Sunbeam (band)

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Sunbeam
Also known asChrome & Price
Iron Wobble
System Faith
Plastic Pete
OriginGermany
Genres Trance
Hard trance
Electro music
Years active1993-present
LabelsKontor Records
Armada Music
Associated acts Trance Allstars
Tomcraft
ATB
DJ Mellow-D
Schiller
Taucher
Website www.sunbeam.de
MembersMichael Gerlach
Florian Preis

Sunbeam is a German electronic music project. The band consists of Florian Preis (born 1972 in Bensheim) and Michael Gerlach (born 1973 in Tehran). Since 1992 they have made progressive dance/trance-productions and remixes.

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Their biggest hit "Outside World" (1994) is a hard trance track containing two vocal samples from the anime film Akira ("You know we aren't meant to exist in the outside world" and "I came to get you").

Discography

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2019

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