fabulous Euro disco pop

Irresistible, energetic and immensely enjoyable dance music, the Modern Talking arrangements are sensational, and the songs melodic and fun. There are a few ballads in this compilation, but most of it is high-voltage and addictive; once in the stereo, this CD tends to get played over and over.

Among my choice cuts are "You're My Heart, You're My Soul", "In 100 Years", and "Locomotion Tango", and these are the some of the songs that made "Modern Talking" sell enough records to make them one of the Top 10 most successful artists worldwide.



The creative force is composer/arranger/producer Dieter Bohlen, who in 1984 started the duo with pop singer Thomas Anders as his partner; they split in 1987, to reunite 11 years later for another 5 years. It's the incredible arrangements that make this music what it is, and the polished professionalism of its performance. The voices are high and "electronically enhanced", and sing over the throbbing rhythm and blazing electronic sound.

Dieter has produced many CDs for other artists, and one of my favorite albums, highly recommended if you like Modern Talking, is the one he produced for Engelbert Humperdinck, now released as "Step Into My Life", where Engelbert does a fabulous cover of "You're My Heart, You're My Soul".

Dance your heart out to these nifty disco tunes, which will never go out of style as long as people want happy music for dancing and listening.

The sound is fantastic and total playing time is 70'09 minutes.