RMB
RMB is the name of a German electronic music band,
founded by Rolf Maier-Bode whose initials form the band name. Maier-Bode
works in the studio with partner Farid Gharadjedaghi.
The two met in 1991 while working for the Adam & Eve label, Maier-Bode as a producer and Gharadjedaghi as A&R. After two releases under the RMB name, they split from Adam & Eve in 1993 to join the Low Spirit label. Their 1996 single, "Spring" was a gold record in Germany, with sales over 250,000 copies, and the follow-up "Reality" reached #11 in the Media Control charts.[1] After this, they worked with Sharam
Jey and Talla 2XLC. In 1998, they founded their own label, Various
Silver Recordings.
Through their association with German rave culture,
they have engaged in environmental activism,[1] joining Greenpeace
in protest against the Moruroa atol nuclear testing, to which they
dedicated the track "Our Trip to Mururoa", a B-side found in the single "Passport to Heaven".
In 2005 RMB split up[2] and Maier-Bode continued
to work as a solo producer/composer under the name ROLF MAIER BODE
(his real name has a hyphen, Rolf Maier-Bode[3]). In March 2009
THIRTEEN STORIES was released, this would be the first full length
album with new music from Maier-Bode since Mission Horizon (2001).
The album is of essentially ambient character, a natural development
considering every album has had an increased amount of ambient
orientation since This World is Yours (1995). He has since followed
this up with a remix version of the album, entitled THIRTEEN NIGHTS,
released in 2010.
[edit] Line-Up
Producer: Rolf Maier-Bode
Disc Jockey: Farid Gharadjedaghi
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
1993 Trax
1995 This World Is Yours
1998 Widescreen
2001 Mission Horizon
2002 Mission Horizon 2.0
2003 A Tribute To RMB
2009 Evolution -Online-
2009 Thirteen Stories (as Rolf Maier Bode)
2010 Thirteen Nights (as Rolf Maier Bode)
[edit] Singles
1993 "Trax 1"
1993 "Trax 2"
1993 "Heaven & Hell EP"
1994 "Love EP"
1994 "Redemption" (with Kristina Totzek)
1994 "Redemption (Remixes)" (with
Kristina Totzek)
1995 "Experience" (with Kristina Totzek)
1995 "Experience (Remixes)" (with
Kristina Totzek)
1995 "Love Is An Ocean" (with
Sheila Chandra)
1995 "Love Is An Ocean (Remixes)" (with
Sheila Chandra)
1995 "Passport To Heaven" (with
Kristina Totzek)
1995 "Passport To Heaven (Remixes)" (with
Kristina Totzek)
1996 "Spring" (with Marion Haarmeyer)
1996 "Spring (Mixes)" (with Marion
Haarmeyer)
1996 "Reality" (with Angela Caran)
1996 "Reality (Mixes)" (with Angela
Caran)
1997 "Break The Silence/Everything" (with
Angela Caran)
1998 "Shadows" (with Sharam Jey and Christina
Lux)
1998 "Everything EP"
1998 "To France"
2000 "Deep Down Below" (with Christina
Lux)
2001 "Horizon" (with Christina Lux)
2001 "Selected Works"
2002 "Redemption 2.0" (with Kristina
Totzek)
2003 "Spring 2003" (with Talla 2XLC
and Miriam Adameit)
2003 "Touch The Sky/Feel The Flame"
2004 "Gangster/Killer"
2004 "April/Beauty Of Simplicity"
[edit] Other aliases
1992 "Droid EP",
as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher)
1992 "Humanoid EP", as Skyflyer (with
Arndt Pecher)
1993 "Skyflyer II", as Skyflyer (with
Arndt Pecher)
1993 "Skyflyer III", as Skyflyer
(with Arndt Pecher)
1993 "Manitou in Africa", as
Manitou
1996 "Manitou in Africa 1996 (The 4 Years Later Version)",
as Manitou
1998 "One EP", as Waldorf & Staettler
2004 "Special Online EP", as
Waldorf & Staettler
