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Since their first release, 'The Awakening' (Adrenalin Germany),York has been the name on everyone's lips. Catchy guitar hooks and delicate dance textures have caused a sensation in dubs, on the radio, in the charts across Europe, and at the same time created a whole new flavor of Ibiza trance-house.
York are the very talented brothers Torsten and Jorg Stenzel. Torsten is currently one of the hottest and most in demand producers in Germany having worked with the likes of DJ Sakin and Friends on 'Protect Your Mind" (Braveheart), 'Nomansland1 (Positiva), DJ Taucher (Positiva), Ayla (Positiva), Kai Tracid (Sony Music), Mario De Bellis (Netrecord-z), Janet Taylor (Universal), Vanessa Mae (EMI UK) etc... Torsten Stenzel is after receiving a lot of Gold-and Platinum awards without a doubt THE 'Master of Trance'.
He began his musical career early in his childhood, learning the piano from the tender age of 5 when he began his classical training. Until the age of 18 classical music and theory were his life, even playing the church organ in his home town for 2 years. In the early 90's his orientation changed and he discovered the rapidly growing techno/house movement. Little by little he put together his own studio and combined parts of his own musical production skills under the broad control of classical theory. His first success came in 1992 with N.U.K.E's 'Nana' which shot to number 3 in the charts in Holland, Belgium and Italy.
From there Torsten began working with a variety of DJ's; such as Taucher with whom he created the tracks 'Infinity', 'Miracle', and 'Fantasy', all of which went Top 100 in the German charts. His reputation began to grow overseas, culminating in releases and chart success predominantly with Positiva in the UK. Today Torsten continues to mix & produce with some of the biggest names, including Moby, John Aquaviva, DJ Sakin, DJ Taucher, Faithless, Culture Beat, Ayla and more. His own more progressive remixes go out under the name 'Suspicious Mix' and in 1997 he was voted 2nd best remixer of the year by Germany's top Raveline Magazine, Meanwhile he continues to release records on his own Liquid Records and Planet Love labels and together has had over 207 releases and sold over 3 million records.
The other Stenzel brother is Jorg, from whence the name 'YORK' was derived, His friends (especially the foreign ones) have always called him YORK and so the name stuck - As his virtuoso guitar playing is one of the key elements of their tracks, the name of the group came naturally... At the age of 11 Jorg was interested in stringed instruments, the guitar in particular, and characteristic of great guitarists such as Hendrix and Santana; played in a variety of bands, pushing his experimental side of his nature.
Jorg has also become an outstanding contributor in the studio, and in 1997 while he was busy with ideas to combine guitar anthems with current house and trance grooves, his brother joined him with his own ideas and 'YORK' was born,
In 1998 they wrote the debut single "Awakening" which was released to wide acclaim (initially only available in UK on import and heavily caned by the likes of Pete Tong), and have expended into playing live, becoming one of clubland's most booked acts throughout Europe. 'Awakening' went top ten in UK and therefore other charts in Europe,
Their follow-up 'OTB' recently stormed the UK charts, scoring UK Top 5 and received for over 200.000 copies a silver record award. The next single 'Farewell to the moon' seem to step in he same successful way that 'OTB' did. Their debut album will be released in November 2000.
Apart from that YORK Remixes are demanded from people like Lionel Ritchi and Torsten and Jorg decided to do a track together with ATB. The result is ATB feat. YORK 'Fields of love' which is new entry top ten in the german official club charts this week.
The success continues………:-)
We are happy to announce that the compilation "Chillbar Vol.2" will be available on CD and online at all well known download stores. We’d like to take this opportunity to invite you to check it out.
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All the best
~SINE
Hello my friends on myspace, I know by myself, that all of you get everyday a lot of spammessages, but no day in the past from myside, this is the first time, that i ask you to help me for a vote. Give progressive house in germany a chance. Thanks Hyline
The vote is only in German so here is the translation for all, which don´t understand visit my blog on myspace, there you will find a translation.
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Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?
Production : Condor Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli 3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8
The new album "Macao Cafe Ibiza - The Next Episode" contains many beautiful songs chillout all the creme de la creme of the producers of the moment Lounge Ibiza: Thorsten Stenzel, Chris Le Blanc, Roberto Sol and many more.
Tracklist:
1 Grooveprofessor - Waves Crashing 2 L'Art Mystique - Le jardin Secret 3 David Clavijo González - East Winds 4 Gil da Silva - Liberdade 5 Roberto Sol - Remember That Day 6 York - I Need You 7 Sin Plomo & Simonne Cooper - Without Me 8 Chris Le Blanc f.
Lisa de Andrade - Flor de Vida 9 Roberto Sol & Yann Kuhlmann - Kayumas 10 Ibiza Nation - Dawning 11 Roberto Sol & Chris Le Blanc f.
Ines - Sueño de Amor 12 Chupitos de Formentera - Lugar del sueño
Hello my great friend York !!!!! I have uploaded a new track in myspace. I hope you like it, is entitled "Dancing On The Moon". It is a track in that mix Chillout music, New Age music and Classical music.
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