About Quickmix
In 1987 he found his first own hip hop band, called Masterplan (Quickmix, O-Jay, The A). They were the first German Hip Hop band who got a deal with the Select Record Label (UTFO, Whistle). The first single was called We wanna be stars.
Later, in 1988 Quickmix put the first German Hip Hop Electro Band together (The Alliance). The band had two more members who were old friends of Quickmix: O-Jay and Careem the Dream. They sold 20000 units of the first single "Action" on the basis of self-distribution. This initial success was followed by a whole album that was distributed by ZYX music. The Alliance was one of Germanys most successful Hip Hop bands from 1988-1989. At the same time Quickmix found his first Hip Hop Magazine, called Fresh Beat Magazine, which was distributed by the World of music (WOM) chain. Besides from that Quickmix ran his own radio show which also became a huge success.
1989 the Band MC Sar & The Real McCoy was born. Their first singles (Pump up the Jam Rap and Its on you) became hugely successful all over Europe and all went Top 10. 1993 the next Project was born: Maxx. Maxx combined the Club Sound with Ragga Vibes and became an enormous success in the Club scene. The two initial singles Get a Way and No more went Top 10 all over Europe and reached Gold Status.
In 1994 The Band name of MC Sar & The Real McCoy was changed into The Real McCoy and the project got signed to BMG Germany and Arista Records USA. The Real McCoy had countless Top 5 Hits in the USA, UK, Japan and Europe and sold more than 8 million records worldwide. Their incredible success was honoured by dozens of Platinum and Gold awards, the MTV award, Billboard Award, a Grammy nomination as the most successful foreign Popact in the USA and the German Echo award. Furthermore Quickmix was honoured by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for the Song Another Night, which stayed in the US Billboard Charts for almost one year.
Quickmix also worked as an engineer for the duet of Mariah Carey and Joe and wrote/produced several songs for one of Germanys biggest actresses and singers, Yvonne Catterfeld.
In 2009 Quickmix is still working on new Albums from "Real McCoy, "Jah Jah" and more.
Keep your ears to the ground and stay tuned!
Production Credits: Joe, Hecklah & Coch, Jah Jah, Major Game, Flying Steps, AM2PM, Killer, Numarx, The Alliance, Maxx, Mariah Carey, Yvonne Catterfeld, Poetic Justice, Real McCoy, Hypadelics, Rhymez & Prok, BK, Lisi a.k.a Purple Haze, Vanessa S., Masterplan, Instant Funk and much more.
