Underground (album)

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Underground
Studio album by RAG

Publication
(s)

1998

Label (s) Put Da Needle To Da Records

Format (s)

CD , vinyl

Genre (s)

Hip hop

Title (number)

10

running time

45 min

chronology
- Underground POTENTIAL
(2001)

Unter Tage is the debut album by the German hip-hop group RAG . It was released on October 6, 1998 on the Put Da Needle To Da Records label .

Track list

  1. Underground - 3:22
  2. Without guarantee - 4:34
  3. West wind - 4:06
  4. Sound body sizes (with Der Lange) - 5:03
  5. Requiem - 3:49
  6. Cobblestones - 4:10
  7. Terrarist - 4:59
  8. Stratego - 4:40
  9. Unter Tage (Collabo Remix) (with Creutzfeld & Jakob and Criss Krass) - 6:12
  10. Crossword Fire - 3:42

reception

Der Spiegel described Unter Tage in 1998 as a “ soundtrack for cultivated melancholy with enough opportunities to break out. "According to editor Fiete Stegers, RAG is" digging at the hip-hop roots and unearthing slow beats. Over these are “ economical melodies, a gentle trumpet, a Mexico guitar or a sample, not monotonous, but catchy. "Pahel, Galla and Aphroe weld the songs together with their" even flow of rhyme ". The contents of the album are never very clear. Due to the “ Beat workers' preference for unfinished sentences and lines of argument that abruptly lead to word games, the texts become syntheses of expressionist audio images and silly finds from pop culture. “The RAG is indeed melancholy, but it differs“ from the aggressive chant of a Moses Pelham wallowing in Weltschmerz . “ Underground is for the band“ retrospective and coming to terms with the past, but also the basis from which the RAG members, individually and together, want to bring new sounds to light. "

The e-zine Laut.de discussed the album in 2017 in its “Milestones” section. According to editor Philipp Gässlein, Unter Tage will not only remain a milestone “in German spoken song, but also an important link for linking rap and modern poetry. “DJ Whiz's samples are“ breathtakingly catchy ”and“ hardly ever contained more than four tones. "The lyrics of the album are" exquisite, not explicit . "RAG forego" fecal language, degradation and similar frippery ", which meant that she was" completely against the zeitgeist of the time ". The “ realities of life apart from art [are] a minor matter. "RAG had" expected no support from the working class "and was also" not wallowing in lower-class romanticism. “Rather, the group loved “ the lyrical, the abstract ”. Almost no verse refers to “ not openly or covertly to films, books, historical figures. Allusions to Tolstoy's Stream of Consciousness [or] Döblin's assembly techniques. “Even“ those who take on a lot of time and research work ” often only “ end up with a big question mark. “The tragedy of Galla's song Requiem , which was originally“ dedicated to his deceased parents ”, increases immeasurably through the“ far too early death of the rapper [...]. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spiegel.de: CD criticism - Ruhrpott AG - 'Unter Tage'. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Laut.de: Your own superiority is demonstrated here, not just claimed. Retrieved June 2, 2017 .