Bandaloop

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Bandaloop
General information
origin Cologne , Germany
Genre (s) Electropop
founding 1995
resolution 2004
Website www.bandaloop.de
Founding members
Singing, composition, keyboard
 Sarah Doering
Programming, keyboard, composition
 Arnd Fischer
Last occupation
Vocals, keyboard
 Sarah Doering
Programming, keyboard
 Arnd Fischer
former members
guitar
 Alexander Klick (1997-2000)
Live members
Drums
 Gerd Paris
guitar
 Dirk Schilling

Bandaloop was an electro-pop group from Cologne .

history

The band was founded in 1995 in Cologne by Sarah Doering and Arnd Fischer, and guitarist Alexander Klick joined them in 1997. The band never saw themselves as a live band and developed their pieces in the studio over several years. Live appearances as support act (e.g. Fluke , Tortoise) or in Cologne music clubs (e.g. MTC, Underground) were rare.

After distributing many tapes, the music manager Emanuel Fialik (including Rammstein , Bobo In White Wooden Houses ) became aware of the band in 1997 . However, due to artistic differences, the collaboration was terminated after a few months. In 1998, the music manager Michael Smilgies (including Fury in the Slaughterhouse ) showed interest in representing the band and through his mediation, the band signed a recording deal with Sony Music Columbia that same year .

The group's first single released by Columbia was called Extraordinary and was released in April 1999. The music video for it ran on Viva Zwei in heavy rotation and was also occasionally seen on MTV2 . The radio station Einslive played the piece under the heading "Einslive presents ..." also in heavy rotation. The title narrowly missed the top 100 airplay charts. The self-produced debut album Aromatik followed in August 1999.

The record reviews for Aromatik fluctuated between praise and trash. In particular, the enthusiasm of the indiependant-affine record critics was limited when the major was released. Armin Linder criticized “poor songwriting” and an artificial and interchangeable sound on Plattentests.de . In the magazine Visions they even thought they had heard “the same song 13 times with different titles”. Thomas Kerpen liked the music more in the Ox-Fanzine, which at least certified the band a “fat, pointed production” and praised Sarah Doering's singing. At music.ch they found “a coherent pop album with consistently good songs”.

After further single releases, the band went on tour through 15 clubs in Germany in early 2000. The group was reinforced live by Gerd Paris on drums. Shortly after the tour, guitarist Alexander Klick was separated. In subsequent appearances at various festivals at home and abroad, Dirk Schilling took over the part of Klick.

For the soundtrack of the movie In July by director Fatih Akin , the song Travel was created , which was also released as a single. The accompanying music video ran occasionally on Viva Zwei. At the same time as the release of Travel in the summer of 2000, the Columbia label was separated. The duo then worked on a new album, which was finally released in March 2002 under the title Twin on the Cologne independent label India Records . Neither the album nor the only single You suck achieved significant sales or airplay numbers.

In 2004 Sarah Doering and Arnd Fischer gave birth to their first child and subsequently withdrew from the music business.

Discography

Albums

  • 1999: Aromatik (Sony Music / Columbia)
  • 2002: Twin (India Records)

Singles

  • Extraordinary (April 1999)
  • Universe of Love (December 1999)
  • St. Michel (March 2000)
  • Travel (June 2000)
  • You Suck (March 2002)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.plattentests.de/rezi.php?show=67 Plattentests.de
  2. ↑ http://www.visions.de/platten/307/bandaloop-aromatik VISIONS No. 80
  3. ↑ http://www.ox-fanzine.de/web/rev/4237/reviews.207.html Ox-Fanzine, issue 37
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. music.ch  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.music.ch