Toca (album)
Toca is the debut album of German trance group, Fragma. It was released on 22 January 2001, through EMI Europe.
Singles
The album included the group's initial three singles released in the years prior and spawned a fourth some five months after its release.
The initial single, Toca Me, was a success in the UK, where it charted at number 11, and saw mild success in Ireland and the Netherlands.
The album's second single, Toca's Miracle, was the group's biggest hit to date, being their only number 1 hit, having topped the UK charts. It was also a top 10 hit in Australia, Denmark, Ireland and Norway.
Everytime You Need Me and You Are Alive, the third and fourth singles from the album were also successes in the UK, reaching positions 3 and 4 respectively on the charts.
Track listing
The album contained 11 songs and the videos for the first three singles.
! (album)
! is an album by The Dismemberment Plan. It was released on October 2, 1995, on DeSoto Records. The band's original drummer, Steve Cummings, played on this album but left shortly after its release.
Track listing
Personnel
The following people were involved in the making of !:
References
Album
Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, then from 1948 as vinyl LP records played at 33 1⁄3 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century albums sales have mostly focused on compact disc (CD) and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used in the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl.
An album may be recorded in a recording studio (fixed or mobile), in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to several years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately, and then brought or "mixed" together. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed "live", even when done in a studio. Studios are built to absorb sound, eliminating reverberation, so as to assist in mixing different takes; other locations, such as concert venues and some "live rooms", allow for reverberation, which creates a "live" sound. The majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at separate times while listening to the other parts using headphones; with each part recorded as a separate track.
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See also
TOCA
ToCA (formally trading as BARC (ToCA) Ltd.) is one of the major organisers of motorsport events in the United Kingdom. The company holds the responsibility of organising and as administrators of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) and the supporting series of the BTCC, sometimes known as the ToCA Tour or ToCA Support Package. The BTCC is the UK's biggest motor racing championship and one of the world's most highly respected motor racing series. The BTCC acts as a centerpiece, headline act to a host of support races covering the entire weekend.
History
The company, BARC (TOCA) Ltd, undertake the entire management of the championship from regulations, event direction and marketing. Alan J. Gow is the Series Director and Administrator of the BTCC and the Managing Director of BARC (TOCA) Ltd. Gow formed TOCA Limited in 1990, purchasing the rights to the BTCC in 1991 and proceeded to turn the championship into the largest of its type in the world and one of the most widely watched motorsport series around the globe. In 2000 Gow sold TOCA to American company Octagon Motorsport (part of the US NASDAQ listed Interpublic group) and took a "sabbatical" from managing both TOCA and the BTCC. In 2003 Octagon relinquished their ownership of TOCA and their control of the BTCC. The current company, BARC (TOCA) Ltd. was formed to take over and manage the championship. Gow was appointed Managing Director of the new company and returned to once again take charge and rebuild the championship, after it had floundered under the control of the previous management.
TOCA World Touring Cars
TOCA World Touring Cars (Called Jarrett & Labonte Stock Car Racing in the USA and WTC: World Touring Car Championship in Japan) is a racing video game developed and published by Codemasters, and released for PlayStation in 2000, and for Game Boy Advance only in Europe in 2003. It is part of the TOCA Touring Car series.
It features various Touring Car championships from around the world, but despite carrying the TOCA name, a fully licensed British Touring Car Championship (ToCa) series was not included. This upset a lot of fans of the series, but success continued. The gameplay overall became more "Arcade" and the replacement of qualifying laps with random grid positions together with the omission of penalties for bad driving made the game much more playable for the casual gamer. Curiously, unlike the first two titles in the TOCA series, World Touring Cars was not released in a Microsoft Windows version.
Reception
The game was met with positive reception upon release; it currently has a score of 85% and 80 out of 100 for the PlayStation version according to GameRankings and Metacritic.
TOCA 2 Touring Cars
TOCA 2 Touring Cars (called TOCA 2: Touring Car Challenge in the USA) is a British racing video game developed and published by Codemasters, and released in 1998. It is part of the TOCA Touring Car series. Mainly an annual franchise update of cars and tracks, the game added more detailed graphics, physics, multiplayer modes and other minor features. Fictional (but realistic) tracks were added, and support races such as Ford Fiestas, Formula Ford and others also arrived. The level of car damage possible during a race was also enhanced, which was a significant selling point compared with the likes of Gran Turismo which had no damage model at the time. The background music features E Z Rollers "Retro". Other version's feature, "Sole Sentiment" by Ratman, in the opening intro.
Gameplay
The game modes include the support races such as Formula Ford and the Ford Fiesta Championships, a test track mode where the player tests any car on certain variations of the test track, a Championship mode which is dependent on the length with the difficulty selected, a feature new to the game is the support cars are able to be chosen with the color the player prefers. The Multi-player mode (known as Linkup Game) allows for 2 or more players to race on any circuit and also in the Championship mode. A challenge mode is included to see how fast the player can get to the checkpoints in a limited amount of time. The single race mode allows for the player to choose the track he/she wants to race on and this mode features the ability to change the weather, laps raced and allowance for computer cars for one or more players.
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