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 Kraftklub hosts the Kosmonaut Festival 2014 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Chemnitz , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Indie rock , punk rock , garage rock , rap rock |
| founding | 2010 |
| Website | www.kraftklub.to |
| Current occupation | |
| Felix Brummer ( Felix Kummer ) | |
| Karl Schumann | |
| Till Brummer (Till Sorrow) | |
| Steffen Israel (Steffen Thiede) | |
| Max Marschk | |
Kraftklub is a five-piece rap-rock band from Chemnitz . The music is mostly referred to as a mix of indie , punk rock and rap .
history
Founding years and first success (2010-2011)
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At the Splash Festival 2009, the rapper Bernd Bass (Felix Brummer) appeared for the first time together with the rock band Neon Blocks . At the end of 2009 they went into the studio together and formed the band Kraftklub. On February 13, 2010 they released their first EP Adonis Maximus at a record release party in the Chemnitz Club Atomino. In September they won the New Music Award presented by various ARD radio stations . Then some bigger labels became aware of them. Kraftklub has been under contract with Universal Domestic Rock / Vertigo since the end of January 2011. Kraftklub acted as the opening act for Beatsteaks , Fettes Brot , Casper , Die Toten Hosen , Die Ärzte and Rammstein . On August 5, 2011 Kraftklub released their first single Too Young on Universal.
Breakthrough with Mit K (2011-2013)
On September 29, 2011 Kraftklub entered the Federal Vision Song Contest 2011 for the Free State of Saxony with the song I don't want to go to Berlin and achieved 89 points and thus 5th place. The single was released the following day and entered the Media Control chart at number 45. The debut album Mit K was released on January 20, 2012 and surprisingly reached number 1 on the Media Control album charts. Although the next single Songs for Liam was not officially released until April 2012, it reached number 40 in the German charts on March 23, 2012 due to download sales.
On April 6, 2012, KIZ and Kraftklub gave an unannounced concert on the roof of the Chemnitz commercial complex Terminal 3 as part of the documentary series Durch die Nacht mit…, commissioned by ARTE . The performance was announced just a few hours in advance via social networks, despite the ban on dancing on Good Friday, and as a result of the crowd, the police cordoned off Chemnitz's Brückenstraße.
For Record Store Day 2012 Kraftklub released the song Songs for Liam in a version with Casper as a vinyl single. This is limited to 700 pieces.
Kraftklub gave the first concert outside Europe as part of the “Con-K” tour on September 19, 2012 in Colombia : Bogotá , Medellín , Cali and Cartagena.
In 2013 Kraftklub was nominated (among others) together with the group Frei.Wild for the Echo music award in the Rock / Alternative National category. On March 6, 2013, the group announced that it would be removed from the list of nominees, as Kraftklub does not want to be named in a row with Frei.Wild. After Mia. And Die Ärzte had withdrawn their participation, Frei.Wild was removed from the list of nominees, and Kraftklub received the "National Critics' Prize".
The song Your Girls can be heard on the soundtrack of the PC and console game FIFA 13 . It is the only German title in the game. Kraftklub has a guest appearance in the song Ganz Schön okay on the album Hinterland by the German rapper Casper .
In black (2014-2016)
On May 20, 2014, the music video Hand in Hand (in a version with bassist Till Brummer on vocals) by a supposedly new band called In Schwarz appeared on YouTube . The video was uploaded by the music label Audiolith Records . On June 2, 2014, In Schwarz appeared on the television show Circus HalliGalli and revealed themselves as a power club.
The first single from the new album is called Hand in Hand and was released on June 22, 2014. At MDR Sputnik , Kraftklub presented their second single, Unser Fans, on August 7, 2014 .
The album In Schwarz was released on September 12, 2014 and, like its predecessor, reached number one in Germany.
On November 20, 2015, the first live album Randale was released . Part of the DVD is a recording of the concert in the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin on March 6, 2015. In January 2016, the Randale tour followed through several German cities.
No Night for Nobody (since 2017)
On March 16, during a 10-hour Facebook livestream, they released the first single, Dein Lied, from the album No Night for Nobody , which was then announced , which was released on June 2, 2017. The title of the album is an allusion to the album No Power for Nobody by the band Ton Steine Scherben .
Political commitment
On September 3, 2018, the band Kraftklub initiated an open-air concert under the motto “ We are more ” in front of an estimated 65,000 concert visitors as a protest against the right-wing extremist riots in Chemnitz . In addition to them, Die Toten Hosen and Feine Sahne Fischfilet also played there .
Discography
Studio albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 2012 |
With K Vertigo |
DE1  × 3
(49 weeks)DE |
AT19 (6 weeks) AT |
CH64 (1 week) CH |
First published: Jan 20, 2012
Sales: + 300,000 |
| 2014 |
In black vertigo |
DE1  (52 weeks)DE |
AT2 (11 weeks)AT |
CH8 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: September 12, 2014
Sales: + 207,500 |
| 2017 |
No Night for Nobody Universal |
DE1 (45 weeks)DE |
AT2 (14 weeks) AT |
CH7 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: June 2nd, 2017
Sales: + 100,000 |
various
- Kraftklub is committed to learning to read and write. As part of the “iCHANCE” campaign run by the Federal Association for Literacy and Basic Education , the band members speak out against illiteracy and encourage those affected.
- In 2013, the band launched the Kosmonaut Festival at the Oberrabenstein reservoir in Chemnitz , which was sold out in the first year with 6000 visitors and was extended to two days for 2014 with 10,000 visitors. In 2015 the festival also ran for two days.
- Singer Felix is the son of Ina and Jan Kummer, the co-founders of the Avantgarde Group AG. Violin . Bassist Till is the son of Jan Kummer and his second wife, with whom he also has two daughters Nina and Lotta. Kummer is also the real surname of Felix and Till Brummer.
- The two sisters of Felix and Till Brummer, Lotta and Nina Kummer, are musicians in the band Blond, which has already supported several Kraftklub concerts as part of the No Night for Nobody Tour .
- All five musicians were born in Karl-Marx-Stadt, today's Chemnitz.
- On February 1, 2013, the Schlager singer Heino released a cover version of the Kraftklub title Songs for Liam as an exclusive bonus track on the album Mit freundlichen Grüßen in the download version of the album from iTunes .
- On September 30, 2013 a music video for the title Vague as a Mirage by the Chemnitz stoner rock band Iguana celebrated its premiere, in which the music of Kraftklub and bassist Till Brummer played a leading role.
- In the lyrics and song titles of the band there are often cross references to musical influences of the band. The first line of the chorus of Songs for Liam is about an allusion to the changeable relationship of the brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher from the band Oasis , which dissolved in 2009 ; the B-side Juppe, on the other hand, refers to the same band with the line "My conscience has dissolved together with Oasis". Shots in the Air contains a reference to the song Your Guilt by Die Ärzte ("But I should take to the streets says Farin Urlaub "), while the chorus of the song Sklave prominently quotes the song Please Please .
- The band created the theme music " Juppe " for the political cabaret show Die Anstalt , they were also guests on the show on December 9, 2014 and included in the program, at the end of the show the song Shots in the Air was played.
- The band members Felix Brummer and Steffen Israel run a joint radio program called "Radio mit K", which is broadcast on 1 Live diggi , MDR Sputnik and Radio Fritz .
Awards
- 2012: 1 Live Krone : Best Album
- 2013: Echo Pop : Critics' echo for the album Mit K
- 2014: 1 Live Krone: Best Band
- 2015: Echo Pop: Best video nationally for the single Our fans
- 2015: 1 Live Krone: Best Band
- 2017: 1 Live Krone: Best Band
- 2017: 1 Live Krone: Best Live Act
- 2018: Prize for Pop Culture : Most exciting idea / campaign for club swap in Cologne
Web links
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- ↑ biography. Laut.de , accessed on September 2, 2011 .
- ↑ visions.de: VISIONS recommends: Kraftklub. ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2012 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.
- ↑ Alibi column: A conversation with KraftKlub - Part 1. (No longer available online.) In: splash! Mag. April 11, 2010, archived from the original on June 26, 2012 ; accessed on August 13, 2015 . 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. Part 2 of May 4, 2010: Alibi Interview: A conversation with KraftKlub - Part 2 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 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. .
- ↑ vertigo.fm: Kraftklub - Biography 2011. Accessed August 31, 2011.
- ↑ meinrap.de: Kraftklub - Adonis Maximus (Review). ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 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. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
- ↑ atomino-club.de: Atomino Archive ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2013 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. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ↑ BremenVier.online : Kraftklub received the New Music Award 2010! ( Memento of July 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Article of September 7, 2010. Retrieved on August 31, 2011.
- ↑ musikmarkt.de: musikmarkt.de ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2011 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. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ↑ universal-music.de: universal-music.de ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2015 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. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ↑ Interview on reflect.de ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2012 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. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ↑ universal-music.de universal-music.de ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2012 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. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
- ↑ Kraftklub: A young band is stronger than the hype ( memento of the original from January 24, 2012 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. at Promipool, accessed January 20, 2012.
- ↑ New CDs: Kraftklub - Songs for Liam at Mix1.de, accessed on March 20, 2012.
- ↑ Florian Harlass: Annual review with K - Kraftklub 2012 . 371stadtmagazin.de
- ↑ Release details of songs for Liam on discogs.com
- ↑ Official Facebook page - With concerts
- ↑ Sassan Niasseri: Rolling Stone : Kraftklub: no 'Echo' nomination together with Frei.Wild!
- ↑ OK !: Kraftklub are happy about 'Echo' after nominees scandal
- ↑ FIFA13 track list ( memento of the original from August 29, 2012 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.
- ↑ In black, hand in hand
- ↑ June 22nd, 2014: Kraftklub deliver first single "Hand in Hand" from their new album "In Schwarz" - Universal ( Memento of the original from May 14th, 2015 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.
- ↑ Free Press-New Kraftklub album "In Schwarz" will be released on September 12th
- ↑ musikexpress.de: Kraftklub knock out live DVD and go on a "Randale" tour
- ↑ Kraftklub present their first single "Dein Lied" for their new album (video). RAP-N-BLUES.com, March 16, 2017, accessed May 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Kraftklub: Album “No Night for Nobody” in June 2017 . In: Rolling Stone . March 20, 2017 ( rollingstone.de [accessed May 14, 2017]).
- ↑ 65,000 at concert against right , tagesschau.de. 3rd September 2018
- ↑ #wirsindmehr - Chemnitz on YouTube . 3rd September 2018
- ↑ iCHANCE Profi Portal: Celebrities. Retrieved January 10, 2013 .
- ↑ YouTube: Felix von Kraftklub: "I'm only in the band because I can read". Retrieved January 10, 2013 .
- ↑ chemnitz.de ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 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.
- ↑ Kosmonaut Festival 2013 - 2019. Kosmonaut Festival, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Pilz: Felix and Till Brummer. In: The world . January 18, 2012, accessed August 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Jana Hensel: The middle has to hum. In: The time . September 10, 2018, accessed August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Stefan Sommer: Band portrait // Blond: With B. Bayerischer Rundfunk, November 3, 2017, accessed on February 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Kraftklub takes Blond on tour. Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck GmbH & Co. KG, accessed on February 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Marcus Schulze: Kraftklub group from Chemnitz is playing at the Highfield Festival today. OSTTHÜRINGER Zeitung, August 17, 2012, accessed on July 5, 2020 .
- ↑ iTunes- Sincerely
- ↑ YouTube: IguanaVideochannel - Vague as a Mirage. Retrieved October 30, 2013 .
- ↑ The 1LIVE Krone 2017 in the category "Best Band" goes to Kraftklub. 1LIVE, December 7, 2017, accessed December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ The 1LIVE Krone 2017 in the category “Best Live Act” goes to Kraftklub. 1LIVE, December 7, 2017, accessed December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Winner 2018. preisfuerpopkultur.de, October 19, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 .
| Studio albums |
With K (2012) • In Schwarz (2014) • No Night for Nobody (2017) |
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| Extended plays |
Adonis Maximus (2010) • Live at Astra Berlin (2012) • Songs for Liam (2012) |
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| Live albums |
Rampage (2015) |