Klaus Munzert

Klaus Munzert

voc, *1957 DE, Offenburg
Singer of Dance and Pop
A.k.a. A Parson's Trance Project Central Park (4) Costa Del Soul Dance for Peace Departure (2) Dino Razzone Dominator E-Street Fog (7) Jazzie K. Manzerata Marcello (5) Mega (3) Night Boy Silicon Dream SMP (5) Stoned Cowboys Su Treznum The Alpentribe The Bad Boys (2) The Ya Ya's Wildmax

German singer, songwriter, composer and multi instrumentalist, born 14 July 1957 in Offenburg, Germany. He sang in various bands, studied economics in Freiburg and worked for two years at a record store. He was the label manager for ZTT Records and Island Records at that time, worked for U2 and all the other great artists. During the day he was busy with marketing-works, for example the organisation of TV- and Live-performances. At night he worked in the studio with his own music. He created in 1987 in a Munich studio the Silicon Dream. Silicon Dream were Angelo and Danny as dancers and Klaus as the singer. He also was the producer of this project together with Daniel in a studio in Munich. The two dancers completed the picture and they featured on the band's music videos. Some live performances were on a tour through Germany and Belgium, and together with 16 Bit in France The meaning of the name is really simple: on the one side the "Silicon" - that means technology or progress. On the other side the "Dream" - that means feelings and emotion. Simply the union of technology and emotions. Silicon Dream virtually developed in the cellar in a studio. Klaus was playing around with a sampler which was completely new at that time. This technology was brand new. Before these samplers were available you had to go to expensive studios and he had no money for this. Than, aforesaid samplers arisen and you could make music very simple with computers but also with real instruments. His music based on the model of Kraftwerk and also Depeche Mode. First and foremost what Klaus used the "EMU 3". That was a sampler. In addition he worked with "Logic" at that time - and also today. The technology for the recordings was very simple. They played the music on they keyboards. Sometimes sung the songs late at night about 3:00 or 4:00 A.M. The style of Silicon Dream came to late - to soon for Dance Floor. Afterwards they called it "Europop" or "Eurodance". For Klaus it was simply "Dancemusic with lyrics." But first and foremost the music of Silicon Dream was already a mixture of electronic music and Italo-Disco. Silicon Dream was not only a studio project. The band also played live. Whereas "live" with such a electronic music means, that they were on stage with they sampler and computers but the singing was live. They made a Disco-Tour through Germany, France and Belgium at that time. That was a great experience. To some extent, there were uniformities to the music of bands like 16 Bit and OFF. At that time the creators of both bands and Klaus have also got to know each other, and he was on tour in France together with 16 Bit. This was really very pleasant and very amusing. The common characteristic was that they have done all music for the discos. Basically it brought fun to Klaus to dressing up: the people who known he, recognized he also with make-up. It was a big fun for he to dress he up and not go on stage normally. The figure "Marcello" was because Klaus a big fan of Marcello Mastroianni. This is anyhow "Rock'n Roll", because in a manner of speaking the whole life is a play. The project Silicon Dream had a lot of hits in the 80's and early 90's. The most notable single was Marcello The Mastroianni which spent four weeks in the German top 20, peeking at No. 15 in September 1987. The single also tied for No. 112 on the 1987 year end chart. The album Time Machine was released in 1988. It was the first and only album. After that there were some more singles / maxis but no other album. Klaus honestly said, he don't know this any more. He suppose that the interest for the group had decreased. Then there were new musical directions and styles, and the whole Italo-Disco thing was regressive a little bit. At that time he have also already worked very much with pleasure in the studio and have done for example the project K2 and many other things. There was a lot of work for he and sometime the air was out with Silicon Dream - he had this feeling at that time. However, then this was also a time thing, because the day has only 24 hours. Klaus still produce music and work for other artists as a producer. In addition, he working for a record company in the scope "artists and repertoire", that means he searching for new artists and hits.