ZIN (tape)

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ZIN
General information
origin Leipzig , Germany
Genre (s) Electropop / avant-garde
founding 2005
Website www.zin-official.de
Founding members
Markus Estbourg, Sebastian Thon
Current occupation
Sebastian Thon
Markus Estbourg
former members
guitar
 Vincent Oley (until 2012)
Drums
 Mika (until 2012)
Basti Monse (until 2017)

ZIN is an alternative electro-pop band from Leipzig , which can be located in the avant-garde environment of the current Leipzig art scene.

history

ZIN was founded in 2005. The founding members included singer Sebastian Thon, who then operated under the artist name "Iven Cole", guitarist Vincent Oley, drummer Mika and sound tinkerer Markus Estbourg. After a friendly breakup in 2012, Vincent Oley and Mika left the band to pursue their own projects. Sebastian Thon and Markus Estbourg continued to work on the conceptual and musical reorientation of ZIN.

In 2006, shortly after the band was founded, ZIN took to the stage together with Phillip Boa , who hired ZIN as a support band. A year later the band released their first album called Tourists to This World and established themselves with the single No Fakes and Fears .

In 2010 ZIN opened the Amphi Festival as the winner of the Amphi New Talents Show. In the same year the second ZIN album called The Definition was released , the cover of which was drawn by the renowned Leipzig painter Neo Rauch .

In the middle of the tough work on the long-awaited third album, ZIN not only parted with two founding members, but also with the former Brachialpop label , from which ZIN no longer saw itself adequately supported. The result of this separation was a new, reduced sound and a new tactical direction, which started with the founding of our own ZIN music publishing house in order to regain maximum artistic freedom.

ZIN has produced a new EP on its own, which is expected to be released on September 6, 2014. The Leipzig video artist Paul Schlesier produced a video for the previously released single Beast and Beats , which comes in the reduced black and white aesthetic typical of ZIN. Another video directed by the Leipzig painter Tilo Baumgärtel is due to be published in August.

Discography

  • 2006: Tourists to This World (Album, Upart / Brachialpop / Rough Trade )
  • 2010: The Definition (Album, Upart / Brachialpop / Rough Trade)

Awards

  • 2010: Winner of the Amphi New Talents Show

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