Captain Hollywood Project
High-octane 90s club anthems featuring sharp military-style rapping and soaring diva vocals. Pure Eurodance energy for the gym or a high-speed night drive.
High-octane 90s club anthems featuring sharp military-style rapping and soaring diva vocals. Pure Eurodance energy for the gym or a high-speed night drive.
Captain Hollywood Project represents the peak of German Eurodance, a sound defined by its relentless forward motion and high-gloss production. The music hits with a mechanical precision that feels both futuristic and deeply rooted in the 90s rave scene. It is characterized by a specific tension between the aggressive, rhythmic rapping of Tony Dawson-Harrison and the melodic, often minor-key hooks delivered by powerhouse female vocalists.
What sets this project apart is the 'Captain's' background as a dancer and choreographer, which translates into music that is physically demanding. The arrangements are dense with staccato synth stabs and heavy-hitting drum machines that never let up. Unlike the more bubblegum side of the genre, there is a certain coolness and urban grit here, influenced by Harrison's American hip-hop roots but polished with European electronic sensibilities.
To understand the appeal, start with 'More and More' for its iconic synth hook and 'Flying High' for its pure uplifting energy. These tracks are time capsules of an era when the dance floor was a place of high-drama and athletic endurance. It is the perfect soundtrack for when you need to turn your environment into a high-intensity zone.
Captain Hollywood Project is a German eurodance music project best known for the hits "More and More," "Only with You" and "Flying High." At the peak of its success in the 1990s, the project achieved ten top-20 hits on European music charts. The project was first formed in 1990 in Nuremberg, Germany by American rapper/singer, dancer and music producer Tony Dawson-Harrison (a.k.a. Captain Hollywood). When first naming the project, Harrison chose the name 'Captain Hollywood Project' in order to distinguish his new music for the project from his music from previous years. He also chose the name to give himself the creative freedom as executive producer to involve any singer, songwriter or producer of his choice when producing each of the new songs for the project. Even though the act has been viewed as a one-man act starring Harrison as the rapper/frontman, an ensemble of female backup singers, dancers and backing musicians have been traditionally included in the act by Harrison. Today, Captain Hollywood Project is recognized as a live performing duo act starring Harrison and singer/dancer Shirin von Gehlen (a.k.a. Shirin Amour) as the project's lead singer and frontwoman. Together with their live musicians and dancers, Harrison and von Gehlen perform the Captain Hollywood Project hits year-round at concert venues in the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Russia and Australia.
Shares digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style); eurodance, techno, house (subgenres)
Shares digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style); eurodance, techno, synth-pop (subgenres)
Shares eurodance, techno, house (subgenres); digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style)
Shares eurodance, techno, synth-pop (subgenres); digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style)
Shares digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style); rap, belting, harmonized (vocal style)
Shares digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style); eurodance, techno (subgenres)
Shares digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style); eurodance, techno, synth-pop (subgenres)
Shares digital clarity, drum machine, compressed loud (production style); eurodance, techno, house (subgenres)
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