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There is at least five groups called Atmosfear. One is a funk/jazz-funk/soul group.
Aanother is a metalcore band from Sweden, the third a progressive metal band from Germany, the fourth is a death metal band from Mumbai (India) and the last is an downtempo/instrumental/beat maker from the USA.

1. Atmosfear were a UK jazz funk band formed in 1979. They consisted of bassist, and keyboardist Lester J. Batchelor, drummer Ray Johnson, guitarist Andy Sojka, saxophonist Stewart Cawthorne, and producer Jerry Pike. A year later singer and guitarist Tony Antoniou joined the main line up. Regular support musician / members of the band were keyboardist Peter Hinds, who has also been a member of UK jazz-funk pioneers Light Of The World and Incognito, and percussionist Leroy Williams, a member of UK soul band Hi-Tension and who also played with Level-42. They were sometimes joined by horn man Alan Rapoport, Frank Roccoti, Carol Kenyon, and Rick Dejong.

Their most notable release was Dancing In Outer Space, which reached the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart in 1979. Another double A-side single followed called Motivation / Extract which also charted in the lower regions of the UK singles chart. This track also became Radio One DJ - Pete Tong’s club track of the year when it was released where Pete spun the discs at a club close to Brands Hatch.

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  • karmasore

    Does anyone have any information of the mp3's from the Japanese band "Atmosfear"....CD titled "Demon-Straight 1999" ?? I've been trying to find it everywhere. I even live in Tokyo and I cannot find it at any shops. I traveled to Osaka and Kyoto as well and could not find it there either...please someone help me out!

    18 Apr 2012 Reply
  • atmosfearr

    dammit, i should've known i wasn't the only one with that name -___- i'm number 5 lol

    17 Feb 2012 Reply
  • j_A_c_K_o

    http://www.myspace.com/atmosfearsweden

    26 Jun 2011 Reply
  • JaapStobbe

    Wow.... "Motivation" is frigging awesome!!!!

    8 Apr 2011 Reply
  • judobabe

    There's actually 3 bands they talk about...if you click on read all you get the info for the 3 different ones. They definetely need their own pages though!

    20 Jan 2011 Reply
  • Mjollnirr

    Total fail! 2 bands in one bag... WTF? :>

    26 Sep 2010 Reply
  • Dystopia-OwnzU

    Atmosfear(India) - Visions of the Beast!

    24 Sep 2009 Reply
  • johnspithead

    I've just converted my 12 of Dancing In Outer Space to WAV - sounds better than ever, man. How could a tune be SO ahead of its time?

    15 Mar 2008 Reply
  • absolution01020

    Why can't they make a seperate page for BOTH bands!? O_o

    3 Nov 2007 Reply
  • hurricane_mario

    Elanor Rigby ftw!!

    11 Oct 2007 Reply
  • FallingPT

    Please vote yes in the photo or upload another one.

    3 Dec 2006 Reply
  • FallingPT

    I arrived here because of the progressive metal band

    3 Dec 2006 Reply
  • Phil_S

    That's true. The one is a german progressive rock/metal band. I don't know the other one. Perhaps someone can add the info here?

    30 Aug 2006 Reply
  • loudsox

    Hmm.. I think there are two bands called Atmosfear because this Last.fm listing doesn't make much sense...

    8 Jul 2006 Reply