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At the age of 15 and 13 Dirk and Marco Duderstadt
discovered a hobby and indeed a talent: makin' music. As
the hobby can be very expensive, the two had to fight
their way as LJ's and DJ's through several clubs. They
finally found a lasting home in the Old Daddy in
Haltern.
At the beginning of 1998 they had with some effort saved
for a little studio in which they produced the herbinger
track, which in turn would end up fliping their lives
upside down.
It was a question of a song with a guitar that arouses
interest of Ralf Zenker from No Respect Records. He then
introduced the brothers to Ramon who already had
succesful productions to his name.
It was from this guitarsong, Dirk, Marco and Ramon
produced the track "Toca me" and finally established the
Fragma project (www.fragma.de) in 1999. To their
surprise "Toca me" was reaching the Top of all
international Dance Charts and entered No. 11 of UK's
Sales Chart.
In the year 2000 all this should be topped when the
'right' vocals came together with the 'right' track. The
acappella from "Coco - I Need A Miracle" was mashed up
with "Toca me" and it developed to a huge Radio- and
Club hit. Everyone from Pete Tong to Judge Jules
supported the Track to death. In this time
Positivarecords, which also had a contract with Coco,
decided to release the Track officially. "Toca`s
Miracle", the Track now called, entered No. 1 of the
British Sales chart and stayed there for another week.
No 1 rankings would follow in Australia, Ireland and
Scandinavia. Toca's Miracle sold more than 1 Million
units and got several Gold and Platin Awards in
Australia, Great Britain, Norway and Denmark.
The second single "Everytime You Need Me", sung by the
british Maria Rubia, wasn't less successful: No3 in
Uk's Sales Chart, Gold Award in Australia and in Germany
it topped "Toca's Miracle" and entered the Top 20 of its
Sales Chart.
The first Lp "Toca" reached GOLD in the UK likewise and
sold more than 200.000 units.
Further productions and remixes followed, e.g. for
Backstreet Boys, Pulsdriver, Monoculture, Snap etc.
They were suddenly also demanded as DJ's and had gigs on
the whole planet. (see below)
In August 2001 they finally founded the
Evergreen-Terrace Studio. Here they produced Club-Hits
like:
Duderstadt - Sunrise (Supported by: Envio,
Mr.Sam, Mike Shiver, Marc West, Matt Hardwick,
Blank&Jones)
Davy Van Eynde - Irawadi
(Tune of the
Week at Armin van Buurens "A State of Trance" Show,
supported by: Lange (No1 in his Chart), Robert Smit,
Ferry Corsten, Dave Pearce, Rank 1, Michael Parsberg,
Envio, Matt Darey)
Duderstadt - Mahananda
(Armin - Tune of the Week again :-), Ferry Corsten,
Darren Tate, Solarstone, Woody van Eyden, Alex M.o.r.p.h.)
Duderstadt - Muhanjala
(Paul van
Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, etc.)
Duderstadt
and Anita Kelsey - Smile
(Paul van
Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, etc.)
Headliners in this
Clubs and Events (Outline):
Clubs: Glow -
Washington (USA), Shadow-Lounge - Miami (USA), Warehouse
- Calgary (Canada), Privilege & Eden - Ibiza (ESP),, BCM
Palace - Mallorca (ESP), KM - Benidorm (ESP), Matrix -
Reading (UK), Room At The Top - Bathgate (UK),
Candy Store & The Big Top - Plymouth (UK), Cafe Blue -
Bristol (UK) The Rhythm Dome - Blackpool (UK), Frisky@Legends
- Northampton (UK), Fusion - Workington (UK), SQ1
- Cork (Ireland), Club Heat - Darby (Ireland) Dockside -
Capetown (Southafrika), Liquid Lounge - Limassol (Cyprus),
Gorgeous - Kopenhagen (Denmark), Hush - Mykonos (Greece),
Da Karma - Cairo (Egypt), Red Room - Melbourne, QBH -
Melbourne (Australia), The Mansion - Surfers Paradise (Australia),
PW1 - Porta Westfalica (GER), Turbinenhalle - Oberhausen
(GER), Heizhouse - Parchim (GER), Bonanza - Edderitz
(GER)
Events: Clubfestival
- Schaffhausen (CH), Nature One meets Privilege - Ibiza
(ESP), Ministry of Sound - Johannesburg (South Africa),
Melody 3 - Calgary (Canada), Open Air Festival -
somewhere 3 hours away by car from Helsinki :-) (Finland)
and much more....
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