Liquido
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| Genre (s) | Rock , indie rock , power pop |
| founding | 1996 |
| resolution | 2009 |
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| Wolfgang Schrödl ("Senex") | |
| Tim Eiermann | |
| Stefan Schulte-Holthaus | |
| Wool Maier | |
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Liquido was a German rock band from Sinsheim and the surrounding area. The band achieved worldwide fame with the song Narcotic , of which they were able to sell 700,000 copies of the CD single version in Germany alone.
history
Liquido was founded in Germany in 1996 by four friends who say they know each other from elementary school or from the sandpit and went to school together. In the same year, the single Narcotic was released on their own label Seven Music . The idea for the song came from Wolfgang Schrödl, who developed the melody on an old Roland D70 synthesizer. The first and only major success came in 1998 when Virgin Records signed Liquido and reissued Narcotic . According to the band, 700,000 of the single were sold in Germany and 8 million worldwide.
The debut album Liquido was released in ten countries. Sold out tours , prizes and nominations as well as chart successes in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia followed. By 2003, two more albums and several singles were created, with which, however, it was no longer possible to build on the success of Narcotic . In 2003 the collaboration with the record company Virgin was terminated by mutual agreement.
In 2004 Liquido got a new management and a new booking agency and signed a contract with the Nuclear Blast label , which actually specializes in metal. As a result, the singles Ordinary Life and Love Me Love Me and the fourth album Float were released in 2005, but the success of Narcotic could not be repeated here either.
The band's fifth album Zoomcraft was released on March 14, 2008. The single Gameboy was released on February 22nd. The singles Gameboy and On a Mission were only sold online, the album was available in stores.
At the end of January 2009, the end of the band was announced on the official website with the separation.
In August 2015, the band launched their first YouTube channel.
In 2019 singer Wolfgang Schrödl recorded a new version of Narcotic under the stage name Senex together with Younotus and Janieck , which made it into the charts again. The following year the solo singles Everybody Knows and Wake Up followed .
Music genre
Liquido mostly played a mix of rock and pop music, sometimes with elements of indie rock. When Liquido reached a commercial peak with their song Narcotic around 1999, the media created the genre name Pullunder -Pop in relation to the band . Back then, this garment was in vogue within the alternative rock scene. In the video clip for Narcotic , the band members each wear such a tank top. On their last album, Zoomcraft , Liquido used more electronic elements.
Side projects
Tim Eiermann and Wolfgang Maier were active in the German band Pyogenesis until 2000 , on whose albums “Unpop” and “Mono” Wolfgang Schrödl can also be heard as a guest musician.
Individual band members also have solo projects called LSD Underground (Maier), The Prophet's Project (Schrödl), and Jedermann (Schrödl).
In addition, they play or have been involved in other bands: Deine Jugend (Maier, Eiermann), My Early Mustang (Maier, Eiermann), Cages. (Schulte-Holthaus, Schrödl), GUT (Eiermann) or with the same line-up Unter Ferner ran (Schulte-Holthaus, Schrödl).
Tim Eiermann is also active as a producer, composer and copywriter for advertising and film music, among others for the Karlsberg “Mixery” campaign in 2008 as well as Tuborg, Heineken, Ferrero and Coca-Cola spots and the title song of the Bernd Eichinger Production "Knallharte Jungs". In 2014 he played guitar again for a show with Pyogenesis.
Discography
Albums
- 1999: Liquido (Virgin)
- 2000: At the Rocks (Virgin)
- 2002: alarm! Alarm! (Virgin / EMI )
- 2004: The Essential ( Best of ) (Virgin)
- 2005: Float (Nuclear Blast)
- 2008: Zoomcraft (Nuclear Blast)
Singles
- 1998: Narcotic
- 1999: Doubledecker
- 1999: Clicklesley
- 2000: Play Some Rock
- 2000: Made in California
- 2000: Tired
- 2002: Why Are You Leaving?
- 2002: Stay with Me
- 2002: Shoot Me I'm a Fool (radio single)
- 2002: All Dead Wrong (radio single)
- 2005: Ordinary Life
- 2005: Love Me, Love Me
- 2008: Gameboy (download single)
- 2008: Pop the Bottle (radio single)
- 2008: On a Mission (download single)
- 2015: Narcotic Demo 1996 (download single)
Awards for music sales
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
| Country / Region |
 gold |
 platinum
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Sales | swell |
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 Belgium (BEA)
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gold1
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- | 25,000 | ultratop.be |
 Germany (BVMI)
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platinum1
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500,000 | musikindustrie.de |
 Italy (FIMI)
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gold1
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- | 25,000 | fimi.it |
 Austria (IFPI)
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platinum1
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50,000 | ifpi.at |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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2 × gold2
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- | 50,000 | hitparade.ch |
| All in all |
4 × gold4th
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2 × platinum2
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- ↑ a b Chart sources: Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ^ Jan Kuhlmann: Podcast: Liquido. Wolfgang Schrödl on "cheesy" melodies in rock songs. In: Bonedo. September 26, 2012, accessed February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Focus , No. 03/1999, January 18, 1999: Liquido: Helden des Pullunder-Pop Article by Georg Meck. Focus Magazin Verlag GmbH, Munich