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duo, founded in 1993 by musicians and producers Farid Gharadjedaghi and Rolf Maier-Bode (the latter whose initials form the band name).

History

The two met in 1991 while working for the Adam & Eve label, Maier-Bode as a producer and Gharadjedaghi as A&R. After two releases under the RMB name, they split from Adam & Eve in 1993 to join the

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label. Their 1996 single, "

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" was a gold record in Germany, with sales over 250,000 copies, and the follow-up "Reality" reached #11 in the Media Control charts. After this, they worked with Sharam Jey and Talla 2XLC. In 1998, they founded their own label, Various Silver Recordings. Through their association with German

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, they have engaged in

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, joining

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in protest against the Moruroa atol nuclear testing, to which they dedicated the track "Our Trip to Mururoa", a B-side found in the single "Passport to Heaven". In 2006 RMB split up. The last studio album "Evolution" has been released online March 18, 2009.

Members

* Rolf Maier-Bode - production, keyboard, programming * Farid Gharadjedaghi - production, keyboards, engineering, mixing

Discography

Albums

*1995 ''This World Is Yours'' *1998 ''Widescreen'' *2001 ''Mission Horizon'' *2002 ''Mission Horizon 2.0'' *2003 ''A Tribute To RMB'' *2009 ''Evolution''

Singles

*1993 "Trax 1" *1993 "Trax 2" *1993 "Heaven & Hell EP" *1994 "Love EP" *1994 "Redemption" (with

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) *1994 "Redemption (Remixes)" (with Kristina Totzek) *1995 "Experience" (with Kristina Totzek) *1995 "Experience (Remixes)" (with Kristina Totzek) *1995 "Love Is An Ocean" (with

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) *1995 "Love Is An Ocean (Remixes)" (with Sheila Chandra) *1995 "Passport to Heaven" (with Kristina Totzek) *1995 "Passport to Heaven (Remixes)" (with Kristina Totzek) *1996 "

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) *1996 "Spring (Mixes)" (with Marion Haarmeyer) *1996 "Reality" (with

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) *1996 "Reality (Mixes)" (with Angela Caran) *1997 "Break The Silence/Everything" (with Angela Caran) *1998 "Shadows" (with Sharam Jey and

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) *1998 "Everything EP" *1998 "To France" *2000 "Deep Down Below" (with Christina Lux) *2001 "Horizon" (with Christina Lux) *2001 "Selected Works" *2002 "Redemption 2.0" (with Kristina Totzek) *2003 "Spring 2003" (with Talla 2XLC and

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) *2003 "Touch The Sky/Feel The Flame" *2004 "Gangster/Killer" *2004 "April/Beauty Of Simplicity"

Other aliases

*1992 "Droid EP", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher) *1992 "Humanoid EP", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher) *1993 "Skyflyer II", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher) *1993 "Skyflyer III", as Skyflyer (with Arndt Pecher) *1993 "Manitou in Africa", as Manitou *1996 "Manitou in Africa 1996 (The 4 Years Later Version)", as Manitou *1998 "One EP", as Waldorf & Staettler *2004 "Special Online EP", as Waldorf & Staettler

References

External links

RMB - Music Label "Various"
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German electronic music groups German techno music groups Hardcore techno music groups {{Germany-electronic-band-stub