PopCamp

PopCamp - Master Course for Popular Music is a project of the German Music Council to promote top-class popular music in Germany. Each year five bands of all genres are selected for high-level band coaching in order to complete a coaching year with top-class lecturers from the music and media industry. Since 2005, the non-profit project company of the German Music Council has been promoting top-class funding under the motto “Diversity instead of mainstream”. The aim is to offer the musicians a network, to impart practical know-how and to create additional possibilities as tools for their future development.

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The PopCamp was launched in 2005 as the first popular funding project of the German Music Council by the project manager Michael Teilkemeier in collaboration with Udo Dahmen as the source of ideas and Henning Rümenapp as the artistic director. The project was discussed in the Federal Committee for Popular Music and is now part of the project society of the German Music Council in the House of Culture in Bonn.

That includes five bands a year in their funding program. The bands cannot apply themselves, but have to be suggested for participation by one of the more than 300 nominators from the music and media industry. After the nomination phase, which lasts from January to March every year, a jury meeting takes place in which a pre-selection of eight bands is made. These eight bands are invited to a live audit, where they perform live on stage and then have to prove themselves in a jury talk. The jury will select the five participants from these eight bands.

The joint work phases involve professional coaching with support from top lecturers in the areas of "Music, Media & Contract Law", "Marketing, Controlling & Management", "Communication and Interview Training", "GEMA, GVL & KSK" and Artistic and creative content in the areas of “Performance & Choreography”, “Vocals & Voice Training”, “Arrangement, Songwriting & Texts”, “Sound & Producing”, “Light & Stage” etc. The content and the lecturers are coordinated with the participants .

After completing the two coaching phases, a music and live video is created in cooperation with "d-Zentral", a project of the German Rock Music Foundation.

In addition to these coaching phases, some live performances are also organized, such as the annual PopCamp concert with the current participants in the Frannz Club in Berlin. To mark the 10th anniversary, the DLF broadcast a concert on December 11, 2015 in its "On Stage" series.

The PopCamp is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and by the Society for the Exploitation of Ancillary Rights (GVL).

Supported bands

year	tape	style
2018	Shark	Pop drum and bass
	Jeremiah	Indie rock pop
	Yuri	Indie pop
	Madanii	Electric R'n'B
	Nico Laska	Pop singer / songwriter
2017	Indian whisper	Indie rock rap
	Ingold	TripPop Electro
	Mind trap	Acoustic indie
	Pulsar Tales	Pop fusion
	Soeckers	Garage pop
2016	Flooot	Tin blow rap
	Lenna	PowerPop
	Lucas Newman	RnB
	William's orbit	Alternative rock
	We bring cold coffee	IPop
2015	Blackout problem	Alternative / rock
	Mock malor	Electro Chanson / Traumwandler Punkeresque
	Steal A Taxi	Funk / pop
	The OWs	Indie folk / rock
	Van Holzen	skirt
2014	AudioDamn!	Soul rock
	Goldmouth	skirt
	Jacobus	Folk pop
	Passé	Independent, synth rock, permanent wave
	Scene Writers	pop
2013	Aileen Phoenix	Singer / songwriter / jazz / pop
	Nitzsche & Hummel	AcidClubRock
	Rome	Indie pop with atmosphere
	Beach lights	pop
	The Munitors	Indie / Britpop
2012	Anne Haight	Acoustic pop, singer / songwriter
	Construction west	Indie / electro / hip-hop
	Fugitive dancers	Indie pop
	Hot Cold	Alternative / German rock
2011	Coucou	Pop / Jazz
	Defne Sahin	Jazz / lyric / pop
	Fabian von Wegen	Singer / songwriter pop
	Locomotor	Indie / alternative
	Klintn	Indie / Electro / Pop
2010	Marie & the redCat	Acoustics pop
	Max prose	Lyric folk rock
	OK kid	Electronics / hip-hop / pop
	The Bonny Situation	Progressive pop
	Trinity Lane	Alternative / indie
2009	Abel and Cain	Indie / Alternative / Pop
	Baby gasoline	Electro / Pop / Punk
	Christian Troitzsch	German / Acoustics / Indie
	Frieder	Rock / Alternative / Indie
	Luis and laser power	Rap / rock / electro
2008	Alin Coen Band	Acoustics pop
	Auletta	Alternative, indie
	Formula being	IDM / Rap / Visual Kei
	Maren Montauk	Electroacoustics / Pop
	The Intersphere	Rock / Progressive
2007	Gammalapagos	Indie / electronica / rock
	Kenshiro	Drum'n'Bass de luxe live
	My New Zoo	Bizarre rock with Balkan roots
	zero tariff	Mainstream pussy rock
	So white	Experimental jazz ensemble with an affinity for pop
2006	Erik & Me	German pop
	happy1	Avant-garde pop
	Pristine	Punk 'n' Roll
	Remote Republic	audiovisual nasa rock
	The Titans	Hip hop
2005	cyminology	lounge jazz with Persian poetry
	one high6	Mixture of classical music, world music and hip-hop
	Jupiter Jones	German-speaking punk rock
	Kent Coda	Rock indie alternative
	Velvet June	melodic rock music

Lecturers (selection)

Jury (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Project on the website of the German Music Council ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Musikrat on the website of the Haus der Kultur in Bonn (accessed July 13, 2016)
↑ On Stage on the DLF website (accessed July 13, 2016)

[1] Project on the website of the German Music Council ( Memento from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Musikrat on the website of the Haus der Kultur in Bonn (accessed July 13, 2016)

[3] On Stage on the DLF website (accessed July 13, 2016)