Camouflage was a semi-popular synthpop (or synthiepop if you live in Deutschland) band that popped up in 1988 with their debut album Voices & Images.
Camouflage was formed by vocalist Heiko Maile and programmers/keyboardists Marcus Meyn and Oliver Kreyssig in Germany in 1984. Their first single, The Great Commandment, cracked the German charts and spread word of the band to the UK and the USA, where the track began receiving club play. Their heavily-influenced-by-Depeche Mode brand of synthpop was, overall, quite popular in Europe while it was around but never really caught on that much overseas, though you'd be hard-pressed to find an 80s dance night at any club that doesn't play The Great Commandment or a remix of it at least once in a while.
The rest of their catalogue looks like this: 1989's Methods of Silence, 1990's Meanwhile, 1993's Bodega Bohemia, and 1995's largely instrumental Spice Crackers. They haven't released anything other than a greatest hits compilation since 1995, and appear to have broken up, although Marcus and Oliver continue to work together by remixing other artists' tracks. |