CAMOUFLAGE HISTORY
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"Rewind"appeared during February 2001 on Metronome (which had become part of Polydor);
this was a new Best Of album, for which Camouflage finally was allowed sufficient opportunity
for input. The selection of songs represented their ideas and the limited version also included a
DVD with all videoclips from the Metronome and BMG phases of the bands career. The 1997
album "We Stroke The Flames" was pulled off the market. During March Polydor also released
the single "You Were There" from the dance project "Resistance D". The song sounded very
much like Camouflage and as a result caused a significant amount of confusion. This project
was explained in that Marcus Meyn had worked with musician friends Pascal F.E.O.S and Maik
Maurice in writing the song and recording the vocal tracks. The song reached #63 in the German
charts.
New material from Camouflage was still not in sight, but a new album title "Sensor" had been
determined. A vaguely defined degree of success for a new single was a necessary requirement
that would precede the release of an album; so following the desire of their record company
Virgin, the band made a comeback attempt with a new version of their classic song "The Great
Commandment" as version "2.0". The vocals were re-recorded to avoid any conflict with rights
to the original recording; the music was produced by the London trio "Toy" (Dave Clayton, Q,
and Kerry Hopwood). The drum parts were played by Christian Eigner, who had sat at the drums
during several Depeche Mode tours. "Toy" had been involved among other projects with the
production of the Depeche Mode Album "Ultra". "TGC 2.0" climbed the charts for three weeks
and reached #85. The rather disappointing result left little hope for a release of "Sensor" with
Virgin.
Oliver Kreyssig moved his residence and work from Hamburg to Berlin. During 2001
Camouflage played three concerts including their first performance at "Wave Gotik Treffen" in
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