Space, formally Didier Marouani & Space, are a French electronic music band from the city of Marseille active from 1977 through 1980 and returning with on-stage remake performances since 1992. They are considered as one of the most notable artists of the short lived space disco music scene, and early pioneers of Eurodance electronica subgenre.
Space was founded in 1977 by Didier Marouani (also known as Ecama), Roland Romanelli, and Jannick Top. The first three albums — Magic Fly, Deliverance and Just Blue — were an immediate success (they sold over 12 million records all over the world). The album Magic Fly, which is widely considered to be their best work, was released in audio cd in 2001, 24 years after its original release. Although Didier Marouani left the band in 1979, the other two members Roland Romanelli and Jannick Top released in 1980 the album Deeper Zone under the name of Space. Then Space officially split up in 1981.
In early 1980s Marouani, with Janny Loseth of Titanic as lead vocalist, continued to perform and record under the titles of Didier Marouani & Space, and Paris-France-Transit due to release lawsuits. The name "spAce" was legally reacquired after some artistic copyright disputes around 1990, allowing musicians to re-release classic albums and give a European live cover tour in 1993. The latest Space album was released in 2002. In the same year, the S Club Juniors made a remix to their single "New Direction" featuring the backing track of "Magic Fly". The band's hit "Magic Fly" as well as many other songs from the self-named album were remixed in 2003 by the Belgian dance music project Minimalistix. Now in 2011, there is a new release by Space called From Earth To Mars.
Albums
Magic Fly (1977)
Deliverance (1977)
Just Blue (1978)
Deeper Zone (1980)
Paris-France Transit (1982)
Space Opera (1987)
The Very Best of Space (1985)
Concerts en URSS (1996)
Best of (1998)
Symphonic Space Dream (2002)
01 Bring Your Love To Me
02 I Want You
03 One Day Fool
04 Love Can Be Some Better
05 Rollerskater
06 Hypershooter
07 Death To The Alien - Up To The Heaven
08 Money Is Addiction (Of This Crazy World )(Single '80)
09 Stars Of Love (Single '80)
Ganymed was an Austrian/German space disco band founded in 1977.
In 1978, they released their biggest hit, “It Takes Me Higher”, which hit #5 on the Austrian charts for four weeks and also hit #23 on the German charts. That same year, they released their debut album Takes You Higher, which ranked at #16 for 12 weeks and also spawned another single, “Saturn”.
1979 saw the release of their second album, Future World. The album’s title track was released as a B-side to “Dancing in a Disco”. Afterwards, they released their final album, Dimension No. 3, plus a non-album single, “Money Is Addiction (Of This Crazy World)” in 1980. At their last concert in 1981, Falco played bass for the group. Ganymed officially broke up in 1983.
Members
Gerry Edmond (real name Edmund Gerhard Czerwenka; pseudonym in the group: "Kroonk") – lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, synth programming Yvonne Dory (real name Doris Yvonne Czerwenka; pseudonym in the group: "Pulsaria") – vocals Rudolf Mille (pseudonym in the group: "Vendd") – keyboards Gerhard Messinger-Neuwirth (pseudonym in the group: "Izl") – bass Ernst Nekola-Hefter (pseudonym in the group: "Cak") – drums, percussion, drum programming Daniele Prencipe (pseudonym in the group: "Suk"; only appeared on "Takes You Higher") – keyboards
Discography
Albums
Takes You Higher (1978)
Future World (1979)
Dimension No. 3 (1980) Singles
"It Takes Me Higher" (1978)
"Saturn" (1978)
"Dancing in a Disco" (1979)
"Money Is Addiction (Of This Crazy World)" (1980)
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.
Miha Kralj is a slovenian keyboard player. Pioneer of instrumental synthesizer music in Yugoslavia.
He used to be in a group called Dekameroni, sort of one-hit-wonder band in Slovenia, they spawned a hit called Sava Sumi (written by Miha), which was covered several times during these years (originally it was recorded somewhere round 1970, sounded like Procol Harum).
Then he was in a band called Prah (Eng.Dust). They had few hits like Urska, Balada, Sezona senc and Halo Natasa (this one is from 1980, I believe).
His solo career is described quite well above. Only wider recognizable tune from these 3 albums is actually a song called Andromeda (being used during the 80s for live coverages of Planica ski-jumps).
Later on (mid 80s) he collaborated with a band called Black&White, playing keyboards on their biggest hit Prisluhni skoljki (written by Mr.Jani Golob). It was main theme from some teenage Flashdance-like Slovenian movie. It also sounds like being written by Moroder.
Afterwards his only moderately successful song was called Zemlja klice SOS. Now, he's reported being dance club musician, occasionally entertaining together with ex-singer from a group called Moulin Rouge. Saso
(Taken from Saltyka.blogspot.com)
ALBUMS:
Andromeda (1980)
Odyssey (1982)
Electric Dreams (1985)
A1 Luminary
A2 Images
A3 Sometimes My Love is Like a Shooting Star
A4 Standing in the Line of Fire
A5 ThemeSong
B1 Ahead of Your Time
B2 Listen to the Sky
B3 Perpetual motion
B4 exerpt from Tentative Conclusion
B5 ElectroSynphonia
Composed By, Synthesizer, Percussion [Electronic], Programmed By, Vocoder, Lead Vocals [Human Voice] – John Brock
Engineer [Technical] – Peter J. Rojas
Mastered By, Recorded By – David Cheppa
Other [Productions Coordinator] – Jim Johnson, Tom Gorham
Performer – Android A 21st Century Band
Photography [Cover Photos & Android Photos By] – Paul D. Guthrie
Producer, Engineer – Android
Synthesizer, Percussion [Electronic] – Chris Levy, Gary Gotcher
The Mysterious Galaxy
Laser Illumination
Silver Dream
Photo Finish
The Other Side of Heaven
In the Light of Saturn
Flight Over El Dorado
Zodiac (Zodiak, Russian: Зодиа́к, Latvian: Zodiaks) was a space disco music band that existed in the 1980s in Latvia, then a part of Soviet Union. The band was extremely popular in the Soviet Union and has been credited by critics as the Soviet answer to the French band Space who were popular at the time.
Zodiac was formed by Jānis Lūsēns, then studying composition at the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga (now Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music). The other four members of the group were also students of various faculties of the same conservatory.
Zodiac's first vinyl record Disco Alliance (Russian: Диско альянс, Latvian: Disko alianse) was released in 1980 on the monopolist Melodiya label, during the band members' studentship. A significant part of the group's success was that the album was produced by Aleksandrs Grīva, also the father of band member Zane Grīva. The music featured a lot of then-unusual synthesized sounds and effects together with more conventional disco elements.
The second album Music in the Universe (Russian: Музыка во Вселенной) released two years later was much inspired by a meeting with cosmonauts in the Star City, Moscow and their tales about space flights. The music of the second album was much more rock-influenced than the first.
During that time the band also performed the music of Viktor Vlasov for the films Zhenskiye radosti i pechali (Woman's Joys and Sorrows, 1982) and Ekipazh mashiny boevoy (The Tank Crew, 1983), the soundtracks for the both films were released on a vinyl record Music from the Films (Russian: Музыка из кинофильмов) in 1985. The music of the group was also used in the documentary film about the cosmonaut artist Aleksei Leonov Zvyozdnaya palitra (Star Palette, 1982).
The album In memoriam was composed and produced by Jānis Lūsēns alone and released in 1989. The album was dedicated to the ancient and modern cultural and natural heritage of Latvia. The sounding of the album turned from disco to light techno/synth pop while gaining a lot of classical music influences as well as the influence of Jean Michel Jarre's ambient works.
The last album "Clouds" was released in 1991 by RiTonis (former Melodiya). It contains a hit song of early 1990s in Latvia "My favourite flowers".
Disco Alliance and Music in the Universe were released together on compact disc by Mikrofona Ieraksti (which represents EMI in the Baltic states).
Antony Laurence Carey (born October 16, 1953, Turlock, California) is most recognized as the former keyboardist for the band Rainbow.
One of Tony's earliest musical experiences was in a band called "Blessings". Tony was in "Blessings" until 1975 when Ritchie Blackmore discovered and hired him as keyboardist of Rainbow. In 1977 after 2 successful years and 2 world tours Tony Carey left Rainbow.
Since his departure from Rainbow, Tony Carey has maintained an extensive solo career, releasing albums under his own name as well under the moniker of Planet P Project. Beside his own recording career, Tony Carey has been a producer, performer and session musician for numerous acts all over the world.
With the band Rainbow, Carey appeared on the studio album Rainbow Rising (1976) and on the live albums On Stage (1977) and Live in Germany (1994).
He had a minor hit in the early 1980s (1982) with "I Won't Be Home Tonight", and then a bigger hit in 1984 with "A Fine, Fine Day", which reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the Top Rock Tracks chart. A follow-up single, "The First Day of Summer", reached #33 on the Hot 100 in July 1984. Both songs are featured on the album, Some Tough City, which hit #60 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Carey opened for Night Ranger on many dates of their 1984 tour in support of this album. His 1985 follow-up album, Blue Highway, did not score a hit.
Carey also fronted the space / progressive rock group Planet P Project (initially called just Planet P), which served as a vehicle for his solo work. Planet P Project released two albums in the 1980s, Planet P (on Geffen Records) in 1983 and the concept album, Pink World (on MCA Records) in 1984, for which he wrote the lyrics and music, sang the lead vocals, and played most of the instruments. Session performers on lead guitar, saxophones, programming, and drums on some tracks made up the rest of the group. The first album was released on CD in 1992, retitled Planet P Project. Planet P's biggest hit was 'Why Me'. Planet P Project returned 2003-2009 with a trilogy of albums collectively called "Go Out Dancing" (G.O.D.). The albums were "1931" (2003), "Levittown" (2008), and "Out In The Rain" (2009).
Carey began producing and guesting on many major groups from the US and Europe in the mid 80s. Notables of the many included Jennifer Rush in 1985, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Chicago Line in 1988, keyboards and producer. In 1992 with Joe Cocker - Now That You're Gone, Forest McDonald's Color Blind, and in 2006 from Dire Straits, David Knopfler - Songs For The Siren.
In 2009, Tony Carey and three other ex-members of Rainbow, Joe Lynn Turner, Bobby Rondinelli and Greg Smith teamed up with Jürgen Blackmore, Ritchie Blackmore's son, to form "Over the Rainbow" to perform Rainbow songs in concerts in Russia and Eastern Europe. Due to illness, however, Tony Carey left Over the Rainbow in the spring of 2009, just prior to the band's live debut at the Sweden Rock Festival, where he was replaced by Paul Morris.
In 2010 it was announced that Tony Carey had formed a new musical racing project called EBC ROXX with (J.R.) Jürgen Blackmore & Ela. Their first single "Silver wheels" was released in March 2010 and was written as the anthem to accompany the first race of Mercedes Formula 1 pilots Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg this season. The project later announced that a full CD entitled "Winners" would be released on September 20, 2010.
Tony Carey was diagnosed with a particularly virulent form of cancer in March 2009. He spent twelve weeks in the hospital, underwent five surgeries, and although his odds of survival were only 10 percent, he beat the odds.
A quote from Tony Carey: "I'm missing some of my organs; you'll be relieved to hear that the Hammond isn't one of them."
Discography
Solo
1982 In the Absence of the Cat (vinyl only) (Reissued on CD [200 copies only] and mp3 download 2011)
1982 I Won't Be Home Tonight / Self titled (Reissued 1987/2003)
1984 Some Tough City (Reissued 1992/2008)
1985 Blue Highway (Reissued 1992/2008)
1987 Bedtime Story (Soundtrack, Reissued 1996)
1988 Wilder Westen Inclusive (Soundtrack)
1989 For You (with Anne Haigis & Eric Burdon)
1990 Storyville
1992 The Long Road
1993 Rare Tracks
1994 Cold War Kids
1999 The Boystown Tapes (Reissued 2007)
2004 Islands and Deserts
2006 Live in Sweden 2006 - Volume #1
2009 The New Machine (Self released)
2009 Roundup - The Ones That Got Away (Self released)
2009 Live In Sweden 2006 - Volume #2
2009 Christmas Hymns (Self released)
2010 Stanislaus County Kid (Self released)
2011 Stanislaus County Kid, Volume II - Crossing the tracks (Self released)
Single Releases only
1981 Jamie (Maxi single)
1988 Midnight wind (B track for Whitney Houston's - 'One moment in time' single, from the 1988 summer Olympic album)
1991 Wenn die Liebe geht - That's not love to me (with Ina Morgan)
1994 Route 66 (Rose T.C.)
1995 Birds in cages
2004 Überall du (Dutch version of 'Room with a view' featuring Mo Casal)
Instrumental
1982 Yellow Power (vinyl only)
1982 Explorer (vinyl only)
1982 Heaven (vinyl only)
1982 No Human (vinyl only)
1984 T.C.P. (vinyl only) (Re-released on CD, 2011)
1999 Gefangen im Jemen (4 vocal tracks, mostly instrumental)
2000 Killing me softly / Anna (unauthorized CD/R release)
2006 The Voyager Files
Compilations
1989 The Story So Far
1993 For You
1997 A Fine, Fine Day
1997 Storyville
2000 Retrospective 1982-1999
2006 The chillout tapes (featuring DJ. Shah) (limited edition release)
2006 Just Ballads
2008 A Lonely Life - The Anthology
2008 Only The Young Die Good
2010 Rewind (limited free download - Slightly different versions of songs taken from, Planet P Project - G.O.D. II & III and Stanislaus County Kid)
Planet P Project
1983 Planet P Project - Planet P Project (Reissued 2009)
1984 Planet P Project - Pink World (Reissued 2008)
2001 Planet P Project - Go Out Dancing (unauthorized CD/R promo release)
2005 Planet P Project - Go Out Dancing Part 1 "1931"
2008 Planet P Project - Go Out Dancing Part 2 "Levittown"
2009 Planet P Project - Go Out Dancing Part 3 "Out in The Rain"
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
A1Flash
A2Scoop
A3Le Flipper Amoureux, Sans Voix
A4Paradia
A5Amour 5/5
A6Robot Rose
B1Harmonic Terminal
B2La Marche Des Canards
B3Epsilove
B4Le Répondeur Automatik
B5Digital Vision
B6Trilogue
After the group CATHARSIS broke up, its former keyboardist threw himself into the adventure of solo production, managing to avoid the restrictions and pitfalls of the "solo keyboards album" -which is often a pretext for an insipid display of the keyboardist's talent- by inviting excellent musicians to accompany him and by giving free expression to his fabulous talent as an original composer and gifted arranger. This album combines great electronic/experimental /space elements and sometimes touching the pseudo disco sound.An album which is an invitation to travel and to dream.
