Sigmund Und Seine Freu(n)de* – Erdbeermund

Jens Lissat and Peter Harder, who worked together on several other projects such as Komtur and The Beat Pirate are behind the Sigmund Und Seine Freunde winter 1989 club hit "Der Erdbeermund".
With the help of other studio experts (Harald & Wolfgang), they released in 1989 "Der Erdbeermund"; while the original version had a more House mood, the remixes that came out the same year on this second single were what they used to call Techno-House versions.
'The Original DJ-Version' starts with a small quote of Glenn Miller & His Orchestra classic "In The Mood", suddenly interrupted by a backspin that gives place to the version itself. The lyrics are from "Der Erdbeermund" classic ("Ich bin so wild nach deinen erdbeermund", which means something like "I'm so wild with your stawberry mouth"), were hot & easily chanted by the club audiences; Lissat and Harder also put samples from synths fragments of "Los Niños Del Parque" 1981 classic from Liaisons Dangereuses, and shout samples from 'Lyn Collins - Think (About It) - 1972' as well.
'The Orchestral-Strobelight-Version' on the other side of the single is an instrumental version of the A Side and has no sample from Glenn Miller & His Orchestra at the introduction, but very nice harmonic-melodic arrangements (even if the beats, snares and riffs were pretty common type, the Germans always counted on their best tradition of synth timbres and melodies arrangements).
Affirming that these remixes of "Der Erdbeermund" were a sort of a prenouncement of what Trance Music would become is not wrong at all, for they both reflect the 'German school'.

Jens Lissat And Peter Harder gave here a Techno-house treatment to this huge hit of winter 89. The vocals (words are from the famous French Medieval Poet Francois Villon) are sitting softly on a typical German Techno style or early 90, reminiscent (and maybe more than that ;-) of the "Play it again" track from Out Of The Ordinary. The result is pleasant, and has an original feel compared to the classic Culture Beat version (less clubby, more Techno-club, or Interactive-like if I may).