Hipnosis
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Hipnosis is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
), were an Italian synthpop
Synthpop
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group, best remembered for their cover of Vangelis
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
' track "Pulstar
Albedo 0.39
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", which went Top 10 in Germany
Germany
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and Top 20 in Switzerland
Switzerland
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in 1983. They are also remembered for their hits, "Oxygene" (1983), a cover of Jean-Michel Jarre's 1976 superhit and "Droid" (1987).
Discography
- Oxygene/Bormaz (1983) (Germany: 39)
- Pulstar/The End (1983) (Germany: 10, Switzerland: 19)
- Astrodance/Argonauts (1984)
- Hipnosis/Hypnosis LP (1984)
- Droid/Automatic Piano (1987)