Deichkind

Deichkind
Deichkind live at Rock'n'Heim 2014
General information
Genre (s)	Hip-Hop , Electropunk
founding	1997
Website	www.deichkind.de
Current occupation
MC , music	Philipp Grütering (Kryptik Joe)
Director	Henning Besser ( DJ Phono , La Perla)
MC	Sebastian Dürre (Porky) (since 2005)
producer	Roland Knauf
former members
MC	Malte Pittner (until 2006)
MC, music	Bartosch Jeznach ( Buddy Buxbaum ) (until 2008)
producer	Sebastian Hackert (Sebi) († 2009)
MC	Sascha Reimann (Ferris Hilton) (2008-2018)

Deichkind at the Splash Festival 2000

Deichkind live at the Juicy Beats Festival (2009)

Inflatable boat at the Nova Rock Festival (2013)

Typical costumes for a live performance at the Juicy Beats Festival (2009)

Deichkind at the Karlsruhe Festival 2012

Deichkind is a Hamburg hip-hop and electropunk formation. It consists of the singer and MC Philipp Grütering and the MC Sebastian "Porky" Dürre. Henning Besser, alias DJ Phono, is responsible for the creation of her shows and works in this constellation under the pseudonym “La Perla”.

The band had their first successes around the turn of the millennium with the single Bon Voyage (with Nina ). In the course of the 2000s, her style took up more and more electronic elements. The best-known examples of this electro-based hip-hop sound are the three singles Remmidemmi (Yippie Yippie Yeah) (2006), Arbeit nervt (2008) and Leider geil (2012), all of which made it into the charts.

A hat in the shape of a tetrahedron has been the band's distinguishing mark since 2006 . This hat can be seen in numerous music videos (e.g. illegal fans , unfortunately cool , like my ass ). The band members wear it when performing live.

Band history

The band was founded in 1997 or 1999 in Hamburg-Bergedorf and initially consisted of Philipp Grütering, Malte Pittner and Bartosch "Buddy" Jeznach . The debut album Please Pull Through was released on May 29, 2000 on the Showdown Records label . Deichkind's breakthrough in the mainstream marked the single Bon Voyage (with Nina ), the video of which was frequently seen on MTV and VIVA . In June 2001 the rap combo recorded the single audition appointment alongside Sleepwalker as part of the "Hamburg City Allstars" . This placed itself in the German single charts for nine weeks and reached the highest chart listing with rank 44. The second album Noch Five Minutes Mutti was released on September 30th, 2002. With the single Limit, the band continued this first success.

With the piece Electric Super Dance Band Deichkind for taking Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the Federal Vision Song Contest 2005 in part. They ranked 14th among the 16 federal states.

On May 19, 2006, the studio album Aufstand im Schlaraffenland was released on the Island Records label . The song Remmidemmi (Yippie Yippie Yeah) was released as a single and became one of the band's most successful titles. The song took 68th place in the German single charts and was among the top 100 for a total of 26 weeks with longer interruptions. In the 2006 Spex annual charts , the song was ranked 4th among critics and 3rd among readers in the annual critics charts of the Intro it took second place. The song was later covered by the band Fotos , by Nena on their album Cover Me , by Hämatom on their anniversary album X, by Pete Blume, by Rotfront , by Mambo Kurt , by Egotronic and by The Twang . Other successful songs that didn't make it into the charts were Electric Super Dance Band and I Anesthetize Myself , with Sarah Walker singing along.

Bassist Sebastian “Porky” has been a Dürre member since 2005, and since 2007 a permanent member of Deichkind. In the meantime, Dürre no longer plays bass, but writes the lyrics together with Philipp Grütering and implements them vocally.

In 2006, Malte Pittner had to leave the band because of private disputes. He has been the guitarist with Texas Lightning since 2009 .

In April 2008 Buddy Inflagranti announced his departure from Deichkind. He was replaced by Ferris MC , who played at Deichkind until October 2018 under the pseudonym Ferris Hilton .

Sebastian “Sebi” Hackert, producer of the band, died on February 21, 2009 at the age of 32 in his apartment. Since he was largely responsible for the musical direction of Deichkind, the other band members initially left it open whether they wanted to continue the band after the already established festival appearances in the summer of that year. Eventually they decided to do it. After Hackert's death, Roland "Roy" Knauf took over the role of producer.

At the beginning of 2010, Deichkind's first play with the name “Deichkind in Müll - A Discourse Operetta” premiered in Hamburg.

In the summer of 2012, the band had their biggest chart success to date with the album Command from the Bottom , which rose to number 2 in Germany. Several singles from it also made it into the top 100. The music title Bück dich hoch was placed as a single in both the German and Austrian single charts. Outside of the music scene, the title received attention when an employee in Rödinghausen received a notice without notice after posting an entry on Facebook that contained the video of Bück dich hoch . The employee appealed against this dismissal. The title of the song Leider geil has entered the youth language and was youth word of the year 2012 in Austria. The singles unfortunately geil and Bück dich hoch achieved gold status. The album, Command From The Bottom , went platinum in early 2014.

In June 2014, the single Ich hab ein Fahne was released for the World Cup , which Deichkind released with Das Bo . The track was released as a vinyl single , the edition was limited to 500 copies.

On December 4th, 2014 Deichkind published the video for the single So'ne Musik on YouTube . The album Level Why Why was released on January 30th, 2015. On the deluxe edition of the album, the song Self-made, which is a collaboration song by various German-speaking artists , was pressed. Included in chronological order are Kraftklub , Campino ( Die Toten Hosen ), Samy Deluxe , Björn Beton ( Fettes Brot ), Icke & Er , Bilderbuch , Smudo (Die Fantastischen Vier), Die Boys, Bosse , König Boris (Fettes Brot), Marteria , Jennifer Weist (Jennifer Rostock), Jan Delay , Nico ( KIZ ), Madsen , Sido , Alexander Marcus , Dendemann , Tobi Tobsen , Kid Simius , Marsimoto , Brutos Brutaloz, Dokter Renz (Fettes Brot), Inga Humpe , MC Fitti , Bonaparte , Miss Platnum and Sera Finale .

Concept and style

Texts

Characteristic for the band are the lyrics, which are mostly ironic-humorous or demonstratively “ chubby ”, but from time to time they are also serious or melancholy. On the first two albums there were radio play-like interludes, so-called skits , which were mostly re-enacted scenes from everyday life in Hamburg. So a spontaneous came MiniDisc -Mitschnitt on Hamburg's Reeperbahn before ( Because Mussu plata! ), Or appeal calls of disgruntled neighbors Günther ( Günther , Günther 2002 ) etc.

music

Ayke Süthoff traces Deichkind's development for Noisey . During the founding period, Deichkind were referred to as a rap crew . They are certified with the "[...] aspiration to bring German rap forward and to further develop it within the existing rap limits". But already the track Bon Voyage from 2000 is “a dancefloor hit with a distinctly electronic touch.” With the album Noch Five Minutes Mutti from 2002 “the question arises for the first time [musically]: Is this still hip-hop? In limit , the more likely does not apply, which is an electro track, with German rap "" 2005 becomes a turning point in the Deichkind history. Even in the original line [...], but already complete without Rap ".

Both Limit (2002) and Electric Super Dance Band (2005) are seen as decisive for the development towards “Tech-Rap”, as the band describes itself for their style . Sandra Adler writes about Limit in Rolling Stone : "The humming and squeaking is still arranged as a hip-hop beat, but it's not for nothing that the song still fits wonderfully into the repertoire of the later tech rap albums at the aforementioned live parties." Lu Yen Roloff writes in Der Spiegel “In 2003 the band got into a crisis after a member left, went into hiding, experimented with music and image - only to emerge in 2005 as the 'Electric Super Dance Band' […]. Instead of hip-hop, the new Deichkinder relied on electronically supported 'tech rap' [...]. "

The band continued to work with weird to grotesque texts and appropriate stage shows in which they appeared dressed in cling film, plastic bags, glowing green glow sticks and a lot of adhesive tape. Conceptually and musically, punk influences became more and more evident. The sound was much faster and more break-heavy than before, which continued on the album Aufstand im Schlaraffenland (May 2006). This was also evident in the remixes of the single Remmidemmi (Yippie Yippie Yeah) , which were contributed by the producer duo Egoexpress and Scooter . The band's penchant for experimentation was evident, for example, on the album Noch five minutes, Mutti , which contains the title Da Wo , which was recorded by Truck Stop together with country violinist Lucius .

Uli Knapp summed up at Puls : “The first in Germany to successfully combine electronic sound with hip-hop were Deichkind. And not just with her party-crashers 'Remmidemmi', but six years ago with her single 'Limit'. "

Live performances

The band is known for their shows. The show degenerates, as the band itself says, into a "children's birthday party for adults" with excessive celebrations.

The band appears on stage with self-made costumes made of garbage bags, foam tubes and neon-colored faces. The show elements mostly involve the audience, e.g. B. when band members crowdsurf on the audience with a rubber dinghy or drive through the crowd with an oversized barrel. The stage elements and props are self-designed and manufactured. For example, DJ Phono and Stefan Hübner developed and built pedestals, so-called omnipods , that move around from the very bottom for the show for the command album . A patent has now been applied for.

In 2006, Deichkind and the media group Telekommander took part in the Love Parade with their own car , and in 2019 they performed at Fridays For Future in Hamburg.

Discography

→ Main article : Deichkind / discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2000	Please go through with it	DE18 (18 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: May 29, 2000
2002	Five more minutes, mom	DE17 (4 weeks) DE	AT56 (3 weeks) AT	-	First published: September 30, 2002
2006	Uprising in the land of milk and honey	DE68 (1 week) DE	-	-	First published: May 19, 2006
2008	Work sucks	DE13 (10 weeks) DE	AT30 (9 weeks) AT	CH80 (1 week) CH	First published: October 17, 2008
2012	Order from the bottom	DE2 platinum (34 weeks)DE	AT5 gold (28 weeks)AT	CH16 (11 weeks) CH	First published: February 10, 2012 Sales: + 210,000
2015	Level why why	DE1 platinum (40 weeks)DE	AT2 (22 weeks) AT	CH1 (13 weeks) CH	First published: January 30, 2015 Sales: + 200,000
2019	Who said that?	DE3 (23 weeks) DE	AT4 (7 weeks) AT	CH8 (4 weeks) CH	First published: September 27, 2019

Awards

• 2012 and 2015: Hans Hamburger Musikpreis as best Hamburg artist of the year
• 2013: German Music Author Award in the Text Hip-Hop category
• 2013: Echo Pop in the category Club / Dance national / international
• 2015: Echo Pop in the National Critics Award category
• 2016: Pop Culture Award in the Most Impressive Live Show category
• 2018: Prize for Pop Culture in the Favorite Video category (L on the forehead)
• 2019: Prize for Pop Culture in the categories of Favorite Band , Favorite Song and Favorite Video (Really Good Stuff)

Nominations

• 2012: For the 1 Live Krone in the Best Album category for “ Command from the Bottom” and Best Live Act
• 2015: For the 1 Live Krone in the category Best Album for Level Why Why and Best Live Act
• 2019: For the 1 Live Krone in the Best Band category

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1. ↑ From the shards of punk . Retrieved May 13, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} orf.at: "Deichkind mastermind is dead"
3. ↑ Hagen Terschueren: Ruckus & Remmidemmi: 20 years Deichkind. Noisey , August 30, 2017, accessed January 16, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Death at 32 - Deichkind mourns producers on welt.de, February 27, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ayke Süthoff: The evolution of Deichkind. Noisey , February 4, 2015, accessed January 16, 2019 . 
6. ↑ netzeitung: Deichkind member died unexpectedly ( memento from February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Sleepwalker feat. Hamburg City Allstars - audition. mediabiz.de, accessed on July 11, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Sleepwalker audition. officialcharts.de, accessed on July 11, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Deichkind on rme-audio.de
10. ^ Deichkind for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on tvtotal.prosieben.de
11. ^ 1. Bundesvision Song Contest 2005. In: fernsehserien.de. imfernsehen GmbH & Co KG, accessed on December 1, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Remmidemmi (Yippie Yippie Yeah) (single) in the German charts
13. ↑ Annual charts (Spex), 2006 on indiepedia.de
14. ↑ Annual charts (intro), 2006 on indiepedia.de
15. ↑ Remmidemmi with the photos at the foot of the Brocken ( Memento from February 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on motor.de
16. ↑ Nena / Cover Me on musicline.de
17. ↑ Review by Pete Blume - Demonstrate: Sundays! on bizarre-radio.de
18. ↑ Rotfront / Emigrantski Raggamuffin ( Memento from December 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on rotfront.com
19. ↑ CD Krawall Macht Reiter on twang.de
20. ↑ Sebastian "Porky" Dürre: Udo is the star - no one else in the Hamburger Abendblatt from October 25, 2008
21. ↑ Thomas Heyen: Musik-Familie - This is what proud parents look like: “Porky” is their “Deichkind” in the Bergerdorfer Zeitung of October 12, 2010
22. ↑ Ex-Deichkind is now playing country on bergedorfer-zeitung.de on October 23, 2009
23. ↑ ^{a b} Buddy Inflagranti leaves Deichkind on musicattack.de
24. ↑ Ferris MC gets out. In: spiegel.de. Der Spiegel GmbH & Co. KG, October 15, 2018, accessed on December 1, 2019 . 
25. ^ Website of March 3, 2009
26. ↑ Deichkind remains ( Memento from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
27. ↑ Oliver Voß: Terminated due to Facebook posting. ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, July 20, 2012, accessed on May 29, 2015 . 
28. ^ [1] Press release from the Herford Labor Court
29. ↑ ^{a b} biography on laut.de
30. ↑ Sarah Adler: The best German songs of all time: Deichkind - "Limit". Rolling Stone , March 26, 2018, accessed January 16, 2019 . 
31. ↑ ^{a b c} Lu Yen Roloff: Deichkind on Tour: The Rapper Horror Picture Show. Der Spiegel , January 16, 2019, accessed on January 16, 2019 . 
32. ↑ [2]
33. ↑ Deichkind ( Memento from February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on backstage7.de
34. ↑ Uli Knapp: German hip hop is reinventing itself. Puls (youth channel) , December 28, 2008, accessed on January 16, 2019 . 
35. ↑ André Depcke: Deichkind in Hamburg: children's birthday for adults. In: mopo.de. Morgenpost Verlag GmbH, February 5, 2016, accessed on December 1, 2019 . 
36. ↑ Love Parade: Muckibude on the go on zeit.de
37. ↑ Gregory Straub, Till Stoppenhagen, Florian Quandt, Olivier David: Fridays for Future: Live concert by a popular Hamburg band at the end. November 29, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 (German). 
38. ↑ Prize for Pop Culture 2016 - that was the award ceremony. preisfuerpopkultur.de, September 10, 2016, accessed on July 29, 2018 . 
39. ↑ Winner 2018. preisfuerpopkultur.de, October 19, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2018 . 
40. ↑ ME editors: Prize for Pop Culture 2019: These are the winners. musikexpress.de, October 3, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019 . 
41. ↑ 1 Live Krone: Deichkind give an exclusive "Krone Concert". In: myheimat.de. gogol medien GmbH & Co KG, accessed on November 30, 2019 . 
42. ↑ 1LIVE Krone 2015 - nominees have been chosen - press lounge - WDR. In: WDR. October 20, 2015, accessed November 30, 2019 . 
43. ↑ 1LIVE Krone 2019: Nominees in the “Best Band” category. In: WDR. November 6, 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 . 

Web links

Commons : Deichkind  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the band
• Deichkind at SoundCloud
• Deichkind at Allmusic (English)
• Deichkind 2006 LIVE IN CONCERT at rockpalast.de
• Deichkind at laut.de