AMT

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AMT
General information
Genre (s) Electro , hip-hop , dubstep
founding 2005
Website www.brdbasss.de
Current occupation
Singing, production
 "Johnny M € inhof" aka " Robert Defcon " aka Tim Nowacki
singing
 Anne Khan aka The Commissioner
guitar
 Dave Bennett aka The Iron Curtain

AMT or the AMT is a Berlin electro / hip-hop group that was founded in 2005. She mainly plays electronic music and hip-hop.

Band history

AMT was founded in 2005 by the half-Pakistani screenwriter Anne Raqia Jabeen Khan (vocals), the German-American philosopher Robert Defcon (vocals, production) and the Canadian experimental musician Dave Bennett (guitar) and combines the explicit language of rap with political left statements and the sounds and grooves of electro , funk and dub . Your texts in German throughout a. Bank robberies, sex orgies at the employment agency or crack consumption are on the subject and are sometimes pornographic or extreme.

At the opening of documenta 12 in June 2007, AMT presented one of their most successful songs to date, "Hart Durchregieren", as the "new German national anthem" at the Kassel Club ARM. Although the song was rarely played on the radio due to the explicit text and led to protests from listeners, the single debut of the same name sold over 10,000 units.

As part of the Berlin Porn Film Festival on October 16, 2007, the musicians spoke out in favor of world peace with a much-noticed bed-in in the Berlin Hotel Ritz-Carlton on Potsdamer Platz . With their love duet "Desert Wind" they were named "Tomorrow's Stars" by readers of Stern magazine in 2008 .

While AMT's first appearances sometimes ended abruptly with aggressive public abuse inspired by Peter Handke , their live shows are now known for their humorous presentations, elaborate costumes, masked dancers and bass-heavy beats. AMT can be seen live on stage with the likes of Jamaican dancehall artist Terry Lynn , Simian Mobile Disco and members of the Puppetmastaz .

Her debut album “Fuel” was released on October 23, 2009 on the brdBASSS label.

style

In addition to the bass-heavy music , the group's trademark are provocative , sometimes pornographic texts combined with black humor , irony , hedonistic attitudes and punky aggression . AMT express satirical criticism of life in the precariat , nationalism , star cult and authoritarian politics.

Meaning of the name

The supposed abbreviation “AMT” is often assigned a wide variety of meanings by fans and the band themselves. Well-known names are, for example, "Anarcho-machine terror" or "ants with trench coats".

Discography

Albums
  • 2009: fuel
Singles
  • 2007: Rule hard
  • 2009: Heavy boy
  • 2009: desert winds
  • 2009: Put It in a Box

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ brdbasss.de: Robert Defcon: AMT “Hart Durchregieren” sold over 10,000 times. ( Memento of March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) February 3, 2009.
  2. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Sebastian Leber: The Return of the Pillow Battle Set an example by lying down: Berlin artists wanted to recreate the famous “Bed In” yesterday. October 17, 2007.
  3. ↑ stern.de: Stars of tomorrow: The office. August 18, 2008.

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