Will To Power

As the first On-Air Mixing DJ in South Florida (99 Jamz, Hot 105 & Power 96) from 1984 - 1987, DJ Bob Rosenberg decided he would put the energy he put into his Mega Mixes ("Hot Mixes" from Hot 105) into creating new music. Hot 105 charted Bob's 5 minute Hot Mixes as regular songs. Most went to Number 1 on Hot 105's official chart based on call out research and requests.



Bob's first work at writing, production, programming and vocals was called Dreamin'. A few acetates were pressed but no records were made. The song went big in South Florida at Backstreet (Bob Miro, DJ) and at 4-D and Palladium in NY (Scott Blackwell DJ). Now a name was needed for the "band".



Bob's favorite philosopher at the time was Friedrich Nietzsche. A list of names were jotted down, "Zarathustra", "Ubermensch", "Will to Power". "Will to Power" was chosen on the way down to Caribbean Record Pressing in April of 1987. The label was called Thrust Records with a "Thor's Hammer" as the "T". The original intention was to keep all songs on his own label and to release a series of 12" records.



Things changed. Major Record Labels heard about the song and started contacting Bob. Legendary Radio Program Director, Bill Tanner (Power 96 at the time) advised against giving Dreamin' away as enough records could not be pressed to keep up with the demand.

Bob was friends with Luther Campbell since 1984 in the Production Room at 99 Jamz. Bob created Multiple Edits on "2 Live Crew" and "Ghetto Style DJs" Records and was named "King of the Edits" by Dave "Mr. Mix" Hobbs. Bob's intentions were to keep it all on "Thrust Records".



New York Attorney Paul Schindler put together a Recording Contract with Epic/Sony Records. The demands of physically pressing and releasing 12" records and performing Live Shows got to be so much so Bob signed a deal with Epic. Dreamin' quickly climbed to the Number 1 spot on the Billboard 12" Sales Chart and stayed in the top 5 for 30 weeks in South Florida.



President of Epic/Sony A&R, Michael Caplan called Bob and said Sony wanted to release a full album. The following year, a follow-up was released entitled Say It's Gonna Rain and again, Will to Power found themselves on the Number 1 spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.



Shortly thereafter, Will to Power - The Album was released. History was made when a medley combining Peter Frampton's Baby, I Love Your Way and Lynyrd Skynard's Freebird was released. The song Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird (Free Baby) infuriated rock purists but delighted the record-buying public. The well-produced ballad, which was a lush track augmented by gloriously rich vocals, rocketed to Number 1 on The Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the year's biggest hits and an enduring 1980s classic.



The hits kept coming with the next single, Fading Away reaching Number 1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Music/Club Play Chart and the release of the follow-up album Journey Home. The soulful ballad entitled I'm Not In Love earned the Number 4 position on Billboard's HOT 100 chart and hit Number 1 on Billboard's AC chart.



Will to Power has returned to the studio in 2005 & 2006 to work with some huge talent on their forthcoming album entitled Spirit Warrior which includes a remake of the C.O.D. classic In The Bottle remixed by Giuseppe D. Spirit Warrior includes collaborations with seasoned musicians Will to Power has worked with before like saxophonist Ed Calle, vocalists Donna Allen, Siddy Betancourt, and Gioia Bruno, as well as some other great South Florida talent like guitarist Dan Warner and Debbie Spring on viola to name a few.



2006 brought us the Spirit Warrior Remix EP with styles ranging from ballads, dance, bluegrass funk, and of course pop. One release from Spirit Warrior went to Number 1 in DJ TIMES magazine within 4 weeks.



Dreamin' was the absolute first record of it's kind. No song before it sounded anything like it. There was nothing remotely like it. Now known as "Electro Bass" and "Breaks" Bob decided to go back to his Roots and the sound he had pioneered in 1987. Now teamed up with Scratch-D of Dynamix II (David Noller) and Recording Partner, B-Minus (Bryan Ives). The new sounds cannot be pigeonholed into a category because it is Electro Bass & Breaks combined with Pop Vocals. Listen for yourself.



Check out our Single to be released on both Vinyl and CD in Early 2009. "Still Fading Away" Mixed by Scratch D of Dynamix II and DJ B-Minus sounds like nothing else out there. WTP NEVER put out what was trendy and "Hot" at the time. We are the ones to start it. We will be releasing 3 consecutive 12" Singles. The Third Single will be released along with a Full Length album/CD in Summer of 2009.



Will to Power will start performing live in 2009 at the time of the album release. Our live concerts will be LIVE. We have two great female vocalists along with Bob also on Turntables and an exciting array of Electro and other Musicians that played live on WTP tracks.



We would like to thank all of our loyal fans and DJs for all of their support.



Scratch-D DYNAMIX II & DJ B Minus

Present

STILL FADING AWAY

NOW AVAILABLE on 12" Vinyl, CD and MP3 at most Outlets.

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Baby I Love Your Way/Freebird



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Fading Away - Will To Power



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WILL TO POWER (Vigilante in 1985) Miami Vice



"Still Fading Away" Re-Remix and Video by DJ JEAN ALPOHIN



Will to Power - "I'm not in Love"

Thanks to a fan for uploading the Anime video. Sony did not film a video for this Top 5 Hit.



If you do a Google Search on "2 Live Crew" you will see I was credited Bob "King of the Edits" Rosenberg on their first album. This song was their very first project while living in California. It was originally called "2 Live". It was just a Roland 808 straight beat and simple scratching. There was a 12" made on Macola Records (Where the artist pays the label). In it's original form it did not get much play. Dave "Mr. Mixx" Hobbs (One of the very few I consider a friend in the music business) wanted to put it on their first album so asked me to do what I can with it. I "remixed" this song with the trick multiple edits heard throughout. Even the beats are mainly edits but you will definitely notice the obvious stutter edits and word plays ("Like Luke Sky, Luke Sky, Luke Skyywalker"). This line refers to the Star Wars character as they had not yet met Luther Campbell when they created the original track. I only did a few outside projects and I never accepted money for any of them. It was always trade. I think I worked with just 5 people. Dave "Mr. Mixx" Hobbs, Larry Dermer (one of the producers for Gloria Estafan but at the time I worked with him he was the sound and production behind all of Pretty Tony's projects), Michael Morejon (writer, progammer and behind scenes producer of Jon Secada's "Just another day") Derrick Rahming (Afro Rican). Derrick's first time in a music studio was for the scratching on my "Miami Vice" in early 1985 and For Sosa who did all of the programming for my first album and is the real creator of the sound of Expose'.



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