Saturday, 31 May 2008
Northern Lite
Artist: Northern Lite
Genre(s):
Dance
Pop
Electronic
Other
Discography:
Unisex
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Temper
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Something
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Reach The Sun
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Small Chamber Works
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Northern Lite, an electro-rock radical, carved kayoed a estimable ecological niche for themselves on the German euphony setting, not but via their track record releases and remixes, just besides via their possess label, 1st Decade Records. Andreas Kubat and Sebastian Bohn -- a vocaliser and DJ, severally -- formed Northern Lite in 1997 in Erfurt, Thuringia, patch guitarist Larry Lowe later joined in 2001, delivery an ingredient of john Rock music to the group's manner of electronica. Lowe eventually left the group in 2004, release on to form the solo move Fujimo, and was replaced by guitar player Sascha Littek. Northern Lite made their recording debut in 2001 on first Decade Records, their have Erfurt-based label; that year they issued respective releases: Trusting Blind, Ways Ain't Working, Care for Me Better, and Trusting Blind Remixes -- in that order of magnitude, each on 12" vinyl -- in addition to a uncut record album, Small Chamber Works. Subsequent days brought many more releases on 1st Decade, including the full-length albums Give the Sun (2003), Normalize (2005), and Unisex (2006). In 2006 Northern Lite saw the first-class honours degree of their releases register on the German charts, when "What You Want" climbed to number 61 on the singles chart as Unisex climbed fifty-fifty higher, to number 29, on the album graph. The group returned to the German charts in 2007 with "Enemy," a coaction with Chapeau Claque that peaked at figure 51. Northern Lite likewise has a farsighted lean of remix credits geological dating back to 2001; among the more than noteworthy are Peaches' "Set It Off" (2002), Rammstein's "Rosenrot" (2005), Schiller's "Die Nacht... Du Bist Nicht Allein" (2005), and Yello's "Planet Dada" (2005).