Track Details
Encore Une Fois
About Crusher
Crusher belongs to the first-wave European trance generation preserved in the 1997 Dream Dance catalog, with “Encore Une Fois” standing as the project's clearest documented calling card.
A name preserved by the Dream Dance era
The surviving public documentation is strongest around one release, so this profile deliberately avoids assigning Crusher a biography that the sources do not establish.
Crusher is credited on “Encore Une Fois,” a 3:38 recording included on the second CD of Dream Dance, Vol. 4. MusicBrainz identifies the compilation as an official 2×CD release issued in Germany on March 6, 1997 by Sony Music Media, with the release tagged euro house and trance.
The placement is revealing. “Encore Une Fois” appears between Robert Miles' “In the Dawn” and Sequential One's “My Love Is Hot,” alongside records by Brooklyn Bounce, DJ Quicksilver, Faithless, Future Breeze, Cygnus X and Kosmonova. That context places Crusher firmly inside the commercial European trance / dream-house compilation ecosystem of the late 1990s.
Independent catalog references also preserve the track as a Crusher recording with a runtime of roughly three minutes and thirty-eight seconds. A separate music database describes it as trance / dream-pop, while a period-oriented genre listing records the track under techno at 131.8 BPM and associates it with DreamDance Vol. 04.
What cannot be stated confidently from the available sources is the real name, nationality, lineup, label history or a complete solo discography of this specific Crusher. The name is shared by other artists, including a later Ukrainian thrash-metal band, so those records are intentionally excluded rather than conflated.
For YGEN, the most reliable identity anchor is therefore the recording itself: Crusher — “Encore Une Fois” — 1997. The track's inclusion on Dream Dance, Vol. 4 is the strongest documented connection to the artist and its period.
Where “Encore Une Fois” sits
A late-1990s compilation snapshot helps explain why the record matters even though the artist's biography is poorly preserved online.
Dream Dance 4
The official MusicBrainz record places Crusher's track on CD 2, track 2 of Dream Dance, Vol. 4, released in Germany on March 6, 1997.
1990s trance network
The surrounding tracklist connects Crusher with the era's major dream-house and trance names, including Robert Miles, Sequential One, Brooklyn Bounce, DJ Quicksilver, Faithless and Cygnus X.
Avoiding name collisions
Later artists named Crusher have unrelated catalogs. Those releases are excluded here because there is no reliable evidence connecting them to “Encore Une Fois.”
Essential track
Only the recording that can be confidently tied to this specific Crusher identity is included.
A catalog fragment worth preserving
Crusher's story is a useful example of a recurring problem in 1990s electronic-music history: tracks can survive in influential compilation catalogs even when reliable artist biographies and complete discographies have disappeared.
“Encore Une Fois” remains traceable through the official Dream Dance, Vol. 4 record and multiple independent catalog references. That is enough to place the track historically, but not enough to manufacture a biography around it.
Verified destination
The YGEN track page is the directly verified destination available for this specific recording.
Editorial profile prepared from the YGEN track record and independent catalog documentation, with MusicBrainz used to verify the 1997 Dream Dance, Vol. 4 release context. Artist details not supported by those sources have been omitted.
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