Middle kill

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Mittekill is a band from Berlin . Musically, the duo, consisting of Friedrich Greiling and Jan Hohmann, moves in the field between electro , synth-pop and German rock . After the first album on Kitty-Yo in 2007 , the second album You Are Home was released by Modul8 in May 2009 . The CD will be distributed from August 2009 through New Music Distribution (NMD). Album number three, All But Bored, Weak and Old was released on Staatsakt in April 2012 . The fourth album Die montierte Gesellschaft was released in November 2016 as the first release by the Essen and Berlin-based label Weltgast music.

reception

In connection with the release of the second album, the taz wrote “Mittekill make perfect music for the truant in us.” Berlin DJ and music journalist Martin Böttcher wrote in the Tagesspiegel : “So I'm a fan and that's why I find almost everything good that the two middle killers . with their synthesizers and all the electronic stuff mixed together as "the magazine tip found" Mittekill relaunch the finely metered irony of the German new wave with the musical spirit of the present "; You Are Home transports "avant-garde madness, a lot of feeling for the slogan (...) and the creative possibilities of the clash of genres directly from the home studio into the urban nightlife". The magazine zitty praised: “The music by Mittekill has a sense of beauty in its unbrushed way. And the lyrics especially. They are sung in German, in an embarrassing style, which rarely goes together ”. The Internet radio station ByteFM from Hamburg, founded by music journalist Ruben Jonas Schnell , voted You are Home album of the week in May 2009 . In May 2009, Mittekill also quickly presented two programs on the music program “Nachtclub” on NDR Info . The third album All But Bored, Weak and Old was "Favorite of the Month" in the music magazine Rolling Stone .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dark Spring In: the daily newspaper from June 12, 2009
  2. ↑ Martin Böttcher: Mittekill, Junior Boys, Swayzak In: Tagesspiegel
  3. ↑ Jan Schimmang: Mittekill im Magnet In: tip
  4. ↑ Felix Denk: zitty-Bandcontest: Mittekill ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2010 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. In: zitty from August 11, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zitty.de
  5. ↑ ByteFM of May 3, 2009  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.byte.fm  
  6. ^ NDR Info night club playlist on May 8th and 12th, 2009
  7. ^ Rolling Stone, April 11, 2012