Data de groove
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| Falco studio album | ||||
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Publication |
1990 |
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| Label (s) | Warner Music Group | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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Pop, rock, dance |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
40:05 |
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Data de Groove is the sixth studio album by the Austrian musician Falco .
background
The album was produced again in 1990 by Falco's original producer Robert Ponger , who composed his first big hit, Der Kommissar , after a long collaboration with the Bolland brothers and the failure of its predecessor . It was one of Falco's attempts to make a comeback to the top of the chart after landing a major failure with Viennese blood .
The long player dealt - especially in the preliminary single of the same name - with the emerging age of the computer. A second song was released in autumn 1990 with Charisma Kommando , which deals with femdom practices.
The album was thematically less influenced privately than his two previous albums, which were dedicated to his supposed daughter. Nevertheless, a lot happened in the singer's private life during the production period: He married and divorced and also had major psychological problems with not being as successful as in the days of Rock Me Amadeus .
Many fans believed they recognized “old Falco” in this album, and it is considered to be his most intellectual, most theoretical and “top-heavy”. The song Bar Minor 7/11 (Jeanny Dry) is also the only third part of the Jeanny trilogy that was written and approved by Falco himself. The play on words in the title addition "Jeanny Dry" is ambiguous: the English word dry sounds acoustically similar to the number three. And at the same time the correct German translation "Jeanny dry" should also indicate that this is Falco's own very dry and sober (also in the alcoholic sense) view of the Jeanny story or the Jeanny hype.
However, the album only achieved moderate success: It only reached number 11 in the Austrian charts, some of the singles that were released did not make it into the charts, whereupon Falco switched back to his previous producers Bolland & Bolland for the next album Nachtflug .
At the moment (as of December 2014) Data de Groove is the only "regular" Falco album out of print . The album is a coveted rarity in terms of records and especially CD releases and is traded in online shops well above the original purchase prices. The album is subject to the Warner Music Group's marketing license .
Since February 2016, the album has been available for download on iTunes and Qobuz and as a stream on Spotify .
Previous story to Bar Minor 7/11 (Jeanny Dry)
In 1987 the Frankfurt music producers Gunther Mende and Alexander C. De Rouge wrote, composed and recorded the song The Spirit Never Dies for Falco's planned fifth album Aya . The title should Jeanny - trilogy to be completed. Since Aya was dropped at the request of the record company, the song was only released posthumously in 2009 on the album of the same name, The Spirit Never Dies .
When Falco, after his career breakdown, tried to return to his roots in 1990 and produced his sixth album Data de Groove with Robert Ponger , he wrote a third part by Jeanny himself , and Robert Ponger composed the music. Under the title Bar Minor 7/11 (Jeanny Dry) he tried to draw a very sober and objective line under the Jeanny story. Since the album Data de Groove remained completely unsuccessful and unnoticed in the mass market, hardly anyone noticed the only third part by Jeanny that was written and approved by Falco himself .
To the content of the song Bar Minor 7/11 (Jeanny Dry)
In the song, Falco is talking to a lady who works there in a bar / nightclub. It remains unclear whether the lady is a bartender, a waitress or a prostitute. Only Falco speaks, Falco only implies the lady's answers to Falco's questions. So whether the person is real or pure fiction remains unclear. A background singer repeats herself in the background with the phrase “ Give it up! ". After some small talk, the song ends with the following text phrase spoken by Falco:
“ Tell me, who actually told you your name is Jeanny? "
<pause>
“ Surely that was the boss of my record company? "
<pause>
“ Yes, I already understand him. Say is he a good guest? "
<pause>
" Everything is clear as it always was: you back behind and I in front of the bar. "
Track list
- Neo Nothing - Post of All - 4:49
- Expocityvisions - 4:10
- Charisma Command - 4:49
- Tanja P. not Cindy C. - 3:37
- Pusher - 4:28
- Data de Groove - 4:40
- Everything lying down - 5:05
- U.4.2.P.1 Club Dub - 3:43
- Bar Minor 7/11 (Jeanny Dry) - 3:47
- Anaconda 'mour - 0:57
There is an alternative German CD version of this album, where four songs have longer (uncut) running times:
Data De Groove 4.57 Neo Nothing - Post Of All 5.31 Tanja P. Not Cindy C. 4.26 Charisma Commando 5.39
The CD editions can only be distinguished by the matrix number on the CD itself: 903171818-2 RSA (normal version) 903171818-2.2 RS (uncut version)