The Italian Italo Disco music project JOE YELLOW was founded in 1983. Already in the same year "Lover To Lover" became their first megahit. Still in 1983 Domenico Ricchini, aka Joe Yellow, was awarded as "Best Composer in Europe" by the TV show "Formel Eins". Other hits by Joe Yellow are e.g. Love At First , I'm Your Lover and Runner . As usual, our series "Greatest Hits & Remixes" delivers the hits as a 7" versions on CD1 and the extended and rare versions on CD2.

Bad Boys Blue is a multinational dance-pop group formed in Cologne, Germany, in 1984 and originally featuring British lead singer John McInerney, American Andrew Thomas, and Jamaican-born Trevor Taylor. After Taylor left the group in 1988, he was replaced by Trevor Travis; upon scoring a number 89 chart hit in 1993 with "Save Your Love," Travis exited as well, and Bad Boys Blue continued as a duo until adding Mo Russel in 1995. His 1999 departure made way for Jo Jo Max.

Ken Laszlo is a real star of the Italo Disco era. Italy's Ken Laszlo is known for releasing some of the mid-eighties best dance songs. His music is typical of the Italo Disco sound coming from Italy at that time. In 1984, Ken Laszlo had his first big hit with "Hey Hey Guy". In the following years, the Italo Disco wave got stronger and conquered the European charts. Hits like "Tonight" and "Do not Cry" from the years 1985 and 1986 are among the most popular and famous songs of the Italo Disco scene, later he had a string of others such as "Everybody is Dancing" and "Madame". This two cd set contains all his hits from the 80's with radio edits and remixes. Another highlight for all Italo Disco Lovers!

The Thompson Twins – who were neither a duo nor related, but simply named after the Tin Tin cartoon – were one of the more popular synth pop groups of the early MTV era, scoring a handful of hits before fading away into lite-funk obscurity. While many of their contemporaries indulged in stylish variations on Roxy Music or robotic electronic funk, the Thompson Twins were more pop-oriented, even when they strayed into dance-pop. Despite their success – "Hold Me Now," "Lay Your Hands on Me," "King for a Day" all reached the U.S. Top Ten – the group was unable to successfully expand their synth pop sound and, consequently, their audience had virtually disappeared by the late '80s.

Dschinghis Khan (known in some countries as Genghis Khan) is a German Euro disco pop band. It was originally formed in Munich in 1979 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest with their song "Dschinghis Khan". Their original eponymous song came in fourth place at the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem. Appearing at the height of the disco boom and following on the heels of other German-produced bands such as Boney M, Arabesque, and Silver Convention, the band achieved wide popularity throughout the world, especially in Europe, Russia, and Japan.

Ten on One (The Singles) is the first Greatest Hits album from German singer Sandra, released in 1987. Two singles were released for this compilation. This compilation includes songs from Sandra's debut studio album The Long Play (1985) and her second studio album Mirrors (1986). It was produced by Michael Cretu and Armand Volker. Sandra Ann Lauer, commonly known under her stage name Sandra, is a German pop singer who enjoyed a mainstream popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s with a string of European hit singles, produced by her then-husband and musical partner, Michael Cretu, most notably "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" (1985), "In the Heat of the Night" (1985), "Everlasting Love" (1987), "Secret Land" (1988), "Hiroshima" (1990) and "Don't Be Aggressive" (1992). Her albums Into a Secret Land (1988) and Close to Seven (1992) have won Sandra high critical acclaim.

Collection includes: Pump Up The Jam (1989); Body To Body (1991); The Best Remixes (1991); Recall (1995). Of the many studio-based dance music projects that dominated the charts during the early '90s, few were so popular, or such an improbable success story, as Technotronic. Emerging from Belgium, the multicultural group helped push the deep bass grooves and insistent beats of house music out of the club scene and into the pop mainstream; ironically, they did so largely by hiding behind the photogenic visage of an African-born fashion model who, it was later revealed, did not even perform on their records. In reality, Technotronic was the brainchild of Jo Bogaert (real name Thomas de Quincy), an American-born philosophy teacher who relocated to Belgium in the late '80s in the hopes of mounting a career as a record producer. Bogaert's intent was to fuse house with hip-hop, and toward that aim he sent demos of his work to a variety of rappers, including the Welsh-born MC Eric and a Zairean-born teenager named Ya Kid K (aka Manuela Kamosi), at the time a member of the Belgian rap group Fresh Beat Productions.

Developing Samantha’s pop-rock sound and broadening her appeal, “Samantha Fox” features five UK hit singles, the irresistible Stock Aitken Waterman classic ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now’ (#8), ‘I Surrender (To The Spirit Of The Night)’ (#25), ‘I Promise You (Get Ready)’, ‘True Devotion’ and ‘Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)’ (#31) – Samantha’s first collaboration with Full Force, which reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her most successful single Stateside.

Featuring no less than 72 remastered tracks and many rare and unreleased mixes, this collection serves to highlight the pioneering pop/house crossover sound created especially for Mel & Kim by songwriting and production powerhouse Stock Aitken Waterman and the PWL studio team. ‘Respectable’ became SAW’s first own composition to top the UK charts (they’d merely produced Dead or Alive’s ‘You Spin Me Round’ stomper) and while there are online debates about it, ‘Showing Out’ is widely considered the first ever British house record.