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got a chance to hear their "Swimming with Shakrs" 1987 album, very good synth wave (or NDW, becasue they are German)

It contains Careless Love, and my favorite No Longer Friends, but the album as a whole is good commercial synth wave with very catchy tunes

I never heard of them living in US, though it seems their album was released here

Careless Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6BFJJPF1Xk

No Longer Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz8MzHKX ... re=related

and some of their earlier more artsy songs

Memories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMN--3YK ... re=related

Can't leave the pool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwl53StB ... re=related

Yamaha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhx3jH51 ... re=related

Inga Humpe is great ... very talented. Check out her current project, 2raumwohnung.

her sister & former IDEAL front woman anette humpe is also still making music quite successfully - @ least in german speaking countries - with her new musical partner adel tawil under the name of ICH + ICH these days : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_%2B_Ich [;)]

I have the 1985 CD. Love the singles "3 of us" and "Memories", but the rest is not amazing. I'll have to give it a few (more) listens to see if anything else grows on me. I've got the video for "3 of us", which is why I finally decided to seek out the album. Great song.

Scott

hmm I haven't heard 85 album fully, just the songs on youtube, they sound a little more alternative than their 87 stuff

but on 87 Swimming with Sharks lp, Armand Volker was involved there. A name familiar to fans of Cretu-related work Sandra/Moti Special/Hubert Kah [:)]