Systems in Blue

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Systems in Blue
Background information
Origin	Germany
Genres	Euro disco, Eurodance, synthpop, Hi-NRG
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Spectre / Universal
Website	systems-in-blue.de
Members	Detlef Wiedeke Michael Scholz Olaf Senkbeil Johann Perrier
Past members	Rolf Köhler († 2007) Thomas Widrat

Systems in Blue is a German pop band, composed of the members Rolf Köhler, Michael Scholz, and Detlef Wiedeke. After Rolf Köhler's death, the singer Olaf Senkbeil was invited to join them. The original band members started in the beginning of the 1960s, working in different bands during 1960s and 1970s, Rolf Köhler worked for several different artists such as Blonker, Uriah Heep, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Grave Digger, Gamma Ray, Iron Savior, Savage Circus, Tokyo, Mephistopheles, and Kin Ping Meh (featuring Geff Harrison) among others. They were part of the choruses of the Dieter Bohlen produced Modern Talking in 1984–1987 and 1998–2000 and Blue System in 1987–1997 with Rolf Köhler as the refrain singer.

History[]

Formation of band[]

In 2003, together with songwriter / producer Thomas Widrat they founded a project Systems In Blue. Their first single Magic Mystery was released on March 22, 2004. After changing the label and two more singles they released their first album Point of No Return on September 20, 2005.^[1]

In September 2007, the lead vocalist Rolf Köhler suffered from a stroke and died shortly after. He was 56 years old.

After a pause Systems in Blue started again with Michael Scholz, Detlef Wiedeke and a new member Olaf Senkbeil who was a close friend and yet working with them on several projects. After several concerts together, Olaf took a real place in the band. In 2015 they begin to work with french producer Johann Perrier (Producer of Bad Boys Blue, Fr David, Ryan Paris, Linda Jo Rizzo...) and his label Modern Romantics Productions Sarl.

In 2015 They released the EP "Back in blue" with new songs from Systems In Blue and remixes from MS Project (aka Johann Perrier) and Itamar Moraz. The song "Children of the night" coming from this EP became the most successful song of Systems In Blue ever.

In 2017 was the time for the 3rd album of the band "Melange Bleu" that was including new songs written by Systems in Blue and songs by Johann Perrier, with the singles "Take it like a man", "She's a Gambler" and the special 80s maxi vinyl of "There's no heart" produced by Itamar Moraz and Karel Post, the album charted in several countries in digital.

In the mean time Detlef Wiedeke and Olaf Senkbeil created "Do Passion" their own musical project when few months ago Michael Scholz and Johann Perrier were working on their deep/tropical project "MS Project & Michael Scholz", all of this in parallel of Systems in Blue.

Systems In Blue released in 2019 the EP "Blue Horizons" with 2 new songs and several remixes from MS Project & Capitain Trash.

In 2020 came the 4th album "Blue Universe", kind of continuation of "Melange Bleu" where several musical directions were coexisting between Systems in blue, Do Passion (Project of Detlef Wiedeke and Olaf Senkbeil) and Michael Scholz & MS Project (Project of Michael Scholz and Johann Perrier), released in december 2020 in physical and january 2021 in digital this album charted in more than 10 countries in digital and had very nice results with the 1st single "Play for me the melody of love" including Remixes from Captain Trash and MS Project.

End of 2020, Olaf Senkbeil left Systems In Blue to concentrate on his own projects.

In June 2021 the 2nd single "Don't walk into the light" is gonna be release with Maxi version of SIB, Remixes from MS Project and the winner version of a special remix contest created for the fans !!

In June 2021 a Deluxe Edition of "Blue Universe" will be released including lot of remixes and instrumental versions.

Discography[]

Albums[]

• 2005: Point of No Return
• 2008: Out of the Blue
• 2009: Heaven & Hell - The Mixes
• 2010: The Big Blue Megamix
• 2011:
• 2012:
• 2015: " Back in Blue" (EP)
• 2017: "Mélange bleu"
• 2019: "Blue Horizons" (EP)
• 2020: Blue Universe (feat. MS Project and DO Passion)

Singles[]

• 2004: "Magic Mystery"
• 2004: "Winner"
• 2005: "Point of No Return"
• 2006: "1001 Nights"
• 2006: "Give A Little Sweet Love" (feat. Mark Ashley)
• 2007: "Voodoo Queen"
• 2008: "Dr. No"
• 2009: "Heaven and Hell"
• 2015: "Back In Blue"
• 2017: "Take it Like a Man"
• 2017: "She's a Gambler"
• 2018: "There's no heart" (special 80s Maxi version produced by Itamar Moraz & Karel Post)
• 2020: "Play for me the melody of love"
• 2021: "Don't walk into the light"

Limited editions[]

• 2004: Winner (Special Fan - Edition)
• 2005: System In Blue
• 2005: Sexy Ann
• 2008: Jeannie Moviestar (feat. Mark Ashley)
• 2017: "Take it like a man" Deluxe Edition

DVDs[]

• 2005: SIB & Patty Ryan live in Essen (as DVD-R)
• 2006: SIB Behind The Scenes 1001 h (as DVD-R)

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Systems in Blue.

• Systems in Blue official website
• Systems In Blue Official International Fanpage