It's sad that he never caught on bigger in the US, as I think that given the opportunity and exposure, he would have had the potential to write more and better songs for an American (and world) audience. But, due to his only marginal success in the US, he stuck to his German language only material, and pretty much isolated himself to a European audience. Just my opinion.
When I first started collecting the tracks from this album, I spent an age trying to find the "original" mixes. After a time, stupid as I was, I finally realized that the "mixes" on the album were actually the originals, and there weren't any more other than the ones that I put on the remix disc. Silly that he should name the album tracks as mixes. It was a tad confusing. If I am completely wrong on this, let me know...
Unfortunate that he died so young. I wasn't really into his later work, so it didn't impact me that much. I was surprised, though. It can be jolting when anyone, especially a star, dies before their time.
Although it looks a little dull, I like how the remix cover turned out with the chrome signature. I love photoshop layer styles....
Not the best quality on the tracks, here. I was able to put both albums and their covers in a zip less than 200Mb. Sorry...