Bratze
| Bratze | |
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 Norman Kolodziej and Kevin Hamann in 2010 |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Electropunk |
| founding | 2007 |
| resolution | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.bratze.eu/ |
| Founding members | |
| Kevin Hamann | |
| Norman Kolodziej | |
Bratze was an electropunk project by musicians Kevin Hamann and Norman Kolodziej from the Hamburg label Audiolith Records .
Act
Bratze combines the vocals of Kevin Hamann, who previously sang as a solo artist on the acoustic guitar under the name ClickClickDecker and was more in the songwriting genre, and the electronic tones of Norman Kolodziej, who previously played as Der Tante Renate Electro . The debut album Kraft oscillates between techno , rave and acoustic pieces with minimal electronic background music.
Hamann and Kolodziej met in Flensburg in 2006 and, after meeting a few times, recorded the song Jean Claude . The song found its way onto the Internet and the two musicians got more and more inquiries as to whether more titles would follow. In early 2007 they decided to record a full album and planned a tour for the end of the year. Since label boss Lars Lewerenz had such great confidence in the musicians, the album was released by Audiolith Records without having listened to the record beforehand.
Some song titles play ironically with the album name Kraft . It is believed that the titles Dudikoff , Jean Claude and Lundgren allude to the action film actors Michael Dudikoff , Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren . The title In the Eye of the Salmon contains a melody of the song No Good (Start the Dance) by The Prodigy , released in 1994 .
After Kraft , Hamann and Kolodziej returned to their solo projects. On March 19, 2010, the duo's second album was released by Audiolith with correction downwards. Shortly afterwards the band went on tour in Germany, followed by appearances at various festivals in the summer of 2010. In December 2010, the Goethe-Institut made a tour through Russia possible .
In 2011 Bratze took a break, but the band still performed at the Reeperbahn Festival and the Omas Teich Festival .
On May 26, 2014, the band announced that they would split up after a farewell concert on October 2 of that year. After this “funeral” sold out early, it was moved to October 3rd so that it could take place in a larger concert hall.
Discography
Albums
- 2007: Kraft (CD / LP, Audiolith )
- 2010: Correction downwards & the need for translation (CD / LP, Audiolith)
- 2012: Highlight (CD / LP, Audiolith)
EPs
- 2008: weapon (7 ", Audiolith)
Singles
- 2010: Without that it's only loud (Download, Audiolith)
- 2010: The patterns by heart (Download, Audiolith)
- 2012: Penalty Planet (Download, Audiolith)
- 2012: Quotes (Download, Audiolith)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review in the intro ( Memento of December 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved June 23, 2009
- ↑ review at laut.de . Retrieved June 23, 2009
- ↑ Bratze in an interview on the Russia tour 2010 ( Memento from October 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Reeperbahn Festival 2011 . In: ringrocker.com . ( ringrocker.com [accessed August 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Omas Teich Festival 2011 Line Up / Schedule. In: www.festivalhopper.de. Retrieved January 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Announcement on Facebook.Retrieved May 26, 2014.