You

Synthpop act Boytronic was ‘founded by accident’ in 1983 by an underage Holger Wobker and Peter Sawatzki in Hamburg, Germany. As Kapitän Sehnsucht, they were busy making soundtracks for sex shows in the city’s red light Reeperbahn district not long before being discovered by a Mercury Records rep. Their best-known hit ‘You’, which peaked at number ten in German charts, just got a grand re-issue treatment from Josh Cheon’s Dark Entries Records.

Sporting supergay sailor looks, leatherman’s caps, and copious amounts of hair gel, they headed gayly-forward to Hafenklang Studio to record their first LP, ‘The Working Model’ — the record was ‘dedicated to all the bears of the world…’. They even had their moment on the tube, filling in for Kim Wilde on Formula One, the German equivalent of Top of the Pops.

But by 1986, their label had claimed legal ownership of their band name, and reassembled the group with new members. A distraught Holger took refuge in a Thai monastery. These days, he says he’s ‘at the age where I have to economize my strength’.

‘You’ by Peter Sawatzki and Holger Wobker

You!
you look full of wonder
of miracles I see

You!
emotions getting stronger
why don’t you feel like me?

I feel it every second
my heart recalls your name
I’m searching for an answer
why don’t you feel the same?

You!
looking for a lover
a man I want to be.

You!
need someone to hold on
why don’t you look at me?

I feel it every second
my heart recalls your name.
I’m searching for an answer
why don’t you feel the same?

Everytime I see you
I feel it’s not a game . . .

Boytronic’s Bryllyant EP is now available from Dark Entries Records. The remastered EP features both the 1986 U.S. Remix and the 1988 33 1/3 Plus 8 Remix of Boytronic’s ‘Bryllyant’, as well as the original 1983 extended 12-inch version of ‘You’, and an extra-special edit of ‘Trigger Track’ never before released on vinyl.