Real McCoy: Olaf "O-Jay" Jeglitza, Patricia "Patsy" Petersen, Vanessa Mason.
Additional personnel: Karin Kasar, Susan Summer, Maria Vidal (vocals); A.C.E. (various instruments); Chuck Anthony (guitar); Rick Nowels, Greg Wells (keyboards); Shep Pettibone, Charlie Clouser (programming); St. James, Douglas Carr, Tommy Ekman, Bag, Cygrid, Dian Sorrell, Monique Sorrell, Dennis King, Billy Steinberg (background vocals).
Producers include: Jay Wind, Quickmix, O-Jay, Per Adebratt, Douglas Carr.
Engineers include: Jay Wind, Quickmix, A.C.E..
If you've ever wondered what kind of music gets the crowds streaming onto the dance floor in Madrid, Paris or Brussels, take a listen to ANOTHER NIGHT. Fact is, Europe never got over house music fever. Hip-hop--the all-powerful musical force that basically rescued dance music in the States--is only an occasional flavoring, rarely the driving rhythmic idea, on the other side of the pond. And Real McCoy--Berliner Olaf Jeglitza, a 29-year-old photographer turned pop star, and singer/collaborator Patricia "Patsy" Petersen--pump pump pump up the mechanical beat with a vengeance.
You can almost see those lithe European bodies prancing through ditties like the title track, wherein Olaf displays his singular skills as a rapper. Patsy provides the touch of soul. Real McCoy proves they can apply this same successful formula to interpretations of other people's hits (Redbone's "Come And Get Your Love") and they possess a real feel for danceable pop.
The synthesizers bleep and the sequencers pound away without mercy, adding up to another dance smash, a phenomenon not unfamiliar to these high-tech troubadours (Real McCoy's first hit, "It's On You," hit #1 in 12 countries and sold 2 million copies worldwide). Jeglitza claims influences like The Beatles and Abba, as well as classical music. But ANOTHER NIGHT proves where Real McCoy's talents are best focused--right smack in the middle of the world's dance floors.
