Brooklyn Bounce
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| Brooklyn Bounce | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Mental Madness Productions, Abuna E, Beatbox feat. Rael |
| Origin | Hamburg, Germany |
| Genre(s) | Progressive house Progressive Trance |
| Years active | 1996-present |
| Label(s) | Club Tools (1996-1999) Dance Division (2000-2002) Mental Madness (2003-present) |
| Associated acts | Dance United |
| Website | http://www.brooklynbounce.com |
| Members | |
| Dennis Bohn | |
| Former members | |
| Matthias Menck | |
Brooklyn Bounce is one of several pseudonyms used by German house music 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 also done remixes of a wide array of artists, including Scooter and Kool & the Gang.
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[edit] Career
Menck 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.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Singles
| Year | Song | Chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | SUI | AU | FRA | NL | HUN | SWE | U.S. | U.S. Dance | UK | FIN | ||
| 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 | Tiempo de la Luna (unofficial single) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bass, Beats & Melody | 4 | 43 | 2 | - | - | 11 | 47 | - | - | - | - | |
| 2001 | Born to Bounce (Music Is My Destiny) | 22 | 94 | 14 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Club Bizarre | 12 | 41 | 9 | - | 4 | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2002 | Loud & Proud | 9 | 88 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bring it Back | 30 | - | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 2003 | X2X (We Want More!) | 37 | - | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2004 | Crazy | 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 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
[edit] Albums
| Year | Album | Chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | SUI | AU | HUN | |||||||||
| 1997 | The Beginning | 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 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| 2006 | Best of Brooklyn Bounce 1996–2006 (Australia only) | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| System Shock (The Lost Album 1999) (web-release) | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
[edit] 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 M (with Sophie Schmachl)
- 2002 "Husten", as DJ Bonebreaker
- Production for other artists
- 2001 Terraformer - "All Over" (with Natalie Tineo)
