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Masterboy : " Report taken from Masterboy's fans site"
Time is money. Therefore Masterboy does not waste it. Tommy Schleh (31), Enrico Zabler (34) and Trixi Delgado (30) are on the top, desired by fans, managers, and ... competition! From their headquarters in Walldorf near Heidelberg (Germany) they travel to Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Athens, London. Because of countless interviews, live performances, TV shows, and new recording sessions it is hard for them to find a free time for private life. When recording their hit "Generation of Love" finally they did find some to do shopping in London. Actually, this city has a special meaning for Enrico and Tommy, two guys who established the group. They met in London in 1989 attending a party. Enrico says: "To be here is like returning to the roots". That recording session in London was actually quite hectic. They have arrived to London from Frankfurt (Germany) after two hours delay. They went for shopping spree to exclusive Carnaby Street. In "Flashpoint" they were entertained as old friends by Chinese manager. Tommy went to male department that was selling velvet jackets, cotton shirts and pants. In "Quarzo" Enrico was astonished by scottish chequered cloth. What Trixi was doing? She was spending all her money buying gourmet tea in "Wittards". The competition who is going to spend most money in shortest time won Tommy. He spent 800 pounds in 1 hour (I think we could do better than that, in even shorter time).
"Generation of Love" recorded in London, the clip directed by Jonahhan Bate, was an announcement of the Masterboy's fourth album under the same name: Generation Of Love that has been released in 1996. Artists were working on it in Walldorf. In recording of this particular track participated The Solid Rock Baptist Church Gospel Choir from Heidelberg. Most of the text and music was written and compsed by Enrico and Tommy with a help of Skywalker. One might be quite astonished that they still could find time for their own production. Are you asking: Why? The group is on demand by other Euro-dance groups, and Gee! Masterboy is helping them. For example from Masterboy help had benefit already few times Worlds Apart. Also Kyra from Pharao recorded with them her first solo single. Stay-C from Twenty 4 Seven is an another example. It was not enough for the group. In the middle of 1995 in TV appared commercial for new CD player where Masterboy appeared.
Enrico, Tommy and Trixi are on the demand everywhere. Such popularity "forced" trio to establish more recording studios. They built another one in Walldorf and the third has been recently established in Rome, Italy. Why Rome? Quite simple. In Masterboy opinion, Italy is and always has been one of the most important and creative music markets in the world. There is also a cute comment made by Tommy: "Beside that, there is always wonderful weather in Italy".They released track that was a combined production with other hot Euro-dance groups "Love Message", and also appeared on CD Compilation under same name. I have reviewed this particular track in Dance Releases Review Page. This track also brought a GOLD Record award for this group
There is one additional person who is responsible for success of Masterboy's songs. He is a Skywalker: - Lukas Cordalis and I mentioned his name before. Skywalker is a producer who works together with Enrico and Tommy in the studios. He´s normally involved in every project, that is produced in this studios. He also started a few projects on his own with him as singer. He named himself normally also Skywalker. Lukas now presented a single that´s called "Magic Summernight" and the project´s name is : JT featuring Luca. This song was produced by Masterboy beat production (JT means Joker Three and is a synonym for Enrico, Tommy and Lucas - the Joke is taken from the symbol of Masterboy.
Masterboy also recently came to Miami Beach, Florida (sic!). They performed before audience representing South American branch of Polygram (another sic!). The reason was to determine if the style of music Masterboy represents will be popular in South America and if their tour there will be a success. And of course, the answer was a big YES!!!. I just don't believe that! Where the hell were North American labels ??!! Many fans would die to have Masterboy on the stage in the U.S ! Explain it to me!!! Anyway, they will start their tournee in Mexico (lucky Mexico!), followed by Chile, Peru, Brasil, Argentina and Venezuela. Their calendar is getting quite busy. During their stay in Miami Beach, Tommy enjoyed windsurfing, Trixi played golf all day long. In the evening they visited Ocean Drive, tour Prince Club where they had coffee and met Gianni Vercase a famous designer. Artists from Masterboy like Florida, therefore they have decided to take their vacation there.
Period of June and July of 1996 was pretty "busy" for Masterboy. First, Trixy Delgado recently left group. She decided that after three years of so many concerts and work in studio she wanted finally to have a familly. Her chosen man is her long time friend Thomas. Linda Rocco (24) from Cleveland, Ohio,joined Masterboy and "replaced" Trixy. She previously did background act for Michael Jackson, Milli Vanilli, and others. Her major act was however to be a part of now defunct group: "Dance 2 Trance", Yes the female vocal on "Power of American Natives" was her. In 1995 she made here solo debut with a high octane hit: "Fly With Me".Masterboy together with Linda did their first shows in Germany and the crowd started to love Linda as the new singer instantly. Masterboy went also to Russia for a couple of gigs in clubs in Moscow and St.Petersburg. They also have been on tour in Germany to play on the biggest Dance Festivals along with DJ Bobo, Backstreet Boys, Caught In The Act, Mr.President, etc. They were also working on a new single and new album. This new single called: "Mister Feeling" was just released. BTW "Mister Feeling" within a week jumped from position 0 to position 44 in German Hit list and has been reviewed on Euro-Dance Hits WWW. Meanwhile they also composed a new hit sang by Ice MC called "Give Me The Light". The new Masterboy's album "Colours" was released on October 28 in Germany along with the new single taken from this album called "Show me Colours". Please visit my Dance Review Page to read the review and listen the clip. The group did short promotional tour in Asia and they returned to Gemany on October 28, 1996 for the new album release, and did short promotion tour in Germany that ended in October 31, 1996
So here you are. Let's do some review on this album. I am very happy with it. I was afraid that this album might not have Euro sound, like it happened with the newest album by DJ Bobo. Well, not to worry! The new Masterboy album is definately a Euro album by all means. Not all of the tracks are Euro-Energy songs, but it has other Euro flavors and all together is very well produced and contains great dance music. As you can see, the new album is very broad. From 83 to 152 BPM. "Show Me Colours" is definately the best song from this album. This as well as "Mister Feeling" were already reviewed by me, and you can read them in my Dance Releases Review Page, so I will not talk about this two tracks. "Ocean Bizarre" follows to the same gendre. Very nice and rhytmic song, with that Masterboy's classic sound. Very good vocal. Gee! Linda really does have a nice voice. "La Ola Hand In Hand" is quite similar in style to "Mister Feeling". Nice Euro-Reggae, not really what I like in this group, but track is very nice and very dancable. "I Want To Break Free" is the cover of the originally recorded by Queen track and dedicated to Freddie Mercury. As a matter of fact, he is sampled and sings along in this one. "Children Of The Night" similar to "Show Me Colours" is a pure Euro-Energy track. "Dreams Within A Dream" follows into more TRANCEY side of Euro-Energy. This instrumental track is really good. It sound like DREAM HOUSE without piano section. Really good! "Just For You" has the Euro-Reggae line, but that's where the comparison ends. This is not "Mister Feeling" kinda Euro-Reggae. Most likely a ballad with discret piano section and SLEAZY touch. In this track Tommy and Enrico tell us what the last seven years have done for them. Another goodie! When I heard "Energy" I thought I had deja vu! It really have the TRANCE and even arrangements of the no longer exisiting group: Dance 2 Trance, Linda previosuly did vocal with. I swear she sounds in this song exactly like several years ago. Again this track gives you pretty much a good idea how good her voice is. So taken together if you are into Euro-Energy, you should get this album, for Masterboy fans it is a must.
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