Main Concept

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Main Concept
General information
origin Munich , Germany
Genre (s) Hip-hop , rap
founding 1990
Website 58beats.com/mainconcept
Current occupation
rap
 DavidPe (David Papo)
Beats
 Glammerlicious
DJ Explicit

Main Concept is a rap music group from Munich and currently consists of three members. The Süddeutsche Zeitung described her in 2015 as a hip-hop "artist from the second row, who may have sold fewer records, but shaped the scene all the more and more sustainably in the 1990s".

history

The band was founded in 1990 in Munich by the youngsters David Pe , DJ Explizit and Human D, as Glammerlicious was still called at the time. She first increased her popularity on the regional stages and appeared on various jams. In 1991 DavidPe began writing and rapping his rhymes in German, which at the time was largely unfamiliar. From the beginning, Main Concept, like Advanced Chemistry (AC), were politically motivated or at least tried to produce reflective texts, so that collaborations with the Heidelberg rap group soon ensued. A performance in 1992 with AC, Aquarius Answer and the Crazy Force Crew meant the national breakthrough and made the young band from Munich more heard. A year later, the first single was released on the indie label Move Records, which hit a critical note with the title So the people lost their minds . As early as 1994, Main Concept was able to present an album debut with Coole Scheiße , which also initiated the “ Class of '94 ” tour. The Absolute Beginners and MC Rene went on a tour of Germany, a year later it was continued as the “ Class of '95 ” with additional musicians. With Zwischen den Stühlen, the album contained a contribution to the debate about Advanced Chemistry's song Fremd im Vaterland , whose refrain is also quoted.

At that time, Main Concept had already grown into an important authority in Munich. They regularly organized jams in the Muffathalle , to which international acts such as DV alias Khrist, Missin Linx, Al Tariq, Problemz and Get Open as well as numerous German groups appeared. The graffiti scene was also represented at Goetheplatz by artists such as Seen , Ces or Mode 2. In the meantime, after the single Generation X / 58 GPR, there was a separation from the Move label, so that the second album, Genesis Exodus Main Concept, which was celebrated as a (musical but not commercial) milestone, was released on another indie label called Deck8 . DavidPe in particular had worked extensively on his freestyle art in the years between the two albums , but Glammerlicious and DJ Explizit's production work had also increased. The Bambule tour with the beginners also consolidated Main Concepts' good reputation in the scene.

Just a year after these successes, work began on a small, independent label that was named after David's “ mythical number”. The first single was released on 58 Beats in 1998 with the New York MC Problemz (later a member of Missin Linx). Maxi singles followed with artists such as Raptile , DV alias Khrist, Retsam, Samy Deluxe , Siba Giba and others. a. In 1999, in collaboration with Blumentopf, a maxi single was created in which only freestyles were presented. It paved the way for the also completely freestyle album Plan 58 , which was supported by musicians such as Samy Deluxe, Blumentopf and Flowin Immo . In 2003 Main Concept came back with an internationally strengthened EP (including Looptroop and Get Open). In 2005 the album Equilibrium was released on the Hamburg label Buback with features by, among others, Eizi Eiz , Denyo , Heinemann, Kung Schu and Elder from Blumentopf , Freez , Esther, Vier zu Eins and Black Tiger . After that it became quiet around the band, for 10 years nothing more was heard of the band in public. But it remained active. David Pe completed his medical degree during this time and now works as a general practitioner. The other two members stayed loyal to the scene: DJ Explizit worked mainly as a DJ while Glammerlicious made a name for himself as a music producer .

In 2013, the group acted as the opening act for Die Orsons and shocked the mainly young audience with a story about a mullah and quoting from a book by the anarchist Erich Mühsam . In 2015, for the trio's 25th anniversary, the album Hier und Jetzt was released on Buback, which also hit the German charts for the first time. It placed 55th. Many old companions like Samy Deluxe , Eizi Eiz ( Jan Delay ), Denyo , Blumentopf , MC Rene and Flowin Immo are represented .

Music genre

Main Concept took a less commercial approach to their German hip-hop music. Together with bands like Advanced Chemistry, they were among the first hip-hop groups that were influenced by American hip-hop around Public Enemy , KRS-One and Poor Righteous Teachers , but did without English lyrics. First appearances on jams and freestyle battles cemented the reputation in the underground scene, of which Main Concept has always understood itself. With modern developments such as Aggro Berlin and German gangsta rap , Main Concept has little to do with and therefore mainly acts as an old-school hip-hop group that takes a critical look at the scene. The beats are on the one hand in the typical boombap style of the 1990s and on the other hand with a jazzy touch. Together with MC Rene, David Pe was considered the best freestyle rapper in Germany for many years and generally tries to give his lyrics an intellectual touch. Typical of her old-school style are the reflective texts about hip-hop culture and the exaggeration of her own style and technique. A special feature is the number 58, which, according to David Pe, came from the fact that David Pe used the bus line 58 in Munich to Goetheplatz as a schoolboy, where the band often met.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Here and now
  DE 55 11/20/2015 (1 week)

Albums

  • 1994: Main Concept: Coole Scheiße (LP)
  • 1998: Main Concept: Genesis Exodus Main Concept (2LP)
  • 2000: Main Concept: Plan 58 (2LP)
  • 2005: Main Concept: Equilibrium (2LP)
  • 2015: Main Concept: Here and Now (LP)

Singles

  • 1993: Main Concept: This is how the people lost their minds (12 ")
  • 1994: Main Concept: Coole Scheiße (12 ")
  • 1995: Main Concept: Münchmob (EP)
  • 1996: Main Concept: Generation X / 58 GPR (12 ")
  • 1997: Main Concept: Out of Babylon (12 ")
  • 1998: Main Concept & Problemz: Who Got The Flavor (12 ")
  • 1999: Main Concept & Raptile: Access Denied (12 ")
  • 1999: Main Concept: Sounds for the Auditorium (12 ")
  • 1999: Main Concept & Blumentopf: Opening Sessions (12 ")
  • 2000: Main Concept & DV alias Khrist, Siba Giba, Samy Deluxe, Retsam, Raptile: The World Ain't Ready (12 ")
  • 2003: Main Concept: MUC >> NYC >> STHLM >> BRM (EP)
  • 2015: Main Concept feat. Boshi San : Wir Leben Lieber (Juice-Exclusive on Juice CD No 132)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Huber: "A German Rap Story": Böhmermann's fat basses . In: sueddeutsche.de . May 29, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 16, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Sascha Verlan, Hannes Loh: 25 years of hip hop in Germany . Hannibal, Höfen 2006, ISBN 3-85445-261-6 , p. 254 .
  3. ↑ Sascha Verlan, Hannes Loh: 25 years of hip hop in Germany . Hannibal, Höfen 2006, ISBN 3-85445-261-6 , p. 229 .
  4. ↑ Lisa Wörner: "To speak to people by their mouths is Nazi propaganda". Laut.de , April 9, 2013, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c Main Concept at laut.de
  6. ↑ a b Main Concept in the German charts
  7. ↑ Dani Fromm: laut.de criticism: A vaccine against stupidity! Laut.de , accessed on February 10, 2017 .
  8. ^ Philipp Gässlein: laut.de criticism: The Munich people save the German rap. Laut.de , accessed on February 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Andi Hörmann: The new album from Main Concept: Hip-Hop from the family doctor. Deutschlandfunk , November 21, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2017 .