Lifestyle (Germany)

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The story of Lifestyle:
When I now look back I must admit that it was in a way a strange mixture: A soldier in time and a girl, who was studying religion pedagogics and education science. And still on top of this myself, doing my civilian service in the late eighties. How could that be?
Before ..Lifestyle.. we all played in different groups. The music we first made was based on rock with lot's of guitars in it.
In 1981/1982 the NDW (New German Wave) took over and everybody decided to sing in German. That's what we did, too. We even ended up in playing some kind of hard rock.
But this period didn't last very long. Wave was on it's way and so we put guitars, bass and drums aside and instead of this we tried our luck with synthesizer, drum-computer and sequencer. An expensive time, because we spent most of our money in buying the latest and affordable equipment, which was on the market.
Performing live in front of an audience always meant a lot to us. We worked hard to find out the best arrangements for our songs in order to reproduce the sound as good as possible on stage. We often invited guest musicians to make clear that we really played live. To be honest they were just an addition to our sequencer.
It was around 1988 when we worked in the Wega-Recording-Studios. Ralf and I got to know Annette. She had some difficulties in seeing positive aspects in our music. According to her it was too technical. Nevertheless we sat down together and started to play. We found that it sounded very good. Annette easily put her prejudices aside and became our female lead vocalist and also wrote most of our lyrics.
For the next few years ..Lifestyle.. was enormously active as a group. It was exciting to hear afterwards what we have created in the studio. At one point we were close to get a recording contract. Some of our gigs were unforgettable (by the way greetings to Rolo and Matzi for joining us). But everything has it's time.
Nowadays we are living in different parts in Germany (Frankfurt/Main, Kiel, Düsseldorf) and having our homes, families and jobs. We are still good friends so you can say that at the moment ..Lifestyle.. has a (permanent) break. It would be fun to do something together when it is suitable for all of us. And who knows, the ..Lifestyle.. story may still not have reached it's end.
Thanks to the world wide web some of our songs are here for you. We hope you will enjoy it!
comming soon!
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Zur Band:
Wir waren schon eine merkwürdige Mischung: Ein Zeitsoldat, eine Religionspädagogik Studentin und ein Zivi. Wir haben alle vor Lifestyle in unterschiedlichen Bands gespielt und meistens Rock und gitarrenlastige Musik gemacht. Als die NDW angesagt war wurde natürlich deutsch gesungen danach musste es auch schon mal Hardrock sein. Aber dann kam die Wave-Zeit und Gitarren, Bass und Schlagzeug mussten dringend gegen Synthesizer, Drum-Computer und Sequenzer eingetauscht werden.!
Wir haben damals all unser Geld in die erschwinglichen Marktneuheiten gesteckt. Da wir immer gerne auch auf der Bühne gestanden haben, war es beim Arrangieren der Songs auch immer wichtig, das der Sound auch Live gut rüber kommen kann.
Für Auftritte wurden dann zwar haufenweise Gastmusiker mit auf die Bühne gestellt (Gruß an Rolo und Matzi), weil sonst alle dachten wir spielen Playback, die waren aber meistens nur Beiwerk zum Sequenzer.
1988 haben wir dann unsere Sängerin Annette in den Weg-Recording-Studios kennen gelernt. Sie fand unsre Musik eigentlich total blöde hat dann aber schon nach kurzer Zeit Ihre Vorurteile gegen die ganze Technik überwunden und ist mit eingestiegen.
Heute sind wir immer noch gute Freunde und leben quer durch Deutschland (Kiel, Frankfurt/M und Düsseldorf) verteilt.
Zur Technik:
Gesteuert wurde die Musik durch einen ATARI ST1040 und dem so genialen c-Lab Notator. (In den Anfängen tat es dann auch schon mal ein Hardware Sequenzer - YAMAHA QX-21)
Der Sound kam von:
YAMAHA DX7, DX 21, FB01
Roland, D20, DDR 10
AIWA: S700
KWAWIA K1
KORG M1 Workstation (ab 1990)
Die Songs sind alle im Wega-Recording-Studio aufgenommen
(Danke Rainer).
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