DIY (album)

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#DIY
Trettmann's studio album

Publication
(s)

29th September 2017

Label (s) SoulForce Records

Format (s)

CD , LP , download

Genre (s)

Hip-hop , dancehall , reggae

Title (number)

10

running time

37:38

production

chronology
Dance on the volcano
(2013) 		#DIY Trettmann
(2019)
Single releases
August 1, 2017 Ankle-deep
22nd August 2017 Gray concrete
12th September 2017 Thank God

#DIY (abbreviation for Do It Yourself ) is the second solo album by the German hip-hop and dancehall musician Trettmann . It was released on September 29, 2017 via the independent label SoulForce Records.

production

The album was produced almost entirely by the Berlin music producer trio KitschKrieg . Only the beat to Dumplin & Callaloo was produced by Stereo Luchs.

Cover design

The album cover is in black and white and shows Trettmann from the side. He is in front of a gray wall and is wearing a sports suit, sunglasses and a baseball cap. The background is completely black and no lettering is used.

Guest Posts

In addition to Trettmann, other artists are represented on four of the ten songs on the album. So thank God a collaboration with rappers Bonez MC and RAF Camora while the rapper Marteria a guest appearance in the song Fast Forward has. The rapper Gzuz can be heard on Knöcheltief and the rapper Haiyti and the rapper Joey Bargeld appear only one more .

Track list

# title Guest musician length
1 #DIY 3:22
2 Ankle-deep Gzuz 3:27
3 Gray concrete 3:57
4th Billie Holiday 3:01
5 Dumplin & Callaloo 3:13
6th Thank God Bonez MC , RAF Camora 3:42
7th Just one more Joey Cash, Haiyti 4:33
8th new York 3:46
9 Fast forward Marteria 3:12
10 Answer it 5:25

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
#DIY
  DE 17th 06.10.2017 (75 weeks)
  AT 27 October 13, 2017 (6 weeks)
  CH 29 08/10/2017 (5 weeks)
Singles
Ankle-deep
  DE 31 08/11/2017 (30 weeks)
Thank God
  DE 31 09/22/2017 (11 weeks)
  AT 56 09/29/2017 (5 weeks)

#DIY entered the German album charts at number 17 on October 6, 2017 and was ranked 21 and 31 in the following weeks. In total, it stayed in the top 100 for 75 weeks. The album also reached the charts in Austria and Switzerland at position 27 and 29, respectively. In the German annual album charts in 2018, it was at number 73.

On August 1, 2017, the first single Knöcheltief was released for download . It reached number 31 in the German charts, stayed in the Top 100 for 30 weeks and was awarded a gold record for over 200,000 units sold . The second release of Grauer Beton followed on August 22, 2017, including a music video . The third single was released on September 12, 2017, the song GottSeiDank , which was ranked 31st in the charts, stayed in the Top 100 for eleven weeks and was also awarded a gold record. On March 13, 2018, a video for the song Billie Holiday was also released.

reception

Reviews

Professional reviews
Reviews
source rating
laut.de
Juice
rappers.in

The album received very positive reviews throughout:

Anastasia Hartleib from laut.de gave #DIY the highest rating with five out of a possible five points. The album is "a masterpiece" and "one of the kind whose scope only hits you the second or third time, but then with full force". KitschKrieg productions delivered "the perfect sound carpet, somewhere between pop, nostalgia and exotic". Trettmann is not trying to “ride the wave of success”, but rather doing “that for himself” and creating “heartbreaking songs” like Billie Holiday or Grauer Beton .

On rappers.in , the album was rated 5.5 out of a possible six by the reviewer David. He describes it as “a single musical miracle” with a novel sound construct. Trettmann conveyed the topics presented in an extremely "authentic" way. It is "one of the most exciting albums of 2017" with a "lasting influence on German rap".

Alexander Barbian from rap.de also rated #DIY positively. KitschKrieg productions delivered an “unmistakably clear sound” “between a proportioned touch of autotune and wavy synth vibrations”. In addition, the album shines “thanks to its high-contrast diversity of content” with an “extremely wide range of topics”. Trettmann is "in spite of his routine and experience, not a millimeter behind a freshly baked newcomer in terms of energy and liveliness".

Florian Peking from MZEE also praised in his criticism that Trettmann and KitschKrieg started with the album where they had left off with their last EP together. He comes to the conclusion that the musicians had already "developed a functioning sound concept on the previous releases, but are constantly expanding it." With this and with Trettmann's "authentic songwriting", they succeeded in "making their own creative notch in the German rap landscape" to beat.

Awards

On October 18, 2018, the album was awarded the Pop Culture Prize in the “Favorite Album ” category. In addition, on the same evening Trettmann received another award in the “Favorite Solo Artist” category for the success of this album.

In January 2020, DIY was awarded a gold record for more than 100,000 units sold in Germany .

Leaderboards

laut.de listed #DIY as number 1 of the best rap albums and number 3 of all albums of 2017.

The Juice sat #DIY to the top of the best albums Deutschrap 2017th

From rappers.in was #DIY in the list of the best German Rapalben 2017 behind Cros tru. placed in 2nd place.

Hiphop.de named #DIY the winner of the Hiphop.de Awards 2017 in the category Best National Album .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ album cover
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland
  3. ↑ a b Awards: DE
  4. ↑ Chart tracking #DIY on officialcharts.de
  5. ↑ Top 100 annual album charts 2018. In : officialcharts.de. December 21, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b DE: Gold
  7. ↑ Rating: laut.de
  8. ↑ Rating: Juice
  9. ↑ Rating: rappers.in
  10. ↑ Rating: rap.de
  11. ↑ Florian Peking: Trettmann - #DIY . In: MZEE.com . October 10, 2017 ( mzee.com [accessed September 19, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Winner 2018. preisfuerpopkultur.de, October 19, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Best list rap: laut.de
  14. ↑ Best list: laut.de
  15. ↑ Best list: juice.de
  16. ↑ Best list: rappers.in
  17. ↑ Saskia Meister: Hiphop.de Awards 2017 presented by Ultimate Ears: The winners! January 12, 2018, accessed January 27, 2019 .