Bass Bumpers
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Bass Bumpers is a DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

 and record production
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 team, known for their dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

/techno music. They are originally from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

; with members: Henning Reith, Caba Kroll, CJ Stone, George Dee, Akira Yamamoto, and Reinhard "DJ Voodoo" Raith. They are known throughout Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 under the names Bass Bumpers, CJ Stone, and Bad Habit Boys, producing their own hits such as "Good Fun", "The Music's Got Me" (a number 36 hit on Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

's
Hot Dance Club Songs chart in 1992), and "Move to the Rhythm". Perhaps their biggest success was when they created Crazy Frog
Crazy Frog
Crazy Frog, originally known as Adam King, is a computer-animated character created in 2003 by Erik Wernquist. Marketed by the ringtone provider Jamba!, the animation was originally created to accompany a sound effect produced by Daniel Malmedahl in 1997 while attempting to imitate the sound of a...

's remake of the popular hit "Axel F" from Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American comedy-action film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, and Ronny Cox...

. This was a song credited to Crazy Frog, which peaked at number 1 in the UK
United Kingdom
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 on May 31, 2005.

Their own tracks, "Runnin'" (1993) and "The Music's Got Me" (1994) were minor hits
Hit record
A hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...

 in the UK Singles Chart
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

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The supergroup has also written and produced music for other artists, including Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear
Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....

, Despina Vandi
Despina Vandi
Despina Malea , known by her stage name Despina Vandi , is a Greek singer. Born in Tübingen near Stuttgart, West Germany, Vandi's family returned to Kavala, Greece when she was six years old and she later enrolled at the University of Thessaloniki, but eventually dropped out to begin a career in...

, DJ Sammy
DJ Sammy
Samuel Bouriah , professionally known as DJ Sammy Is a DJ and producer. He has released five albums and has had five Top 10 hits with "Heaven" reaching number one in the UK in 2002. His career started with former spouse Marie José in the making of his first singles, under the stage name of DJ Sammy...

, and Loona
Loona
Marie-Jose van der Kolk also known by her stage names Loona and Carisma, is a Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer. She is most noted for her collaboration with DJ Sammy, and performing as a duo under the stage name of DJ Sammy feat. Carisma...

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Albums

  • 1992: Advance
  • 1993: Recouped Advance
  • 1995: The Best of
  • 2004: Dance History

Singles

  • 1990: "Can't Stop Dancing"
  • 1990: "Can't Stop Dancing" - Remix
  • 1991: "Get The Big Bass"
  • 1991: "Get The Big Bass" - Remix
  • 1992: "Get The Big Bass" - The U.K. Remixes (Limited DJ Edition)
  • 1992: "The Music's Got Me"
  • 1992: "The Music's Got Me" - Remixes
  • 1992: "Move To The Rhythm"
  • 1992: "Move To The Rhythm" - The Remixes
  • 1992: "Mega Bump" - The Megamix
  • 1993: "(Keep Me) Runnin'"
  • 1993: "(Keep Me) Runnin'" - Remixes
  • 1993: "(Keep Me) Runnin'" - Radio E.P. (für Radio DJ's)
  • 1994: "Good Fun"
  • 1994: "Good Fun" - Remix
  • 1995: "Keep On Pushing"
  • 1995: "Keep On Pushing" - Remixes
  • 1996: "The Music's Got Me" - '96er Remixes (The Paul Gotel Mixes)
  • 1997: "(Keep Me) Runnin' 97"
  • 2000: "Weekend" - released in Australia under "Bad Habit Boys" distributed by Shock records
  • 2001: "The Music Turns Me On"
  • 2003: "Don't Look Back" (Remix)
  • 2005: "The Music's Got Me" - 2005 Remixes
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