Chronicle 1

Chronicle 1
Compilation album by Kollegah , Favorite , Shiml and Slick One
Publication (s)	2007
Label (s)	Self-made records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	German hip-hop
Title (number)	19th
running time	68:57
production	Rizbo
Studio (s)	Selfmade Studio (Düsseldorf)
chronology - Chronicle 1 Chronicle 2 (2009)

Chronik 1 is a sampler from the independent label Selfmade Records . It was released on July 6, 2007 on the Düsseldorf label. On the Chronicle 1 , the at are Self Made Records under contract rappers Kollegah , Favorite and Shiml and label founder Slick One focus. The sampler became the hip-hop festival Splash! released.

background

Kollegah (left) and Slick One

Selfmade Records was founded in 2004. The following year, the sampler Schwarzes Gold was the first release of the independent label. A large number of German rappers from the Ruhr area are represented on this. In 2007 , the second sampler Chronik 1 was released , following the album Harlekin by rapper Favorite . From the point of view of the label founder Slick One, the sound carrier is “ the first real label sampler ”, as only the four rappers and the producer Rizbo , who are contractually bound to self-made records , can be heard on it. The only exception to this is the hip-hop musician Flipstar , who was also involved in founding the independent label. The main task of the sampler is therefore to present the Düsseldorf label and its members.

Track list

#	title	Artist	producer	length
1	Intro		Rizbo	1:10
2	Way up	Favorite, Kollegah, Shiml and Slick One	Rizbo & G. Bregovic	4:39
3	He has	Kollegah	Rizbo & SixJune	5:22
4th	You're not like Fav	Favorite	Rizbo	3:53
5	When it gets cold	Shiml	Rizbo & Alper	4:27
6th	Skit			0:23
7th	SR Time	Slick One and Flipstar	Flipstar	3:18
8th	(Show the people) who's the boss	Kollegah	Rizbo & Kollegah	4:04
9	16 bars	Favorite	Rizbo	2:25
10	327 street sound	Shiml	Epileptic Beats	2:40
11	Darkness of night	Slick One	Rizbo	2:50
12	Run out of the club	Kollegah	Rizbo & Kollegah	4:29
13	Nasat troops	Favorite and Kollegah	Rizbo	5:03
14th	No way back	Favorite and Shiml	Rizbo	4:01
15th	Straight	Shiml	Akasha One	4:31
16	To the top	Slick One and Kollegah	Rizbo	2:58
17th	Shotgun (Selfmade Remix)	Favorite, Kollegah and Shiml	Rizbo	4:36
18th	Outro		Rizbo	1:38
19th	A good day to die	Kollegah	SixJune & Topbeats	6:23

production

The responsible producer of the sampler is Rizbo, who provided the background music for the title Intro , Way up , Hater , You're not like Fav , When it gets cold , (Show the people) who's the boss , 16 bars , run out of it Club , Nasatruppen , No way back , To the top , Shotgun (Selfmade Remix) and Outro . Some songs were created in collaboration with other producers. The way up was produced together with G. Bregović, hater with Sixjune, when it gets cold with Alper and (Show the people) who is the boss and run out of the club with TONI. Furthermore, the hip-hop musician Flipstar contributes a beat with SR Time . In addition, 327 street sounds were produced by Epileptik Beats, Geardeaus by Akasha One and A Good Day to Die by Sixjune and Topbeats.

The beat for way up could only be used after consultation with Sin & VIP, a US rapper from Serbia and a Serbian group. They used the original beat for their mixtape Rane . For the track Hater , Rizbo used a sample from "No Good" by The Prodigy .

The audio post- processing, the so-called mastering , was carried out by Benz Reibach in the Bilkbass studio.

illustration

The four rappers are shown on the cover of the sampler. These each take up a quarter of the area. Every rapper holds a sign with their name printed on it in their hands. The label name and logo as well as the album title can be seen in the middle. The writing is highlighted with a "gold foil".

The photos used for the booklet and for marketing were shot by Frederic Thelen. Patrick van den Heuvel from Pleasure Artworks was responsible for the design of the artwork.

marketing

Logo of the label Selfmade Records

The Düsseldorf label shot a video for the song Weg nach oben . The clip was played in the hip-hop music shows on MTV TV. On Chronicle 1 , the video can be seen as an addition.

Before the sampler was published, a ten-minute snippet , a compilation of excerpts from the pieces from Chronicle 1 , was made available on the Internet. The snippet will be moderated by Favorite.

The four hip-hop musicians from Selfmade Records completed a joint tour from October 18 to November 2, 2007. This was called Showtime, Bitch! -Tour titled. The program of the concerts lasted two and a half hours. Befriended rappers also appeared in the opening act in the various venues. For example Pimpulsiv in Braunschweig, Pretty Mo in Munich and Casper in Cologne and Dortmund.

criticism

Chronicle 1 was rated primarily by media dealing with rap music. The reviews of the website Rap.de, the hip-hop magazine Juice and the e-zine Laut.de can be cited as examples . The editors of Juice rated the sampler positively, which goes hand in hand with the evaluation by Rap.de, whose reviewer rated the album as entertaining and varied. From Laut.de's point of view, the sound carrier is average to good with three out of a possible five evaluation points.

The evaluation of the beats produced by Rizbo was very different. The responsible editor of the Juice sees the beats as "mostly decent". In the evaluation by Rap.de it is positively emphasized that the productions are adapted to the different styles of the performing artists. This is in contrast to the opinion of Philipp Gässlein, who formulated the criticism for the Laut.de e-zine . He finds many instrumentals unsuitable for the label's rappers and cites as examples the titles Kein Weg Zurück and Weg Nach Oben , on which Favorite “cannot […] fully develop”, and Hater , who does not fit the verses performed by Kollegah . In contrast, Gässlein praises the beats of the pieces A good day to die and show the people who's the boss .

Rapper Favorite

In the opinion of the Juice editorial team, Kollegah's songs are the “highlights of the sampler”. Rap.de perceives the rapper's rhymes as "remarkable", but points out negatively the missing topics, the boring flow in some places and the low level of content Kollegahs. From the point of view of juice , favorites are often “on the verge of good taste”, but they offer particularly entertaining titles. Favorite is seen by Rap.de as the label's best rapper, as his lyrics are convincing "with his incredible pun and sparkling humor". The song 16 Bars and, in stark contrast to the Gässlein review, Favorites verse in No way back represent the highlights of the sampler.

According to Juice, Shiml's songs are “absolutely above average”, but are out of place next to the entertaining contributions by Favorite and Kollegah. The editor of Rap.de also finds the pieces Wenn es Kalt und Straightforward "out of place" and points out that the lack of humor in the title of Shiml, the sampler at these positions is "slightly unbearable". On this point, too, Laut.de's criticism is in stark contrast to Juice and Rap.de. Philipp Gässlein praises Shiml's voice, with which he creates “a breathtaking atmosphere” so that the title When it gets cold and straight ahead “literally grows beyond itself”. In addition, Slick One is also praised, as it dispenses with complex texts and thus represents a "counter pole" to the rappers under contract with him.

credentials

1. ↑ Slick One & Kollegah (Selfmade Records) from Düsseldorf in an interview ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2008 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.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Mzee.com: Interview with Selfmade Records - "Chronicle I" ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} booklet of the album
4. ↑ Selfmade Records presents "CHRONIK I" (from July 6th) (all information & video)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Selfmade Records Sampler ... Video on "Way up"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Mzee.com: Way up ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2007 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. 
7. ↑ Mzee.com: Snippet for the sampler ( memento of the original from September 14, 2007 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. 
8. ↑ Rap.de: Selfmade Records "Showtime, Bitch!" Tour 2007 ( Memento of the original from September 6th, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Trailer for the tour ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2007 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.  
10. ↑ Rap.de: Evaluation of the sampler ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2009 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. 
11. ↑ September issue of Juice (2007) - page 128
12. ↑ Laut.de: Evaluation of the sampler

Web links

• Website of the label
• Chronicle 1 at Allmusic (English)