Nodding (album)

Nod
Studio album by Massive Töne
Publication (s)	October 29, 1996
Label (s)	MZEE Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	German hip-hop
Title (number)	11/12
running time	57:37 / 62:27
production	Wasi Glammerlicious
chronology - Nod Raid (1999)

Kopfnicker is the debut album by the Stuttgart rap group Massive Töne . It was released on October 29, 1996 on the MZEE Records label .

production

Except for one, all songs on the album were produced by Massive Töne member Wasi. Only the song Das und this (remix) comes from the music producer Glammerlicious.

Cover design

The album cover shows the four band members DJ 5ter Ton, Wasi, Schowi and Ju in their recording room. At the top right there is the black text Massive Töne and the title Kopfnicker is in green at the bottom of the picture.

Guest Posts

In addition to the Massive Tones, other artists can be heard on three songs on the album. The songs Mutterstadt and Schoss der Kolkhose are collaborations with the rappers Afrob and Max Herre , who also come from Stuttgart , with the rapper Emil also participating in the latter piece. In addition, the rap group Freaks Association Bremen (FAB), consisting of the members FlowinImmO , Ferris MC and DJ Pee, has a guest appearance on the track Ausbruch .

Track list

#	title	Guest Posts	producer	length
1	Nod		Wasi	6:50
2	Useless		Wasi	5:33
3	Mother city	Afrob and Max Herre	Wasi	5:36
4th	Dazed and numb		Wasi	4:47
5	That and That (Remix)		Glammerlicious	4:34
6th	outbreak	FAB	Wasi	4:12
7th	MC's see me		Wasi	4:53
8th	Jurassic Park		Wasi	5:09
9	Trend II		Wasi	4:33
10	Without End '95		Wasi	5:33
11	Lap of the collective farm	Max Herre, Afrob and Emil	Wasi	5:57
12 (*)	That and that		Wasi	4:50

(*) Bonus song of the record version

meaning

Even if Kopfnicker was not able to place itself in the charts, it is now considered a classic of German-speaking rap. The album made the massive tones known throughout the hip-hop scene and paved the way for the group's later commercial success.

In 2009, in the magazine Puls from Bayerischer Rundfunk , Kopfnicker was included in the music hall of fame:

" Kopfnicker" turned rap into rap in Germany in 1996. Schowi, Ju, Wasi and DJ 5ter Ton showed all the other rappers in no time and without any battle lines: You all have no flow! The oh-so-edgy German language can flow smoothly. This has to be copied to this day. [...] "Kopfnicker" was so revolutionary musically that you tried to explain the album to yourself. This sounds like Wu-Tang, this sounds like Gangstarr, here something like A Tribe Called Quest. But that just led nowhere. Sure, they are American-style beats. But you quickly understood: This comes from Stuttgart - done. [...] Without "Kopfnicker" the German rap hype would not have happened two years later. A milestone. "

- Excerpt from the review by br.de/puls

The hip-hop website rappers.in recognized the album in 2014 in the milestones section :

“ It's an album that has its very own atmosphere from the first to the last minute. The beats have an audible American influence - with lots of scratches and samples, but despite their reducedness and stringency, they don't sound like a copy at all. The texts are expressive and well-written, but still authentic and true to life. The flows are soft and confident, but still sound like spontaneity and jam. It is the work of a young group of creative minds who, without any commercial intention, create an overall picture of their life situation and raps about the things that occupy and shape them. Whether planned or not, is an open question: The massive tones express what many young people felt in the mid-1990s. "

- Extract from the review by rappers.in

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de

The website laut.de also rated Kopfnicker 2019 retrospectively in the Milestones section with five out of a possible five points:

“ [It] is a brutally good debut album that has had a major impact on the German scene - thematically, technically, lyrically and especially musically. "

- Excerpt from the review by laut.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ Biography Massive Töne on laut.de.
3. ↑ Pulse: Review of the sound carrier
4. ↑ rappers.in: Review of the sound carrier
5. ↑ Rating: laut.de
6. ↑ laut.de: Review of the sound carrier