U 96 Das Boot Real Name nAlex Christensen Ingo Hauss Hayo Panarinfo Helmut Hoinkis n n Profile nGerman techno act that made his name in 1991 with the charttopping commercial success of the track Das Boot based on the theme music to the movie of the same [ссылка] name U96 is the designation of the Uboat featured in the film. n nU96 consists of Alex Christensen frontman and DJ Ingo Hauss vocals instruments and programming Hayo Panarinfo instruments and programming and Helmut Hoinkis [ссылка] members are Skadi Lange 19911995 vocals and instruments and DeaLi 1996 1997 vocals. U96 also had some guest singers Daisy Dee Carol Bailey Lia Lane. n nU96 started in [ссылка] first big hit was Das [ссылка] nobody was interessted in releasing the single. But with the help of Alex Christensens girlfriend at that time the single has been release by [ссылка] record went up to position 1 in the German charts and stayed there for 16 [ссылка] big hits are I Wanna Be A Kennedy 1992 Love Sees No Colour 1993 Love Religion 1994 Club Bizarre 1995 Heaven 1996 and Energie 1998. nThe style of their first two albums Das Boot 1992 and Replugged 1993 was more in the Techno and Electro style. With the release of their third album Club Bizarre 1995 they changed their style completly into the more commercial dance and trance [ссылка] 1998 they tried it again with the in this time popular electropop style but without big success. n nIn 2000 U96 released Das Boot 2001 a remake of the classical Das Boot but with more vocals and a big remix package Cosmic Gate DJ Errik DJ MellowD Blue Nature Schiller [ссылка] this year also their Best OfAlbum had been [ссылка] has a nice tracklist but their biggest hit Das Boot is missing. n nIn 2003 U96 gave their comeback with the single We Call It Love. But it also had no big success. n nIn March 2006 the new single Vorbei featured by Ben was released. U96 now changed their style from Trance Hands Up to more commercial Pop. On this production there was only Alex Christensen who produced it so U96 doesnt consist any more of the team Matiz [ссылка] new team of U96 consists now of Alex Christensen and Steffen Hfelinger. n nIts important to note that Alex Christensen who was U96 frontman for almost 20 years never sang any classic U96 hits neither he did any major sound programming or [ссылка] male vocals including Love Sees No Colour and Night In Motion were done by Ingo Hauss his recognizable voice also can be heard on certain Boytronic tracks and postU96 project called Potemkin. n n Sites [ссылка] n n Aliases nAraja Matiz AC 16 United Colours Various Items n n Members nAlex Christensen DeaLi Hayo Panarinfo Helmut Hoinkis Ingo Hauss Skadi Lange Steffen Hfelinger