The Disco Boys

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The Disco Boys
The Disco Boys at the Dance Music Award 2005 in Hanover
The Disco Boys at the Dance Music Award 2005 in Hanover
General information
Genre (s) Dance , House , Dance & DJ
founding 2001
Website www.discoboys.de/
Founding members
Gordon Hollenga
Raphael Krickow

The Disco Boys is a Hamburg DJ team consisting of Raphael Krickow (* 1966 ) and Gordon Hollenga (* 1969 ). They play a mixture of disco classics and modern house songs. The Disco Boys have played at the German Film Awards , the Love Parade , Nature One and Mayday , the Disco Festival and the Life Ball in Vienna. They are DJs in clubs all over the world and are also booked in China , among other places .

Career

The Disco Boys were particularly successful with cover versions or productions with longer quotations or samples from other songs. Her first hit in the German single charts , Born to Be Alive , was a new edition of Patrick Hernandez's disco hit from 1979. Roberto Blanco (RB) wrote the vocal part .

For You , their most commercially successful track to date, uses longer passages of the song of the same name by Manfred Mann's Earth Band , which in turn is based on the song of the same name by Bruce Springsteen . It was co-produced by Syke'N'Sugarstarr. In the Bundesliga seasons 2008/09 and 2009/2010 Borussia Dortmund used the song as an introductory song. For You first hit the charts in 2005 and was re-released two years later. From 2007 to 2010 the single was in the German charts again and again, only interrupted by several compulsory breaks due to a chart exclusion rule for songs that were ranked low at the time. Nevertheless, the song had a total of 93 chart weeks and reached position 17 as the highest position. At the end of 2010, over three years after its release, For You was awarded platinum.

Hey St. Peter is the cover of a 1977 song by Flash and the Pan. In February 2006 the single reached number 8 in the Finnish singles chart. The single BBB-Baby quotes the 1974 hit You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Bachman-Turner Overdrive .

On February 12, 2005, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Disco Boys, the Disco Festival was launched, which took place annually in the Kassel exhibition halls until 2012 .

In 2007, 2008 and 2009 the Disco Boys released more successful club hits without using samples from other artists. I Love You So , What You Want , Shadows and other singles were released to accompany their existing mix compilations and achieved high chart positions in Germany. The singles were mostly co-produced and written by Christoph Höffel and Robin Felder. The single Love Tonight has been available since June 23, 2010 . It comes in a package with remixes of the song by Jay Frog , SONO and the Tune Brothers , among others .

The Disco Boys Around the World released in 2012, originally by ATC . For the cover, the duo received the blessing of the author Alex Christensen and, thanks to his permission, contained the vocal traces of the original. The Disco Boys also made a name for themselves as a remixer and refined titles by Rosenstolz , Ich + Ich , Mia. , Roger Sanchez , Axwell and many others for the dance floor.

The Disco Boys in Mannheim at Sunshine Live - Die 2000er Live on Stage (2016)

Year after year, The Disco Boys release a self-titled mix compilation on which they immortalize the best tracks from their DJ sets. It was first released as a double album in 2001. Since 2012 it has consisted of three DJ mixes on three CDs. The series always reached the German compilation charts . The Disco Boys produce a single for each new issue.

Discography

Albums

  • 2001: Volume 1 (silver cover)
  • 2002: Volume 2 (red cover)
  • 2003: Volume 3 (green cover) (Germany # 93)
  • 2004: Volume 4 (yellow cover)
  • 2005: Volume 5 (white cover)
  • 2006: Volume 6 (black cover)
  • 2007: Volume 7 (ocher cover)
  • 2007: Volume 8 (crimson cover)
  • 2008: Volume 9 (blue cover)
  • 2010: Volume 10 (gold cover)
  • 2011: Volume 11 (purple cover)
  • 2012: Volume 12 (rainbow colored cover)
  • 2013: Volume 13 (silver cover)
  • 2014: Volume 14 (yellow / black cover)
  • 2015: Volume 15 (gray / pink cover)
  • 2016: Volume 16
  • 2018: Volume 17 (black / pink cover)
  • 2019: Volume 18 (white / turquoise cover)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2001 Born to Be Alive
Volume 1 		DE62 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First release: July 2nd, 2001
feat. RB
2003 We Came to Dance
Volume 3 		- - -
First published: September 18, 2003
2004 Here on My Own
Volume 10 		DE75 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 18, 2004
2005 For You
Volume 5 / Volume 10 		DE17th
platinum
platinum

(93 weeks)DE 		AT45 (4 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: January 31, 2005
feat. Manfred Mann's Earth Band
2006 Hey St. Peter
Volume 10 		DE28 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT41 (5 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: January 27, 2006
BBB-Baby / Ghost Town
Volume 10 		- - -
First published: March 10, 2006
feat. Jonny Logan
2007 What You Want
Volume 10 		DE58 (9 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: April 13, 2007
I Love You So
Volume 10 		DE51 (9 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: August 17, 2007
If I Can't Have You
- The Disco Boys Remixes 		DE71 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: November 16, 2007
vs. Bee Gees
Start All Over Again
Volume 10 		DE54 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: November 23, 2007
2008 Shadows
Volume 10 		DE66 (5 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: October 10, 2008
2009 The Voice
Volume 10 		DE71 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: August 28, 2009
Lunatic
Volume 9 / Volume 10 		- - -
First published: 2009
2010 I Surrender
Volume 10 		DE28 (10 weeks)
DE 		AT42 (3 weeks)
AT 		-
First published: March 26, 2010
Love Tonight
Volume 10 		DE73 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: July 9, 2010
2012 Around the World
Volume 12 		DE31 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT66 (1 week)
AT 		-
First published: January 27, 2012
Life Is Always New
Volume 13 		DE81 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: October 19, 2012
feat. Mimi Perez

Remixes

  • Jacky S - Knock on Wood (Departure, 05/02)
  • Bootsy Collins - Play with Bootsy (eastwest, 07/03)
  • Marilyn's Boys - I'll Give You the Stars (edel, 10/03)
  • 2Black - Waves of Luv (Kontor, 01/05)
  • Carolina Marquez - The Killer's Song (Kontor, 02/05)
  • The Lovefreaks - Shine (Kontor, 04/05)
  • Hacienda - Makin 'Luv (Ministry Of Sound, 08/05)
  • Discoblaster - Fading (Universal, 09/05)
  • Kujay Dada - Let It Play (Tiger Records, 10/05)
  • Lost Daze - Illusions (X-Mix US, tba)
  • The Freemasons - Love on My Mind (Loaded UK, tba)
  • Superfunk - Lucky Star 2005 (office, tba)
  • Master Blaster - Since You've Been Gone (clubland)
  • M&M - Echo Beach (2006)
  • Tapedeck Projects - TKKG (Sugaspin, 01/06)
  • Jestofunk - Say It Again (Kontor, 02/06)
  • Bee Gees - If I Can't Have You (Warner, 07/11)
  • Marquess - Vayamos compañeros (Starwatch Music, 06/08)
  • Finger & Kadel - Mana Mana (Gimme 5 Records, 02/09)
  • Rosenstolz - Blue spots (Iceland (Universal), 04/09)
  • Ace of Base - All For You (2010)
  • Axwell - I Found U (2010)
  • Toto - Hold the Line (2011)
  • Rosenstolz - We're Alive (Iceland (Universal), 09/11)
  • Charlee - Boy Like You (2011)
  • Aura Dione - Geronimo (2011)
  • Ich + Ich - Pflaster (2011)
  • TV Rock - Diamonds In The Sky (2011)
  • Mic Donnet - Losing You (2012)
  • Leo Gallo - Extravaganza (2012)
  • Marcapasos ft. Janosh - Monster 2K10 (2012)
  • Mia. - Again and Again (2012)

swell

  1. ^ Jörg Amtage & Matthias Müller All hits from Germany's charts 1954–2003 Volume 1, Pro Business Berlin 2003, p. 374
  2. ↑ Awards in Germany
  3. ↑ a b Coverinfo.de
  4. ↑ Hey, St. Peter in the Finnish single charts
  5. ↑ discofestival.de: History & Hall of Fame. Retrieved March 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Chart sources singles: DE AT CH

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