One of the most popular aliases of
Peter Rauhofer in the 1990’s.
At first, Rauhofer used different aliases to release his music. ’Unique’ (1991) was first released under the names
Danube Dance (a name he took from a compilation project of the same name released on GiG Records),
Unique and
Saxmachine. These projects all featured the vocals of
Kim Cooper.
In 1992, a remix of ’Unique’ and the single ’Let Me Be Your Underwear’ gained attention in Europe and in North America. Both tracks became club hits.
Rauhofer worked with
Georg O. Luksch since 1987 remixing various projects, but these two tracks pushed the musical group he founded in 1991 with Georg O. Luksch internationally. A year later, Rauhofer continued the success with ’Take A Ride’ featuring the vocal talents of
Connie Harvey and
Jocelyn Brown.
The first album, ’Adults Only,’ featured all the previous hits and many new singles such as ’Diva’, ’Warm Leatherette’ (a House cover of the
Grace Jones disco hit), ’Sugar Pie Guy’ and ’Fantasy’.
Club 69 came back in 1997 with the single ’Drama’ and full album ’Style’, which also included a collaboration with
Suzanne Palmer.
Rauhofer and Luksch also used the Club 69 name as remix producers and became famous by remixing popular artists such as
Madonna,
Cher,
Funky Green Dogs,
Danny Tenaglia,
Depeche Mode,
Soft Cell and many others. The series ’Club 69 Future Mix’ went on to be released on two full mixed albums.
In recent years, Rauhofer seems to have moved on from the ’Club 69’ brand to release tracks and remixes under the dj-trademark of his own name.
’Unique’ was covered by Lisa Unique in 1999.
On May 7th, 2013, Peter Rauhofer lost his battle with brain cancer.