Mr. X & Mr. Y

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Mr. X & Mr. Y is a music project consisting of the two DJs WestBam and Afrika Islam . It was established in 1996. Most of the project's releases were made by the record label Electric Kingdom .

style

Within the project Afrika Islam used the pseudonym Mr. X , WestBam is Mr. Y . The concept of the group is described as "Four Turntables And A Microphone ". Both artists appear as hip-hop- typical scratching DJs, Afrika Islam also acts as an MC . The tracks are largely based on techno and electro rhythms, but other musical influences are also picked up.

history

The first Maxi CD was Free Me . The piece with an intro by Afrika Islam combined elements of electro and new wave . 1998 Mr. X & Mr. Y performed together for the first time at Mayday . In 1999 the single New World Order was released . Next release was Viva la revolucion . The message of the piece was supposed to be conveyed by the accompanying music video , which among other things showed demonstrating crowds.

This was followed in the same year with New World Order, the first album by Mr. X & Mr. Y as well as the single What's Up at the Brotherfront .

In 2000, WestBam and Afrika Islam performed a second time at Mayday and presented the previously unreleased piece Global Players (My Name Is Techno) . The following album, Live from Berlin, was a DJ mix mixed in the studio of the pieces already published.

In 2003 they published the track Recognize as "Westbam + X" . The video produced remembered in parts of the movie Yellow Submarine of the Beatles .

They first presented the title of the next tour, Dancing with the Rebels , at the Love Parade 2003. At first the piece was released under the name Mr. X & Mr. Y, then the project was renamed West Bam and Afrika Islam . Both used a request for the preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in order to present a techno-electric version of the piece to a wider audience. The piece reached 4th place in the German preliminary round.

According to WestBam, individual tracks that have not yet been released have already been produced and will be included in a new album.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1999 New World Order - - -
First published: June 7, 1999

Singles

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1999 New World Order DE17 (14 weeks)
DE 		- CH46 (3 weeks)
CH
First published: April 12, 1999
Viva la revolucion DE67 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: July 19, 1999
Whats Up at the Brotherfront DE95 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: November 8, 1999
2000 Global Players (My Name Is Techno) DE61 (5 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: October 9, 2000
2003 Recognize DE71 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 10, 2003
as Westbam & X
2004 Dancing with the Rebels DE96 (6 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: February 16, 2004
as Westbam & Africa Islam

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE , DA-CH, UK, US