Now it's off

Now it's off
Studio album by Die Fantastischen Vier
Publication (s)	1991
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Hip hop
Title (number)	24
running time	50:38
occupation	DJ house brand (Michael Beck) Thomas D (Thomas Dürr) And.Ypsilon (Andreas Rieke) Smudo (Michael Bernd Schmidt)
production	And.Ypsilon
chronology - Now it's off 4 wins (1992)

Here we go is the debut album of the hip-hop formation Die Fantastischen Vier . It was released on August 27, 1991.

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Now it's off   DE 22nd December 21, 1992 (21 weeks)

History of origin

In December 1988 Smudo and Thomas D , who were part of the mostly English rapping combo The Terminal Team , returned from a joint stay in the United States, where they had also performed a few gigs. While their English-language texts had been largely ridiculed, they had received recognition for the German-language rapeseed. After their return, they suggested DJ Hausmarke and And.Ypsilon , who were also members of the Terminal team , that they should consistently appear as a German-speaking band from then on, which was met with approval. Smudo on this:

“From that moment on we translated everything. Really everything. We no longer said “scratch”, but “scratch plates”. Our music was of course no longer called rap, but rather spoken chant. It was a mission. It served our self-discovery. "

Already in 1989 Die Fantastischen Vier had gained a reputation as a good live band with this new direction. In 1991 the record deal with Columbia Records followed , and on August 27 of the same year the album “Jetzt geht's ab” was released, which includes rap pieces as well as so-called skits , short, sketch- like interludes. Shortly before that, the first EP was released with "Hausmeister Thomas D" .

Music video

A music video was created for the song microphone professor , which was shot and produced by Michael Leckebusch in his own home studio in Garlstedt .

reception

“Now it goes off” was a novelty in the German hip-hop scene, which wrote mostly Anglophone texts, and the reactions were correspondingly restrained. Die Fantastischen Vier only achieved their breakthrough in 1992 with the single Die da!?! from the follow-up album "4 wins".

In 1992 "Jetzt geht's ab" was published again and reached number 91 in the German album hit parade.

Track list

No.	title	length
1.	Now watch out	1:52
2.	Where are you going?	0:11
3.	Caretaker Thomas 'D' (LP mix)	3:08
4th	Big city	4:36
5.	I must	3:08
6th	45 fever	1:10
7th	Scratched	0:11
8th.	Microphone professor	2:03
9.	Feel free	1:02
10.	Stupid That!	0:11
11.	I am never enough	5:01
12.	The interview	2:03
13.	Let's Go (Radio Edit)	3:22
14th	That happens to you right I	0:24
15th	SMUDO I'm just like that	3:21
16.	That happens to you right II	0:23
17th	On the run	4:36
18th	That happens to you right III	0:23
19th	Potato clip	4:51
20th	Philistine	1:34
21st	You dumbass	1:57
22nd	House brand is ...	0:11
23.	Angry	2:30
24.	Is yes good now	1:44

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1. ↑ Discogs: Here we go. Retrieved February 19, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Charts DE
3. ↑ The music video for the microphone professor on the official YouTube channel of Die Fantastischen Vier , accessed on September 29, 2019.
4. ↑ Die Fantastischen Vier - Video-Talk 1991-2004 (Die Da, Sie ist weg, Troy ...), Die Fantastischen Vier on the former music channel Viva , accessed on September 29, 2019.
5. ↑ Die Fantastischen Vier (biography). Retrieved February 19, 2010 .  on Laut.de
6. ↑ Musicline.de - Chart tracking - FANTASTIC FOUR THAT - NOW IT'S GOING. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 19, 2010 .  ( 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.    

Web links

• Smudo: Breakthrough in the swimming pool club. In: one day . October 12, 2007, accessed February 19, 2010 . 
• Now it's off at Allmusic (English)
• Now it's starting to Discogs (English)