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Artist: DIETER & HERZAS ADAM Label: ROCKP

Record Label: Rockport Style: Hard Rock

Artist: RODGAU MONOTONES Label: ROCKP

Re-release of the rare 1991 album with the cover version of "When A Man Loves A Woman" featuring Percy Sledge. The album is re-mastered with two bonus songs, as an elaborate digipak including a 20-page booklet. Trance has rushed to third place in the German hard rock scene in the early 80s after Scorpions and Accept with the three Rockport albums with well over 250,000 LPs and CDs sold. After quarrels and a break, they had to rename themselves into Trancemission in the meantime. Back under an o Record Label: Rockport Style: Hard Rock

Artist: ADAM & DIE MICKY's Label: ROCKP

TRANCE subscribe to Rockport Records & Publishing e.K. Almost exactly after 35 years, TRANCE returned to the Rockport Records home location and signed a new contract with their discoverer label of 1980 (including "BREAK OUT", "POWER INFUSION" & "VICTORY"). The original members Markus Berger (guitar & main-songwriter) and Tom Klein (bass) are happy to be back in the arms of their old label boss Bernd Gruber. During the Dirkschneider support tour in Nuremberg, the signing ceremony between the newly registered band and label chef Bernd Gruber came to an end at the end of December 2016. The new album "The Loser Strikes Back" will be released on the Rockport label via Rough Trade Records on March 31, TRANCE - Almost a legend On 22.12.1981, ie 35 years ago, the then still unknown heavy formation TRANCE signed their record contract at ROCKPORT. In 1982 the debut album "BREAK OUT" was released, and the press was enthusiastic; Concerts with already known heavy bands followed. Just one year later, "POWER INFUSION" appeared with the highest praise from MusikExpress to Bravo. At the time of publication 10,000 copies had already been sold, and this was a great number for a second album. The popularity grew quickly, and after the undisputed SCORPIONS and ACCEPT they were already in 3rd place of the heavy bands. In France, Benelux and Scandinavia followed, TRANCE's "POWER INFUSION" was ranked 3rd in the import charts of the magazine SOUNDS / England, 2 places before Accept and 3 before Journey, and also in the English magazine KERRANG they landed 3 and thus a place in front of Gary Moore and 4 ahead of Motörhead. A single and a picture disc were released and a video shot, at that time still a huge thing with 16 mm TV cameras. Great exports to England and the USA were the result. The album "VICTORY" was recorded and published in the Dirks recording studio in 1984. The group was dissolved for the first time by great differences of opinion between producer, management and band. Today, 30 years later, TRANCE is still one of the highlights of the Heavy Rock of the 80s, and their records still sell regularly. With the original members Markus Berger (guitar & principal songwriter) and Thomas Klein (bass), TRANCE present their new, powerful line-up (Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth from Manilla Road at the drums, Joe Strubel, AC / ID The American Eddie St. James plays the second guitar), which has been found in the course of 2016. The new CD "The Loser Strikes Back" was recorded in the VPS studio under the auspices of Charly Czajkowski (including Rage, Subsignal, 21 Octayne) in Hamm. A special highlight is that the track "Loser" from the first disc "BREAK OUT" was recorded again in a 2017 version. Live can be expected from many TRANCE classics. Record Label: Rockport Style: Hard Rock

In 2017, Trance presents the latest album "The Loser Strikes Back" with the original members Markus Berger (songwriter, guitarist) and Thomas Klein (bass). Which together with Andreas "Neudi" Neuderth from Manilla Road at the drums, Joe Strubel (ex AC / ID) on the micro and Eddie St. James on the second guitar. The disc was recorded in the VPS studio under the eyes of Charly Czajkowski (Rage, Subsignal, 21 Octayne)! Record Label: Rockport Style: Hard Rock

Record Label: Rockport Style: Hard Rock

At the beginning of the 1980s, there were two home grown acts dominating the German Metal scene. The Scorpions had just released their heaviest album ever: »Blackout« in 1982. The same year the mighty Accept had issued their own masterpiece »Restless And Wild«. However, there was a third band with huge expectations. They were all over the German rock press, destined to become the next big thing in Teutonic Metal. Of course, we are talking about the legendary Trance here. Trance were originally formed in 1978 under the name of Age (with vocalist Lothar Antoni having been active since 1974). With the classic line-up of Lothar Antoni (vocals), Markus Berger (guitar), Thomas Klein (bass) and Jürgen Baum (drums) Trance recorded their first 7" single entitled »A hard Way to go« (with “Haze in the Twilight” on the flipside) in Stuttgart's Zuckerfabrik. “ Age was the forerunner to Trance,” says Lothar Antoni. “It was not the same band but some of the musicians involved were the same. Age did play different material than Trance later on. Musically, it was also quite different stuff. I'd say it was a mixture of Krautrock and hard rock. There was no heavy metal in Germany at this point in time. It was us, with Trance a bit later on, who defined heavy metal in Germany. No Age songs turned up on the first two Trance albums. »Break Out« and »Power Infusion« were written in a relatively short time span. Both albums included brand new material.” As early as 1981, the band from Edenkoben in Southern Germany was a very active live act (playing up to 150 gigs a year!), winning several local rock competitions in the process (for example in Rüsselsheim, and becoming runners-up in Ludwigshafen). “Yeah, we were indeed a very active live band. It's true to say that our biggest following was in the South of Germany but we did make it to the North and to the Ruhrpott area as well. And we played in Berlin three or four times. This was when the wall was still up. You basically needed a passport to travel through the German Democratic Republic. It was virtually foreign territory for us Southerners.” In June 1982, Rockport issued one of the best debut albums in the history of German Metal. »Break out« was a true masterpiece and sold in more than respectable quantities all over Europe and on import in the States (Rockport was just a small German independent label). The first German edition of Aardschok magazine was full of praise: “'Loser' is one of the best rock songs ever composed.” Who would disagree? But there was even more to discover: the uptempo opener “Break out” for example or “Burn the Ice” with its Scorpions-like guitar riff. Even the closing ballad “Baby Child” had a certain appeal although being the weakest of nine outstanding tracks. “Well, what can I say?,” asks Lothar when asked about the sheer brilliance of a song such as “Loser”. “When composing songs for Trance we always took great care in not repeating ourselves. Each and every song had to be different. Trance took influences from stuff other rock bands were not daring to touch upon. We never copied any ideas from other bands per se – becoming sort of a cover act was never our aim. This made us such a unique band.” Although signed to the smallish indie label Rockport, Trance was one of the leading metal bands of the early 1980s. “That's what people tend to forget,” knows Lothar Antoni. “It was a totally different time. But it was Accept, the Scorpions and us representing German Metal in 1982 and 1983. That's 30 years in the past now. But Trance was indeed a huge band back in the day. If you take a look at the magazines of the time, there was Trance, the Scorpions and Accept all over. We were flying the flag for German Metal. And this also was the case when talking about foreign countries. In England, for example, our record was available on import and sold in respectable quantities. We also reached the independent charts in the UK. Record Label: Rockport Style: Hard Rock