Northern Germany

This band is hot. Very, very hot. And those aren't just empty words. After all, the Blues Company from Osnabrück, Germany is neither a hodgepodge of rank beginners nor - to borrow business lingo - a group of new business starters. Rather, they are a team of artists who have made their mark, musicians with experience and know-how aplenty. The musicians at work here have long since ensured that the name of their “company” is a recognised “seal of approval”. In a nutshell, “Blues Company” stands for German's longest-running and most successful blues band. And with each new recording, with each concert, these pros underscore that their passionate love affair with the blues is burning brightly as ever.

After the release of the two highly successful 12inches "Filicium" and "Third Space", which generated the first UK Big Beat charts entrance for the Elektrolux label, Hamburg/Germany based electro specialists N)E(M deliver their first longplayer. "Northern Electro Movement" is a groundbreaking album, which represents all aspects of contemporary Electro and helps to push the music another step further. The producers of this master work, 3DJ Dirsch and Andreas Roll, already rank among the top german Electro artists, performing live all over the country (listen to "United Meadow" and "Silikon").

Discovered: In May 1968 a very young musician named Wolfgang Michels with the pseudonym "One Plus None" landed a No. 2 hit in England with "Desert Walker", a song produced by himself, topped only by the Rolling Stones at No. 1. The blues musician Alexis Korner invited Michels to London and took him under his wings.
Percewood's Onagram: The psychedelic rock band Percewood's Onagram, with Michels as singer and guitarist, caused a sensation in the early 1970s as the first German indie band; …