With the songs: Das boot - I wanna be a Kennedy - Love sees no colour - Night in motion - Inside your dreams - Love religion - Club bizarre.

U96 is a dance music project formed by the German DJ and producer Alex Christensen and a team of producers called Matiz (Ingo Hauss, Helmut Hoinkis, and Hayo Panarinfo), known for a number of 1990s Eurodance hits.

The year was 1991. Alex Christensen had the idea to present Klaus Doldinger's main soundtrack-theme of one of his favourite movies 'Das Boot' (by Wolfgang Peterson) in another version, a techno-version. This extremely dynamic and powerful track with a lot of electronic sounds and underwater effects took German floor entirely while it peaked the charts in many countries: Norway, England, Denmark, Sweden, France, Holland, Belgium and Finland. Interestingly enough, this track was made to US and was released by a virtually unknown American label named 'Cohiba Records'. Das Boot was the first Platin-Maxi Single by this group, it sold at more than 500 000 copies.

In the beginning of 1993 U 96 released their first album called Das Boot. Another song in this album which is worth mentioning was I Wanna Be A Kennedy. In many places it reminded a 1980 hit from Visage : Fade to Grey. It this album produced by Matiz and AC16 (the team that actually produced all the U 96 albums), as guests were performing Miss Melody, Miss Andromedaand a rapper named Satchmo.

In 1993, U 96 released their second album entitled Replugged. It was Alex's response to what MTV-Unplugged series were presenting : a lot of rock while he was introducing a techno-rave style in the dance music. The first hit from this album was Love Sees No Colour. A reference to Das Boot was the techno version of War Of The Worlds. While Das Boot was the only one single to be released in the US, Love Sees No Colour was advertised in the US as : 'The Euro-techno smash finally invades American shores !'. A version of Love Sees No Colour remixed by Bass Bumpers as also released. The album was mostly recorded in France (Paris), written and composed by mostly French artists : Lagonda, Castioni, Wycombe, Ac Beat. As usual the album was produced by AC 16 and Matiz. Both producers were already in demand by many stars like Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin or Jean-Michel Jarre.

The album Club Bizarre released in 1995 brought a quite new dimension to U 96's music and left a major impression on the new direction Eurodance was taking. The title song Club Bizarre was a small revolution. It was mixing the blue-sounded harmony with a strong and sharp sound of Vocoder creating a hybrid of melancholy and trance. The cover of this album showed Alex in crucified position. In Club Bizarre was also featured Das Boot II and Love Religion featuring Daisy Dee's voice.

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