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Starting as a lead singer and guitarist in Rock and Pop Bands in the early 90`s, Jan Loechel more and more focussed on writing and producing music and studio work, before he got in touch with electronic music in 2000, by a record that changed his point of view towards electronic club music so far. "Behind the Sun" of CHICANE became one of his all-time-favs until now and Jan got addicted to that euphoric Trance sound that to him appeared like writing Rock/Pop ballads in an even more intense way. He started first collaborations by combining trance and an "ordinary" songwriting he had been used to, so far. ESCANOR`s "Are U Ready" happend to be his first club hit and international chart entry in this genre, featuring Jan on lead vocals, which more or less happened by accident during a late-night recording session in 2001. In 2002, Jan wrote the vocals and lyrics for the 4 STRINGS club hit "Into the night". Now named "Take me away" it entered the sales charts in UK, Germany, Scandinavia, Australia (where it also became "Dance record of the year" in 2003) and Benelux followed by the singles "Diving" and "Let it rain" that also entered the international sales charts in nearly all relevant territories. Jan became one of the most demanded top-line-writers in European Club Music and wrote songs for the likes of RANK 1, Ron van den Beuken, Futute Breeze, BEAT FREAKZ, SUNLOVERZ while his songs appeared on millions of compilations and Vinyls worldwide. In 2004 he got back to his roots, by getting the opportunity to work with the German rock band H-BLOCKX. Knowing each other for over 10 years so far, Jan co-wrote the songs of their Top 15 album "No excuses" and co-produced the Hit-single "Leave me alone", which also had a strong influence on his collaboration with his close friend Henning Wehland, lead singer of the band. Together they focussed on developing new talent and founded the production team "Les Sauvignons". The Hamburg based singer/songwriter POHLMANN happend to be the first project they produced together for Virgin/EMI...you might have heard his song "Wenn jetzt Sommer wär`" on radio during summer 2006. In the meantime Jan wrote songs for artists like CHRISTINA STUERMER (Double Platinum Award) 4 STRINGS, DELLA MILES and remixed bands like DIE HAPPY, Oomph!, and REAMONN and met a guy called ATB...Together they found out that they had a quite simmilar attitude towards writing and producing music and collaborated on the ATB-albums "Seven Years" and "The DJ 3". The tracks "Believe in me", "Let U go reworked 2005" and "SummerRain" feature Jan on lead vocals and there`s even more to come... In autumn 2006 he co-produced the new single of the famous german band REAMONN, a duett with UK-Superstar LUCIE SILVAS, called "The Only Ones" and also produced and sang the TV-commercial for "BEPANTHEN" (BAYER). Still Jan is focussing on mixing styles writing the ultimate song but also is working on his solo album, besides establishing his Publishing Company SUNWATER MUSIC, in cooperation with his long-term-partner Hardy Schuetze.