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U96 is a dance music project formed by German DJ and producer Alex Christensen and a team of producers called Matiz (Ingo Hauss, Helmut Hoikins, and Hajo Panarinfo), known for numerous 1990s Eurodance classics. Alberto Ingo Hauss (* 1954, also known as Bela Wycombe) is German Composer and producer Eurodance is a subgenre of Electronic dance music originating in the early 1990s.

The name of the project comes from the well-known movie Das Boot about the German submarine U 96 from the Second World War. Das Boot (das boːt German for The Boat) is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The project's first hit Das Boot (1991) is a techno/dance-version of the film's title melody, which had been originally composed by Klaus Doldinger. Techno is a form of Electronic dance music (EDM that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s This article is about music for dancing in general You may also be looking for Electronic dance music. Klaus Doldinger (born May 12 1936) is a German Saxophonist, especially well-known for Jazz and as a Composer Also an album of the same name was occasionally number one on the charts. This album smoothed the way for the commercial breakthrough of dance music in Germany.

The next album, Replugged (1993), had an experimental sound, inspired by the Electropop of the 1980s and by Ambient and Disco music. Ambient music is a Musical genre in which sound is more important than notes Disco is a Genre of dance-oriented music whose origins are hard to define Despite its unoriginality, it was commercially successful like the first album. The album produced a couple of Top10 hits such as Love Sees No Colour and Night in Motion. In addition, the album featured calmer titles such as The One Russian and Without You, which can be regarded in hindsight as forerunners of Trip Hop. Trip hop is a music Genre also known as the Bristol sound or Bristol acid rap.

The follow-up album Club Bizarre published in 1995 changed the sound of U96 radically. The album mixes influences of Techno-pop with at the time very successful fast Trance, which constantly dominates the album. Trance is a style of Electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s The greatest hits in this album were the very fast Love religion (with Daisy Dee) as well as the title track Club Bizarre with "classical" harmonies, which was reused later by Brooklyn Bounce. Desiree Rollocks (better known as Daisy Dee) is a famous Singer, actress and TV host especially well known in the German speaking world Brooklyn Bounce is one of several pseudonyms used by German House music producers Matthias Menck (Double M and Dennis Bohn (D-Bone

Motor Music also released Club Bizarre Interactive CD-ROM. The audio part of this CD-ROM includes several music tracks and the multimedia part features a discography, interviews with Alex Christensen and a neat little game for Mac OS and Windows PC. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable

In 1996 the successor Heaven was published. The album was very catchy and commercial, despite some still-existing Electropop influences, which were covered however by Eurodance inserts and typical Rave Pop à la Scooter. Eurodance is a subgenre of Electronic dance music originating in the early 1990s. Scooter are a German Techno and Hardcore techno band from Hamburg, who have sold over 14 million records and have earned 80 gold and platinum On this album new singer Dea-Li (Dorothy Lapi) was featured, who participated in the preparation of 4 titles.

In the following years singles Seven Wonders (1997), Energie (1998), Beweg Dich, Baby (1998) and finally Das Boot 2001 (2000) were released. Instead of a new regular album, U96 released compilation Best Of 1991 - 2001 with some new songs from the unpublished album Rhythm Of Life. The last song We Call It Love was released in 2003 as a promo single only. They returned to the German Top 30 charts in 2006 with their downtempo hit Vorbei which featured the vocals of guest singer Ben.

The long-anticipated new full-length album, Out of Wilhelmsburg, was released in 2007.

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