"Liebe und Musik sind die wichtigsten Dinge in der Welt. Doch ich denke, dass Musik mehr Gefühle schaffen kann, als es die Liebe jemals fähig sein wird." (André [1999]) ("Love and music are the most important things in the world. However, I believe that music can create deeper feelings than love will ever be able to.")
This statement was the beginning of Versus.
Versus - being founded in 2001 with a view to creating music out of their own imagination - is a musically most diverse band from Monestirea (close to Desden / Germany) that is unmistakeably rooted in the electronic sound area. Nevertheless, Versus ignore any kind of pigeonholes and, thus, produce their very own and at the same time quite varied sound.
That sound was already most convincing in 2004 at the Europe-wide band contest "Battle Of The Bands" hosted by Sonic Seducer. Versus came third place in the jury's voting with their song "Re:Start". Since 2005 and the one or other change within the band, André has been solely responsible for the writing process of the new songs resulting in the increased use of guitars and experimental beats. In the course of this, the band has always kept sight of their main aim - creating music to create sensations for all human beings interested in music.
From 2007 on, Versus could post their first official releases. Apart from remixes done for Days Of Fate, Heavy-Current or Universal Poplab, the band has also contributed to various compilations (electropop 4, Dark Allure) in 2010.
Meanwhile, between 2007 and 2009, the band worked at their admittedly third but officially first planned album. And their patience paid off resulting in "Different Twilight Places", a 15 tracks electro pop EBM concept album which combines smoothly most different facets of music and promises the listeners to take them on a very special journey.
Since 2010, Versus and Echozone / Bob-Media have teamed up. Therefore, "Different Twilight Places" is going to be released at October 1st, 2010 on Echozone.
Line-up:
André Steinigen: vocals, music, lyrics, arrangements, pre-production
Markus Krech: drums, music, vocals, synthesizer, co-arrangements
Guests / Live crew:
Marco Burkon: live & studio guitarist / Sandro Hermann: life keys / André Schuster: live keys / Sarah Berendes: female vocals
"Liebe und Musik sind die wichtigsten Dinge in der Welt. Doch ich denke, dass Musik mehr Gefühle schaffen kann, als es die Liebe jemals fähig sein wird." (André [1999])
That sound was already most convincing in 2004 at the Europe-wide band contest "Battle Of The Bands" hosted by Sonic Seducer. Versus came third place in the jury's voting with their song "Re:Start". Since 2005 and the one or other change within the band, André has been solely responsible for the writing process of the new songs resulting in the increased use of guitars and experimental beats. In the course of this, the band has always kept sight of their main aim - creating music to create sensations for all human beings interested in music.
