Mastino (band)

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Mastino
Mastino while filming the documentary Music is Trumps (1996).
Mastino while filming the documentary Music is Trumps (1996).
General information
origin Hamburg , Germany
Genre (s) Rap , independent , hip-hop
founding 1992
resolution 1995
Founding members
Horst Petersen
Thomas Springer
Thorsten Kruse
Klaus Meinhardt
Lars O'Horl
Carol von Rautenkranz

Mastino was a hip-hop group from Hamburg that was active between 1992 and 1995.

history

The Mastino group was a German-speaking rap group from Hamburg, whose lyrics were very intellectual and lyrical . She was part of the Hamburg school environment and released her albums and singles on the L'age d'or label . Most of the members of the group around Horst Petersen had played with other Hamburg bands before, at the same time or afterwards: Horst Petersen u. a. at Die Erde , Klaus Meinhardt at Kolossale Jugend , Thorsten Kruse u. a. at Der Schwarze Kanal and Lars O'Horl at Go Plus . Other temporary members of Mastino were Matthias Pacht on bass and Barry Künzel on guitar. And on the album Heimatfront, for example, Christian Mevs, the guitarist of Slime , and Markus Lipka, one of the two founders of Eisenvater , participated.

Style and criticism

Mastino made an “idiosyncratic hip-hop without the usual clichés of German rap music ” and the then (1993) 41-year-old front man Horst Petersen “did not correspond to the image that one generally had of a German hip-hopper”, as Greta Eck from the taz noted.

The singles In die Klinge , Angst ereigiert / The fear rules and the album Brothers and Sisters contained "explicitly left-wing lyrics ". And Petersen knew what he was texting about. He worked “as a teacher at a school for girls from women's shelters and for underage mothers.” He was exactly “what is called socially engaged without having internalized the embarrassing pedagogical touch.” The taz then wrote for a year later in her review of the album Heimatfront , that Horst Petersen plagues “the German conscience” and that he tries “in an expressionistic manner” to “press guilt and truth into asphalt poetry.” Although “Horst Petersen's writing would not be primitive, yes in parts simply poetic, but the penetratingly instructive and accusatory attitude behind it "smashes" every beautiful picture. "

For the group as a rock band, hip-hop was "an inspiration, a stimulus that they deal with on their musical background," as Intro magazine wrote. It was sampled as usual with hip-hop , but it was stuck to work as a classical band and use guitars . Petersen himself said in the taz article by Greta Eck about Mastino that he thinks "we are not enough hip-hop for hip-hop fans , we are too much for people who listen to rock and indie ."

Discography

Albums

  • 1993: Brothers and Sisters (CD, L'age d'or )
  • 1995: Home Front (CD, L'age d'or)

Singles

  • 1992: Into the Blade (Vinyl, 12 ", L'age d'or)
  • 1993: Fear erect / Fear rules (Vinyl, 12 ", L'age d'or)

Sampler contributions

  • 1992: Ears of Emperor Hirohito (DoCD, Dom)
  • 1992: Cheaper than sneakers (CD, Cheaper than sneakers)
  • 1993: Soundtrax to Downfall 9III (CD, DoLP, Aggressive Rock Productions )
  • 1994: The Great Eavesdropping (CD, EFA )
  • 1994: No Pasarang! Fastilere Cetik Yok! (CD, Ziegenkopf Records / Indigo )
  • 1995: Where's mom at home (CD, Trikont Musikverlag )
  • 1995: Hand in Hand - All Different All Equal (CD, Dragnet Records)
  • 1997: Better times sounds good (DoCD, L'age d'or)
  • 1998: Music for Young People (DoCD, L'age d'or)

documentary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography of Mastino at last.fm .
  2. ↑ a b intro.de: Mastino - home front. In: Intro, October 18, 1994.
  3. ↑ a b c Greta Eck: Gruft-Mucken-Relicts - Horst Petersen's "Mastino" produces new material. In: taz, August 6, 1993
  4. ↑ V. Marquardt / tlb / P.Möbel: Teacher, Emptiness, Love - plates from Hamburg , taz, October 1, 1994