Bambule (album)

Bambule
Studio album by Absolute Beginner
Publication (s)	November 10, 1998
admission	April-August 1998
Label (s)	Buback Universal Music
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	German hip-hop , rap
Title (number)	12
running time	51:37
occupation	Denyo (rap) Jan Delay (Rap) DJ Mad ( cuts , scratches )
production	Absolute beginners Matthias Arfmann
Studio (s)	Turtle Bay Studios
chronology Flashnizm (1996) Bambule Blast Action Heroes (2003)
Single releases August 11, 1998 Rock on November 3, 1998 Dear song April 12, 1999 Hammer hard August 30, 1999 foxes

Bambule is the second studio album of the Hamburg hip-hop - group Absolute Beginner . It was released on November 10, 1998 on the labels Buback and Universal Music .

production

The album was recorded at Turtle Bay Studios from April to August 1998 and produced by Absolute Beginners in collaboration with music producer Matthias Arfmann .

Cover design

The album cover shows a photo of the three band members Denyo , Jan Delay and DJ Mad, who are standing or sitting on a metal frame. All three wear dark clothes and black sunglasses.

Guest Posts

In addition to the Absolute Beginners, other artists can be heard on three songs on the album. The song Nie nett is a collaboration with rappers Das Bo and Ferris MC , while the Hamburg rapper Samy Deluxe is featured on Füchse . In addition, the rapper David P. has a guest appearance at Mikro in hand . Platinum Martin, who left the group shortly before the album was released, is also represented at Rock On and Geh Please .

Track list

#	title	Guest musician	length
1	The boat		4:09
2	Hammer hard		3:23
3	Rock on	Platinum Martin	4:17
4th	Dear song		4:12
5	foxes	Samy Deluxe	4:34
6th	Drive		4:14
7th	Showmaster		4:15
8th	Is possible		3:51
9	Please go	Platinum Martin	5:01
10	Never nice	The Bo and Ferris MC	4:52
11	Micro in hand	David P.	4:17
12	Not alone		4:06

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Bambule   DE 12 11/23/1998 (65 weeks)   AT 14th 01/17/1999 (10 weeks)   CH 93 09/04/2016 (1 week)

Singles

Dear song   DE 11 07/12/1998 (18 weeks)   AT 28 02/14/1999 (6 weeks)   CH 32 02/14/1999 (8 weeks) Hammer hard   DE 38 04/26/1999 (7 weeks) Foxes ( feat.Samy Deluxe )   DE 69 09/13/1999 (3 weeks)

Bambule entered the German album charts at number 28 on November 23, 1998 and reached the top position on April 19, 1999 at number 15. Only after the release of the associated remix album Boombule (the sales of both albums are valued together) did the sound carrier reach top position 12 on June 26, 2000. Overall, the album stayed in the German Top 100 for 65 weeks. In Austria Bambule reached 14th place and was able to stayed in the charts for ten weeks, while initially missing the charts in Switzerland before reaching number 93 in September 2016.

As singles , the songs were Rock On , Love Song (DE # 11), Hammerhart (DE # 38) and foxes (DE # 69) is coupled out.

Sales figures and awards

For more than 250,000 copies sold, Bambule received a gold record in Germany in 2000 and was the rap group's most commercially successful publication until the release of Ahnma .

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
laut.de (2016)
Juice

The website laut.de rated the album with five out of a possible five points and especially highlighted the single Liebes Lied :

“ The Absolute Beginner prove with a terrific album, both musically and in a snotty rhyme and rap technique, that the Hamburg rap school has elite quality. The lyrics are about fat beats, styles and such an exaggerated self-image that you simply cannot avoid actually buying it from them. [...] The music, the voices, the melodies of the refrains, the beats and the little gimmicks are what ultimately give the whole thing the finishing touches for a sensation: The 'love song' has a clearly (intended) hypnotic effect, especially as a single appeared that screams 'buy me' and anyway or because of it or what-know-I is wonderfully lovable. "

- Excerpt from the review by laut.de.

In the 100th edition of Juice , the album was retrospectively rated six out of six crowns. Laut.de gave Bambule another five out of five points in its milestones category in 2016 by means of a more detailed evaluation.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bambule on discogs.com
2. ↑ album cover
3. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH
4. ↑ Chart tracking Bambule at officialcharts.de
5. ↑ Bambule DE: Gold
6. ↑ Rating: laut.de
7. ↑ Rating: as a milestone on laut.de.
8. ↑ Rating: Juice
9. ↑ laut.de: Review of the sound carrier
10. ↑ Review as a milestone on laut.de.