E-Rotic
E-Rotic is a German techno/hip house/eurodance group originally comprising of Lyane Leigh and American-born Raz-Ma-Taz (Richard Michael Smith). The group started in 1994 and recorded throughout the rest of the 1990s. Their music is almost entirely based on a gimmick of sexual topics and innuendo.
However by June 1996, both members of the group had left due to disagreement between Leigh and producer David Brandes. E-Rotic was now comprised of Jeanette Christensen and Terence d'Arby (not to be confused with Terence Trent d'Arby). Lyane Leigh continued to provide vocal work for several albums until 1999 due to contract, but she and Raz-Ma-Taz formed their own group in the meantime, known as SEX Appeal. In October of the same year, d'Arby was replaced by Ché Jouaner.
Christensen left in 2001, and the new vocalist was Yasemin Baysal, previously of the group Das Modul. However, both Jouaner and Baysal left in 2002, and the new vocalist and rapper would be Lydia Madawjewski (who had been providing vocals since Lyane Leigh's departure in 1999) and Robert Spehar. However, it has been revealed that the actual rap performer for the group in the studio has actually been the producer David Brandes.
Recently, particularly in the United States where their music is otherwise difficult to find, E-Rotic has become known for tracks that appear on the video games Dance Dance Revolution and In The Groove.
Discography
- Sex Affairs (1995)
- The Power Of Sex (1996)
- Sexual Madness (Japanese version) (1997)
- Thank You For The Music (Japan) (1997)
- Sexual Madness (1997)
- Thank You For The Music (1997)
- Greatest Tits (Japan) (1998)
- Greatest Tits (1998)
- Kiss Me (Japan) (1999)
- Mambo No. Sex (1999)
- Gimme Gimme Gimme (2000)
- Missing You (2000)
- Dancemania presents E-Rotic Megamix (2000)
- Sexual Healing (2001)
- The Very Best Of E-rotic (Japan) (2001)
- Sex Generation (2001)
- The Collection CD 1 (Japan) (2002)
- The Collection CD 2 (Japan) (2002)
- Total Recall (2003)
- Cocktail d'E-rotique (2003)
Compare to: Lords of Acid, Peaches (artist)
External links
Categories: Bemani artists