Fragma
Fragma | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Duderstadt, Inpetto |
| Origin | Germany |
| Genres | Trance |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels | Tiger Records, Positiva, Orbit Records |
| Members | Ramon Zenker Jörn Friese [1] |
Fragma, also known as the Fragma Project, are a German trance group, originally comprising three producers.[2] Their second release was "Toca's Miracle", which has sold over 500,000 copies and debuted at No. 1 in the UK.
Career
Founded in 1998 by brothers Dirk and Marco Duderstadt, they produced their first single "Toca Me" with record producer Ramon Zenker. When it was released the following year, it topped several dance charts around the world, and reached No. 11 in the UK Singles Chart.[3]
In 2000, a mash-up, Toca's Miracle was produced, taking the music of Fragma’s Toca Me and placing the vocals from Coco Star’s 1996 song I Need a Miracle (written for Coco Star by Rob Davis and Victor Imbres) over the top. Originally released on Orbit Records in Germany, Toca Me was also released in the UK on Positiva. As Coco also had released a version of I Need a Miracle on Positiva,[4] an official release was made, which went straight to number one in the UK chart,[3] and was popular in Australia and Ireland. Toca's Miracle was described as a “song that was never really meant to be” by Billboard's Michael Paoletta.[5] An album was released in 2001; Toca, as well as two other singles; "Everytime You Need Me" (UK No. 3),[3] which featured vocals by Maria Rubia, and "You Are Alive" (UK No. 4)[3] with vocals by Damae.
2002 saw the Duderstadts set up their own studio, called Evergreen-Terrace. The same year saw Fragma still operating with vocalist Damae, release a second album; Embrace, with hit singles such as "Say That You're Here", "Embrace Me", "Man In The Moon" and "Time And Time Again". During this period, Fragma parted with their UK record label Positiva and released "Say That You're Here" in December 2001 on Illustrious Records. The song charted at No. 25 but a hiatus on the UK chart began which lasted for several years.
Dirk and Marco are also currently working as a duo under their surname Duderstadt. Two singles have been released under this name; "Sunrise" and "Taking Over" on Gang Go Records. A third single, "Mahananda", was released in 2005 on Afterglow Records. This was followed by the fourth single "Muhanjala" in 2006, and another featuring Anita Kelsey called "Smile" in 2007. In 2006, Fragma released the new single "Radio Waves" together with Kirsty Hawkshaw.
2008 saw the release of "Toca's Miracle 2008" with the vocals of Coco Star and the InPetto remix of the original song. "Toca's Miracle 2008" reached #2 on the Australian ARIA Club Charts and #16 on the UK Singles Chart.
Fragma commenced touring again with Damae throughout Europe, where they featured on the Dance Nation tour in the UK. "Memory" was released by Hard2Beat Records, followed by "Forever And A Day" with Damae, which was released in November 2009.
In late 2012 CoCo Star revealed on her official Facebook page that the record companies had confused the vocal recordings and sampled the original 1996 version of I Need a Miracle (released on Greenlight Records), instead of the 1997 re-recording (released on EMI/Positiva). She also wrote that the agreements that were entered “are now known to be ‘Unauthorised’”.[6] On CoCo Star’s SoundCloud page she wrote that the 2008 Inpetto remix of Toca’s Miracle, made by the talented Duderstadt brothers, as well as other remixes, were never authorised either.[7] Shortly after, Kirsty Hawkshaw revealed that Fragma had never paid her royalties for her contribution to the 2006 single Radio Waves. Legally binding contracts were never issued, and the release was illegal. She further wrote that she loves the Bastian remix of the track, released in October 2012, and that she was sure Bastian had nothing to do with “the rogue label Tiger Records”. Kirsty Hawkshaw and Coco Star have both stated that they support each other.[8]
Discography
Studio albums
Studio albums
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Sales/certification | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEN | FIN | GER | NOR | SWE | UK [3] | |||
| 2001 | Toca
|
39 | 21 | 53 | 15 | 54 | 19 | |
| 2002 | Embrace
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— | — | — | — | — | — | |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AUS [9] |
AUT [10] |
DEN [11] |
GER [12] |
IRE [13] |
NED [14] |
NOR [15] |
SWE [16] |
SUI [17] |
UK [3] | |||||
| 1999 | "Toca Me" | — | — | — | — | 20 | 49 | — | — | — | 11 | Toca | ||
| 2000 | "Toca's Miracle" | 8 | — | 5 | 46 | 4 | 63 | 2 | 18 | 55 | 1 | |||
| 2001 | "Everytime You Need Me" (featuring Maria Rubia) | 17 | 42 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 19 | 42 | 3 | |||
| "You Are Alive" (featuring Damae) | 37 | 13 | 16 | 23 | 20 | — | 13 | 45 | 67 | 4 | ||||
| "Say That You're Here" (featuring Damae) | 41 | 53 | — | 55 | — | — | — | — | 100 | 25 | Embrace(featuring Damae) | |||
| 2002 | "Embrace Me" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | 81 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Time and Time Again" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | 44 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2003 | "Man in the Moon" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Singles only | ||
| 2005 | "Born to Love" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2006 | "Radio Waves" (with Kirsty Hawkshaw) | — | — | — | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2007 | "Deeper" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2008 | "Toca's Miracle 2008" (featuring coco) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 16 | |||
| 2008 | "Memory" (featuring Damae) | — | 74 | — | 64 | — | 20 | — | — | 30 | — | |||
| 2009 | "Forever and a Day" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2010 | "What Do You Want" (with Jesus Luz) (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 2011 | "Oops Sorry" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Everytime You Need Me 2011" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "What Love Can Do" (with Plastik Funk)(featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Insane (In Da Brain)" (with Djs from Mars)(featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 2012 | "Thousand Times" (featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Where Do We Go" (featuring Akil Wingate)(featuring Damae) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||||||||||||
References
- ^ Fragma Official Facebook Page - Info
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 211. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Cite error: The named reference "British Hit Singles & Albums" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Coco – I Need a Miracle (released on Positiva)
- ^ Billboard - Google Books. Books.google.co.uk. 2001-08-25. Retrieved 2012-12-28.
- ^ Coco Star’s official Facebook page
- ^ Coco Star’s SoundCloud page
- ^ Kirsty Hawkshaw’s official Facebok fan page
- ^ Australian peaks
- ^ Austrian peaks
- ^ Danish peaks
- ^ German peaks
- ^ "Irish Singles Chart – Search for song". Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved July 6, 2011.
- ^ Dutch Top 40 peaks
- ^ Norwegian peaks
- ^ Swedish peaks
- ^ Swiss peaks