RMB is the name of a German
electronic music
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duo, founded in 1993 by musicians and producers Farid Gharadjedaghi and Rolf Maier-Bode (the latter whose initials form the band name).
History
The two met in 1991 while working for the Adam & Eve label, Maier-Bode as a
producer
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and Gharadjedaghi as
A&R. After two releases under the RMB name, they split from Adam & Eve in 1993 to join the
Low Spirit
Low Spirit Recordings was a German techno record label.
History
Founded in 1986 by Maximilian Lenz ( Westbam), Fabian Lenz (DJ Dick), William Röttger, Klaus Jankuhn and Sandra Molzahn. The first record was WestBam's ''17 - This Is Not a Bo ...
label. Their 1996 single, "
Spring
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" was a gold record in Germany, with sales over 250,000 copies, and the follow-up "Reality" reached #11 in the Media Control charts.
After this, they worked with
Sharam Jey
Sharam Tayebi ( fa, شهرام طیبی, born August 12, 1970), better known as Sharam, is an Iranian-American, Iranian techno and House music, house DJ and producer. Born in Tehran, Iran, he emigrated to Washington D.C. at the age of 14. A mai ...
and Talla 2XLC. In 1998, they founded their own label, Various Silver Recordings.
Through their association with German
rave culture
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, they have engaged in
environmental activism
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,
joining
Greenpeace
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in protest against the
Moruroa atol nuclear testing, to which they dedicated the track "Our Trip to Mururoa", a B-side found in the single "Passport to Heaven".
In 2006 RMB split up. The last studio album "Evolution" has been released online March 18, 2009.
Members
* Rolf Maier-Bode - production, keyboard, programming
* Farid Gharadjedaghi - production, keyboards, engineering, mixing
Discography
Albums
*1995 ''This World Is Yours''
*1998 ''Widescreen''
*2001 ''Mission Horizon''
*2002 ''Mission Horizon 2.0''
*2003 ''A Tribute To RMB''
*2009 ''Evolution''
Singles
*1993 "Trax 1"
*1993 "Trax 2"
*1993 "Heaven & Hell EP"
*1994 "Love EP"
*1994 "Redemption" (with
Kristina Totzek)
*1994 "Redemption (Remixes)" (with Kristina Totzek)
*1995 "Experience" (with Kristina Totzek)
*1995 "Experience (Remixes)" (with Kristina Totzek)
*1995 "Love Is An Ocean" (with
Sheila Chandra
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Indian–Western pop fusion period
Sheila Chandra wa ...
)
*1995 "Love Is An Ocean (Remixes)" (with Sheila Chandra)
*1995 "Passport to Heaven" (with Kristina Totzek)
*1995 "Passport to Heaven (Remixes)" (with Kristina Totzek)
*1996 "
Spring
Spring(s) may refer to:
Common uses
* Spring (season), a season of the year
* Spring (device), a mechanical device that stores energy
* Spring (hydrology), a natural source of water
* Spring (mathematics), a geometric surface in the shape of a ...
" (with
Marion Haarmeyer)
*1996 "Spring (Mixes)" (with Marion Haarmeyer)
*1996 "Reality" (with
Angela Caran)
*1996 "Reality (Mixes)" (with Angela Caran)
*1997 "Break The Silence/Everything" (with Angela Caran)
*1998 "Shadows" (with
Sharam Jey
Sharam Tayebi ( fa, شهرام طیبی, born August 12, 1970), better known as Sharam, is an Iranian-American, Iranian techno and House music, house DJ and producer. Born in Tehran, Iran, he emigrated to Washington D.C. at the age of 14. A mai ...
and
Christina Lux)
*1998 "Everything EP"
*1998 "To France"
*2000 "Deep Down Below" (with Christina Lux)
*2001 "Horizon" (with Christina Lux)
*2001 "Selected Works"
*2002 "Redemption 2.0" (with Kristina Totzek)
*2003 "Spring 2003" (with Talla 2XLC and
Miriam Adameit)
*2003 "Touch The Sky/Feel The Flame"
*2004 "Gangster/Killer"
*2004 "April/Beauty Of Simplicity"
Other aliases
*1992 "Droid EP", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher)
*1992 "Humanoid EP", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher)
*1993 "Skyflyer II", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher)
*1993 "Skyflyer III", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher)
*1993 "Manitou in Africa", as Manitou
*1996 "Manitou in Africa 1996 (The 4 Years Later Version)", as Manitou
*1998 "One EP", as Waldorf & Staettler
*2004 "Special Online EP", as Waldorf & Staettler
References
External links
RMB - Music Label "Various"*
German electronic music groups
German techno music groups
Hardcore techno music groups
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