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You can actually listen to all the songs from the triple CD release: "The Big Indie Comeback" # 2 here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/bigindievol2 - you can always purchase the CD as well :-)
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How Many times?

Mind Travelling

The Day I Met You

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DIGITAL DREAMS

1997 - 2006

The last nine to ten years Thomas "TJ" Janak was alive and well with all his solo releases under the pseudonym "TJ".

He appeared on TV and Radio and many magazines over the years, received rave reviews, his 1997 release went straight to # 1 @ the DRMV charts and in 2005 his song "How many times" won an award for excellence in song writing from VH-1. He wrote songs for others and a girlband he managed came # 1 in their categorie. He performed in cool places and even organised the "Artists against Terror" event in November 2001, supported the AIDS help has been called "A musical whiz - kid". His voice has been compared to Bryan Ferry and in November 2006 "How many times" was re-released on the sampler: "The Big Indie Comeback Vol. II" by Oxfordshire based recordlabel MATCHBOX. In total he released 5 CDs using "TJ" as a pseudonym and he won not only a lot of respect but also a few fans and friends over the years.

One reason for letting Digital Dreams "die" was the storm of technobands in the mid 1990s which did electronic music more harm then good. Now, with bands like "Faithless" or "Lamb" around he feels there is hope for electronic music and it is about time to go back to the roots and deeper into the 21st century ...

1996

In 1996 Thomas and Franca performed in a high security prison and the final Digital Dreams release: "Digital Dreams - Vesicula" saw the light of day.

Thomas and Franca split up for good in 1996 and Thomas decided to put Digital Dreams to rest. The "Vesicula" tape nevertheless was co-produced by Frank M. who wrote songs for artists like Hot Chocolate and Johnny Logan and the release contains very fine pieces of music.

1995

1995 saw the team split up and there were a few gigs with a different line up including a performance in front of 6000 people at the "Hessen wird 50" Festival before Thomas and Franca continued DD together into 1996 ...

1994

1994 was a year to remember for the band. The 1994 release: "Digital Dreams - Hitech Systems" climbed to # 4 @ the DRMV charts, the band ranked among the TOP 10 unsigned bands in Frankfurt and a performance at
a Star Trek Convention earned them a short TV appearance on SAT.1

Digital Dreams 1994

1993

Thomas and Franca started working on new material for a future album to be released in 1994 as well as working on a live show to match the power of the music

1992

1992 saw the release of "Exzess - Technological age", a collaboration between Thomas and Armin Schwarzfeld. The album contained of 16 tracks and received rave reviews.

During the making of the album Thomas met female vocalist Franca Pettrich with whom he continued as Digital Dreams from 1993 - 1996.

1991

Digital Dreams promoted the album all throughout 1991 and Thomas started re-recording some of the songs "properly" as the 1990 release: "Digital Dreams - German Groove" was mainly a demo album.

Thomas teamed up with keyboardist Armin Schwarzfeld again with whom he had played in a band called Spirits of Soul back in 1985 and the duo decided to work on a collaboration album to be released in 1992 ...

1990

In 1980, Thomas "TJ" Janak started writing songs as a 13yrs. old boy in his native Germany. After being in different bands he went solo in 1987 with "Travel Direction" which he renamed DIGITAL DREAMS in 1988.

Initially Digital Dreams wrote songs as soundtracks for future computergames but in 1990 released a 4-track demo album titled: "Digital Dreams - German Groove".

The album manages to reach #16 @ the DRMV charts in Germany and the song "3002" was taken as a soundtrack for the Commodore(TM) C 64 game: "Teldor IV - Auf der Suche nach dem Irgendwas" as well as for an independent short film titled: "Auf Sie haben wir gerade noch gewartet".

The record label HDN released the song "Goucho", also taken from the German Groove on a sampler titled: "Blowing a Kiss" in 5 countries.

The woman on the cover was Thomas´ first wife, who only appeared on one song on the album.