<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">Camouflage is a German synthpop and dance music trio consisting of Marcus Meyn, Heiko Maile and Oliver Kreyssig. Their only Hot 100 entry was &quot;The Great Commandment&quot; which climbed to #59 in 1989. The song did spend three weeks at #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. They also had two additional minor hits in the dance chart in 1989.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="11" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"><B>History</B></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">In 1983, Heiko Maile, Marcus Meyn, Martin Kahling and Oliver Kreyssig, four friends from Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany, founded the band &quot;Licenced Technology.&quot; In 1984, Martin Kahling left the band. Soon after, the group renamed itself &quot;Camouflage,&quot; inspired by a &quot;Yellow Magic Orchestra&quot; song of the same name. The three young musicians set up their first studio in the basement of Heiko&apos;s parents&apos; house, calling it &quot;Boy&apos;s Factory.&quot; Their first live gigs at local music clubs soon followed. That next year, Camouflage recorded two demo tapes at their studio, and in 1986, the group won a local radio music contest - after a friend of theirs handed one of the demos in. A small Frankfurt music label, &quot;Westside,&quot; showed interest in taking Camouflage on. There, the song &quot;The Great Commandment&quot; was recorded to be presented to bigger music companies. After considering offers from several record companies, Camouflage decided to sign a contract with Metronome.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">Working with Axel Henninger, Camouflage re-recorded &quot;The Great Commandment&quot; in Axel&apos;s studio in 1987. The single was released in September of that year and rose to number 14 in the German charts. Their follow-up single &quot;Stranger Thoughts&quot; was released in February 1988, rising to number 20. In March, &quot;Voices &amp; Images,&quot; Camouflage&apos;s debut album, was released. The album topped the US Billboard Dance Charts twice having been played often by small independent radio stations. In New York, Heiko, Oli and Marcus signed a contract with the US label Atlantic that same year, releasing &quot;Voices &amp; Images&quot; and the single &quot;That Smiling Face&quot; for the US market in the fall of 1988. In an old factory loft near their hometown, Heiko, Oli and Marcus set up &quot;Boy&apos;s Factory 2,&quot; their new studio.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">With producer Dan Lacksman of Telex, the band recorded a new album &quot;Methods of Silence&quot; at Synsound Studio in Brussels that following year. Now left to experiment more freely after the commercial success of their first album, Dan&apos;s recording work revealed an interesting mix of digital high-tech and out-dated studio equipment. Single &quot;Love is a Shield&quot; (position 9 in German charts) stayed in the charts for over six months, and the album reached 13. After follow-up single &quot;One Fine Day,&quot; the band embarked on their first live concert tour to great financial success.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0"></FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT><TEXTFORMAT LEADING="2"><P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="Verdana" SIZE="10" COLOR="#0B333C" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">More recently Polydor released &quot;Archive#1 (Rare Tracks)&quot;, a new Camouflage compilation. Expected in the shops by November 20th 2007 the release brings together a host of rare tracks and remixes spread over two discs.</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT>