C.C.C.P. (band)
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C.C.C.P. is a German
synthpop
act led by Rasputin Stoy. They were best known for their 1986 instrumentals "American-Soviets I" and "American-Soviets II", released by Clockwork Germany. This six-minute song themed on the Cold War
became a hit on the US Billboard
charts, the German Top 75 and other European charts. Their follow-up singles ("Made in Russia" and "Orient Express") hit the number one and number two spots on official music charts in the same week (Hong Kong, Benelux, France and Spain). Their 1990 song "Don't Kill The Rainforest" was also a minor alternative radio hit.
C.C.C.P. released their seventh album, Quantic Shamanism Through Digital Western featuring Meyhiel, in January 2008 on the art label MillePlateauxMedia
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Today the group now only consists of the original band leader Rasputin Stoy, aka Rai Streubel and Frank Schendler (ex-Beatamax).
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
synthpop
Synthpop
Synthpop is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Kraut rock" of...
act led by Rasputin Stoy. They were best known for their 1986 instrumentals "American-Soviets I" and "American-Soviets II", released by Clockwork Germany. This six-minute song themed on the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
became a hit on the US Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
charts, the German Top 75 and other European charts. Their follow-up singles ("Made in Russia" and "Orient Express") hit the number one and number two spots on official music charts in the same week (Hong Kong, Benelux, France and Spain). Their 1990 song "Don't Kill The Rainforest" was also a minor alternative radio hit.
C.C.C.P. released their seventh album, Quantic Shamanism Through Digital Western featuring Meyhiel, in January 2008 on the art label MillePlateauxMedia
Mille Plateaux
Mille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...
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Today the group now only consists of the original band leader Rasputin Stoy, aka Rai Streubel and Frank Schendler (ex-Beatamax).
Albums
- 1990: The World
- 1992: The Hallucinogenic Toreador
- 1992: Best of C.C.C.P.: 1985-1992
- 2004: Journey Through the Past
- 2008: Quantic Shamanism Through Digital Western
- 2010: Decadance Club (Mirror of my Soul)
Singles
- 1986: American-Soviets
- 1987: Made in Russia
- 1988: Orient Express
- 1989: United States of Europe
- 1989: In Memory of Salvador Dali
- 1990: Liquid Sky
- 1990: Conquestadors/Strength versus Courage
- 1991: Orient Express Remix '91
- 1992: The Preacher
- 2004: 3rd Millennium
- 2010: Decadance