WWW (band)
WWW is a Czech band.
history
Foundation and first successes (1989–1998)
WWW was one of the first Czech hip-hop bands in the early 1990s . The abbreviation WWW originally stood for "We Want Word". The band was formed in Prague and consisted of the front man Ondřej Anděra, called Sifon, Jakub Janoušek, called Bojler, and a group of their comrades, u. a. Jan Zajíček, called Scarf and Lenka Geislerová, called Lela. At that time the members were mostly students at the Václav Hollar Technical College for Design in Prague. The later copywriter Lubomír Typlt also came across WWW during this time, but stayed mostly in the background.
In the mid-1990s, the band toured the Czech Republic with the demo album Noční můra (1993) and received an offer for a record deal from the music publisher Polygram . The band members did not agree on this. The offer was ultimately rejected and the band broke up a short time later.
New beginning and development since the mid-2000s
From the mid-2000s, Lubomír Typlt and Ondřej Anděra resumed the band's activities, initially sporadically while studying at university. Gradually the artistic symbiosis Typlt-Anděra developed, in which Lubomír Typlt mainly takes on the role of the lyricist and Ondřej Anděra processes the lyrics musically. Apart from the two of them, nobody from the original formation of the band is there anymore. During this time, however, there were also Ondřej Anděra's wife, Milesa Anděra Zrnić, who from now on opposed her husband's voice to a female counterpart. In the meantime, Tomáš Vysoký aka Brainy Thug was also on stage, who left WWW in 2011. The well-known drummer Pavel Fajt has been a permanent member of the band since 2013 and accompanies Ondřej Anděra and Milesa Anděra Zrnić on stage. Lubomír Typlt, who devotes himself full-time to painting, is the only band member who is not actively in the limelight when performing.
The label
WWW has had their musical home since 2006 with the independent label Bigg Boss, which also represents other Czech hip-hop greats and is run by the rapper Vladimir 518 (real name Vladimír Brož, also known as x-kmen).
style
WWW is characterized by its unique, experimental style, which is difficult to submit to conventional genre categories. It is rap, whose extraordinary intensity and energy unfold through the special poetics of Lubomír Typlt's lyrics in combination with the synthetically generated sounds of Ondřej Anděra. The style of WWW is referred to as "Neurobeat" based on the first album of the same name. The naming goes back in part to the novel Neuromancer , which is considered to be the intellectual basis of cyberpunk .
Texts
Idioms and word combinations are put into new contexts of meaning and narrative in a pictorial way. Surreal images and ideas emerge that swirl and recode physical laws, sensations of time, places and emotional impressions. Often ambivalent statements, thoughts and feelings are confronted with each other. In addition, the text makes use of phonetic ambiguities, rhythmic onomatopoeia and free chains of association. In the world of the WWW, inanimate matter such as machines and architecture meet animate elements such as body organs, memories or living biomass. As a further means of confusion, proportions are, contrary to the rule, made smaller or oversized, and fairy tales or well-known stories are quoted. The result is a magical undertow of absurd banality, drama, ruthlessness and harmony, which takes opposing turns in quick succession. Contrary to the assumption, the text of the WWW is not artificial and is also not artificially raised. In the sense of the neurobeat, the text has an urgent and catchy effect on the recipient and paves its way into the recipient's conscious and subconscious.
music
In addition to the voice, the musical intensity is generated with the help of synthesizers, ready-made sound tracks and analog percussion instruments and modulated with the help of effect processors. The sound of the WWW is as complex as the text. Just as on the text level, one is tempted to look for the origin of what is heard on the soundtrack. What is played with is what the human ear encounters in the pulsating everyday life of a big city: it cracks, scratches, scrapes, squeaks and rattles. Perhaps a cable burns out at one point and in the next moment it is drowned out by the rhythmic spinning of a washing machine, while the simple 8-bit melody of a computer game gains the upper hand between the individual lines of text. WWW's Neurobeat blurs the lines between industrial, noise, electro and hip-hop into a dense tornado that catches audiences outside the mainstream. The sound is quite danceable.
Visual
In addition to text and music, the DNA of WWW is completed by a third, visual component. The specific world of motifs, which is also inspired by Lubomír Typlt's painterly and sculptural work, represents a self-experiment in search of the interpretation of the enigmatic. The visual element is mainly expressed in the band's video clips, as well as being used on promotional materials. In addition to in-house productions and video clips created by the fans themselves, WWW regularly cooperates with media artist David Vrbik, among others.
Discography
- 2006: Neurobeat
- 2009: Tanec Sekyr
- 2011: WWW Live
- 2013: Atomová včela
Music videos
- 1993: Noční můra ( video clip )
- 2006: Lexicon
- 2006: Míč
- 2008: Prahem
- 2010: Pikola
- 2011: anatomy
- 2011: Velký třesk
- 2012: Evropa
- 2014: Čtverec
- 2015: Ve stínu lamp / In the shadow of the lamps
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b WWW - Noční Můra (1993) , online at: phatbeatz.cz / ...
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiZ9WfDyQo0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Irrfz9_v0
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhuJ6Ur9sug
- ↑ https://vimeo.com/16845583
- ↑ http://crackers.cz/klip-www-velky-tresk/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8bA1750w8g
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urd6k1l7g0c
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUg4A-NwIrI