In English
Christian Steiger, in short
This site is a complete, sourced discography of a German electronic music producer who worked between 1997 and 2007 under seventeen different project names. It is written in German. This page is the summary in English, with links into the relevant sections.
The rollercoaster
On 12 June 1997 Europa-Park in Rust, Germany, opened a rollercoaster called Euro-Mir, themed on the Russian space station. Seven of the ten album tracks are by Christian Steiger as Hell Bopp and Ben Klug as Nick Sputt, among them Lift Off!, the theme the ride runs on. The other three are by Christian Schnitzer as Moono and Achim Schnitzer as Dark Fader. The ride has run with that music for thirty seasons; the park is holding a farewell event on 9 January 2027 and dismantling follows. The park has confirmed that the melody stays.
The album opens with a spoken Russian narration, written in 1997. The full text, with timecodes and a German translation, is on this page.
Café del Mar
As Tiny Tunes, the track Will You Catch Me appeared on Café del Mar Vol. 8 in June 2001 and, eleven years later, on The Very Best Of Café del Mar Music, licensed to Can Ganguil S.L. on Ibiza. As Tactful, No Fear appeared on Café del Mar Vol. 11 in 2004. Both tracks are still in the streaming catalogues and are still being accounted for.
Why seventeen names
In the nineties every genre carried its own artist name. Trance could not run under the same label as house, and house not under the same as lounge. That is why this discography is spread across seventeen separate Discogs entries. Anyone who knows only one of them sees about a tenth of the work.
What is on this site
- Own releases
- 23, with label, catalogue number and full track list
- Compilation appearances
- 146 in all, each one named and sourced
- Digital-only collections
- 29 of them, from Apple Music and Deezer
- Works registered with GEMA
- 55, with ISWC codes
- Audio samples
- 79, from the 2004 archive and freshly cut from the original recordings
- Music videos
- Two, restored from the original tapes
Neither Discogs nor the producer's own old website knew the full picture. This site merges both and adds what was only in private files: GEMA registrations, licensing contracts and the original studio paperwork.