DAYS OF FATE Recorded Conclusions Behind Their Label's Back in 1995, and Now It Streams
A German Synthpop Single Made in Secret Returns as a 2026 Radio Edit and Remaster
The version of Conclusions now on streaming services is a cut, not a remix. René Prescher, who wrote the song, edited and shortened the original 1995 recording in September 2026. Left Engelmann remastered it the same month. DAYS OF FATE, a synthpop band from Dresden, Germany, released the result on 2 October 2026. It is the first time the single has been available to stream.
DAYS OF FATE’s Conclusions is in the playlist below, with the rest of this desk’s synthpop, and the band’s profile carries the rest of their story. The single came to TopMusic.News through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Listen first, then read on for the court case behind it.
A Radio Edit Cut in 2026 Brings Conclusions to Streaming for the First Time
The construction is simple to follow. The new radio edit runs to 3 minutes 22 seconds. It sits on the streaming single next to For You, the other song from the original maxi-CD. On Bandcamp the band has gone further and put the whole 1995 release back together. The radio edit comes first, then the four tracks of the November 1995 maxi-CD, all remastered.
That fifth track carries orchestral arrangements by Andreas Goldmann, who also produced the original sessions with the band. Omar Samhoun then mixed them, again with the band at the desk. In the band’s own account, the aim of the 2026 work was a shorter, newly mastered version. The sound of the original was to stay intact.
So the edit is a trim, and the remaster is a polish. Nothing in the arrangement was rebuilt. That is why the single still sounds like a record made in the middle of the 1990s.
Recorded in Secret in March 1995, Conclusions Nearly Cost DAYS OF FATE Their Freedom
The story of how that record was made is stranger than most. In 1994 the band signed with a small label. It held exclusive worldwide rights to the production of their music, with options on two more maxi-CDs and an album. The first maxi-CD, My Decision/Master of Disaster, did well enough to reach radio and television. In July 1994 the band played it on MDR’s Rock & Rock programme.
Still, distribution was poor. The band’s own management even drove CDs to shops to make sure they were on sale. So the band wanted out. Their management’s answer was bold: go into a studio without telling the label and make the next single anyway. The sessions took place in March 1995 at New Art Studios in Medingen. By the band’s account it was the best-equipped studio in Saxony at the time. The sessions produced several versions of both Conclusions and For You.
Then a local paper reported on 1 April that the second release would arrive on 29 May 1995. The label sent a cease-and-desist demand, and the band let the deadline pass. After that, an injunction from the Leipzig Regional Court followed. It barred them from working with anyone else. The threat was a fine of 500,000 Deutschmark or up to six months in prison.
Neither was an option for a young band, so they went back to the label and reached a settlement. They were allowed to release the maxi-CD themselves. It came out in November 1995, about a year after the first one, to a good reception.
DAYS OF FATE Next to Camouflage and Wolfsheim
Two German synthpop names help place it. Camouflage had already shown how far the style could travel from Germany. The Great Commandment reached No. 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1989. It also spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart. Wolfsheim, the Hamburg duo behind The Sparrows and the Nightingales in 1991, later spent years in court themselves. A dispute between the two members led to trials in 2007 and 2008.
So who is it for? Listeners who grew up on German synthpop of that era. Collectors who never found the original maxi-CD. And anyone who likes a record with a story behind it. Start with the radio edit, then go to Bandcamp for the full 1995 set. The band that once nearly went to prison over these songs now controls how they are heard.
TopMusic.News’s curator team: “We added Conclusions to our Synth-Pop, Retro Pop playlist. The songwriter made the edit three decades on. The cut keeps the 1995 recording as it was rather than dressing it up.”
Stream Conclusions on Spotify, Apple Music or Deezer, or through Hypeddit, and buy the full maxi-CD on Bandcamp. Follow DAYS OF FATE on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
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