experiment with electronic music in the mid-60s, inventing some of the first self-made drum machines. Look HERE Their fans include such luminaries as Herbie Hancock, Afrika Bambaataa, Sven Vath and Kraftwerk. Since the 60's they had allowed themselves to become more and more inspired by the Caribbean sounds of steeldrum and Soca, and developed their own brand of Soca influenced funky disco electro.
01Strangers in the Night
02Metro Man
03King of the Jungle
04Be Mine
05Time Machine
06Taxi
07Cash
08Glasshouse
09Groud Zero
10Welcome
Peter Baumann (born January 29, 1953 in Berlin) formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976. Shortly thereafter, in 1977, he left the band and started his own solo career.
When he was eight, the Berlin Wall was built, and Baumann entered the American/German Community School in Berlin, where he learned English and was first exposed to American culture. At age 14, Peter joined a cover band and performed at G.I. clubs. Then, in 1971, at age 18, he met Christopher Franke, and ended up joining Tangerine Dream in replacement of their former organist Steve Schroyder.
Two years later, Tangerine Dream signed with Virgin Records and their first album on the label, Phaedra, became a Top 10 seller on the Melody Maker charts. As a result of this and other recording successes, Tangerine Dream toured the world for eight years. They also made successful forays into film scoring.
Baumann had temporarily left Tangerine Dream twice, first in 1973 (returning in time for Franke & Froese to shelf their current work on Green Desert and the three to start anew on what was to become Phaedra), and again in 1975, leaving Michael Hoenig as a temporary substitute for an Australian tour. His departure in 1977, shortly after the completion of the band's first U.S. tour, was final and led to a brief solo career.
During the 1980s, he founded a record label, Private Music, specializing in instrumental music in a style popularly referred to as New Age. Artists signed to the label included Yanni, Patrick O'Hearn, Jerry Goodman, Suzanne Ciani, and former bandmates Tangerine Dream. In 1996, the label was sold to Windham Hill Records' parent company, BMG, who continue to distribute some of the back catalogue of its more successful artists. Baumann has since kept a low profile from the music business, devoting his time to studying Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, religions and philosophies. He has since founded the Baumann Foundation and developed a philosophical theory focused on human suffering and liberation called Natural Enlightenment.
Albums
Romance '76 (1976) (LP)
Trans Harmonic Nights (1979) (LP)
Repeat Repeat (1981) (LP)
Strangers In The Night (1983) (LP)
Phase by Phase: A Retrospective '76 - '81 (1996) (CD) EP
Bicentennial Present (7" single) (1976)
Biking Up The Strand (7" single) (1979)
Realtimes (7" single) (1981)
Daytime Logic (Extended Dance Mix) (12" single) (1981)
1.Prologue
2.Guardian Angel
3.Love Hurts
4.Deep Under My Skin
5.Everyday Loser
6.The Morning after the Night Before
7.Jet Set Age
8.Summer's Over
9.Lay Your Head on My Shoulder
10.Epilogue
In one side Drafi Deutscher was famous for his German "schlager" style and in other side Chris Evans rather involved in synth-pop, new age and italo disco in his carreer.(He was behind "italo-disco king" Mike Mareen's first 1985 album as co-composer and keyboarder.)
The result of their joint effort is a cosy, catchy sunshine music with some hits, the most known are "Guardian Angel" and "Everyday Loser".
Perhaps the best work they have ever done together. Chris Evans' style more dominates here, he had much more freedom than in other cases. Though Evans and Deutscher several times helped each other since the middle of 70's, Masquerade was their only official band.
1.Starlight
2.Murderer
3.Warrior
4.Victim of Fate
5.Cry for Freedom
The Helloween EP is the debut recording by the German band Helloween. Even though it wasn't a power metal album it was very significant for the genre.
It was released in 1985 on Noise Records and was followed up by their first full-length album, Walls of Jericho later that year.
Helloween formed in 1984 in Hamburg, Germany. The original line-up included Kai Hansen on vocals and guitar, Michael Weikath on guitar, Markus Grosskopf on bass, and Ingo Schwichtenberg on drums. That year, the band signed with Noise Records and recorded two songs for a Noise compilation record called Death Metal. The compilation featured the bands Hellhammer, Running Wild, and Dark Avenger. The two tracks were "Oernst of Life" by Weikath and Hansen's "Metal Invaders," a faster version of which would appear on the band's first full-length album.
A1Girl's Got A Brand New Toy
A2Cold As Ice
A3Kiss Via Satellite
A4What About You
B1Bad Boys
B2Miracles
B3Long Road
B4It's Only Love Marie
B5Hot Was The Rainy Night
1You're A Woman
2I Live
3Pretty Young Girl
4L.O.V.E. In My Car
5Kiss You All Over, Baby
6Hot Girls - Bad Boys
7For Your Love
8People Of The Night
Bad Boys Blue are a multinational pop group that was formed in Cologne, Germany. The group performed many international hits including You're a Woman, Pretty Young Girl, I Wanna Hear Your Heartbeat and Come Back and Stay.
Bad Boys Blue was formed in the summer of 1984 by German producer Tony Hendrik and his lyricist wife Karin van Haaren. The original trio was composed of British Trevor "Supa T" Taylor born in Birmingham, England; the original lead vocalist, British John McInerney; the lead singer since 1987, and American Andrew Thomas. The debut single L.O.V.E. In My Car failed to make an impression in the pop charts but the follow-up You're A Woman was a success, reaching the top 10 in many European countries.
Trevor Taylor - the original lead singer of Bad Boys Blue - died of a heart attack in his home in Cologne on January 19 of 2008 at the age of 50.
On July 21 2009 Andrew Thomas died in Cologne at the age of 63. John McInerney is now the only member alive from the original line-up of Bad Boys Blue.
Bad Boys Blue line-ups by year
1984-1986
Trevor Taylor
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
1987-1988
John McInerney
Trevor Taylor
Andrew Thomas
1989-1993
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
Trevor Bannister
1993-1994
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
1995-1999
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
Mo Russel
2000-2002
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
2003-2004
John McInerney
Andrew Thomas
2005
John McInerney with a live group and backing singers
or
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
Herbert McCoy
as The Real Bad Boys Blue
2006-2008
John McInerney
Carlos Ferreira
or (unchanged)
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
Herbert McCoy
as The Real Bad Boys Blue
2008-2009
John McInerney
Carlos Ferreira
or
Andrew Thomas
Kevin McCoy
Jeremy Cummins
as The Real Bad Boys Blue
2009-Present
John McInerney
Carlos Ferreira
"You're My Heart, You're My Soul"
"You Can Win If You Want"
"There's Too Much Blue In Missing You"
"Diamonds Never Made a Lady"
"The Night Is Yours - The Night Is Mine"
"Do You Wanna"
"Lucky Guy"
"One In a Million"
"Bells of Paris"
Modern Talking was a German dance pop duo consisting of Thomas Anders and Dieter Bohlen. Genre-wise they were often classified under Europop. They have been referred to as Germany's most successful pop duo, and have had a number of hit singles reaching the top-5 in many countries. Some of their most popular and widely known singles are "You're My Heart, You're My Soul", "You Can Win If You Want", "Cheri, Cheri Lady", "Brother Louie", "Atlantis Is Calling (S.O.S. for Love)" and "Geronimo's Cadillac".
Modern Talking's first period of activity was from 1984 to 1987. After the breakup they reunified in 1998 and made a successful comeback, releasing more music from 1998 to 2003. To accommodate central European music markets of the late 1990s, they changed their original 1980s mellow Europop sound to an up-tempo Eurodance.
Immediately after the duo split in the mid 1987, Bohlen formed his own project called Blue System and enjoyed several high chart positions.
Meanwhile, Anders went solo touring under the name of Modern Talking on several continents until the beginning of 1989 when he started to record some of his new pop-like material in LA and London, and also in his native country. Anders recorded five solo albums in English ,Different, Whispers, Down on Sunset, When Will I See You Again and Souled, and one of his album was also recorded in Spanish, Barcos de Cristal. He was more successful in foreign countries than his own country, yet he also reached several hits in Germany. Despite all the quarrels and disagreements that Bohlen and Anders experienced between themselves in the past, they began keeping in touch again after Anders moved back to Koblenz, Germany in 1994.
The 1st Album is the debut album by Modern Talking, released on 1 April 1985 in Germany. The album contains two international hits "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" and "You Can Win If You Want", the first one of which peaked at No. 1 in many countries including Germany (where it spent six weeks at the top), Switzerland and Austria while entering the top-5 in other countries like France, Norway, Sweden. Both singles reached a gold status in Germany selling over 250,000 units respectively.
The 1st Album, which was released by Hansa Records label and distributed by Ariola, BMG peaked at No. 1 in Germany on May 27, 1985, almost two months after it was released. The album spent total of 4 weeks at the top and 18 weeks within the top-10, it eventually went platinum selling well over 500,000 units in Germany alone.
The lead vocals on The 1st Album were produced by Thomas Anders with an exception of only one track "There’s Too Much Blue In Missing You", the vocals of which were produced by Dieter Bohlen.
Official Modern Talking members
1984–1985
Thomas Anders – lead voice, piano
Dieter Bohlen – lead guitar, producer, composer, choruses
1985–1987
Thomas Anders – lead voice, piano
Dieter Bohlen – lead guitar, producer, composer, choruses
Luis Rodríguez – co-producer
1998–2000
Thomas Anders – lead voice, piano
Dieter Bohlen – lead guitar, producer, composer, choruses
Luis Rodríguez – co-producer
Eric Singleton – rap vocals
2001
Thomas Anders – lead voice, piano
Dieter Bohlen – lead guitar, producer, composer, choruses
Eric Singleton – rap vocals
2002–2003
Thomas Anders – lead voice, piano
Dieter Bohlen – lead guitar, producer, composer, choruses
