Ganymed was an Austrian space disco band founded in 1977.
In 1978, they released their biggest hit, It Takes Me Higher, which hit #5 on the Austrian charts for four weeks and also hit #23 on the German charts. That same year, they released their debut album Takes You Higher, which ranked at #16 for 12 weeks and also spawned another single, Saturn.
1979 would see the release of their second album, Future World. The albums title track was released as a B-side to Dancing in a Disco.
Afterwards, they teleased their final album, Dimension No. 3°, plus the non-album single, Money Is Addiction (Of This Crazy World) in 1980.
At their last concert in 1981, played bass for the group.
Ganymed officially broke up in 1983.
Members:
pseudonym in the group: Kroonk" - lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, synth programming
pseudonym in the group: "Pulsaria" - vocals
pseudonym in the group: Vendd" - keyboards
pseudonym in the group: IzI" - bass
pseudonym in the group: Cak" - drums, percussion, drum programming
pseudonym in the group: "Suk"; only appeared on Takes You Higher" - keyboards
"Ganymed Music is Music from the Universe" (originally "Ganymed-Musik ist Musik aus dem Weltall," from Austro-Rock-Lexikon).
Members
- Daniele Prencipe
- Gerry Edmond
- Gerhard Messinger
- Rudolf Mille
- Ernst Nekola
- Yvonne Dory
- Johann Hölzel
I like the beat of this song and t h i s e x c e p t i o n a l i n t r o ! ! !
It must have influenced Jean-Michel to write Rendez-vous 4...