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circle of friends
Logo from the Esperanto album

Logo from the Esperanto album
FK Allstars at the Gurtenfestival 2000 (Bern / Switzerland)
FK Allstars at the Gurtenfestival 2000 (Bern / Switzerland)
General information
Genre (s) Hip hop
founding 1996
resolution 2007
Last occupation
Max Herre
Arrangement, production
 Don Philippe (Philippe Kayser)
DJ , production
 DJ Friction (Martin Welzer)

Friends , also briefly FK called, was a German-language hip-hop - band .

history

FK Allstars at the farewell game with friends in Stuttgart on September 19, 2007
Circle of Friends (1998)
Freundeskreis producer DJ Friction

The band from Stuttgart sees itself as a representative of Conscious Rap . The Freundeskreis is known for its political texts in which it advocates equality and international understanding. After the highly acclaimed debut album Quadratur des Kreises and the hit single ANNA that was extracted from it, the album was released in 1999 with the single Esperanto of the same name , named after the planned language Esperanto . The reason given for the name of the album was that hip-hop should be the Esperanto of youth. The subtitle "Amikaro" means "circle of friends" in Esperanto. The intro text of the album, spoken by Jean Codjo from Benin , is also in Esperanto. Max Herre is also one of the founders of the Kolkhoz , a musical-political alliance.

Other titles like Mit dich mit Joy Denalane orTabula Rasa Pt. 2 continued to bring considerable success and the group into the German charts . Freundeskreis also covered the song Hold on to your love (on Lee Perry's Police and Thieves Riddim) by Rio Reiser and Ton Steine ​​Scherben for the soundtrack of film 23 - Nothing is as it seems .

FK Allstars is an amalgamation of various hip-hop and reggae artists such as Afrob , Brooke Russell , Sékou , Joy Denalane, Wasi and Gentleman . Although the band of FK Allstars has its roots in hip-hop, different styles of music such as reggae , jazz , soul or funk mix in the musical design. The band was often referred to as one of the best hip-hop live acts in Germany, also because they renounced the usual hip-hop method of “one microphone and two record decks” and, like Die Fantastischen Vier , performed concerts with live musicians occurred. Many other hip-hop acts followed this example.

Since 2000, the group ceased to appear in public as the members concentrated on their solo careers. By far the most publicly active was Max Herre, whose first album Max Herre was released in 2004. He also produced his wife Joy Denalane's albums and worked for Four Music .

In July 2007 a best-of album / DVD including two unpublished titles was released. For the tenth anniversary in 2007 Freundeskreis ( FK 10 ) performed at various festivals in German-speaking countries. On September 19, 2007, Freundeskreis gave their farewell concert in Stuttgart's Gazi Stadium on the Waldau .

In June 2017 the band performed again.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1997 Squaring the circle DE12
gold
gold

(32 weeks)DE 		AT38 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH34 (8 weeks)
CH
First published: February 21, 1997
Sales: + 250,000
1999 Esperanto DE3
gold
gold

(31 weeks)DE 		AT15 (24 weeks)
AT 		CH9 (17 weeks)
CH
First published: April 20, 1999
Sales: + 250,000
2007 FK 10 DE15 (7 weeks)
DE 		AT48 (7 weeks)
AT 		CH21 (6 weeks)
CH
First published: July 6, 2007

Live albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2000 En Directo DE33 (12 weeks)
DE 		AT37 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH40 (7 weeks)
CH
First release: 2000
double CD, as FK Allstars

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1997 ANNA
squaring the circle 		DE6th
gold
gold

(19 weeks)DE 		AT27 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH16 (15 weeks)
CH
First published: June 30, 1997
Sales: + 250,000
When the curtain falls,
square the circle 		DE77 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First publication: 1997
with Wasi
1998 Tabula rasa DE13 (16 weeks)
DE 		AT18 (9 weeks)
AT 		CH6 (18 weeks)
CH
First published: March 13, 1998
with Mellowbag and Gentleman
Hold on to your love DE30 (11 weeks)
DE 		- CH49 (1 week)
CH
First published: September 7, 1998
1999 Esperanto
Esperanto 		DE46 (8 weeks)
DE 		- CH22 (8 weeks)
CH
First published: March 29, 1999
Esperanto with you
 DE9 (19 weeks)
DE 		AT30 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH12 (13 weeks)
CH
First published: July 5, 1999
with Joy Denalane
You can't run away DE74 (3 weeks)
DE 		- -
First publication: 1999
with Gentleman and Udo Lindenberg
2000 Tabula Rasa Pt. II
Esperanto 		DE30 (9 weeks)
DE 		- CH24 (13 weeks)
CH
First release: February 4th, 2000
with the FK Allstars

More singles

  • 1996: ANNA (squaring the circle; first publication: 1996; released as "Maximilian und seine Freundeskreis")
  • 1997: Put your ear on the track of history (squaring the circle; first published in 1997)
  • 2000: A Livelong Thing (En Directo; first release: 2000; with the FK Allstars)
  • 2007: FK 10 (FK 10; first publication: 2007)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://chimperator-live.de/lokale-konzerte/411-freundeskreis-live-2017-mercedes-benz-museum
  2. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
  3. ↑ a b Awards for music sales in Germany
  4. ^ First publication of Quadrature of the Circle
  5. ^ First publication of Esperanto

Web links

Wiktionary: Circle of Friends  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations