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Klangkarussell is an Austrian producer - duo in the field of electronic music . It consists of the DJs Tobias Rieser and Adrian Held from Salzburg .
Career
Tobias Rieser initially worked as a solo artist under the name of Klangkarussell. Adrian Held, on the other hand, produced electronic music under the artist name herald and i , which is an anagram for his real name. In 2011 the two artists formed the duo "Heldenklang" and produced their first songs together. To avoid confusion as to who was hiding behind which name, they soon announced that they would now be producing and releasing music together under the name Klangkarussell. In January 2014 her debut album and a world tour were announced, which lasted until September 2015.
Sun dance
Klangkarussell was the instrumental Sundance known that in autumn 2011 on the music portal SoundCloud published and the online music magazine in February 2012 trndmusik.de ge blogging was. From this point on, Sonnentanz was posted by other blogs and online magazines and reached the sales charts in German-speaking countries in August 2012. After the piece was also released on CD on September 14, 2012, it reached the top 5 in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. It was then released in other European countries and even became a number one hit in the Netherlands . With YouTube the video was Sonnentanz end of June 2013 called more than 9 million copies. In August 2013, the Austrian duo released a vocal version of the song together with soul singer Will Heard , which reached number 3 in the British charts under the title Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) .
In March 2013, the Dutch presenter Domien Verschuuren published a video on YouTube in which he documented that Sonnentanz was partially mixed from finished loops from the Nu Jazz City sample package. The record company Universal Records , with which Klangkarussell is under contract, responded by blocking the video. In the meantime, however, a similar video, which traces the production method, has been made and published by another YouTube user.
The album network was described by Tshepo Mokoena of the British newspaper The Guardian as a mixed bag of wannabe summer hits and rated 3 out of 5 stars. On the accompanying video you can see a roofer climbing a high-rise building, which is life-threatening.
In autumn 2014, Klangkarussell received the European Border Breakers Award .
Discography
Albums
year | title |
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2014 | network |
DE8 (8 weeks) DE |
AT5 ![]() (8 weeks)AT |
CH2 (12 weeks) CH |
UK71 (1 week) UK |
First published: July 25, 2014
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Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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2012 | Sun dance network |
DE4th ![]() × 5
(104 weeks)DE |
AT3 ![]() (67 weeks)AT |
CH3 ![]() × 3
(87 weeks)CH |
UK3 ![]() (20 weeks)UK |
First published: August 10th, 2012
UK release: January 1st, 2013 as Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) (feat. Will Heard ) |
2014 | Network (Falls Like Rain) Network |
DE17th ![]() (22 weeks)DE |
AT7 (19 weeks) AT |
CH13 (21 weeks) CH |
UK83 (1 week) UK |
First published: May 9, 2014
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Celebrate network |
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AT24 (1 week) AT |
- | - |
First published: July 11, 2014
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more publishments
- 2017: Jericho ( feat.Mando Diao )
- 2017: Circuits
- 2019: Comoros
Awards for music sales
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
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- | 15,000 | ultratop.be |
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- | - | ifpi.dk |
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900,000 | musikindustrie.de |
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- | 15,000 | fimi.it |
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37,500 | ifpi.at |
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90,000 | hitparade.ch |
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600,000 | bpi.co.uk |
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Artist awards
- 2013: Song of the year: Klangkarussell - Sonnentanz
- 2015: Best Engineered Album: Network
Trivia
Before his breakthrough as a DJ, Tobias Rieser also tried his hand at football and played for SV Grödig from 1994 to 2011 . He came to a professional use in the second division game against FC Wacker Innsbruck on August 2, 2008, when he came on in the 76th minute for Dietmar Berchtold .
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- ↑ Self-reported information on Klangkarussell.com ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information about Heldenklang at Soundcloud
- ↑ Information about Herald and i at Soundcloud
- ↑ Information about the sound carousel at Soundcloud
- ↑ Tour dates ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chart history of "Sonnentanz" on acharts.us; Retrieved September 28, 2012
- ↑ Chart comment for week 35 on germanchartblog; Retrieved September 28, 2012
- ↑ Product details for "Sonnentanz" on mix1.de; Retrieved September 28, 2012
- ↑ Sound carousel - sun dance. Nederlandse Top 40, accessed February 6, 2015 (Dutch).
- ↑ 'Sonnentanz' unmasked: nothing more than a construction kit ... on Vimeo ; Retrieved April 14, 2013
- ↑ Nu Jazz City on bigfishaudio.com; Retrieved March 29, 2013
- ↑ Sonnentanz von Klangkarussel: Chart topper from the retort on Macnotes.de; accessed on March 28, 2013
- ↑ Interview with Domien Verschuuren , Noisey
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Klangkarussell: Netzwerk review - mixed bag of wannabe summer hits , The Guardian, August 7, 2014
- ↑ Roofer model on the deadly abyss
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE , AT , CH , UK1 , UK2