Brooklyn Bounce
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Brooklyn Bounce is one of several pseudonyms used by German trance
producers
Matthias Menck
(Double M) and Dennis Bohn (Bonebreaker). They have also produced music under the names Mental Madness Productions and Beatbox feat. Rael. Menck and Bohn have created remix
es of a wide array of artists, including Scooter and Kool & the Gang
.
and Bohn, both natives to Hamburg
, met in 1995. The pair had their first chart hit starring as Boyz R Us with the single "Singin' In My Mind". In 1996 the duo debuted as Brooklyn Bounce and released the "The Theme (of Progressive Attack)" which scaled the German dance charts as a club favourite before becoming a crossover hit for the group as well. This success set up the band's first debut album, The Beginning.
Menck and Bohn work solely in the studio and are not part of the Brooklyn Bounce live act. Instead, the group was fronted by several different vocalists and dancers, who have collaborated with the two German producers throughout the years. The list includes René "Diablo" Behrens (formerly of 666), Ulrika Bohn, Alejandra Cuevas-Moreno and Stephan "Damon" Zschoppe. Vocalists were only credited from "Bass, Beats and Melody", released in November 2000.
In 2006, Mental Madness Records released an album titled System Shock (The Lost Album 1999), which features some of the earliest material by the production duo. The album includes previously-unreleased material, and also remixes of popular classics. This album is available only in a digital format.
Boyz-R-Us
Other aliases
Production for other artists
Trance music
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producers
Record producer
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Matthias Menck
Matthias Menck
Matthias Menck, alias Double M, alias Toxilogic is a German graduate audio engineer, house and trance producer and DJ, resident in Hamburg. He is most famous for being a part of Brooklyn Bounce.- Producer and DJ :...
(Double M) and Dennis Bohn (Bonebreaker). They have also produced music under the names Mental Madness Productions and Beatbox feat. Rael. Menck and Bohn have created remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....
es of a wide array of artists, including Scooter and Kool & the Gang
Kool & the Gang
Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
.
Career
MenckMatthias Menck
Matthias Menck, alias Double M, alias Toxilogic is a German graduate audio engineer, house and trance producer and DJ, resident in Hamburg. He is most famous for being a part of Brooklyn Bounce.- Producer and DJ :...
and Bohn, both natives to Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, met in 1995. The pair had their first chart hit starring as Boyz R Us with the single "Singin' In My Mind". In 1996 the duo debuted as Brooklyn Bounce and released the "The Theme (of Progressive Attack)" which scaled the German dance charts as a club favourite before becoming a crossover hit for the group as well. This success set up the band's first debut album, The Beginning.
Menck and Bohn work solely in the studio and are not part of the Brooklyn Bounce live act. Instead, the group was fronted by several different vocalists and dancers, who have collaborated with the two German producers throughout the years. The list includes René "Diablo" Behrens (formerly of 666), Ulrika Bohn, Alejandra Cuevas-Moreno and Stephan "Damon" Zschoppe. Vocalists were only credited from "Bass, Beats and Melody", released in November 2000.
In 2006, Mental Madness Records released an album titled System Shock (The Lost Album 1999), which features some of the earliest material by the production duo. The album includes previously-unreleased material, and also remixes of popular classics. This album is available only in a digital format.
Singles
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| 1996 | The Theme (of Progressive Attack) | 9 | 9 | - | 37 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1997 | Get Ready to Bounce | 6 | 21 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 17 | 95 | 10 | - | 20 | - |
| Take a Ride | 28 | 39 | 22 | - | - | - | 35 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| The Real Bass | 23 | - | 22 | - | - | - | 44 | - | 19 | - | - | - | |
| 1998 | The Music's Got Me | 39 | 49 | 30 | - | - | - | 58 | - | 41 | 67 | - | - |
| Contact | 44 | - | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | - | - | - | |
| Listen to the Bells | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1999 | Canda! (The Darkside Returns) | 56 | - | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Funk U | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2000 | Bass, Beats & Melody | 4 | 43 | 2 | - | - | 11 | 47 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2001 | Born to Bounce (Music Is My Destiny) | 22 | 94 | 14 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Club Bizarre Club Bizarre "Club Bizarre" is a 1994 song recorded by German act U96. It was a single from the album of the same name and was released in summer 1995. The song was a hit in several countries, although it was not as successful as U96's previous single, "Love Religion", but became a top twenty hit in the... |
12 | 41 | 9 | - | 4 | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | |
| 2002 | Loud & Proud | 9 | 88 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bring it Back | 30 | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2003 | X2X (We Want More!) | 37 | - | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2004 | Crazy Crazy (Seal song) "Crazy" is a song written by English soul artist Seal and producer Guy Sigsworth . The song was produced by Trevor Horn for Seal's debut album Seal . Seal's debut single, "Crazy" is one of his biggest hits, reaching the top five in the United Kingdom and the top ten in the United States... |
52 | - | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2005 | Sex, Bass & Rock 'n' Roll | 94 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2007 | The Theme (of Progressive Attack) Recall (promo only) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2008 | Get Ready to Bounce Recall '08 (promo only) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | Louder & Prouder | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Albums
| Year | Album | Chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER 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... |
SUI Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... |
AU Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the... |
HUN Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| 1997 | The Beginning The Beginning (Brooklyn Bounce album) The Beginning is the debut album by German dance band Brooklyn Bounce. Three singles were released from it: "The Theme ", "Get Ready to Bounce" and "Take a Ride".-Track listing:#"The Beginning" - 1:06... |
24 | 37 | 24 | 1 |
| The Second Attack | 86 | - | - | 1 | |
| 1998 | Re-Mixed Collection | - | - | - | - |
| 2000 | The Progressive Years | - | - | - | - |
| 2001 | Restart | 24 | - | 25 | 3 |
| 2002 | BB Nation | 57 | - | - | - |
| 2004 | Best of Brooklyn Bounce | - | - | - | - |
| X-pect the Un-X-pected | - | - | - | - | |
| 2005 | Sex, Bass & Rock'n'Roll | - | - | - | - |
| 2006 | Best of Brooklyn Bounce 1996–2006 (Australia only) | - | - | - | - |
| System Shock (The Lost Album 1999) (web-release) | - | - | - | - | |
| 2010 | BB-Styles | - | - | - | - |
Other projects by Menck and Bohn
Beatbox feat. Rael- 1998 "Let the Music Play"
- 1998 "Come Into My Club" (with DJ Shahin and Stephan Browarczyk)
- 2000 "Show Me Love"
Boyz-R-Us
- 1996 "Singin' in my Mind" (with Emanuel Jones)
- 1998 "Singin' in my Mind '98" (with Emanuel Jones)
- 1999 "Alright" (with Emanuel Jones)
- 2002 "All Day/Let It All Out"
Other aliases
- 1997 "Follow Me", as Mental Madness Productions
- 1998 "Deeper Love", as Mental Madness Productions
- 1998 "Watch Me", as Abuna E
- 2000 "Druck! (Es Ist Zeit)", as DJ Bonebreaker
- 2001 "Friday Nite", as Double MMatthias MenckMatthias Menck, alias Double M, alias Toxilogic is a German graduate audio engineer, house and trance producer and DJ, resident in Hamburg. He is most famous for being a part of Brooklyn Bounce.- Producer and DJ :...
(with Sophie Schmachl and Christoph Brüx) - 2002 "Husten", as DJ Bonebreaker
Production for other artists
- 2001 Terraformer - "All Over" (with Natalie Tineo)