Beborn Beton
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Beborn Beton is a German
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...

 synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...

 band founded in 1989, with their first album release in 1993. Their debut named Tybalt is a compilation of the best tracks written in the first three years of their band history and was very well received in the electronic music scene. In 1995 the follow-up album Concrete Ground was released. After a change of record label in 1996 their break-through album Nightfall was published featuring the club-filler "Im Innern Einer Frau".

The album Rückkehr zum Eisplaneten was released in 2000. It features remixes of Beborn Beton songs by artists such as Covenant
Covenant (band)
Covenant is a band from Sweden whose music comprises a mixture between electropop and electronic dance music. The band is composed of Eskil Simonsson, Daniel Myer and Joakim Montelius...

, Camouflage
Camouflage (band)
Camouflage is a German New Wave trio consisting of Marcus Meyn, Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig. Their only Billboard Hot 100 hit was "The Great Commandment" which climbed to #59 in 1988, though it did spend three weeks at #1 on the US dance chart...

, Neuroticfish
Neuroticfish
Neuroticfish was a German musical project whose styles were borrowed from Electronic body music, futurepop, and synthpop, as well as other types of electronic music. It released its music on the Dancing Ferret Discs record label.- History :...

 and Daniel Myer of Haujobb
Haujobb
Haujobb is a German musical project whose output has ranged drastically within the electronic music spectrum, from electro-industrial to IDM and techno...

, as well as remixes by Beborn Bebop.

The word Beborn has no particular meaning, while Beton is the German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 word for concrete
Concrete
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, which according to the band refers to the urban environment they grew up in.

Members

  • Stefan "Till" Tillmann, composing, synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    s, drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Michael B. Wagner, composing, synthesizers, homepage
  • Stefan Netschio, lyrics, vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...


Discography

  1. Tybalt 1993 (Label: Subtronic)
  2. Twisted 1993 (Label: Subtronic)
  3. Concrete Ground 1994 (Label: Subtronic)
  4. Nightfall 1996 (Label: Strange Ways)
  5. Tybalt 1997 - Re-Release (Label: Dark Star)
  6. Truth 1997 (Label: Strange Ways)
  7. Another World 1997 (Label: Strange Ways)
  8. Concrete Ground 1998 - Re-Release (Label: Strange Ways)
  9. Poison 1999 (Label: Strange Ways)
  10. Fake 1999 (Label: Strange Ways)
  11. Fake Bonus 1999 (Label: Strange Ways)
  12. Rückkehr zum Eisplaneten 2000 (Label: Strange Ways)
  13. Tales from another world 2002 (Label: Wtii, LLC)

Remixes for other artists done by Beborn Beton

  1. Apoptygma Berzerk
    Apoptygma Berzerk
    Apoptygma Berzerk is a Norwegian musical group. They have achieved success with a brand of synthpop, and ballads backed with electronic rhythms, commonly known within the scene and referring to themselves as "futurepop". Apop has won awards and top-10 spots in Germany and Scandinavia...

     - "Kathy's Song"
  2. Infam - "Limbo"
  3. Claire Voyant
    Claire Voyant
    Claire Voyant is a dream pop, darkwave, ethereal wave band from Sacramento, California. The trio were once part of a 5-piece band called Murmur, which split over creative differences...

     - "Majesty"
  4. Funker Vogt
    Funker Vogt
    Funker Vogt is a German electronic music project with an aggressive style, formed by vocalist Jens Kästel and programmer Gerrit Thomas in 1995. Other members of the band are keyboardist/manager Bjorn Bottcher, live guitarist Frank Schweigert and lyricist Kai Schmidt...

     - "Under Deck"
  5. Cleen - "The Voice"
  6. De/Vision
    De/Vision
    De/Vision is a German synthpop musical group. The band started as a quartet consisting of Thomas Adam, Steffen Keth, Stefan Blender, and Markus Ganssert. They formed the band in 1988. The name De/Vision is a play on words. The majority of the band's lyrics are in English, but they have had some...

     - "Your Hands On My Skin"
  7. Clan of Xymox
    Clan of Xymox
    The band Clan of Xymox, also known as Xymox, formed in the Netherlands in 1981. Clan Of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters - Pieter Nooten, Ronny Moorings and Anke [also Anka] Wolbert - and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on a prestigious independent UK label, a...

     - "Something Wrong"
  8. Camouflage
    Camouflage (band)
    Camouflage is a German New Wave trio consisting of Marcus Meyn, Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig. Their only Billboard Hot 100 hit was "The Great Commandment" which climbed to #59 in 1988, though it did spend three weeks at #1 on the US dance chart...

     - "I Can't Feel You
    I Can't Feel You (song)
    I Can't Feel You is German synthpop group Camouflage's seventeenth single, released in August 2003 as the second and final single from their sixth studio album Sensor....

    "
  9. In Strict Confidence
    In Strict Confidence
    In Strict Confidence is a German electro-industrial band. Formed in 1989/1990, they were known as Seal of Secrecy until 1992. In Strict Confidence has been signed to several record labels, including Metropolis Records and WTII Records.-History:...

     - "Seven Lives"
  10. Wolfsheim
    Wolfsheim (band)
    Wolfsheim was a synthpop band from Hamburg, Germany that consisted of Markus Reinhardt and Peter Heppner. Although never officially disbanded, Wolfsheim has been inactive since 2005 due to a dispute between the two members, which even led to trials in 2007 and 2008 that forbade either member to...

     - "Approaching Lightspeed"
  11. Virtual Server - "The Earth" (featuring Reagan Jones of Iris
    Iris (Texas band)
    Iris is an American synthpop band, formed by Reagan Jones and Mat Morris in 1993. After releasing their first album Disconnect, Matthew Morris was replaced with Andrew Sega, who pushed the band's sound into a more experimental electronic direction...

    )
  12. Technoir - "Manifesto"
  13. Technoir - "All In My Head"
  14. Purwien - "Alle Fehler" (featuring Joachim Witt
    Joachim Witt
    Joachim Witt is a German musician and actor.- Life and work :Joachim Witt became a major star of the German pop scene during the eighties with huge hits such as "Der Goldene Reiter"...

    )
  15. Helalyn Flowers - "DGTal Blood"
  16. Purwien - "So kalt"
  17. James D. Stark - "Ready"
  18. Lyronian - "Life Is A Show"
  19. Ad Inferna - "Vertige"
  20. Minerve - "My Universe"
  21. Parralox - "Moonwalking"
  22. Zynic - "Dreams In Black And White"
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