"Personal Heaven (Duet with Midge Ure)" Released: March 23, 2007
"I Feel Like You" Released: August 31, 2007
Lost in Paradise is the 4th album by German band X-Perience. The album includes ten new tracks and three remakes of their greatest hits, "A Neverending Dream", "Circles of Love" and "Magic Fields". "Return to Paradise" was the first single, released in October 2006. The second single was "Personal Heaven", a duet with Midge Ure. With the last single "I Feel Like You", singer Claudia Uhle decided to leave the band.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe, lying between the Baltic and North Seas to the north, and the Alps, Lake Constance and the High Rhine to the south. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands to the west.
X-Perience is a eurodance band from Berlin, Germany. Their music style varies between synthpop, trance and ethnopop. The band members are Manja Wagner, Matthias Uhle and Alexander Kaiser. Singer Claudia Uhle, Matthias' sister, left the band in 2007 and was replaced by Manja Wagner.
"A Neverending Dream" is a 1996 song by German group X-Perience from their album Magic Fields. It charted in Germany, Hungary and Switzerland and was the band's biggest hit.
Lost in Paradise was released after a break of six years since their previous album, Journey of Life. After touring and promoting the last album, Polydor/Universal released the promotional single "It's a Sin", a cover of the Pet Shop Boys song (2003). The band took some time off and Claudia released a solo-album under the name Angelzoom in 2005.
The album Journey of Life by German band X-Perience was released on 20 November 2000 in Germany. After the second album, Take Me Home (1998), X-Perience left their former record label WEA/Warner Music and signed at Polydor/Universal. The band start working on a new album right after touring and promotion the last album.
"It's a Sin" is a song recorded by English synthpop duo the Pet Shop Boys which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in 1987, and was their third top ten in the US when it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.
Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe.
The album entered the German Album Charts on No. 78.
Track 9: Written & composed by Torben Nielsson and D-Insomniac
James "Midge" Ure is a Scottish musician, singer-songwriter and producer. His stage name, Midge, is a phonetic reversal of Jim, the diminutive form of his given name.
Glenn Peter Gregory is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose music career spans more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave and synthpop band Heaven 17, which released six singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and 1990s, including "Temptation", "Come Live with Me", "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry", "Sunset Now", "This Is Mine", and "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang"
There exist plenty of demo and alternate versions of the album tracks. Many songs were edited and/or re-written during the three years of creating the album. Some of these versions were released on x-perience.de. For a limited time, the songs
"Deeper Than Deep (Alternative Mix with Piano Interlude)"
"Let Me Show You (Alternate Demo Mix)"
"Million Miles (Digital Dream Demo Mix)"
"Million Miles (K16 Dream Dance Mix)"
"Poison Kiss (Demo Version)"
were free downloads.
"Dream to Me" is the name of a demo version of I Feel Like You. The song Joining Together is based on the same melody as Million Miles. Joining Together was limited released as Image-song for Böllhoff, a provider of fastening, assembly and systems technology. Dragonfly is an unreleased song which was only played live during concerts 2003–2005.
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