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Andre Tanneberger, better known as ATB, was born in the small German town of Freiberg in 1973. He and his parents left to find better opportunities for themselves in 1984 and headed for the west. Tanneberger has been producing music since the early 1990’s and is still going strong with a huge and loyal fan base; his first big break came with 9pm (Till I Come). ATB has performed with several high profile acts and now has a number of gold, platinum and silver disks to his name which were awarded for massive sales in many countries (United Kingdom, Germany, USA and Poland to name but a few). ‘Marrakech’, the standout track taken from the 2004 album ‘No Silence’ was an international club smash hit, so much so that it attracted the attention of film producers in Hollywood and was used as the title track for the 2004 film ‘Mindhunters’.

ATB got his very first break when he met Thomas Kukula at the Tarm Centre (Germany) who was impressed with Andre’s first productions. So much so that Kukula let Andre use his studio to finish off some of his earliest music. The first release by Andre was that of ‘Dance’ under the project name Sequential One, Andre spotted a Sequential One Pro Synthesizer and named his first project after that. Sequential One went on to produce three studio albums and several maxi singles, some of which were re-released as ‘classics’ some years later (Woody Van Eyden, Spacekid and Morpha later joined Sequential One). In 1999 Andre took back control of Sequential One and re-named the project SQ-1. The SQ-1 project spawned only a handful of releases, namely Dance (not a re-release or a cover of the original Sequential One version of Dance) and Balare (which roughly translates into Dance in Italian).

As mentioned briefly above Andre never really made his ‘real’ breakthrough until 1999, when 9PM (Till I Come) was released worldwide. It became the fastest selling Dance record of 1999 in the UK selling 270,000 copies in its first week of release going on to sell over 800,000 in the UK alone – worldwide sales of ‘9PM’ have reached well over 1.5 Million. Not bad. 9pm has also been used in several bootlegs, the best known is of course ‘ATB Vs. EBTG – 9pm & Missing’. 9pm has also been used over the vocals of Robbie Williams (‘ATB’s Millennium’) and Gloria Ganor (‘Gloria comes 9 times and survives’). ATB put the 9PM/ Missing bootleg to good use in his first The DJ (In The Mix) compilation.

Although Andre didn’t have any real success with ATB before 9PM (Till I Come) he did use the ATB guise for many of his very early remixes; the earliest of which dates back to 1993. Some of his most best known remixes have been for artists such as Ah-Ha (Minor Earth, Major Sky, 2000), Texas (I Don’t Want A Lover, 2001), Enigma (Push The Limits, 2000), Above & Beyond (Can’t Sleep, 2006), Tukan (Light A Rainbow, 2001) and many, many more.

Andre has never been able to shake off the ‘9PM Man’ stigma, especially in the UK. Even ten years on 9PM (Till I Come) is perhaps one of the most used dance tracks on compilation CDs. You can only imagine what royalties he receives from those! Andre isn’t the ‘9PM Man’ in the rest of Europe though, or indeed worldwide; he has had many releases which have sold more and/or have been more popular than 9PM, namely Let U Go and Ecstasy.

So what’s next for ATB? His discography already features 7 studio albums, 25+ single releases, a greatest hits album and 5 The DJ (In The Mix) compilations (sorry, did I hear someone say one hit wonder?). Expect more artist albums, more compilations and more gigs – ATB is now ranked in the top 3 DJs worldwide, his profile is still growing at an astonishing rate.

We have seen 12 years of ATB, 1998 – 2010; here’s to the next 12!