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Wave in Head is a one-man German synthpop music project, which was founded in 1993 in Magdeburg, Germany. His name is Michael Pohl.
The first musical activities have been nothing more than a hobby, when he started, to make some noises with his first sampler, the Ensoniq ASR-10. The style walks between skittering bass lines, well balanced bleeps, a catchy sing-along chorus and fancy, synth styled vocals. An interesting feature is that some lyrics are written in German as in the singles "Zeit zu leben", "Als Ob", "Ich denke nicht" and "Ist sie schön".
In 1999, the project has reached a state of development that allowed production of a first CD, the rarely EP. It was distributed through the internet and had got very positive and enthusiastic reviews by several E-zines. The subsequent CD Criminal Ballad was not published, because it was made for promotion purposes only, and the debut album was in production yet. In winter 2000 Wave in Head performed live for the first time in Berlin and several record labels offered their cooperation.
Since the beginning of 2001, Wave in Head is signed to A Different Drum and released the debut album, Time to speak there, as well as the singles "progress" and "I began to hope" and stayed on the best selling chart for over 10 weeks.
Wave In Head also donated a song to the New Order tribute album "True Faith", covering "Blue Monday".
In 2005 the band released For a Special Moment plus the MCD "I hate to be in love"
After a longer break Wave in Head released a 4th album - The Voice in Me plus a digital single with the same name in 2010.
2012 was the year of the release of another album. Remixed was a mix of unreleased, new and rare, remixed tracks. Due to the falling meaning of real CDs it was available as limited edition CD (500 copies) and digitally as well as the successor Im Augenblick another album with all new songs.
Until 2013 Wave In Head has released all of his albums, (except for the self-produced EP Rarely), through the label, A Different Drum based in Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, all albums and singles are available thru CDBaby.com, I-Tunes, Amazon, Spotify and 2500 other online shops all over the world.
2022 starts with news about another full-length album - Happiest Day. Release date: 02/22/2022. Despite the worldwide trend towards music streaming the German label IntraPOP produces a limited CD edition which is distributed by Pop-o-Naut.
1999 - Rarely - EP (self-distribution)
2000 - Criminal Ballad - promo album (self-distribution)
2001 - Time to Speak - debut album (A different Drum)
2001 - Progress - MCD (A Different Drum)
2001 - I Just Began to Hope - MCD (A Different Drum)
2002 - You - album (A Different Drum)
2002 - With You - MCD (A Different Drum)
2005 - For a Special Moment - album (A Different Drum)
2005 - I Hate to Be In Love - MCD (A Different Drum)
2010 - The Voice in Me - album (A Different Drum)
2010 - The Voice in Me - MCD (A Different Drum)
2012 - Remixed - album (A Different Drum)
2013 - Im Augenblick - album (A Different Drum)
2022 - Happiest Day - album (Intrapop)
2023 - Brilliance - remix album (Intrapop)
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Stabbing Westward is an American industrial rock/alternative rock band. Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus formed the band in 1985 in Macomb, Illinois. The band released an extended play in 1992, followed by four studio albums: Ungod (1994), Wither Blister Burn & Peel (1996), Darkest Days (1998), and Stabbing Westward (2001). The band announced a dissolution in February 2002. Two compilation albums were later released in 2003. Stabbing Westward reunited in 2016 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its formation and continued to perform live shows. The band's first new album in 21 years, Chasing Ghosts, was released in 2022.
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Birgit Dieckmann, known professionally as Billie Ray Martin, is a German singer and songwriter, known for her single "Your Loving Arms", which reached the top 10 of both the UK Singles Chart (#6) and the Irish Singles Chart (#8) in 1995, and reached number one on the US Dance Club Chart. She was also one of the vocalists on the S'Express UK top 10 hit single "Hey Music Lover" (1989), and had UK top 40 hits as lead vocalist of Electribe 101 with "Tell Me When the Fever Ended" (1989) and "Talking with Myself" (1990), and as a solo singer with "Running Around Town" (1995) and "Imitation of Life" (1996).
Icon of Coil is a Norwegian electronic music band. The band was established as a solo project in 1997 by Andy LaPlegua who was joined by former Sector 9 bandmate Sebastian Komor to perform live. With the release of Shallow Nation, the band's first single, Komor joined full-time. In 2000, Christian Lund joined the live lineup. Later that year, the band's first full-length album, Serenity is the Devil, was released, which climbed to number one on the Deutsche Alternative Charts. Shortly thereafter, Lund became a full-time band member.
Rational Youth was a Canadian new wave synth-pop band that was originally active between 1981 and 1986, and at various points up until the end of 2021.
Diary of Dreams is a German darkwave band. The lead singer and founding member Adrian Hates has produced most of the albums by himself or with minimal help from others. He rarely uses a full band, except when on tour.
Pink Turns Blue is a German rock band from Berlin. Formed in 1985, they were part of the first generation of gothic rock in Germany and released their first LP, If Two Worlds Kiss with a sound reminiscent of new wave with very dark undertones and use of synthesizers, and went to become part of the developing sub-genre of dark wave.
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My Favorite are an indie pop band formed in Long Island, New York in 1991, later of Brooklyn and Queens. After releasing two full-length albums, the original band split in 2005, but reformed in 2014.
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Joel Piper is a Mexican-born American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and disc jockey born in Sonora, Mexico. He most famously known for being the ex-drummer and clean vocalist for the metalcore band Confide from 2009 to 2013. As a solo musician, he has released three full-length studio albums and three EPs.
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