Clarence Becker a.k.a. CB Milton became very popular in Europe after his hits "Send Me An Angel" and "It's a loving thing" in 1994. Following these 2 hits in France, Benelux, England and The Netherlands (his home country), his first album "My Loving Thing" (Byte Records Belgium 1994/13 tracks) was released. The videos of these 2 singles were broadcasted on MTV Europe and MCM. In 1995, the powerful hits "Hold On" & "A Real Love" entered the European Dance charts, and the video of "A Real Love" was rotating well on MCM. In January 1996, the single "Show Me The Way" came out in Europe (Holland, Benelux, France & England). On the 20th of May 1996, Holland's best soul performer CB Milton released his second album : "The Way To Wonderland" (931.389-2-Byte Records Belgium 1996-11 tracks). This album contains 11 tracks : a pleasant mix of Dance tracks ("Do Me", "The Rhythm Of Life", "Take You High", "If You Say High"...) and "ballads" ("How Do I Know"). This album has the particularity to attract not only chart-orientated fans, but also please general listeners. The singles "A Real Love" and "Show me the Way", included in this album, have proved so. His latest single called "Time Is Up" (June 96) is the third single of the album "The Way To Wonderland". The song is a succesfull mix of a club-track and a radio-minded pop song. CB's powerfull soul voice gives this composition its typical CB Milton-strenght. If you want to write to CB Milton here is the address : Fanclub CB Milton, Hertogin
Johannasingel 34, 5345 AJ OSS - Holland.
"Central Seven" were formed in 1996 and have been extremely successful in several European countries ever since. Their single "The Opera" (EAMS Records Switzerland/Panic Records France) for example became a top-10 hit in France. It also did very well in Italy, Australia and the Benelux countries. All in all it was licensed in more than 10 countries. In Germany "Central Seven" managed to get on the waiting list of Media Control Sales Charts. Two different videos of "The Opera" were released, one for the "Original version" broadcasted on MCM, and another for the "Remix version" on VIVA.
Behind the project we find the three Dutch producers Diederiks,
Theunissen & De Schrevel who have been successful producers and remixers for many years. Back in 1993 they were N°1 in France with the act "Egma" and since then they have been producing remixes for bands like Twenty 4 seven, Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo, London Beat and many more. The backbones of "Central Seven" are the great Swiss singer Irma and the dancer Frank who has won numerous awards. Irma, for instance, sang the title "Ain´t Nobody" of "The Course", which a few months ago was in the top-10 charts in many European countries, such as a top-5 hit in the UK!
With "The God Of House" they´re starting up their ingenious dance
machine in order to conquer the charts.
It all began during a long drive to Italy. Norbert Reichart, producer and mastermind of Imperio, has always been a great fan of old Roman movies, such as "Ben Hur", and he has always loved their monumental sound. He was constantly fascinated by the aura, the appearance and by the way of living, which prevailed in ancient Rome. While Norbert was driving on the highway to the south, he grasped for his cigarettes (Please Stop Smoking !). Suddenly the print "Veni Vidi Vici" on the packet caught his eye. The idea to make a dancefloor song with these three words was born! After having arrived at home, he immediately started working. The instrumental version was soon finished, but the vocals were still missing. This problem was solved by chance. Some days later Norbert met Manuela Ray in the disco "Dorian Gray" in Frankfurt. Manuela, a girl from Vienna in Austria who was visiting a friend in Frankfurt in germany, was dancing expressively and lively to her favourite rhythm, and Norbert thought: "SHE is the right one !". Then Norbert asked Manuela if she was also able to sing and instead of giving him an answer she turned round and went away; she thought he had wanted to give her the come-on in quite a stupid manner! A lot of persuasion was necessary to convince her that Norbert was not joking. Then Manuela got interested in the whole story and two days later she was already in Norbert's studio : she listened to the instrumental version, read her text, started to sing and - wow!- her voice was perfect! After that Norbert began his search for a suitable rapper, which turned out to be quite a difficult feat. Two months later Norbert and Manuela found at last what they were desperately looking for. In a very big club in Budapest there was a concert, and they saw Paulo Martins on stage ! He was rapping and dancing wildly and he spread such a charisma all around, that Norbert and Manuela were immediately fascinated by him! After the performance they went in the cloakroom and asked Paulo if he would like to become a rapper and dancer with Imperio. The answer was fortunately affirmative! Now the conquest of the clubs and of the international charts could begin ! Even though everyone thought that Imperio would remain forever with their original members, Paulo suddenly had to leave the group because of his dedication to his family and to his studies back in Portugal. It was a great time with Paulo, and we will always stay in contact with him. The name of the new male part of Imperio is Lawrence Madia, he has already made a place in the hearts of fans ! Lawrence is a talented dancer and rapper, and he is also very good-looking !
The first formation sang on the first album "Veni Vidi Vici" (1995-Metrovynil/EAMS-CD 3500.2-13 tracks) including the 4 top hits "Veni Vidi Vici" (June 1994-NR Music/EAMS/Do It Music France-MaxiCD 2315.2-3 mixes), "Quo Vadis" (1995-NR Music/EAMS-MaxiCD 2321.2-5 mixes), "Nostra Culpa" (1995-NR Music/EAMS-MaxiCD 2323.2-4 mixes) & "Amor Infinitus" (1995-NR Music/EAMS-MaxiCD 2329.2-5 mixes). The songs on this first album are fast and sounded as a prelude of "happy hardcore" songs. Then, Manuela was back alone in July 1996 with "Cyberdream" (July 1996-NR Music/EAMS-MaxiCD 2334.2-5 mixes), a Dream Music inspired song, whose video was played on French TV channels MCM and M6. In October 1996, the follow-up, "Atlantis" (October 1996-NR Music/EAMS-MaxiCD 2337.2-4 mixes) was featuring Lawrence for the first time in the video only broadcasted on VIVA. Finally, in November 1996, their second album "Return To Paradise" (November 1996-NR Music/EAMS-12 tracks + CD Rom track !) was released with the new single also called "Return To Paradise" (November 1996-NR Music/EAMS-MaxiCD 2341.2-4 mixes) whose video was also broadcasted on VIVA. The album "Return To Paradise" came out in Austria & in Germany and includes a CD-Rom track whose contains all songs from Imperio, a sample :-( of the video of "Atlantis" and the making of "Atlantis", biographies... Their latest single "Wings Of love" (17 March 1997-NR Music/EAMS-MaxiCD 2344.2-4 mixes) is a good Eurodance song produced by Italians, unfortunately the video wasn't broadcast on any Satellite TV chanels in Europe... Imperio's news are calm now but the group is still touring in East Europe, so check their well done Official Web Site in order to keep updated !
If you want to read interviews, download pics or write to Alexia, Corona, Double You, Sandy or Ice MC, visit the Dance World Attack Web Site at DWA.
Andre Tanneberger's musical career started in 1993, the most important year for the Techno Generation, and the beginning of his varied work as producer. After several time work in his studio he released his first single "Let Me Love". His successful single "Back To Unity" followed in 1994. Especialy in Australia it has reached a huge success, which continues till today. In 1996, Andre Tanneberger had released 8 singles, 1 longplayer and sold world-wide over 700 000 records. Besides he works as producer and has already remixed songs for the most favourite international danceacts (U 96, Real McCoy, Future Breeze, Technotronic, Fun Factory, Outhere Brothers, Red 5...). After the transfer from Rough Trade to House Nation, Sequential One managed a first entry in the Media Control Charts with their single "My Love Is Hot" (Highest charts position # 53). Their second single "I Wanna Make You..." entered the Media Control Charts just like "My Love Is Hot" because they continued their style. "I Wanna Make You..." has even reached a chartposition of # 40. Now you can find out the great new sound of Andre Tanneberger, called "Dreams". Sequential One has the opportunity to track down trends and different developments, due to their permanent contact to the clubs in Germany. You can recognise this advantage in many releases of Sequential One. "Dreams" is their next Tophit. Their stage show is very exciting, because of their two rhytmical dancers' hot performance and their close contact to the public. Every show grows to an exploding atmosphere. The Chart success of "Dreams" is only a question of time. Sequential One are Mastermind Producer Andre Tanneberger (23), Ulli Pöppelbaum (21) (better known as Spacekid), the dutch Star DJ Woody (28) and the beautiful singer Morpha (22), who works for an international Model-agency.
On October 15 1997, Marina's new single "The Silent Night" which includes a EuroDance cover of Lisa's 80s classic U.S. club hit "Rocket to Your Heart" will be released to the web only. The general release is slated for November 1 so you've got the scoop. If you want to hear a RealAudio sample just go to Marina's site.
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