The Other Ones (Australian-German band)
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The Other Ones was a band
that consisted mainly of Australians, but was based in Berlin, Germany in the late 1980s. The band consisted of Alf Klimek
(vocals), Jayney Klimek
(vocals), Johnny Klimek
(bass
), Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski (guitar
s), Stephan Gottwald (keyboards
) and Uwe Hoffmann (drums
).
and then a singer, Alf went back home to Melbourne
, Australia to collaborate with his younger brother Johnny in a more musical direction. Together they returned to Berlin, West Germany in late 1983 and along with Johnny's twin sister Jayney (who had been in a band back in Australia as well) created the musical group "The Other Ones," enlisting three local Berlin musicians, guitarist
Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski, keyboardist
Stephan Gottwald and drummer
Uwe Hoffmann.
They signed to Virgin Records
in 1984 and an album of music was recorded in Sussex
, England at Comfort's Place Studios. They also shared the same management as the band Alphaville
, and they based themselves in Berlin.
chart at #29 on October 17, 1987. Music videos for the two songs were also released.
(The song "Holiday" was remixed and re-released as "Another Holiday" in 1991.)
In 1990, less than five years after beginning the group, Alf left, in essence dissolving the band.
with producer Lindsay Gravina. In 1998 he was asked by Klaus Baumgart to create a series of musical and audiobook CD productions based on the successful Laura's Star
series. Brother Johnny and sister Jayney helped out in part of the production. Currently Alf and Johnny often team up as partners for children's music and in writing concepts, scripts, and music for children's theatre, film, and television.
Jayney collaborated with many other musicians and bands and was a co-lead singer in the Tony Banks
solo project Bankstatement
in 1989. She was a vocalist on his 1991 solo album Still
. She has also worked with such diverse groups as Tangerine Dream
, Paul van Dyk
, Alphaville, and the French band XII Alfonso. She also co-wrote and performed lead vocals on Digital Tenderness Terranova and in 2004 started a new band with former Other Ones bandmate Schwarz-Ruszczynski named You Pretty Thing, with backing vocals from Alf and Johnny. They released an album in March 2008 titled Tune In and their first single, titled "Push It
," became the most played song on German radio group RadioEins history. The band is currently on hiatus.
Johnny Klimek collaborated with the German filmmaker Tom Tykwer
and fellow composer Reinhold Heil
on the soundtrack
s for Tykwer's films Run Lola Run
, Wintersleepers
, The International
, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
. He has also composed
music for the HBO television series Deadwood
, John From Cincinnati
and the motion picture One Hour Photo
, starring Robin Williams
. His credits also include Land of the Dead
, One Missed Call and 6 Days on Earth
.
Andreas went on to play with other bands and groups throughout the 1990s, collaborating with Boy George
, Trevor Horn
, Klaus Schulze
, Pet Shop Boys
, Steve Lipson, Julian Mendelsen, and Jack White
and in 1999 re-entered the dance charts with a song titled "Hypnotic
" with German techno band U.K.W., produced by German trance
DJ–producer
ATB
. He also opened his own recording studio in Berlin named Bibest Studio and has co-produced, written, and recorded many projects there. In 2004 he and fellow ex-Other Ones bandmate Jayney Klimek created the band You Pretty Thing in the Bibest Studio and performed all over Europe in support of their completed album release in 2008.
Stephan Gottwald began producing in 1991 at the world-famous Hansa Tonstudio
in Berlin and began collaborating with Ben Lauber and Moses Schneider to form a production team called Bauknex. He has produced and created his own music albums independently since.
Uwe Hoffmann also went on to produce many albums for Die Ärzte
and other musicians such as Ulla Meinecke and Sportfreunde Stiller
.
Band (music)
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that consisted mainly of Australians, but was based in Berlin, Germany in the late 1980s. The band consisted of Alf Klimek
Alf Klimek
Alfons "Alf" Joseph Klimek is an Australian musician.Klimek was born in Melbourne and is the older brother of Johnny Klimek and Jayney Klimek. In June 1977, he joined the "Stuffed Puppets" under the guidance of Neville Tranter as a puppeteer and comedy script writer. The group flew to Amsterdam to...
(vocals), Jayney Klimek
Jayney Klimek
Jayney Klimek , is an Australian singer and songwriter.-Family background:Jayney comes from a family steeped in music. Brother Alf Klimek was a founding member of The Other Ones / Spliff Radio Show. Her twin Johnny Klimek is a successful Hollywood composer...
(vocals), Johnny Klimek
Johnny Klimek
Johnny Klimek is an Australian film and television composer, currently based in Los Angeles. He is known by association with German filmmaker Tom Tykwer, with whom he and longtime partner Reinhold Heil have collaborated on seven films, including Run, Lola, Run and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer...
(bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
), Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski (guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s), Stephan Gottwald (keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
) and Uwe Hoffmann (drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
).
History
After traveling throughout the world in the late 1970s as a puppeteerPuppeteer
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or...
and then a singer, Alf went back home to Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia to collaborate with his younger brother Johnny in a more musical direction. Together they returned to Berlin, West Germany in late 1983 and along with Johnny's twin sister Jayney (who had been in a band back in Australia as well) created the musical group "The Other Ones," enlisting three local Berlin musicians, guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Andreas Schwarz-Ruszczynski, keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
Stephan Gottwald and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Uwe Hoffmann.
They signed to Virgin Records
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...
in 1984 and an album of music was recorded in Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, England at Comfort's Place Studios. They also shared the same management as the band Alphaville
Alphaville (band)
Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold , Bernhard Lloyd , and Frank Mertens Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name Hartwig Schierbaum,...
, and they based themselves in Berlin.
The Other Ones
Their self-titled album was released in late 1986. Their first single "We Are What We Are" peaked at #53 on May 30, 1987 and their song "Holiday" entered the Billboard Hot 100Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
chart at #29 on October 17, 1987. Music videos for the two songs were also released.
(The song "Holiday" was remixed and re-released as "Another Holiday" in 1991.)
Learning to Walk
After touring worldwide for almost a year on the success of the album, they quickly began to put together a second album. In 1988 the album Learning to Walk was released by Virgin Records, but none of the singles released in support of the album charted worldwide.In 1990, less than five years after beginning the group, Alf left, in essence dissolving the band.
After the breakup
Alf traveled back and forth for a while between Berlin and Melbourne, eventually opening his own music recording studio there called BirdlandBirdland
Birdland may refer to:In music:* Birdland , a club in New York City* Birdland, a jazz club in Vienna founded by Joe Zawinul* "Birdland" , an instrumental composed by Joe Zawinul, originally recorded by his band Weather Report...
with producer Lindsay Gravina. In 1998 he was asked by Klaus Baumgart to create a series of musical and audiobook CD productions based on the successful Laura's Star
Laura's Star
Laura's Star is a 2004 German animated film produced and directed by Thilo Rothkirch. It is based on the children's book Lauras Stern by Klaus Baumgart. It was released by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment.-Plot:...
series. Brother Johnny and sister Jayney helped out in part of the production. Currently Alf and Johnny often team up as partners for children's music and in writing concepts, scripts, and music for children's theatre, film, and television.
Jayney collaborated with many other musicians and bands and was a co-lead singer in the Tony Banks
Tony Banks (musician)
This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...
solo project Bankstatement
Bankstatement
Bankstatement is a solo project by Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks, issued under a band name. The other "band" members were singers Alistair Gordon and Jayney Klimek. Banks had the idea for Bankstatement after hearing of the success that Mike + The Mechanics were having in both Europe and America...
in 1989. She was a vocalist on his 1991 solo album Still
Still (Tony Banks album)
Still is the fourth studio album released by Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks in 1991 on Virgin Records in the UK and Giant Records in the US. The album was originally going to be named after the track "Still It Takes Me By Surprise", but was later shorted to Still...
. She has also worked with such diverse groups as Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...
, Paul van Dyk
Paul van Dyk
Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer...
, Alphaville, and the French band XII Alfonso. She also co-wrote and performed lead vocals on Digital Tenderness Terranova and in 2004 started a new band with former Other Ones bandmate Schwarz-Ruszczynski named You Pretty Thing, with backing vocals from Alf and Johnny. They released an album in March 2008 titled Tune In and their first single, titled "Push It
Push It
Push It may refer to:* "Push It", 1987 song by Salt-N-Pepa.* "Pushit", 1996 song by Tool.* "Push It", 1998 song by Garbage.* "Push It", 1999 song by Static-X.* "Push It", 2006 song by Rick Ross....
," became the most played song on German radio group RadioEins history. The band is currently on hiatus.
Johnny Klimek collaborated with the German filmmaker Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer
Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
and fellow composer Reinhold Heil
Reinhold Heil
Reinhold Heil is a composer and former member of Spliff and the Nina Hagen Band who has largely worked on film music but has produced pop music for Kim Wilde, Rosemarie Precht , and Nena...
on the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
s for Tykwer's films Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run is a 1998 German crime thriller film written and directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Franka Potente as Lola and Moritz Bleibtreu as Manni. The story follows a woman who needs to obtain 100,000 German marks in 20 minutes to save her boyfriend's life...
, Wintersleepers
Wintersleepers
Wintersleepers is a 1997 German film directed by Tom Tykwer. It was premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival.-Plot:The film is set in the deeply snowy alpine winter resort of Berchtesgaden in Bavaria; the story begins shortly after Christmas Day, with five people returning, not all of...
, The International
The International (film)
The International is a 2009 thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer. The film follows an Interpol agent and an American attorney who investigate corruption within the IBBC, a fictional merchant bank based in Luxembourg. It serves organized crime and corrupt governments as a banker and as an arms...
, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006 German thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer. It is based on the 1985 novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille , an olfactory...
. He has also composed
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
music for the HBO television series Deadwood
Deadwood (TV series)
Deadwood is an American Western drama television series created, produced and largely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three 12-episode seasons. The show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before...
, John From Cincinnati
John from Cincinnati
John from Cincinnati is an American television drama, set against the surfing community of Imperial Beach, California, that aired on HBO from June 10, 2007 to August 12, 2007. It is the result of a collaborative effort between writer/producer David Milch and author Kem Nunn, whose novels have been...
and the motion picture One Hour Photo
One Hour Photo
One Hour Photo is a 2002 American psychological thriller written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams. Fox Searchlight Pictures distributed the film in the United States. One Hour Photo also starred Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, and Eriq La Salle. Williams won a...
, starring Robin Williams
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
. His credits also include Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead
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, One Missed Call and 6 Days on Earth
6 Days on Earth
6 Days on Earth is a 2011 Italian science fiction film directed by Varo Venturi. It stars Massimo Poggio, Laura Glavan and Marina Kazankova. Supporting actors include Ludovico Fremont and Pier Giorgio Bellocchio. It was shot both in English and Italian....
.
Andreas went on to play with other bands and groups throughout the 1990s, collaborating with Boy George
Boy George
Boy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...
, Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn
Trevor Charles Horn CBE is an English pop music record producer, songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Houghton-le-Spring in north-east England....
, Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze
Klaus Schulze is a German electronic music composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried. He was briefly a member of the electronic bands Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across five decades.-1970s:In...
, Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
, Steve Lipson, Julian Mendelsen, and Jack White
Jack White
Jack White may refer to:* Jack White , with the rock bands The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather* Jack White , UK soldier* Jack White , German producer of disco music...
and in 1999 re-entered the dance charts with a song titled "Hypnotic
Hypnotic
Hypnotic drugs are a class of psychoactives whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia and in surgical anesthesia...
" with German techno band U.K.W., produced by German trance
Trance
Trance denotes a variety of processes, ecstasy, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.The term trance may be associated with meditation, magic, flow, and prayer...
DJ–producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
ATB
ATB
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. He also opened his own recording studio in Berlin named Bibest Studio and has co-produced, written, and recorded many projects there. In 2004 he and fellow ex-Other Ones bandmate Jayney Klimek created the band You Pretty Thing in the Bibest Studio and performed all over Europe in support of their completed album release in 2008.
Stephan Gottwald began producing in 1991 at the world-famous Hansa Tonstudio
Hansa Tonstudio
Das Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located on Köthener Strasse in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. Amongst English-performing musical acts it used to be known as 'Hansa Studio By the Wall', 'Hansa by the Wall', or 'The Great Hall by the Wall' in reference to the fact that it was...
in Berlin and began collaborating with Ben Lauber and Moses Schneider to form a production team called Bauknex. He has produced and created his own music albums independently since.
Uwe Hoffmann also went on to produce many albums for Die Ärzte
Die Ärzte
Die Ärzte is a punk band from Berlin. Die Ärzte are one of the best-known German punk rock bands and have released over 20 albums. The band consists of guitarist Farin Urlaub, drummer Bela B. and bass player Rodrigo González...
and other musicians such as Ulla Meinecke and Sportfreunde Stiller
Sportfreunde Stiller
Sportfreunde Stiller is a German antifascist rock band from Germering, near Munich, in Bavaria.The band was founded in 1996 by Peter "Balboa" Brugger , Florian "Rakete" Weber , and Rüdiger "Rüde" Linhof . They took their original name, Stiller, from their former football manager, Hans Stiller, at...
.
Charted songs
| Year | Song | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GER | AUS | NZ | US | |||
| 1986 | ||||||
| "We Are What We Are" | — | — | 38 | 53 | The Other Ones | |
| "Holiday" | 4 | — | 10 | 29 | ||