Dumonde

With the success of their debut single "Tomorrow," Germany's Dumonde joined Europe's late '90s mounting mass embrace of trance culture. Created by Jurgen Mutschall (Chaos Records handler and better known as DJ Jam X) and Dominik de Leon (aka De Leon), 1999's "Tomorrow" hit Germany's Top Ten and a staggering amount of major label trance compilations throughout the world. Dumonde's animated synths and wantonly exalted sense of drama continued in remixes for Alice Deejay, Push, and Barthezz and their rising DJ popularity, matched by follow-up singles like "See the Light" and "Never Look Back," made them reasonably important figures in the landscape of mainstream German trance. ~ Dean Carlson