Trance Allstars

TRANCE ALLSTARS ARE:

ATB- André Oliver Tanneberger aka ATB (born February 26, 1973 in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany) is a musical artist. He is a DJ, musician, and producer of trance and dance music. Among his most famous songs is "9pm (Till I Come)", which topped the charts in the United Kingdom in 1999 and is widely regarded as the UK's first Trance number one. The track features a guitar riff which became hugely popular. This guitar sound, which he accidentally found while experimenting with a new producing deck, became the trademark of his early hits. ATB continues to evolve and change with every album. His current style involves more vocals and varied sounds, with frequent pianos. Despite only releasing a few more singles in the UK, namely "Don't Stop!" (No.3, 300,000 copies sold) and "Killer" (No.4, 200,000 copies sold), he still regularly releases music in his native Germany and in other parts of Europe, where he has scored big hits such as "I Don't Wanna Stop" and his cover of Olive's 1996 hit "You're Not Alone". Two Worlds (2000) is a two-disc album based upon the concept of different types of music for different moods, with titles such as "The World of Movement" and "The Relaxing World". ATB's latest hits include uplifting "Ecstasy" and chilling "Marrakech", both from the album No Silence (2004) and also released as singles. In 2005, ATB released Seven Years, a compilation of 20 songs, including many greatest hits such as "The Summer", "Long Way Home", and "I Don't Wanna Stop". Additionally, Seven Years includes six new tracks: "Humanity"; "Let U Go (2005 Reworked)"; "Believe in Me"; "Trilogie, Pt. 2"; "Take Me Over"; and "Far Beyond". Many of ATB's recent albums have featured vocals from Roberta Carter Harrison, singer for the Canadian duo Wild Strawberries. His next album is being co-written by vocalist Tiff Lacey, and is expected for January 2007 release, and a new single named "Justify" will be released in november 2006. He is married to Anna Tanneberger.



Talla 2XLC- (b. Andreas Tomalla, Germany) is a producer, musician, and DJ whose work has spanned from industrial music to trance music. Tomalla started as a DJ, founding in 1984 the Technoclub at Frankfurt's Dorian Grey Club. He was also at the time involved with a band called Moskwa TV. In 1988, he started a new project called Bigod 20, which would go on to be one of Europe's most successful EBM acts of the early 1990s.

In 1989, to distribute the music of Bigod 20 and other industrial acts in Europe, he founded of the conglomerate Music Research and its primary subsidiary, Zoth Ommog Records, an important label in the underground electronic music scene for many years thereafter (though his management of the business lasted only the first several years after its inception). All the while, he kept a high profile as a remixer to many big-name artists in the world electronic dance scene. Since the dissolution of Bigod 20 in 1994, Talla 2XLC has focused less on industrial music and more on techno and its subgenres, particularly epic trance. With Sony Records in 1997, he started the @Technoclub compilation series, which introduced many underground techno hits to mainstream European audiences.



Schiller- is the main project of Christopher von Deylen, a German electronic music composer who produces music which can be considered trance and ambient. Since he himself does not sing on his tracks, he often collaborates with other famous singers in the electronic genre, such as Peter Heppner, Kim Sanders, Maya Saban, miLù, Sarah Brightman, Moya Brennan, or Alexander Veljanov, and musicians like Mike Oldfield. The name of the band is taken from one of von Deylen's heroes, Friedrich Schiller. The Weltreise (German for "World Trip") album was inspired by a two-month-long road trip that Deylen took with his father from London to Peking. Schiller's fourth studio album is entitled Tag Und Nacht (Day And Night). It is released in Germany through Universal Music in mid-fall 2005.



Taucher- Widely acclaimed as one of Germany's most talented record spinners and producers, DJ Taucher (real name Ralph Armand Beck) is also famous for making an ass of himself on stage. Among his many ploys are dressing up as a scuba diver (which is what the word Taucher means in German), hanging upside down while working the decks, and dabbling in ballet during his sets. The eccentric Teuton kicked off his adventure as a DJ back in 1992 and, thanks to his showmanship and flair on the turntables, rapidly became one of the hottest names on Frankfurt am Main's vibrant dance scene. Specializing in trance, he has since performed at some of the coolest clubs in London, New York, and Ibiza (the famous Spanish party island in the Mediterranean). Naturally, he's also been roped in to perform at all of Europe's major dance festivals like Love Parade, Rave & Cruise, and Mayday. Taucher first made it big as a producer in 1998, thanks to his remix of DJ Tandu's club hit "Ayla"; the success opened the floodgates and he has since worked on scores of other popular club tunes. Amongst Taucher's best-known album releases is the trance compilation Life Is a Remix (1999). ~ David Peter Wesolowski, All Music Guide



DJ Mellow-D- He shot straight into the top 10 of the Media Control Charts with ihis debut single "Phuture Vibes." HIs subsequent debut album "Techno Vibes" was no less succesful and set new standards "Techno is back!" This slogan applies to Dj Mellow-D/Mellow Trax who is now well and part of today's dance scene. In 1999, Mellow was voted most succesful DJ of the year and further club hits followed, such as "Mystery In Space." "Outa Space," "Sway etc., that also made the charts. As resident DJ at Hamburg's EFX club and co-owner of the Hamburg dance label EDM, DJ Mellow-D is one of the first to learn about new trends and thus discovers new artists. In his DJ sets across the world, the Hamburg producer and DJ constantly finds new influences that then flow into his music.



Sunbeam- Friends since childhood sunbeam share the same entusiasm for electronic music. In 1994 their first single "Outside World" became an overwhelming success for the two producers Michael Gerlach and Florian Preis. After a switch to Kontor Records, Sunbeam releases single "Outside World" a second time with new remixes and, in 1999 achieved an even greater chart success with the track than before. Following other succesfull projects, Michael and Florian are now focussing again on Sunbeam and are once again setting new standards in trance with their follow-up single "wake up", "One Minute In Heaven", and the debut album "Lightyears".