The story behind "RMB - Spring" with Rolf Maier-Bode | Muzikxpress 065
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For this week's vlog I sat down with Rolf Maier-Bode, in his beautiful studio in Düsseldorf, Germany. Rolf is the brain behind the massive 1996 hard trance classic "Spring", which came out under his RMB alias. Rolf tells how he got into music and how the track was born, what kind of equipment he used and what happened after the release of "Spring".
Furthermore you will hear more about the RMB live act, plus we talk about Rolf's current work as a music producer and of course his future plans.
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
More about Rolf: rolfmaierbode.com/
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#rolfmaierbode #rmb #spring - Hudba
Those days, those memories...
One of my friend, who had a car (imagine a LADA 1600!), told me in Summer '96: "Come, I show you something!"
We went to the car park, and he started to play "Spring" with maximum volume!
He was so proud to his sound system with those big speakers in the back of his car. :)
I will never forget that moment.
Greetings from Hungary
Now that's a cool story!! I bet it did sound awesome hehe
*Greetings from a German who moved to rural Hungary in August!*
Spring is awesome but Reality is their best track by far
@@questioneverything8301 Redemption
Russian Lada is popular in Hungary too ?
Found this video today, was listening to the song through some random playlist and went to youtube to find other remixes. I am thinking about a person on a bicycle happily ramping up the speed while listening to this through earphones.
Rolf🤘Thank you the real rave years! Bring it back any time!
what really got me was the "there is no 160bpm music out there nowadays" - this interview is now 4 years old. and here we are, coming close to 150bpm on many techno events. one or two more years and the glory days of "good vibes" hard trance techno will be back, i'll bet on it ;)
ps: rmb was the defining artist of my youth, thanks for all your great music
Yeah, DJs played around 150 -190 BPM when i was going to some electronic clubs in Hannover lately, after a really long hiatus. I didn't believe my eyes (and ears) that the young crowd's finally into faster stuff again. So there's definitely a chance we may see Rolf putting out fast energetic Rave music again. :)
I think so too - it all started with slow techno anyways - and then came melodic fast rave - if you look at the crowd and even the type of drugs in clubs today you see where this is going
1993-1996 "rave" - hard trance, happy hardcore and such were legit because of the lack of phones. People were actually dancing, and shaking at that rhythm. Nowadays it's visuals and DJs standing on top of the decks, and idiot crowd filming them with the phones.
I used to play Spring at school parties, the dancefloor would explode every time. I think RMB really stood out in the genre: amazing production quality even by today's standards, unique quirky style, great compositions. He simply has not made a single bad tune in my opinion.
Spring is one of the few "hymn" songs of the 90s. The 90s itself in a few minutes. Reality and Redemption are also my favorites, but if I hear Spring (especially along with watching its video), I travel back in time instantiously to the summer of '96, when I was 14 years old. Great memories... Thanks!
Deep Down Bellow - True classic one of the best trance tunes ever;) and not well known. Personal Best. RMB should back. Rolf Meier Bode come back!!!
Spring did hit the Finnish singles list, but Break the Silence did even better here. Was lucky to see him live in Tampere around that time.
He's very very intelligent and talented person. I love how he speaks about his music and about production
He is for sure! I used to listen to "Spring" a lot back in the 90s, so I was super happy when Rolf replied with a positive answer to my email request :)
I remember when Spring came out. I think video clip was played on VIVA... My favorites were RMB, Legend B, Alien Factory and Scooter (yes good old Scooter - without lyrics). Dude looks so humble and down to earth and also we share similar passion for hybrid (sci-fi) film music.
Yeah Rolf is a very nice down to earth and talented guy, that studio.... wow! And no worries, I like Scooter too! :P Would love to do an interview with H.P. Baxxter one day ;-)
@@muzikxpress Wow thats could be amazing. Maybe an interview with Rick J Jordan instead of HP? :) He can tell you more about producing music and tech stuff
@@rcs2003 exactly :) but please not about How Much Is The Fish... how about making a "the story behind Hyper Hyper"?
Well you had a good ear for music but what went wrong with liking Legend B rubbish
The "Unreality" + "Reality" combo on "Widescreen" is my favourite 11 minutes of rmb.
You were the inspiration in my whole life when it comes to my kind of music with 160bpm, It haunts me during last 25 years in a much energetic way. Yes RMB made the TREND silently......😍🤩
Rolf ist der beste!
He is one of my heroes! He made so much great stuff, from the early fast rave tracks to the newer ones (the incredible 13 Stories is one of the best albums ever made!).
Thank you Rolf for your music!!!
♥️ i was in 1996 army, this was my power 💕♥️💕💪 love you allways 🙂
Thanks. This was a fascinating interview. If he ever considered his old tunes EDM to begin with, I can see why he stopped making it.
Glad you enjoyed the interview!
Я не постигаю, как люди могут создавать такие шедевры.
Я когда впервые услышал этот трек, то сразу понял, что ничего прекраснее в соей жизни на тот момент я не слышал. Это было такое глубокое и пронзительное откровение, что я реально застыл в шоке с разинутым ртом. До сих пор, когда я включаю эту композицию, у меня мозг отключается и я мгновенно растворяюсь в этих мощных и всепоглощающих звуках и мелодии.
Такое ощущение, что автор этой музыки Фауст, который заключил сделку с Мефистофелем.
I first heard spring on a hixxy set. It was completely different to anything I'd heard; listening to happy hardcore then hearing spring (or "the spring" as I still call it), it blew my mind. Instantly, it became my favourite tune. Then at my first big rave, hixxy played it at the sanctuary, and it was a moment that I still remember 20 years later. And it's still my favourite piece of music. It's so good. I don't think I'll ever get bored of it, and even though you can hear it's age now, it's still outstanding. It's perfect.
Same here first time I heard spring was in a Hixxy set, still sounds amazing today
I listened to RMB - Experience in 1993 when I was 8. We've come a long way!
What I always think is a stunner of RMB, the place to be.
Remember first time I heard it as a 6 or 7 year old kid. I was so amazed.
I love RMB. the best rave music in the world.
Still listen to Spring at least once a week in my upbeat 90ths playlist. Fantastic track. Remember hearing it for the first time as a youngster on a compilation album called "Mega Man Dance". 😅 Good times!
Hello friend! I thought I was the only one))) ✊
@@DZA-ty9vm that's great! 😅
I love these interviews. Keep them coming. You are doing a marvelous job!
Thank you very much!!! Very happy to read my work is being appreciated! :)
I loved “Redemption” also
Spring is one of the most original sound IMHO, just cant get it out of head :)
High Five RMB I love everything from 'Redemption' (1994) to 'Redemption 2.0' (2002) for the energy, unique style. Spring is great but you have many other great tunes "Wonders of life", the whole "Mission Horizon". Thanks man!
spring is the legend of euro dance 90s music which was the greatest
RMB - forever in my mind. Great interview!
Thanks so much!
Rolf is a Mozart of the new era!
Perfect! I remember this time when I heard that amazing track for the first time! Legend 😊
RMB - Spring was one of the defining tracks of my youth that made me enjoy & produce electronic music, thanks for the nostalgia flash!
"on beatport there are so much crap" absolutely true
An absolute legend Sharam worked on the wide-screen album too
Only on track 2 according to the credits. Great album BTW!
A very good interview. I liked the questions you asked and the responses given by Rolf. Fantastic job, Twan.
I like Spring but my favorites are Love is an Ocean and Reality.
Thanks a lot Hersh! And yeah, those 2 are great songs as well!
Rolf your great and very correct about the state of the charts these days well said about the rubbish aggressive rap music and all that crap EDM music .
Whispering is my favourite RMB track! I have all their tracks, they sound so good, layers of music on top of each other. Great interview, thanks.
Glad you enjoy it! Thanks so much!
Thank You for this cool interview. I was only wonder that you didn't knew that Rolf performed many times live before Spring came out. Anyway, Rolf is a master, he is a truly professional music creator with passion and love for unique sounds. I believe that there are still more people like me who are missing 90s stuff with fast tempo, rave melody and energy... Such a tracks like "Whispering", "No Obedience" and others are examples of something which was best in that music. I miss that energy in modern stuff. RMB ruled the music scene and Rolf you are da best! I hope that you will make your dreams true about doing film music for something well known. Good luck! Signed: your fan since around 95 :)
Thank you! And I couldn't find much information about the live performances online, hence my question. I always do a lot of research for my interviews, but especially from the older tracks / older days, not everything is easy to find. I only found out where he did perform (Mayday, Nature One etc etc), but I didn't find any info about when etc. And in that time internet wasn't that big yet as it is now, so not everything was posted all over the web ;-) I think I do know quite a lot about dance music, but of course I don't know everything ;-) Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed the interview! "Spring" was the biggest hit of RMB in The Netherlands and it is one of my favorite tracks from that time, hence I asked Rolf if we could talk about that one :)
Thank you for great interview. RMB is an idol for me from 90'... together with other "bit similar" band named Raver's Nature. "Spring" for me was already bit commercial but yes, very uplifting and great tune. For me RMB is "The place to be" track with special remix on Live at Mayday - Raving Society on 95. It blown me away when I heard it every time. And goosebumps from track "Feel The Flame". As well as "Love Ep", Land of the rising sun and I know for sure that my wedding first dance track will be RMB - Equinox :))))
Rolf! Keep working for great music and we see already that oldschool are coming back so never say never for "The Place To be in 2020"... Amen!
Thanks a lot, hope you enjoyed the interview!
One of the best and energetic songs of all time along with die other RMB Tracks. Good ol´ times...
RMB is still one of my fave producer ever! I ve listened the This World Is Yours CD like 6 millions of time. It s a pity he does not release anymore with the RMB style :-|
as soon as I saw this video I was in shock, I love Redemption and Love Is An Ocean. great interview once again Twan.
Thank you very much, glad you liked it! :)
grrrrrreat look into one of my fav tracks of all time!
Hope you enjoyed the vlog / interview! :)
This song the best dance hit of 90x, in Kazakstan best DJs named “Spring” favourite song, and i think so too. For me “Spring” video best for all time.
genius. thanks Rolf for what you give to us.
Thank you for this interview! I would add million likes if I could.
Thanks a lot Jani!!
The "Straight Mix" with no vocals is my personal favourite
his track "redemption" outclasses "spring" at all levels. To me it is one of the best rave songs ever.
Reality (non vocal) is the best of all songs of this genre.. nobody surpassed that one
I liked the B side (Whispering) even more than spring. Give it a search. ;-)
Legend
Great interview as always! I like that he calls it electronic music, not dance :)
Thank you so much Kim!
I desperately need Rolf's take on 90's retro in 160-180BPMs.
I remember they played Ever Means Never on Channel X, a Belgian Dance Radio in Antwerp and never knew the name untill i heard Spring, so i thought it was a remix of spring and it nearly took 20years before i knew it was the other way around...
I still like the original more
Wow another super interesting one! Once again thank you for the excellent work done.
Thanks so much Vasily!!
мой любимый композитор
TY so much for this interview!
'Spring' also charted in:
Switzerland: No'7
Austria: No'22
Israel: No'17
The Netherlands: No'11
Finland: No'18
Thank you! And yeah, it was on the radio a lot here in The Netherlands, almost Top 10 indeed! :)
This is a brilliant interview by all accounts.
Deejay Swifty Thank you very much!!
muzikxpress No problem :) Spring is one of my all time favourites, I couldn’t believe my luck when this appeared on my suggested videos.
Deejay Swifty Haha same! So I was super happy when Rolf wanted to sit down with me to talk about this classic! And it makes me happy it was in your suggested videos, thank you CZcams 😂😉
muzikxpress yes they get it right sometimes but only this morning I had a suggested video of ‘electricity poles being demolished compilation’ - work that one out! 🤦🏻♂️😂
Deejay Swifty 😂😂😂
Great interview on a great song and artist.
And thanks for sharing it in english, my deutsch would have been a bit rusty.
Even to this day this song is listed in my all time top spot and that is a lot to say out of all the great music this planet has to offer.
It's old, but classics never change and they don't need to.
And thanks to Rolf for reminiscing.
Been a fan from all the way from publications under Adam & Eve up to Foundation.
Utmost respect. Music can be a universal language.
A generation grown under listening to this stuff.
Good tracks all around.
Greetings from Finland.
Spring is indeed my love
Thank you! And I'm Dutch, so I just speak a verrrry tiny bit of German ;-) I prefer to do my interviews in English, even with Dutch people, so it is (hopefully) interesting for a bigger audience :) Greetings from The Netherlands!
Still one of the best rave tune from history!
holy f, just last week while watching your interviews i was thinking exactly of this song, judging what are the chances it would ever get the same treatment :D
awesomeness
Haha no way? I hope you enjoyed the interview!!! :)
Amazing i really loved that tune as a kid. Raving times!!
Thank you Ramon!
It's a majestic track of course,but my personal all time favorite is "Deep Down Below" 💓😊😍
nice interview
RMB , Datura , Ramirez , Dance2trance , Markoh , Astralprojection , M.ofMayday , Dune , Alien Factory , Scooter (but not now)
i really miss them..
Thanks Twan. Erg interessant om te zien. Reality is mijn favoriete RMB track.
Dank je! En ja dat is ook echt een topper! :)
Interesting insights and cool channels, just subscibed!
Thank you so much! More to come soon 😉
Members of Mayday is what it reminds me of. Great beginnings.
Great interview by the way.
Thank you very much! And which track by Members Of Mayday does it remind you of exactly?
Thank you!!! Holy shit!! Was good to see and hear him. :)
Thank you! Rolf is such a legend, plus his studio is amazing!
Great Interview Twan. Thanks for that. But there is one thing disturbing a lot... the Spring Track in the Background distract.
Thank you! And for my more recent interviews the background music is a lot lower compared to the talking, I was still learning to find the right balance / settings 4+ years ago hehe ;-)
@@muzikxpress My pleasure! It was actually 4 years+ ago... This could be the reason hehe :D
Legend... 👌
Great Interview, and i like the Tack alot, but almost 25minutes the same background melody?
Great interview and song choice as always.
Have you thought about doing one with agnelli and nelson. Bound to be a great story behind their el nino track.
Thanks
Thank you very much! And yes, that one is on my wish list, hopefully it will happen somewhere in the near future ;-)
O dislikes. Well done Twan!
Thank you!!
cool
👍RMB is a great!
When you found out, that "Spring" is only a cover o.O
Great interviewe! Thanx from Russia!
Thank you so much!!
Rmb the best
IDK but that time I considered RMB as electronic producer of RAVE music. Track "Spring" was almost on every RAVE CD. Interestingly, he he did not mention RAVE here even once.
Here it was (and still is) considered as hard trance.
Hi Twan! Thanks for making these videos. Great stuff! Any chance you will talk to Ingo Kunzi about Ayla/ Nirwana? Cheers Morten W.
Thank you very much! And Ingo is on my wish list for sure! But he doesn't live close to me (I don't have a travel budget for these vlogs), so I hope he has a DJ gig in The Netherlands in the near future :)
Cool!
😎👌👍💪
Me waiting 160bpm 👹
Checkout Rolf's CZcams channel, he does regular livestreams and shows how he creates a new track: czcams.com/users/IIRolfMaierBode
yep!
thanks for promoting it :)
Awesome video, love these interviews with the old electronic acts. I do think is annoyin to listen to the track through the entire interview through.
Glad you enjoyed it! And in my recent interviews I changed that! ;-) So the background music is usually 3 or 4 tracks, depending on the lenght of the interview :) Thanks for the feedback, I'm still learning haha
@@muzikxpress I really hope you will gain alot of views, i think its so awesome that you manage to talk to some of those artists, im going through all of your videos and are really supprised that somebody took the time to talk to RMB, Twenty 4 Seven (personal favorit), DJ Jurgen and so on, its some of my favorit bands! :)
If you would ever find the time and interest i would love to see these.
2 Brothers on the 4th floor (Martin og Bobby Boer), with eighter Fly or Dreams. I cant really find to much info about the brothers, there is not really any good interviews and not much information, they must not have liked the spotlight, but im dying to know more about any of their hits :)
Charley Lownoise & Metal Theo, i mean where to start, those guys had so many hits, and are so likeable i would look to see you interview them. Btw did you hear "City Streets" that Charly Lownoise did with re-style, its a really nice throwback to 90s happy hardcore
Rick J Jordan from Scrooter (i know he left, but his kinda a Scooter Legend, would like to hear more about his Scooter productions)
these are just a few of 100s i hope to see in the future, i really like your show, and love to see all my old hero producers and acts interviewed, i hope you will keep bringing us these awesome videos :) Thank you very much for the time you spend on this :) (and sorry for the long message, you gave me your little finger and i go for the hand, sorry :) )
@@mortenhn1981 Thank you! And Martin Boer will happen (hopefully Bobby will join) later this year, we discussed this already ;-) Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo are on my wish list too! I have a wish-list with like 50-60 people still, but since COVID-19 screwed up all my plans (no more events = no foreign artists coming to visit The Netherlands for a while...) I can only focus on Dutch producers / artists now. I wrote a loooong story in the "community" tab some weeks ago, check it out hehe ;-) But, lots of ideas still, so hopefully I can do all of this in the next years haha
@@muzikxpress Wow, really amazed that you already talked to Martin Boer im really looking forward to that interview. Thank you so much for your dedication to all this, and thank you so much for the interviews its very awesome! :) I will take a look at your patreon so you hopefully will keep doing this for many years :)
@@mortenhn1981 Haha yeah! In 1995 I did my very first ever interview, which was for a local radio station. And.... that was with Martin! We haven't seen each other since, but we did stay in touch via Facebook. He's working on his brand new studio, so once that one is finished we will try to meet up for an interview. Hopefully about "Dreams" and about "Never Alone". I'm also working on some other names, so stay tuned and thanks for the support! :)
17:18 you did. I still listen to your music from the 90s today. It will never ever grow old.
We also still play it at our Revival Raves. Not pitched down, mind you ;) Example: czcams.com/video/fc1zRSs0z6o/video.html
Knew it had to be VL1 or a Prophecy for that scratchy resonant violin-like sound.
Roland Brant - The Kiss Of Medusa was released two years before with similar melody.
Yes, but a year before "The Kiss Of Medusa" by Roland Brant, Rolf's track "Manitou - Ever Means Never" already came out ;-)
@@muzikxpress Niiice. I never knew. I bought Medusa vynil as new release and thought it was original melody, until today.
That's why I like making this vlogs, so people (hopefully) learn a thing or 2 hehe ;-)
What was Farid's input? He never seems to get a mention.
That says enough I think, right? ;-)
He was in charge of music videos.
I think he was a friend of Rolf and had some connections to the rave scene. Also he had some ambitions in promo and marketing. Too sad that the friendship broke up in the later career of "RMB".
RMB project was 100% of Rolf Maier Bode work production in studio with some Farid ideas of composition, structure and melodies of tracks.
The story of 'Summersault' by Tastexperience ?!? Please
For my vlogs I'm looking for tracks that have been hits / popular in at least a few countries. This one only came out in the UK according to Discogs. Plus I can only do interviews with people that live close to me, since I don't have a travel budget for these vlogs. Or people that travel to The Netherlands for gigs etc. And I don't think the Tastexperience guys are still performing....
why the other guy from the duo Farid Gharadjedaghi wasn't mentioned at all...
I’m sure there was a good reason for it
@@muzikxpress ah i see..weird.. everything seemed like a one man show
@@HypetraxxPredator maybe one was the producer and the other one not so much? Who knows 😉
@@muzikxpress yeah maybe, i am more intrigued now lol
@@muzikxpress saw one older interview in german, so yeah you were right, Farid was doing calls and arrangements for videos and looking for ways to add meaning into them with the lyrics. He only is responsible for convincing rolf to add a second melody into Spring track, but haven’t got involved at all with production in any track. And yes they separated in not in good terms, unfortunately their friendship broke down with time
22:53 - "that is not my thing anymore..." As someone of the same age, same root music love (blade runner theme, JMJ, rockets) i can say "it has NEVER been our thing". the EDM thing has nothing in common with those years.
160 BPM u said, maybe try to step into hardstyle scene or raw...
didn't like Redemption that much, Reality on the other hand got me
Reality was my favorite too!!
I wish I could tell him that buying 5 CDs a year is a lot for most people. That's such a disappointing reason to not release on CD. Crowd fund it! If even a small amount of people bought 5 CDs a year it would still be a major format. I'm shocked that he used such faulty logic there.
Redemption was the better song tho
German Charts are really a crap! Let’s pronounce it, what it really is. :D
Haha are they THAT bad??
OK I understand the world loved "Spring". It a commerce track, engineered for commercial success.
But to hear "this is my favorite RMB track".... ouch. I really expected a little more sophisticated taste on this channel.
Oh please, are you for real??? Your comment, ouch…. 😂
I like a lot of tracks that some people consider to be cheesy / commercial. I like what I like and I really don’t care if my taste is not “sophisticated” enough for you or anyone else.
Gerade die "Mainstream" Titels waren aber die besten. Danke für redemption, spring und reality🎉
rmb - experience (follow me).mp3 ❤❤❤