Must have been Tokyo

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Must have been Tokyo
General information
Genre (s) Indie rock , post punk , new wave , electro pop
founding 2003
resolution 2010
Website www.musthavebeentokyo.com
Last occupation
Raphael Elmiger
David Elmiger
Luca Winiger
Martin Amrein
former members
Raffael

Must have been Tokyo ( MHBT for short ) was a Swiss indie rock band from Bern . The band released on the Zurich electro-clash label Alpinechic . MHBT broke up in 2010 after some founding members left the band.

music

The band is considered "one of the most promising rock bands in Bern in recent years" (Seite3.ch). MHBT achieved first successes with the electroclash album Insects in Milan and Paris. The style of MHBT has been compared to Gang of Four , Joy Division , The Cure , Interpol and Franz Ferdinand . With the album Vice the band has developed stylistically towards Wave, Psychedelica and Americana.

MHBT played concerts a. a. with Peaches , The Gossip , Ladytron , Cazals , The Sunshine Underground , Yousayparty! Wesaydie! , Jeans Team and Disco drive . Notable appearances in Switzerland were those in 2010 at the Bright.Lights Party at Club X-Tra in Zurich and in 2011 at Bad Bonn Kilbi in Düdingen.

Discography

Albums

  • 2005 Songs about Lizards (Promo)
  • 2007 Insects
  • 2008 Vice (Alpinechic / Irascible / Finetunes)

The cover for the promo CD "Songs about Lizards" was designed by the Bern graphic artists Karin Grossen and Daniel Ehrensperger. The mastering of Vice was made by Greg Calbi . The music video for the song "Street Kids" ( Vice ) is a work by Samuel Textor (Direction / Script) and Tobias Bühler (Camera / Edit).

Trivia

The music magazine 78s counted the MHBT band photo among the ten best Swiss band photos of 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Must have been Tokyo. Biography. In: laut.de . LAUT AG, Konstanz, accessed on November 10, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Must Have Been Tokyo. In: Page3.ch. Verlag Verein Seite3.ch, Zurich, April 25, 2011, accessed on November 10, 2011 .
  3. ^ Mathias Menzl: Must Have Been Tokyo: Vice and virtue at the same time. In: Musikmagazin 78s. 78s GmbH, Riehen BS, February 18, 2009, accessed November 10, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Must Have Been Tokyo. In: lastfm.de . Retrieved November 10, 2011 .
  5. ↑ a b Michael Messerli: Must Have Been Tokyo - Vice (EP). (No longer available online.) In: exitmusic.ch. March 2, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 10, 2011 .  ( 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.exitmusic.ch  
  6. ↑ Monthy: Must Have Been Tokyo - Now a little different. In: trespass.ch. C. Ramseyer, Dielsdorf, June 9, 2011, accessed November 10, 2011 .
  7. ^ Tatjana Rüegsegger: Guitar fever . I also sing about animals. In: think.ch. April 23, 2007, accessed November 10, 2011 .
  8. ↑ Must have been Tokyo. In: mx3.ch . mxlab ag, accessed on November 10, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Bright.Lights Party. (No longer available online.) In: vimeo. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 10, 2011 .  ( 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 / vimeo.com  
  10. ↑ Must have been Tokyo. Friendly Guitars, Bright Melodies And A Breeze Of Post Punk. In: badbonn.ch. Retrieved November 10, 2011 .
  11. ^ Laut.de review: Must Have Been Tokyo - Insects. In: laut.de. LAUT AG, Konstanz, 2007, accessed on November 10, 2011 .
  12. ↑ Andreas Bättig: laut.de review: Must Have Been Tokyo - Vice. Passion, drama, reconciliation and pain in the sci-fi new wave disco. In: laut.de. LAUT AG, Konstanz, February 20, 2008, accessed November 10, 2011 .
  13. ↑ must have been tokyo. (No longer available online.) In: Großeskom.ch. Grossen Kommunikation GmbH, Bern, archived from the original on November 16, 2011 ; Retrieved November 10, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grossenkom.ch
  14. ↑ ... and the wave is coming again: Must Have been Tokyo. (No longer available online.) In: Klangschau . Archived from the original on August 11, 2011 ; Retrieved November 10, 2011 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.klangschau.com
  15. ↑ Must Have Been Tokyo. Official music video of the song "Street Kids", taken from the EP "Vice". (No longer available online.) In: samueltextor.ch. Samuel Textor, June 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 10, 2011 .  ( 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.samueltextor.ch  
  16. ↑ David Bauer: Swiss band photo of the year. Must Have Been Tokyo bring the snow. In: Musikmagazin 78s . 78s GmbH, Riehen BS, November 23, 2009, accessed November 10, 2011 .