Proxyon is a Dutch

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 synthpop

Synthpop

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 project founded by Michiel van der Kuy (who also worked in similar synthdance projects as Laserdance

Laserdance

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, Koto

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 and Rygar

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).

History

Proxyon released its first single

Single (music)

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, "Space Hopper", in 1987 under the Rams Horn Records label

Record label

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. The first two Proxyon album

Album

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s (Proxyon and The Interplanetary Mission) were co-produced by Michiel van Eijk and Rob van Eijk, and composed by the Dutch synthpop musician Michiel van der Kuy. The third album, Return Of Tarah, had a slightly different sound because it was made by a different record producer

Record producer

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 who billed himself as 'Jay Vee'.

Discography

• Proxyon (1989)
• The Interplanetary Mission (1992)
• The Return of Tarah (1993)
• Space Intermission (compilation album
  Compilation album
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  ) (1995)
• Hypersound Outta Space (compilation album) (2005)