Alter Ego (band)

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Alter Ego
Origin	Germany
Genre(s)	Acid house
Years active	1989?–present
Website	ongaku.de
Members
Roman Flügel Jörn Elling Wuttke

For the Peruvian rock band, see Alter Ego (Peruvian band). For other uses, see Alter ego (disambiguation).

Alter Ego is an acid house music group made of Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke. They achieved notability in 2004 with their track "Rocker", which became one of the year's defining Dance anthems, especially in Europe, and getting played on heavy rotation amongst the most popular Electroclash DJs such as Felix Da Housecat and 2 Many DJs.

In the 2004 Groove Magazine Readers Poll, Alter Ego won three categories, taking out the award for Best Single for "Rocker", Best Album for "Transphormer", and also Best Live Act. French group Black Strobe took out Best Remix honours with their remix of Alter Ego's track, "Rocker".

In 2005 Roman Flugel went onto produce the track "Gehts Noch", which was a huge hit across the world and was regularly played by many famous international dj's.

Contents 1 Discography 1.1 Albums 1.2 Singles 1.3 Remixes 2 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

• Why Not?! (2007)
• Transphormed (2006)
• Transphormer (2005)
• Decoding the Hacker Myth (1996)
• Alterism (1996)
• Memories from Overseas (1995)
• Alter Ego (1994)
• Fear (1989)^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Singles

• Rocker [Universal CD] (2005)
• Rocker [Ultra 12"] (2005)
• Betty Ford EP (2000)
• Slaughterhouse (2000)
• Absolute (1997)
• The Evil Needle (1997)
• Decoding the Hacker Myth Remixes, Vol. 1 (1996)

[edit] Remixes

• "Giving You Up" - Kylie Minogue (2005)
• "Psychological" - Pet Shop Boys (2006)
• "Human After All" - Daft Punk (2006)

[edit] External links

• ongaku.de - official website
• Roman Fluegel RBMA video lecture session
• Alter Ego at Yahoo! Music
• Alter Ego at Discogs
• Alter Ego discography at MusicBrainz
• Alter Ego at Last.fm