This project (also known as Luca Cangini DJ) features the voice of M Kiss. The single was released under the label Got It. |
La Bouche Group , EuroDance ID# :548 |
Producers : Frank Farian with Ulli Brenner and Amir Saraf La Bouche, featuring Melanie Thornton and D. Lane McCray Jr., fueled for the 90s with their own brand of pop, dance, and a twist of R&B. Melanie's voice was discovered by the FMP Studios team in Germany, and she was undoubtedly the perfect singer for their long dreamed of project, La Bouche. Lane, whom she had recently met and began performing with in a band called Groovin' Affairs, had the talent and striking looks to compliment Melanie's diva-powered vocals and sultry beauty, thus completing the concept of La Bouche. She recalls 'although we just began working together, the chemistry was perfect!' The single that started it all was Sweet Dreams. At that time, Melanie was still hesitating between the 2 projects : la Bouche and Le Click. But the success was immediate : #3 in Israel, #1 in Italy and Spain, #8 in Germany, #8 in Australia, #8 in France, #5 in Switzerland, top 30 in the UK, # 13 in the USA Billboard Hot 100 (where it stayed not less than 33 weeks !). The next single to be released was Be My Lover in 1995, becoming an instant hit once again : #8 in Israel, #6 in the USA Billboard Hot 100, #1 in Germany and Spain, top 10 in Holland, Austria and Belgium, #3 in Australia, #2 in Canada, #2 in Italy, #3 in France, #5 Switzeland, and #25 in the UK. After two gold singles in Germany, both of which had topped the European charts and gained massive radio play throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States, La Bouche unleashed their debut album Sweet Dreams, which brought them to the forefront of America's pop market to become the new sensation of the 90s. Two video clip versions of both Be My Lover and Sweet Dreams were shot. The newer versions were made in and for the US. Then came a remixed version of Fallin In Love. In the US there was new radio mix (made by by AME, Florida) which went #16 on the America Top 40 radio charts. This new version, 3:49 long, was preferred to the Original slow version. But it was a radio station DJ only CD : people could not buy it in a store or anywhere. The gorgeous I Love To Love followed. It went #6 in Australia. A Megamix was finally released in 1996 as a conclusion to this first album. Afterwards there was quite a long pause. Melanie explains : "Frank Farian held pretty much total control of the project and he had, since the beginning of La Bouche, picked up a whole lot of other projects. We'd been put on the backburner until he'd finished producing No Mercy (and others). He did record a single called Bolingo that was supposed to be the introduction of our second album, but it didn't work that way. It was like six months after the end of our first album and like a year before the actual release of the second album. It wasn't supposed to be that way, but it's just the way it happened. Basically it was just waiting on Frank Farian. First to be ready to start producing and then, second, to be satisfied with the work. There were also power struggles going on there. I would have to say a lot of it was disagreements between Frank and the labels". After some silence La Bouche released a single called You Won´t Forget Me in October 1997 and on the 17th November the new album A Moment of Love was released. The new album contains of 9 new songs, 3 remixes and, of course, Bolingo and You Won't Forget Me. One of the 9 new songs isn't completely new... Mama Look (I Love Him) which was on the European release of Sweet Dreams can also be found on the new album ! Most tracks on the new album are uptempo dance tracks ! Later in 1998 La Bouche has released a single called A Moment of Love. But La Bouche's second album didn't have the success expected. We had to wait more than one year to hear the following single : SOS. 2000 : La Bouche has finally released some new material ! This new single is entitled All I Want. But all Melanie's fans will be very disappointed because the diva was replaced by Natascha Wright. She had been a background singer for MC Hammer, DJ Bobo and some others, and also released some solo eurodance singles. But Lane McCray remained a part of the group and was still going strong with his rap. A brandnew album was scheduled for September 2000 but still nothing has been released. Nothing either about the follow up to All I Want. The album would be produced as usual by Frank Farian and his team (FMP), and Lane McCray would be producing 3 tracks too. Lane was also planning a new solo record in the next 18 months. The La Bouche project is also a remixers team since we can find many "La Bouche mix" for many eurodance singles : for example, Full Speed's Star or Le Voyage's I Need A Love. November 2001 : Melanie Thornton died in a plane crash. 2002 : On April 4th BMG Germany will release an album of La Bouche feat. Melanie Thornton. This album will include the hits of La Bouche, the solo hits of the late Melanie Thornton, a videoclip of Sweet Dreams and two previously unreleased tracks of La Bouche. Because of the tragic death of Melanie, we could think that La Bouche definitely belonged to the past, and Lane McCray is working on his debut solo album Naked Songs In The Key Of Love, which will be released late summer. Lane also felt in the wake of Melanie's death there would be no more La Bouche. The magic died with her and cannot be recreated. But on November 25th the team finally decided to release a single. The release date was chosen because it was the first anniversary of Melanie's death. Entitled In Your Life, this very nice eurodance song was an unreleased song composed by Melanie Thornton herself. It also included a B-side called Take Me 2 Heaven 2 Night. There was a video (a sort of summary of the glorious years) and a best of album released along with the single. 2003 : La Bouche did a tour in support of In Your Life, beginning on the 6th April of 2003. Lane McCray brought his smooth dance, vocal and charisma to the stage. A new face joined Lane on stage : Kayo Shekoni, formerly the voice of Le Click. Together Lane and Kayo continued the sounds, songs and style that will always remain La Bouche. In Your Life reached #9 in the USA Billboard dance chart. Dance Artists Info © 1996-98 Niklas Adolfsson
© 1996 Logic Records U.S., Inc. Melanie Thornton's interview Dance Artists Infos Thanks to DJ Hooligan and BookmanJones |
La Casa Group , EuroDance ID# :1461 |
Free Your Soul was released under the label Got It. Feel The Deadline and Motherfuckerhouse were released by a Belgian/Dutch techno project of the same name. |
La Cream Group , EuroDance ID# :549 |
Production : Dr Records (directed by Dr Alban ). The name is originally the name of the producer group that has made songs and remixes for many bands. La is a feminine article in French language and because Tess is singing in French and English it suits the songs. The Swedish duo La Cream consisting of songstress/dancer Tess and DJ/producer Andréz , hit the charts again with their second single You. Their strong position on the Swedish Dance Chart shows a good grip on the DJ´s also this time. The big step on the Music Control Radio Chart has created just the position that the duo wanted. La Cream will most certainly be this years most successful artists in the category commercial dance music. You'll find both singles on La Creams debut album that'll be released in all of Scandinavia. Tess and Andréz met at Dr Records studio while they both were working with different projects. Meanwhile they got to know each other, and with Tess stagehabit combined with Andréz producer and DJ experience it turned out to be a 'hit'. They decided to bring out multicultural modern music so the lyrics contains a mixture of French, Spanish and English. In May´98 they worked in the studio and the result came out as their debut single Château d´Amour. The cover of Dr. Alban's hit This Time I'm Free called Free adds to their their singles : 'It's a very special track for me personally. When it was released in 1994 I was working as a dancer. I've danced a lot that song. No artists have had the opportunity to make cover of Dr. Alban's tracks. I really appreciated it when he said that I can do a cover of his old songs if I want to. He likes this project and me as an artist and believes in us so we had the chance to make it' says Tess. © Dr Records
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La Fortuna Group , EuroDance ID# :550 |
The female vocalist is probably Viviana from Da Blitz. The singles were released under the label Inprogress. Why Can't You See was released in December 1994, a remixes CD was released on the of 29th May 1995. |
La Luna Group , EuroTrance ID# :1273 |
La Luna is a Belgian beauty born 26th July 1980. Her real name is Sofie Lambaerts, but she prefers to be named Luna which is Italian word for moon In 1998, by reading an advert in the local newspaper, she came in contact with one of the most successful Belgian producer/songwriter Regi Penxten (Milk Inc., Sylver). Regi was looking for a female singer to start a new dance project. Sofie Lambaerts succeeded the vocal testings and became the voice and face of the newly founded K-Voice featuring La Luna. The first single Save Me From The Night which was released in January 1999 didn't break any major records in Belgium but nevertheless became a respected club hit. Regi and co-producer Steve Spaceman made the decision to put Sofie simply in front for the follow-up-single. Venus which was released in June 1999 was again a clubsuccess and made little cross-over to commercial radio. The single charted top 40 in the Flemish part of Belgium. Things were going well, therefore a new single was released. In January 2000 the new single When The Morning Comes became a mega success. In no time the track hit the top regions of the charts in Belgium. La Luna was nominated with When The Morning Comes for single of the year by major station Radio Donna. La Luna became very popular amongst youngsters and appeared on the covers of several teenmags Also Spain fell for the moon of Belgium. La Luna goes by an average of 2 times a month to the sunny country to do gigs. The fourth single Take Me, which was released in August 2000, entered in the top 10. The long expected 5th single Kisses Of Fire was released April 2001 in Belgium. Like the other 4 singles, this one is again produced by Regi Penxten and Steve Spaceman. On February 11th 2002 the next single was released. The song is called Here I Am. Dancevibes Belgium |
La Rebel Group , EuroDance ID# :552 |
No Way Out was released under the label MIX. |
La Rouge Group , EuroDance ID# :1646 |
Label : Palmares. "Rouge" means "red" in French. Another single called Tell Me was released in Italy in November 1997, but it might as well be another project. Thank to reBeL |
LA Style Group , EuroDance ID# :1685 |
LA Style was built around tha dancer and songwriter Stanley Foort (aka MC Stanford), who afterwards quitted the project to begin a solo carreer. The single that started it all was entitled James Brown Is Dead. 2 albums and many hits follwed. Their latest single Got To Move is an awesome eurodance track. Thanks to "Klick" EuroHolic |
La Tour Group , EuroDance ID# :553 |
Musical team : A. Oppermann,
Achim Sobotta,
T. Horn |