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Khabib_Nurmagomedov all Takedowns in (2018) (Motivation Music) - Duration: 1:58.
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şimdi konuşmak dikkat Sana söylediğim bütün antrenmanları anlattım
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The Most Beautiful Turkish Music! ( Türkish Müsic ) - Duration: 2:37.
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We put the body back in the ground
Where it belongs
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I don't wanna go back to prison
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And then we plant the evidence on the dog
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Unto Forever | Official Lyric Video | CRC Music - Duration: 3:20.
I WANNA SHOUT IT OUT OH I WANNA SHOUT IT OUT LOUD
I WANNA TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU DID FOR ME
TELL THE WORLD WITH THE SONG I SING
YOUR LOVE IS BIGGER THAN BIGGER THAN THE ENEMY'S PLAN
TURNING SORROW TO PRAISE AS WE LIFT YOUR NAME
HEAVEN INVADES WITH THE SONG WE BRING
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER
WITH OUR HANDS LIFTED HIGHER DANCING TO THE SOUND OF HEAVEN
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
YOUR LOVE IS BIGGER THAN BIGGER THAN THE ENEMY'S PLAN
TURNING SORROW TO PRAISE AS WE LIFT YOUR NAME
HEAVEN INVADES WITH THE SONG WE BRING
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER
WITH OUR HANDS LIFTED HIGHER DANCING TO THE SOUND OF HEAVEN
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
WE WON'T BE SHAKEN DON'T BE MISTAKEN
WE'RE NOT AFRAID OF WHAT WE'RE FACING
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH HE WILL TURN TO
SOMETHING AMAZING PRAISE HIM BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
GIVE HIM ALL THAT YOU HAVE TODAY PRAISE HIM BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER
WITH OUR HANDS LIFTED HIGHER DANCING TO THE SOUND OF HEAVEN
UNTO FOREVER LET OUR PRAISE BE BETTER BETTER THAN YESTERDAY
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English Tutor Nick P Music Lyrics Explained (5) Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash - Duration: 10:03.
Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Music Lyrics Explained 5. Bobby
Pickett Monster Mash. All right. Now Monster Mash is a very famous classic
Halloween party song. it's not the latest or the coolest
but it is one that if you're at enough Halloween parties, it almost
always gets played. It's a classic song. It always comes back every year, but
anyway let's look at it. So the name of the song is the Monster Mash. All right.
Now mash, now even just the title mash can have two meanings. It's suitable
because it almost couldn't have a double meaning here. Mash could mean to crush
something you know and monsters often crush things. But it could also be a
mixture of things and here it's I think it's a mixture of all these characters
from horror movies are actually in this song. So it could it could play on both
here. If you say a Monster Mash. So it's a mixture of monsters. Okay. So anyway
let's get into it. Let's start the lyrics then I'll explain. it, All right. I was
working in the lab late one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight. All right.
if you are , obviously this is this is being sung almost like from DR.
Frankenstein and he was in the laboratory. Remember of DR. Frankenstein
made Frankenstein in the lab, and his eyes beheld, well beheld is the past
tense of to behold , to see something. An eerie sight. Eerie means very strange or
mysterious or scary. So let's continue. I was working in the lab late one night
when my eyes beheld an eerie sight from from my monster from his slab began to
rise and suddenly to my surprise. All right. Now my monster from his slab. A
slab is this. A large flat surface where a dead body is laid on. So I'm riemember this
supposed to be Frankenstein. Remember Frankenstein was like a dead
body. So all right let's continue. So that's just what he says here. For my, for
my monster from his slab began to rise and suddenly to my surprise. And then
this is the chorus. That gets repeated throughout the song. He did the mash. He
did the monster mash. The monster mash. It was a graveyard
smash. Well remember if you say something is a smash, it means it is a big hit. Oh oh
Yeah. He did the mash. It caught on in a flash. It caught on means , if something catches on
a flash it catches on very quickly. He did the mash. He did the monster mash.
This is the type of song too, that if you're at a Halloween party and even if
you're not a good dancer sometimes you can get up and dance this song, you
pretend like you're Frankenstein and move like Frankenstein. Kind of like this.
He did the mash. He did the monster mash. So that's what you could do in a song like
this. So it's actually a pretty fun song. If you actually check it out and listen
to the whole song complete. All right. Let me continue. From the lavatory in the
castle east to my master bedroom where the vampires feast. Okay. So I guess it's a
big castle. Master bedroom of course that's the main bedroom that's always in
a house. Where my, when my vampires feast. Feast of course they have a large
meal. Where they feast. Okay good. The ghouls all came from their humble abodes.
To get a jolt from my electrodes. All right. So ghouls we say, ghoul is an
imaginary creature from stories that eat people. All right. So the ghouls all came
from their humble abodes. Humble abodes, a way of something, a way of saying your home
is not fancy. We always say this is a humble abode. So they don't live in
high-class. All right. From their humble abodes.
Yes. so the monster mash very good. Ghouls all came from their humble abodes to get a jolt from my electrodes.
Well jolt means a shock. Remember in the old Frankenstein movies, he used to
have those little bolts coming out of his neck. That's where the electrode
would be. The electrode, electrode here of course this is a conductor that one uses
to make electrical contact to a circuit. So the original Frankenstein, he got he
came to life through electricity. And he used to have those little bolts sticking out
of his neck. So that's what that's about. Okay. Let's continue. The zombies were all
having fun. The party had just begun. Well of course here,
if you say zombies you know, well we know zombies in all the movies that they have
now that's a dead person in some religions especially in voodoo. That
comes back to life and they look and behave like they're still alive. Those
are zombies. So , so you got everything at this party.
So yeah , the zombies were having fun. The party had just begun. The guests included
Wolfman , Dracula , and his son. So all the normal horror people are here.
Okay. The scene was a rockin'. All were digging
the sounds. Igor are on chains backed by his bang hounds. Okay. So the scene
meaning that music scene . Or the rock scene they were rocking. Here remember if
we say to rock, in this sense, it means to play or dance to rock music. Digging, well
especially like in the 1960s and 70s , dig was a common word. It meant that you liked
something. So it's a word that the hippies used to like to use. Yeah. I dig it. So that's why
it's in this song. The scene was a rockin' all were digging the sounds. So they
thought the sounds were cool. Igor on chains backed by his baying
hounds. All right. Okay. Bay means to howl. So the hounds are the
dogs are howling oh oh (howling sounds ),. So they, they were doing that during this song. They were
howling. Yeah. By his baying hounds. The coffin bangers were about to arrive with
their vocal group the Crypt kicker five. Okay. So this is like another rock band.
Crypt, crypt is an underground burial chamber or room. So they usually show it
by like skeletons or something. So the crypt kicker five. it's supposed to be a
joke of course. Not a real band. Yeah. So and then of course the chorus goes they
did the mash. They did the monster mash. The monster mash , it was a graveyard
smash. All right. So let's continue with the rest of the song. Out from his coffin
Drac's voice did ring. It seems he was troubled by just
one thing. So this is Dracula out of his coffin he came out of his coffin. Drac's
they just shortened it for Dracula. His voice did ring. His voice sounded
here. So remember here . If we say to ring, if something rings, it makes a
continuous loud sound . It did ring. Seeing, he was troubled troubled or worried
by just one thing. Open the lid and shook his fist and said 'whatever happened to
my transylvania twist.' So it's making a joke. Like maybe all these monsters had
songs maybe. A twist there's a song or we twist your body like this. So he said
whatever happened to my Transylvania twist.So maybe that was , that used to be
the cool song among the monsters. Now it's the Monster Mash. You know, it's like
Frankenstein song. So that's that's what they're saying here. So open the lid and
shook his fist. And said whatever happened to my Transylvania twist. And of
course they sing it in a little bit of like a Dracula accent. You know an
Eastern European Transylvania accent. All right. Good, and then of course it goes
back to the chorus. You know, and they you know they did the mash , they did
the Monster Mash. . That continues again and then it goes to the next part.
Now , now everything's cool Drac's a part of the band and my monster man is the
hit of the land. So I guess Dracula got into the party.
He doesn't care that his song isn't the main song anymore. He's just playing
along. So he's part of the band and he's singing with them.. And my monster man, my
monster man. Of course this is Frankenstein because dr. Frankenstein is
talking is the hit of the land. Well you know the most popular one of the land.
For you, the living, the living you know, the people alive. This mash was meant too.
So you know you're invited too. You, you living people. When you get to my door
tell then Boris sent you. Yeah. So I actually sometimes to use the name Bobby
Boris Pinkett and if you remember back at that time in the old horror movies.
One of the most famous directors of the Horror movies was Boris Karloff. So
that's why I probably used that name as well. All right good. Oh. Yes
All right. And then of course it just it really comes to the end here. Basically
they say, they say well and then it just you know sluts going to the end you
know, Wah-ooh Monster Mash. Wah-oog. Yes easy Igor you impetuous young boy. Well
here of course if we say impetuous. Someone who is impetuous does things
quickly and without thinking about what will happen. As we say you impetous
young boy. Oh Monster Mash wah-ooh wah-ooh. And that's the end of the song. So if you
ever get invited to a Halloween party in the US or you know and you know Halloween is
mostly in American holiday. Anyway they might play this song and this is what
this song means it's actually a song about a bunch of monsters all getting
together and you know playing music together and dancing together. Well
anyway , I hope you got it. I hope you enjoyed it . I hope it was informative. Thank
you for your time. Bye-bye
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It's Halloween Night | Halloween Song | Music For Kids | Halloween Rhymes & Cartoons For Children - Duration: 31:25.
It's Halloween Night Not a soul in sight
I hear Footsteps Who's that coming?
I see a ghost!
Oh no!!!
I see a ghost!
Run!!!
I see a ghost!
Hahahahaha!
It's Halloween Night not a soul in sight
I hear Footsteps who's that coming?
I see a zombie!
Oh no!!!
I see a zombie!
Look Out!
I see a zombie!
Hahahahaha!
It's Halloween night not a soul in sight
I hear Footsteps who's that coming?
I see a vampire!
Oh no!!!
I see a vampire!
Help!
I see a vampire!
Hahaha!
It's Halloween night not a soul in sight
I hear Footsteps who's that coming?
I see a witch!
Oh no!!!
I see a witch!
save me!
I see a witch!
Hahahahaha!
It's Halloween night not a soul in sight
I hear Footsteps who's that coming?
I see a skeleton!
Oh no!!!
I see a skeleton!
Hide!!
I see a skeleton!
Hahahahaha!
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181029 Weki Meki (위키미키) Heading Back To Korea After MBC Music Show Champion In Manila - 쇼 챔피언 마닐라 - Duration: 0:55.
181029 Weki Meki (위키미키) Heading Back To Korea After MBC Music Show Champion In Manila - 쇼 챔피언 마닐라
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Masterboy - Feel The Heat Of The Night (1994) Music Video, Lyrics Included - Duration: 3:57.
Feel the heat of the night
Everything's allright
Feel the power of my heart
Give me all your love
Feel the heat of the night
Everything's allright
Feel the power of my heart
Give me all your love
All you need is feel right now
All you need is feel right now
All you need is feel my love
Jumping jumping up and down from the top right to the ground
Free your soul and free your mind, now set you free right on time
It's weekend and it's party time, feel the heat and free your mind
Put your hands up in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care
Feel the rhythm, stay real tight, feel the heat, feel the night
Let the groove control your move, shake your bud and make me hot
Party people, party dance, shake your body and wave your hands
You know how to do it right, feel the heat of the night
Feel the heat of the night
Everything's allright
Feel the power of my heart
Give me all your love
Feel the heat of the night
Everything's allright
Feel the power of my heart
Give me all your love
All you need is feel right now
All you need is feel right now
All you need is feel my love
Pumping stomping, people jumping, people dancing everywhere
The DJ's playing music loud, so wave your hands up in the air
Move your body shake your bud, the rhythm of the music's so hot
I see you do your turnaround on the dancefloor up and down
Party party, people party, party people, party dance
Come on people, move your body, shake your body wave your hands
Sweat is dropping down all over my face
I feel your sex right in this place
You got to get this rhythm right and feel the heat of the night
Feel the heat of the night
Everything's allright
Feel the power of my heart
Give me all your love
Feel the heat of the night
Everything's allright
Feel the power of my heart
Give me all your love
All you need is feel right now
All you need is feel right now
All you need is feel my love
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Reggaeton Music 2018 Lo Mas Nuevo - Best Reggaeton Music Popular Songs - Duration: 1:22:09.
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Episode 34: 10 tips to play vocal music | Your transcriptions | QUIZ! - Duration: 14:32.
This is Maria, this is Hester, and together we are the CONSORT COUNSELLORS!
Welcome to a very special episode of Consort Counsellors!
Today we are going to focus a little bit deeper on the arrangements and performance of vocal repertoire...
And then, instead of our regular 30-seconds tip, we have a QUIZ for you,
because we want to celebrate that we have reached the milestone of 1000 subscribers on YouTube!
Would you like to win an exclusive prize from the Consort Counsellors?
Please watch this video until the very end!
In episode 30 we presented a very practical method to transcribe vocal music for recorder consorts
and we invited you to try it out and maybe send us the result of your work.
David Allen sent us an arrangement of an eight-part motet by Cristóbal de Morales: "Andreas Christi famulus".
He's played this piece with his group.
They played the three top lines on recorders (two tenors and a bass) and the lower five voices on viols.
In this way they stay within the actual pitch of the human voices.
We are sure it sounds beautiful! Thank you David!
We also received a transcription of a madrigal by Monteverdi:
"Non giacinti o narcisi", made by Angela Salvaggione. Thank you Angela!
Angela found out that the two top voices would fit the range of soprano recorders,
but they would also fit the range of alto recorders.
The soprano recorders would be playing rather low, the alto recorders in the middle and higher register.
This was her choice: to keep two alto recorders for the two top voices.
How can you know what's likely to be the best option when the range of a voice suits two different sizes of recorder?
In general, the middle and the high register of the recorder are a bit more flexible than the low register.
Staying around the "left hand area" and the second register gives you more possibilities for the flexibility of the sound
and it is also much more comfortable to play.
It is usually a good idea to avoid an octave gap between consecutive voices.
If Angela had chosen for two soprano recorders for the top lines,
there would be an octave gap: sopranos on the top lines, tenor on the third line.
This probably would create some difficulties in balance and mix, as the sopranos would stick out in sound a little bit.
When you play early repertoire, like Renaissance polyphony,
usually you have enough with three consecutive sizes of recorder,
for example: alto, tenor and bass. This is also the case in this madrigal.
If you would like to get a bit closer to the way the pieces were performed back then,
use the fourth size of a recorder only when it's essential.
Being "practical musicians" ourselves, we can't avoid adding the following tip:
Try everything! Perhaps you'll find out that a soprano and an alto,
or an alto and a soprano for the second voice, or two sopranos, or two altos...
They all sound different and it's always a good idea to try out all options,
so that you develop a sense of what the best solution is for particular sorts of pieces. [Trial and error!]
Not all arrangements we received are as early as Monteverdi and Cristóbal de Morales.
Mark Chapman sent us a lovely arrangement
of a 19th-century song by the English composer Robert Pearsall: "Who shall have my lady fair?"
If you like to try something different and cheerful, have a go!
Charbel Abi Nader from Lebanon arranged more than ten Maronite hymns
to be performed by a recorder quartet. Thank you Charbel!
Maronite hymns are traditional melodies that are sung by Christians in Lebanon.
The melodies are beautiful and the arrangements are very well done!
Perfection lies in simplicity here.
When arranging melodies like this, you have a lot of choices to make.
For example, in which line, in which voice do you put the melody?
It's not always the case that you *have to* put it in the soprano or the top line.
You can also choose to put it in the middle voices
and let the top line and the bass accompany.
That might create interesting colours. Good luck!
A good friend of ours here in the Netherlands - his name is Thijs - also reacted to our Episode 30.
He told us it would be interesting to have some more tips to perform vocal music.
How can the text, particularly, be a nice guide to rehearse and perform this music?
To answer this question we continue with 10 quick tips to work with the text when playing vocal music on recorders.
Connect the punctuation of the text with your musical phrasing.
For example, if there is a comma in the text, consider the note after the comma as a new beginning.
Take breath before, or separate it slightly from the previous note.
A spoken phrase usually has a clear direction towards the most important words.
It is a good idea to say a phrase that you are going to play
a few times in a row, to find the best emphasis and intonation.
You can put the same feeling of direction into your music.
Check episode 29 for more exercises!
Taking the previous tip even a step further, compare how you say or sing a phrase and how you play it.
Are there any obvious differences that you may like to bring closer together?
Vocal music is syllabic when each note gets its own syllable,
and melismatic when one syllable is extended over a longer passage with many notes.
In some pieces you will find both styles of writing and it may be nice to make a little difference between them.
For example, you can have a slightly more active articulation or play a little bit more separate in a syllabic section
and play the melismas as connected as possible.
Look for obvious connections between the different sentences of the text
and the phrases or sections of the music.
For example, you will usually find an important cadence in the end of each sentence of the text.
It is important to give enough attention to these transitions.
How are the phrases connected? Is there a clear ending in which you have a chance to take breath
and start with something new? Or are the phrases really overlapping?
And, what does that all mean in the development of the piece?
Connect the character of the text with your way of playing.
Think of what kind of sound, articulation, speed and timing
suit the main mood of the piece, of a phrase or even of a word.
We give you three short examples!
In musical settings of texts, very often we have to deal with repetition.
Maybe a word, a clause or a whole phrase is repeated twice, or more times.
What does that mean to you? Is the music getting more intense by repetition,
or is each repetition rather an echo, a softening of the previous?
Our perception of music is often focused on melody.
We enjoy playing the different combinations of beautiful intervals...
However, when we play vocal music, we will often come across repeated pitches.
A singer naturally gives different colours to these repeated pitches because of the different syllables they sing.
As recorder players we can vary the attack, the articulation, the length, the shape and the color of these repeated pitches
to suggest the same effect. See how far you dare to go!
Singers give great attention to the closure of the words,
and therefore also to the closure of each phrase.
End your phrases like a singer, with great care for the length, shape and closure of your final notes.
You can even imagine that there is a choir conductor in front of you,
helping you with the shape and closure of the perfect ending.
The last tip may seem a little bit paradoxical:
Text is essential, but it's not everything!
We are instrumentalists, and as such we get inspiration from the text in all the ways we just mentioned...
...but we can also go too far: try to play each comma, create different colours on each syllable and all the repeated pitches...
Like that, we mayend up a little bit too worried, and the playing might become a bit unnatural.
Like it is with everything else, let's look for a good balance!
Remember that the earlier the music you play, the more chance that the text placing is actually not entirely clear,
and in some cases it may also not be the most important thing... So it depends also on which repertoire you're playing.
As you know, very recently we reached the milestone of 1000 subscribers on YouTube!
Thank you very much for following us, for watching our videos, for sending us your comments!
We have prepared something very special to celebrate this wonderful news: a QUIZ!
With three questions, which is based on information that we have shared with you on some of our previous episodes.
You have to send the correct answer to these three questions
to consortcounsellors@gmail.com by the 15th of November 2018.
If you do, you will enter the lottery to win our very special package, consisting of a signed CD of Seldom Sene Recorder Quintet
and... an ultra-exclusive, unique coffee travel mug of the Consort Counsellors!
We will announce the winner on Monday the 17th of November, and it can be YOU!
If you are watching this video after the 15th of November, do not worry,
because when we come to the magic number of 1500 subscribers on our YouTube channel,
we'll do something special again! So please, do tell your friends about our channel
and invite them to subscribe! Here are the questions for the QUIZ:
[Question 1] How many extra notes did Sylvestro Ganassi discover in the high register of the alto recorder?
[Question 2] According to the Consort Counsellors, what are the three possible purposes of an alternative fingering?
[Question 3] In one of our early episodes we spoke about four body parts that have a major influence in the position of the tongue
and also in how the air flows into the recorder. Which four body parts are these?
Good luck with the quiz! We are looking forward to receiving your answers.
Yes! Get watching, get replying and good luck with the lottery!
See you next time, bye!
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Crab rave Meme (Warning Extreme bass boosted music) - Duration: 0:49.
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Music for Office: 3 HOURS Music for Office Playlist and Music For Office Work - Duration: 3:39:44.
Title: Music for Office: 3 HOURS Music for Office Playlist and Music For Office Work
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KitschKrieg Lecture (Berlin 2018) | Red Bull Music Academy - Duration: 1:20:58.
Today's guests are a lady and two gentlemen who, for the past 3-4 years,
have done nothing other than making sure
that there's no reason to be ashamed of our country's pop music.
And therefore it is a special honor for me to give a warm welcome to these guys:
Kitschkrieg.
Hi
Hi
It's also a special premiere, because for the first time ever,
we have all members of Kitschkrieg together on one couch.
Applause for awhodat.
Chingching
And you are …
Fizzle
Fiji
Those are hopefully not the names your mothers gave you?
Hmm ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) … not really, but they just stuck.
You don't choose your own nickname, and you never get rid of it either.
Tell me about it.
Anyway, you were all born in very different parts of this country,
but around the same time?
Yes, I'm all the way from the west,
originally from Krefeld by the Dutch border,
and I was born '79.
We should be sitting in a different order.
I'm from the zonal border, from Braunschweig,
and she was born all the way out east.
I'll take that as a yes.
Braunschweig ... I hope you're not into soccer.
So we can skip that whole topic, and finish half an hour early.
It's only going so-so at the moment, eh?
I barely remember anything about Braunschweig.
I found my microphone.
Oh, nice!
So "all the way out east", where would that be?
Uhm, really far out, by the Czech border.
So you're probably one of the very few people in this building
that have listened to things that were recorded in this exact location.
Yeah, probably. Born 1981.
Did the Funkhaus have any special meaning to you?
Is it like ZDF Lerchenberg, or something that you knew as a child?
Hmm, no, not for me.
I am asking because when I first heard the record that we just partially listened to
from Trettmann's #DIY album, which I believe you produced entirely ...
Yes, the whole thing.
... that, in a weird way, it reminded me of what
Günther Fischer and Manfred Krug used to do in the Amiga studios,
and then recorded it live in locations like this one right here.
In what sense? I can't really make anything of it, but I've been told that a few times.
I don't know the recordings. I've never listened to them.
I don't know what that means. Maybe you can explain what about our music reminds you of that.
Well, people from our generation,
as so often with music that is older than we are,
we got to know it through hip hop.
In this case it was Eins Zwo, who sampled "Baden gehen",
which was on one of Manfred Krug's records.
And for many of us, Manfred Krug was this strange TV lawyer,
or the grumpy trucker,
and then we were like "what do you mean he also sang?".
And of course these records were not available at an affordable price anywhere,
but then, oddly enough,
2-3 would become available in record stores not far away from here.
And there, in the late 60's/early 70's,
they would record jazz with huge big band orchestras,
and this dude from the Telekom commercial would sing just like he was from the Mississippi Delta.
He really had the blues in him, and he expressed it in words that were not at all embarrassing,
but he still spoke about very emotional things.
Got it. His own lyrics or did he translate English things?
No, he wrote in German.
And similar to Brazil at the time, he would wrap criticism about the regime in metaphors,
just like on "Baden gehen", or like "Billie Holiday".
Makes sense. Tretti definitely has blues in him,
and he's very gifted when it comes to writing in German,
making things sound non-cheesy,
and creating images and triggering emotions.
He has a massive talent, he can achieve all that with a great flow and without making it sound corny,
and his voice is just full of blues.
There's no better way to describe it.
The first time you were confronted with his work, that was probably not clear from the start?
Quite the opposite really.
He used to be Ronny Trettmann,
the funny reggae Saxon that would joyfully make fun of German reggae,
and things like "der Sommer, Sommer ist für alle da", that's the kinda stuff he did.
So the complete opposite of that.
But already then, in his previous discography, there would be single songs on his albums
between 14 slapstick tracks that had you going
"okay, wow. There's more to discover here."
For example, on his album "Tanz auf dem Vulkan"
there's a track called "Schwarzer Sonntag",
and on it you can hear his blues and how he tells this story.
So it was always there, but he didn't pursue it then,
or the producers led him in a different direction,
but we chose that particular side of him as an artist
and decided that's the one we want to work with.
You used to also play dancehall when you deejayed,
and he was the guy who, amongst all these summer hits,
had some legit dancehall tracks.
Definitely. Within his genre, he was the boss.
If you're talking about German dancehall and looking at this particular scene only,
he was by far the best and the only one,
and he won all the prizes he could possibly win.
But eventually he reached the limit,
because reggae and dancehall are part of a pretty small scene in Germany.
Small in a way that you guys also got to know each other through this scene?
Exactly.
So Braunschweig …
Formed from the sediments of the German dancehall scene,
that's basically how Kitschkrieg came to be.
But just like coffee grounds, it can be a great fertilizer.
Yeah.
Do you remember the first time you saw each other face to face?
I remember exactly the first time I met Fiji.
It was at "Brain Club" in Braunschweig, pretty legendary place.
If you deejay in Germany, you're going to end up in this club sooner or later,
and he was there and was playing his own productions over self-constructed controllers,
with his project at the time "Symbiz".
I thought that was really insane,
because normally people will deejay on turntables or CD players,
but he stood there with this handcrafted box,
pushing buttons and playing his own songs on it.
To this day, I've never seen anything like it.
So Krefeld didn't have that kind of stuff.
No.
Then he booked us a gig in Krefeld,
one of our first trans-regional bookings.
And how did it go?
There wasn't much going on there.
It was just on the rise.
I remember standing backstage and saying
"okay, nobody really showed up, so I'm going to go to the ATM to withdraw your fee,
because I don't see this happening today anymore."
So that's how we met. And awhodat ...
we spent a lot of time hanging out at dancehall parties in Cologne,
and checked out all German sound systems
like Pow Pow Movement, the Berliners Supersonic, and that whole era.
Concrete Jungle, Barney Miller, all these people.
It was the golden age of dancehall, when it was new in Germany,
people were really excited about it and the parties were full, it was a good time.
Did Gerd Gummersbach still have his location then?
Yes, he did. And if you didn't use the lift on the turntables you would die.
He would literally throw things at you and go
"use the lift!". "Okay, sorry."
We bought all our mixtapes from Gerd Gummersbach.
I know Kris since June 3rd, 2014.
It's always like this. She's our annalist.
How long since Kitschkrieg was founded?
We'll be like "something between 2 and 4 years",
but she'll be able to tell you exactly how many days.
So since when does Kitschkrieg exist?
4th anniversary coming up soon.
Better circle the date in your calendars, or you'll be in trouble.
Which exact day do you even go by? What's our founding date?
There are several dates. But really it's November 1st, 2014.
There you have it. Ok.
And what happened on that day?
I came to Berlin from Cologne with just a shoebox and a suitcase.
And then the three of us lived together in flat share.
Until recently.
We always said when things start going well, we will all get our own place.
And we just did, so things are going great! Yeah!
But aren't you afraid that you'll be missing something now?
That was everyone's reaction!
When Fizzle posted to Facebook that he was looking for a place,
my brother called to ask if everything's okay with us.
But we all still live really close to each other.
We hang out every day. Our studio is there,
and we have this small space that we're fixing up at the moment, but it's nice to go home in the eve
and not to have to see them anymore.
You probably had enough time in your joint flat to figure out who does dishes,
who takes down the trash, etc.
How do you divide it up with whatever it is that you are
- a production team, a label, or multimedia entity?
I don't even know what an entity is.
It definitely sounds very official.
I don't know. We stopped trying to define it.
We make music, we do photography,
create videos and clothes, and everything else we are interested in.
So in the end it's probably just a brand that delivers content of any sort.
We decided we're not going to try to be a band.
You have to ask yourself how you want to take it to the stage,
how much is it going to be about us as individuals.
We try to emphasize our work, our brand name and our logo,
and the people we work with,
rather than forming a band and trying to become the center of attention.
About the logo, are you, as a Krefeld native, responsible for the LA Kings reference?
No, that was him.
Against resistance from Nicole. I mean awhodat, sorry.
I was wondering since when everybody's into the NHL.
It's more of a cultural reference dedicated to gangster rap from LA, like N.W.A.
and the Raiders and Kings and that kind of stuff.
Ok. We just listened to Tretti, and I assume we're all fans here,
but maybe we can give a short insight into what you've been doing since November 1st, 2014.
Our first Kitschkrieg release was an EP with Noah Slee from New Zealand.
How do you find these people?
Soundcloud.
Classic Soundcloud scenario.
You upload your music and then you find a message in your inbox
from somebody saying "Hey, I'm coming to Berlin and I think your music is super interesting,
so let's get together".
So we met him and got to know him, and then we created the first Kitschkrieg release.
That was a rather slow beginning,
it took a full year to finish the EP,
but afterwards we moved on into the phase where we did the EPs with Tretti,
which were called Kitschkrieg EPs.
We made three of those, Kitschkrieg 1, 2, and 3.
And that was Trettmann's new beginning.
Together, Trettmann and Kitschkrieg then made an EP with Megaloh,
the "Herb & Mango" EP. So, Tretti, Kitschkrieg, Megaloh.
Then we did an EP for RAF and Bonez
as part of their "Palmen aus Plastik" box,
a dancehall EP with RAF, Bonez, and Tretti.
Then we worked with Haiyti for her "Toxic" EP,
and through working with her we got to know Joey Bargeld
and released another 3 EPs with him.
So we really like EPs in case you haven't noticed.
It's a nice short format.
And then we sat down and did the Trettmann #DIY album,
and that's basically it to this day.
You forgot the Haiyti album.
True, we also did the Haiyti album "Montenegro Zero".
That's the music we've created in the past 4 years.
We did a few singles for friends too,
but we try to do entire projects,
and not send out beats, trying to get them integrated into other projects.
Can we begin with "Raver", to give people a better impression?
Yes. Raver is off of KitschKrieg 2 from 2016.
How did Tretti's old dancehall friends react to this?
Pretty good. No complaints, they were excited for him.
To be honest, I was worried too. Often when an artist changes so significantly
it ends up being embarrassing and discredits everything they've done up until then.
Luckily that didn't happen here.
People acknowledged that it was real,
and that there was nothing really to hate about it.
We also really focused on what we think about it.
The whole EP phase was also our time of self-discovery.
We didn't call ourselves Kitschkrieg before that.
That was when we said "we're all in this together",
and we decided to name our EPs and ourselves Kitschkrieg for the sake of the team spirit.
We didn't really have anything but team spirit.
We didn't know that we could be making money with this.
Which one of you contributed the rave competence?
Tretti himself.
He's a proper raver.
He's really the only one of us.
None of us rave on the same level as Tretti.
(laughter in the room)
Sounds like there are secret agents amongst us.
Should we listen to another rave song? I have a nice rave track.
You wanna listen to another rave song?
Nice memories.
Now that we're listening to this ... Good thing you're asking.
This was a really interesting phase, during which we learned a lot about ourselves.
For example, we're shamelessly quoting The Streets' "Blinded by the Lights" on this track.
It's kind of a fuzzy line between stealing and quoting,
but we decided to worry less about what's allowed,
and to just do what feels right for the song.
And also, as part of Kitschkrieg's identification phase, it was a time when
just like with Tretti, we had discovered a new artist and noticed a facet.
There was something sad about her, which had sporadically shimmered through before,
but we wanted to emphasize it in full EP lengths.
We began implementing our own ideas into the work we did with these artists.
This song for example, they hadn't slept in ages and were totally out of it.
Fizzle had recorded them and sent me this acapella over some beat.
It was way too loud, with the hi-hats blasting through my headphones.
We remixed it, and it turned out to be the beautiful song that it is today.
It's def got a "Lila Wolken", commercial TV flair to it.
You think?
I think it's got a pretty commercial noughties feel to it.
The steps and the shameless quote are like "Attention! Afterhour".
The rave synths and so on are pretty borderline.
You think, do I really want to go there, but you also just really like it,
and that was when we said it doesn't matter: If we like it, we're doing it.
That takes courage.
It helps when Haiyti and Joey Bargeld come stumbling into the studio still completely tripping.
If you don't know the backstory and you listen to it, you wonder how old are these people?
All the Genglish (German-English-mix)
sounds a bit like some business dude is trying to talk 1994 teenie slang.
May we quote that?
I liked that one too.
It's just real. That's the state they were in.
I don't think any of us asked themselves how it will come across in the end.
It just needed to come out at that very moment and I held a microphone up to their heads while it happened.
I was also surprised by how pop-like the results were, because the moment itself wasn't pop at all.
It was funny, because you did the session with them, and you were super annoyed.
Bargeld is a sketchy dude, on a first impression,
so you catch yourself thinking "I hope he doesn't steal anything".
So yeah, you were pretty annoyed by it all.
But I remember, there was a second song that was created during this session.
and you sent it along just like "oh, and we have this too".
I don't even remember that.
Do you remember?
No, I don't. But I know I was not in Berlin, and Fizzle sent it to me
and I - no wait, that was a different song,
it was "Hero für Fuffi" -
I heard Joey, and I realized right away: We have to work with this guy.
It wasn't that obvious to us.
But that's how we started working in a ping-pong style.
Because I wasn't part of the session,
I wasn't annoyed, and I could judge it differently,
And we do that quite a lot actually,
where we don't all work together at the same time, but rather take turns.
That's quite an interesting approach for anyone working with beats.
Yeah, the interesting thing is: Beats are beats, songs are songs.
And how does A, or B, turn into S?
Via A-B-C
Wow
Algebra 1?
Just teamwork. Eisfeld once said:
"It's a nice beat, but good beats are just good beats. We need great songs", and that really stuck with me.
That's a good example, because even he and his crew had different phases,
and you could always tell that they were better
when they had somebody else to give another opinion.
Somebody that would say "Cool idea, but let's try this differently".
It's not the most comfortable position to be in,
when you're working with these frail, beaming, lighthouse-like artist personalities,
and you think
"okay, you're shining, but you could shine so much more if you did things like this."
But that's the exact moment when you have to be honest,
and usually the artist is very thankful for that,
because if you don't say it, the song will only turn out to be mediocre.
And then one day, he'll step onto the stage and he will only find out then that it's not that great,
and that's so much more brutal than finding out in the studio already.
Just say "I think you can do better.
Honesty in the studio, while recording and during songwriting, is extremely important.
I never once experienced an artist getting upset about it, no matter which artist it was.
We've even completely blown off songs, or entire verses.
Yeah, the worst scenarios, but never once did anyone get mad, on the contrary.
Because with growing success, you are surrounded by a crew that might be living off of and with you.
You don't need yes-sayers. That leads to nothing. It's goes back to what you said earlier.
We're really trying to cultivate that kind of honesty and friction.
It's normal to not always agree, and that's an advantage.
For example, two days ago we played new things to Eisfeld
and he listened to it, and said "Amazing!
The whole setup and how it builds up into the hook line, and then - nothing. Disappointing hook line."
"It's total BS. No it's not even crap. It's just absolutely nothing. That's how bad it is."
And we thought "okay, thanks".
But there are no hurt feelings. It's helpful.
You listen to the song again and try to understand why he said that.
We spent a lot of time working on that hook line and everything else,
and then you get that kind of feedback.
But it helped me be able to listen to the song again differently, and I understood what he meant.
How long did it take you to recover from the first punch in the stomach?
It's about the right attitude for that kind of conversation.
It's not really a punch in the stomach.
I think we just don't have any ego issues anymore. That's completely over and done with.
You have to be able to tell each other when something sucks. "Hey, that's a bad hook or a shitty photo"
We've done that so many times now, it didn't feel like a punch, to answer your question.
It was really just like "Okay, thanks"
I think we talked about artists' egos in our last lecture. How to deal with that.
And I realized as we were speaking, that we often focus on the bigger goals.
Like where we see this going in the long run, what the next small goal is and so on.
So the small disagreements lose their importance in the perspective of those bigger goals.
Little things like one hook being shitty, or Fizzle being right about something or not, don't matter.
It's more important to keep up the good flow.
Do you know roughly when you guys left your egos behind? Maybe the annalist?
I think after the first EP, which took a year.
Because all the EPs that followed happened a lot quicker and easier,
so it must have been sometime around then.
If you take one year for 4 songs,
you have to ask yourself what's going wrong.
That doesn't really help pay the bills.
Right. It didn't make much sense.
That's when we realized that it's a problem.
The ego goes hand in hand with personal taste, and you can't really fight about that.
So we became pragmatic about it and divided up our responsibilities,
so different people had the authority over different decisions.
Whether I look my best in a specific photo is not really the issue, and it's not my decision either.
If we start fighting about that, we're just wasting our time.
Which is what happens usually.
The photo discussion is a typical issue: Try and get 3-4 people to agree on a favorite.
Everybody looks at themselves, so it's much more efficient leaving it up to somebody
who knows a thing or two about photography.
It's an interesting example, because awhodat is often not in our photos,
because she's usually the one taking them.
So she's the best person to judge them, because all I look at is my own crooked nose.
What we really learned is that there's no point in getting caught up in discussions.
That way, things never get done.
You have to be able to look at the last 20% of it from a distance.
Use an objective perspective, because these two often lose themselves in the details.
They get all nerdy. But you need somebody to step in and say
"It's done. It's nice, it touches me". And then it's really done.
A common mistake is to add another layer, and another one, and another one,
without noticing that it's actually already complete. Send it off, next.
What Nicole said is a great example for the benefits of judging from an outside perspective.
When you're not yet blinded by the routine and unbiased.
We are different people and have different talents.
Women feel better. They are often more in tune with their emotions …
What he's trying to say is women cry a lot.
I thought he was trying to make me cry with his accusations.
It wasn't meant like that. What matters is:
Is it a good song? Does it deliver emotion?
Or is it just a great snare and otherwise crafted to death?
Maybe this is a good moment to show what you contribute to Kitschkrieg.
Let's watch the "Jamaika" video.
It's always pretty brutal having to watch your own work in front of other people.
Yes, but also nice. I haven't seen it in a while,
and it was nice to watch. How long has it been?
February 2018. (Fiji: I miss the fruit lady.)
It's nice to be able to travel around the world
and do our thing and then it gets captured so beautifully.
Why work in black and white?
There's a running gag that I'm color blind.
It remains unclear to this day.
So you don't have a boating license, I assume.
I have a drivers license, so I don't think I am colorblind.
I don't know. It was just a natural development.
I always had a thing for b/w, and I bought this camera ...
No, you bought it! On credit. It took us 5 years to pay off.
So we're talking something like a Leica camera.
No.
Because it took 5 years to pay off.
We were just that broke.
Really broke. It just happened naturally.
I always liked it that way.
We also thought that visually it fit in with what we do audibly.
A lot of reduction, a lot of black space, a lot of pauses.
Less is more.
Yeah. The look and feel is very similar to our music.
Especially when you look at Tretti, Haiyti, Joey Bargeld.
They're not going to say something they can't back up.
It's all real. And it's the same with the photos.
It's not about turning someone into something they're not.
The photo can have perfect lighting and detail,
but if you feel nothing, then it's not going to work. At least not for me.
And what's also similar with our photos and our music is the pauses, the reduction.
You have a photo with lots of black, smoke, and then you see Tretti, only this small,
but it still gets to you emotionally.
Or repetitions in the music, stylistic tools, they become reflections in the photos.
A raspy voice is represented by a crack in the floor, with nice lighting.
But you don't only use it online, but also for your live shows.
It's a pretty big part of your live shows actually.
Yeah, as of recently.
Like awhodat said, it really carries a certain feel.
When you look at Trettmann's Splash! show, we had a really nice scenery:
Everything was dark and in the background you had these nice b/w images and moving images.
That, carefully adjusted to a live setting with the appropriate lighting,
which for one short moment turned colorful,
but otherwise remained white the entire time, really playing with the b/w concept of the show.
It all connects and it emphasizes the mood of it all.
It feels like it's always belonged together, and it kind of has, so it makes perfect sense for us.
Tretti himself also performs more mono-chromatic than he did in the past.
Yeah. Exactly. That was a joint decision.
We're doing all of it together. Trettmann is really more like a band,
and we decided to implement that concept together,
and add our own style to it. And Tretti likes it.
He promoted it from the start
and was happy to do something else for a change,
and he was also the one who suggested calling the EPs Kitschkrieg.
So it all came together very naturally, and now it just belongs that way.
There are also moments in which we further develop that imagery.
I remember being on Böhmermann, he had invited Tretti,
and they performed "Grauer Beton" with an orchestra, and they turned it into a TV thing.
They took awhodat's video for "Grauer Beton" and adopted the b/w theme.
It was amazing. Beautiful.
I think we're going to get to that in a second.
Like in any great cooking show, we've prepared something.
But I find this very interesting.
Were you already on board for "Großvater"?
No, not in this constellation.
We were there in a way that we would occasionally produce something for him with our previous projects
or made a remix.
Since the first Trettmann songs, there's always been a remix by us for every song.
Looking back on it, it was a moment where people realized,
"Hang on, there's more to this guy,"
"And he wants to talk about other things too." Do more than songs like "Applaus".
Although that was a very entertaining metaphor ...
Totally
But that video was also b/w.
It was, but that was more of a coincidence. That was his 2nd or 3rd song.
And he would go back and forth between different styles. So that was just a coincidence, not our influence.
You we're just talking about Böhmermann and "Grauer Beton".
4 weeks ago the topic came full circle
when Tretti, who is from Karl Marx Stadt, performed at the concert.
You were so kind to prepare some pieces from that.
Let's watch half of that video, just to get back in.
I call this an all-round success.
Since Spliff's "Glaspalast", which was something like 35 years ago,
I don't think we've had something so contemporary that really gets to people,
is personal, and still done in a way that even a 13 year old can relate.
Thanks.
We also had the feeling it was something special, because it's a part of German history
that doesn't really get talked about much in pop music in such a straightforward way.
There was this Paul van Dyk piece that left you feeling weird,
but this track is, as he says himself, just to let people know where he's from.
Even just the chorus. How many months before the parliamentary elections was this track released?
3 or 4 months or so?
It was released on August 22nd.
Yeah I know that, because we finished it up the night before, on August 21st at 10pm,
and the night before that, a hotel room window fell onto my leg in Hamburg.
True story.
But I called them in Berlin and said "don't worry, I'll still have the video ready in time.
We can upload it at midnight".
Another part of it are the figures of speech,
but also repetitions like the ones young listeners are used to from artists like Yung Fuck and other Atlanta rappers.
But the lines about "Seelenfänger" (soul hunters) are no accusations.
Right, he's just describing what he saw.
He literally saw that. He lived there, and he's just sharing images of what he saw.
and we supported him and told him to go with it.
I personally didn't know the story,
because I come from the west, and it was unfathomable for me,
but with the way he described these images, it became possible for me to envision them too.
And when we drove out there to shoot the video, it all came together nicely.
We were able to understand what it was like back in the day, and also what the vibe is like nowadays.
It all got captured very well.
That song was also a special track on the album,
it underlines our transition from doing EPs to doing albums,
because we worked much more conceptually
and we had these songs ready before we had the music.
I remember you saying "Hey, we have Grauer Beton, it's about this topic,
and now we need music that can carry that message,
and also fits to the rest of the album, but not anything turn up style or too zeitgeisty."
And how does one do that?
With a TR-808 cowbell.
Do you know the TR-808?
It's a drum machine from the 80's.
I just secretly wikipedia-ed it again.
It's a Japanese drum machine from 1980 from the brand Roland,
and Tretti loved the cowbell sound.
It was like an insider gag,
and so it's pretty funny that the cowbell ended up being such a substantial element to the song.
The Zeit magazine falsely called it a Gameboy sound one time.
I would like to set that record straight right now.
I want to add one thing.
You said young people know this stuff from Yung Fuck and so on, and that's exactly what it is in its simplest form.
Of course it went through several stages lyrically,
but it was written to a Mike Will Made It beat. So it's definitely related.
Which one?
I don't know. Some random Mike Will Made It beat.
And that's another example of what writing can be like.
Somebody's digging a beat, and then you write a song to it, and then you have lyrics,
and then you take another look at it without the beat,
and then eventually the music just wraps itself around it, and that's basically how "Grauer Beton" came to be.
Before we get into detail about the rug that was woven around these lyrics:
When do you hold yourselves back?
There are some very personal songs on this album,
about break ups and one about suicide,
and sometimes it seems that with the lyrics being so detailed, some parts are unusually sloppy for him.
You get the feeling that it's so close and personal already,
that you don't want to push him over the edge by trying to dig even deeper,
and working on it even longer, because everything could fall apart then.
That's exactly it.
The suicide scenario is also based on a true experience he made,
and turning it into a song was already a tough decision to make.
Working on the track was difficult, the days after were difficult.
Everything about it felt as heavy, as the song itself.
And then it's not about singing it again and trying to get it perfectly.
It's allowed to be a bit sloppy, as long as the emotions are real, and they are.
So it's about understanding that there are more important things than recording take after take.
It was like fate, because it happened towards the end of the album production,
and we didn't make any more songs than the ones that ended up on the album,
so we had 9 songs and the 10th one was missing, and then that happened.
Tretti was completely out of it, and we thought
"oh God, how are we going to finish up this album? And how is he going to deal with this?"
Writing a song about it almost seemed like our only option.
It was tough.
We all sat in our kitchen with a lump in our throat.
The thing is, even when you play it to adults,
Like "here, this is what your kids listen to", especially compared to RAF camora,
they notice - and you we were just talking about blues -
that the really meaningful parts are not thoroughly designed and perfected,
and that's exactly what helps make it so authentic and honest.
That's exactly the trick.
You keep the mistakes and don't try to make it Hollywood style,
and record 5 voices and turn them into one, until it's so smooth and perfect,
that you can't differentiate one voice from another anymore.
We don't have much doubling, barely any ad libs,
one well recorded track, conveying all the emotions, has to be enough.
It was back in the day.
When you listen to old records, that can be enough.
When somebody has an important message, the song is simply good, and the feeling is real.
Most of the time when you try to make more of it,
it's really you trying to hide the fact that it wasn't enough to begin with.
You have to be honest with yourself and understand that you can't sugarcoat it,
because that doesn't make it any better.
Reverb is not the answer to all our questions.
No.
Something you probably learned from dub and dancehall
is the courage to add pauses, in your videos often shown as black slides.
You often include breaks in pace, and you allow echoes to unfold.
Why don't you show us the different components of the song?
We'll start with the cowbell:
This is the infamous 808 cowbell.
Initially I listened to it and discovered that it's really a dyad.
I'm not super familiar with music theory,
but it's a quint, meaning there are 5 halftones between it.
So I did this with it, to emphasize that.
It's a sound that consists of two notes.
Then I added the sound to a sampler and pitched it down.
One octave lower, and another octave lower.
And that's what stayed until the end,
because I love the transition between the original sound
and how it then develops into the foundation of what becomes the beat.
The great thing about an 808 is that, for the past 37 years,
it's had a great meaning to basically every music genre, but it's a super rare machine.
People think everything's been done with it already.
The great thing is the sounds are so modifiable.
You can do so much by changing pitch and duration,
and therefore super versatile in their applicability,
but they also remain recognizable throughout, just like the cowbell.
They're charged with associations,
like the 80's and Gameboy sounds,
which gives modern beats a retro touch,
because something is only retro, if it reminds you of something.
When the machine first entered the market it was a total flop,
and then it was re-discovered by some broke people,
because they could buy it for a few bucks in second hand shops.
Exactly. And nowadays nobody has the machine, but everybody has the sample set.
Right. Back in the day if you wanted to tune this machine, you'd have to completely take it apart,
solder the parts and build in a putty, remove cables.
I'm going to assume that 90% of the people, not just the ones in Atlanta,
that have worked with these sounds,
have never actually seen one of these machines.
I saw one once, but I never owned one. And then I -
Before we get there.
You're playing everything from your computer.
It doesn't look like you are a total tech equipment crack.
This is the studio.
And this is the second studio.
And then we have one more for photos and videos, and that's our setup. That's really all you need nowadays.
Very duster friendly.
If you're being honest with yourself, consider how much these machines can do.
If you have ideas, this is all you need.
Here for example, logic is running,
and here's a a mini jack,
and that's how we produced the Tretti album, even without a sound card.
None of these 96 kilohertz …
Vocals is a bit of a different story, but that's really the only thing that requires proper equipment,
like a good mic, a good compressor and good studio monitors for listening purposes,
and that's the entire setup.
Our studio is very minimalistic, there's not a lot of stuff standing around.
And we did everything with this laptop, even the final mixing.
And then I layered the cowbells with the keyboard.
And it becomes a melody, because there's two notes coming together.
You almost already have a chord sequence,
so all you need to do is add a third note,
and then you automatically have a bunch of minor chords.
I was really happy with how it turned out, because the cowbell chords basically ended up dictating the rest,
and it kind of just unfolded on its own.
Next we had to decide on a snare.
We chose the same cowbell, adding reverb this time.
And then ...
there's basically just another bass layer, also done with the 808,
and a piano on top of it, and that's it.
We decided not to add any hi-hats or a louder snare,
because we wanted everything on the frequency of his voice to remain free,
to achieve maximum emphasis on him.
You just said "charged".
How much, especially with a German topic like this,
how much do you worry about slipping into a sentimentality, that makes it difficult?
Or is that not an issue for you?
I think they were independent factors.
He wanted the cowbells,
because every beat involving cowbells is a good beat in Tretti's opinion,
so we took a closer look at that.
I remember coming into the studio and he showed it to me in a similar way as just now,
showing the individual steps, and taking it apart again,
and it wasn't in connection to a specific topic or a song.
The music was completely detached from what it turned into later.
Then how did the two parts come together and mold so perfectly?
That is the earlier described allocation of different responsibilities.
This is how you can imagine it:
We have this pool, which is our Dropbox, and it has a text document in it with the lyrics to "Grauer Beton",
so we all know there's a song, there might even be a demo of it somewhere,
or Tretti might have sung it to you on the phone before.
And then it happens - not always, but sometimes - that everything comes together neatly.
That was the moment in the studio, when I was presented the beat
and Tretti had just sung it to me two days earlier, and I thought "okay, I think we have lyrics for that".
I also think that just the piano makes it a very cheesy ballad, very over the top,
and producing is always about micro decisions,
what do we need more of, what do we need less of.
Finding that balance between 808, which is street and hip hop,
and putting it together with the piano in a way that you get away with it, that's the trick.
Are you fighting a war against kitsch, or are you using kitsch as a tool to fight?
We're against it. It's our enemy.
There's no clear line you can follow though.
Once you find your own style and learn to trust it, it becomes easy.
You really only have to listen to your inner voice and base your decisions on that.
It's a very easy thing, you just have to have confidence and trust yourself.
Dancehall is also a good basis for that, because here you also have the great big feelings.
Sure, but I don't know if that's just the case with dancehall.
If you listen to soul or any of the various sub-genres,
there's always going to be songs that are just too much
and then there's one that strikes a chord with you. I think that applies to all genres.
And everyone has to define those limits for themselves, because it's different for everyone.
Luckily, we all have a similar threshold for when thing's become too embarrassing,
and that's a major advantage for us.
Remember when we recorded the vocals?
That was also special, because his voice was so rugged,
which contributed to the realness of it all and makes it so much less cheesy,
but originally he was against us using that recording.
I think "Grauer Beton" is a really great example for,
I don't want to say magic,
but sometimes there are things in the process of a production that you can label,
one guy is working the cowbells like a pro and everybody just plays their part.
But if you pick it apart, you see there were the lyrics for one,
Fizzle created some images that were fitting, Kris made the beat.
I read the lyrics first, and only heard the beat when the first demo was ready.
For me, because it's also my story in a way, I kept asking myself
"How do we solve this? What kind of a beat is this? How does it all go together?"
And it fits perfectly.
It just became clear that we're going to add his broken voice,
even though it's not perfect, and Tretti would have preferred recording new vocals.
And then we were faced with the challenge of having to create a video for that.
About a topic that's ughh, but everything came together really perfectly in the end.
The recording is also the first demo.
He had just returned from touring and was totally hoarse. I'll play it for you quickly.
This is a great example for vocals that aren't perfect, but full of emotions.
And it makes you realize how invaluable it is when an artist trusts you,
because you can convince them that this is exactly how it needs to be for this track,
and talk them out of trying to do it again "properly" after a good night's rest,
because I'm convinced that would have ruined it.
That brings us back to the metaphor from earlier,
where you may not like the way you look in a photograph,
but we on the outside can see that it's still the better shot from an unbiased point of view.
And Tretti trusts us, and goes along with it all, just like it happened with the video:
I had a vision of it. I planned it.
And I tried to convey what we had planned for that day,
and only once the video was done Fizzle said
"Ahhh, now I get it!"
Both these guys and Tretti trusted me completely.
They just told me to do my thing, and that was that.
It's important for teams to let the other people do their own thing, because often you only understand their vision when it's done.
You have your own understanding of their idea,
and what you imagine may be shit,
but then it goes down a whole other alley and in the end you like it after all.
That's why you just gotta let people do their own thing sometimes.
I think you just summed up Kitschkrieg perfectly: Do your thing. Done.
Does that mean a decision like changing the lyrics, or switching octaves was there all along?
That's usually part of the recording process.
We make those micro decisions while we record and say
"Go higher a bit, do less of that".
During the entire time we recorded this album, there isn't one single recording that took several attempts to complete.
We worked on one song at a time, made all the decisions right then and there,
and then it would stay that way. Pretty intense.
If anything, we brainstormed first what kind of songs might still be missing on the album,
that's what I meant earlier about transitioning from EPs, which were about the moment and our crew,
to albums, saying
"We want 10 songs, what's still missing on the spectrum in terms of music and also lyrics?"
When you use a take that's not perfect, but perfectly captures a moment,
and you want to work it into a live set, performing it 30 nights in a row,
and audiences have high expectations,
how do you go about that? What needs to be adapted or presented differently live?
The songs are quite simple and without any crazy stunts or vocals edits.
We got one great standalone track, carrying all the emotions,
therefore I think it's quite easy for someone like Tretti to perform them live too,
because there are no artificial heights.
It's all on his spectrum and our music leaves enough room for his voice to unfold,
all of that makes it easy for him to sing to.
Were you also in Chemnitz the other week?
No, we were not in Germany.
We kept track of the events on the internet
and of course also had a personal exchange about him going there and what he'll be doing there.
It's a very important issue for him,
because this is his home town, and it's a topic that's accompanied him his whole life already.
We weren't there, but we watched it online.
Oddly enough, the online stream of his performance doesn't show this one song,
it begins right after his performance of "Grauer Beton".
Oh, great.
Yeah, really well done.
Before we get to questions from the audience,
let's talk about 1-2 other artists you've worked with.
Mr. Bargeld for example would turn 16 bars from Tretti into an entire album as far as lyrics go, huh?
Totally.
You could argue that's complete bullshit,
or you can accept the fact that it can deliver just as much emotion
as someone rapping 3 x 16 bars plus a hook and a bridge.
We believe Bargeld's music is enough.
I don't feel like there's anything missing in terms of lyrics or feeling. It's all there.
Should I show you a Bargeld track with really many lyrics?
And a lot of feeling. Bargeld feeling.
That's more of a Kanye West approach.
Yeah, maybe.
You have to be ballsy to do that, but once you get into it, you don't feel like anything's missing.
I'm happy with the outcome.
We definitely had this discussion internally.
Yeah, what the hell.
One day at the studio and this is what you got?
You get sent this vocal track ... Although this is one of the more productive outpourings by Mr. Bargeld.
Yeah, we have a song "Party Leben." "Party, Party, Party, Leben." Two words.
And I even had to loop those.
And then the reply to that is
"But listen to how intense this one word …"
And in the end you ask yourself, is this art or can it be tossed?
There is a level on which you can sit down with an artist for hours,
just to maybe end up with 3 words or one sentence or one hook.
You need a lot of patience for that, and I don't have that.
A track like "Party Leben" stems from an 8-9 hour long recording day.
We have tons of vocals, it's not like that's all we ended up with,
but for some reason that ended up being the thing we thought we should work with.
It's about reduction.
I always go on about how it's the same for beats and photos, but it really is.
Digitally, we have access to any sound in the world,
we could add woodwinds or anything we want,
but we're limited by what Kitschkrieg defines itself as.
What is the band, what's the orchestra, what vocabulary do we want to use?
And then it always ends up being the same 5 sounds, or always the same 16:9 b/w look.
More cowbell ...
What do 9 hours of working with Megaloh look like, versus 9 hours with Mr. Bargeld?
That's the complete opposite to Joey Bargeld.
He has every syllable rhyming with the next one, so even we lose track of it.
The raps and rhymes are fragmented into such tiny details, that it becomes a whole other discipline.
And then the 16 bars need to be built around it accordingly.
The funny thing is, that Megaloh and Joey Bargeld get along really well,
because they totally get that they are so far apart musically.
And then you have someone like Megaloh asking Bargeld how he writes his lyrics,
it's really very funny to watch him explain that.
"Uh, dunno, I just have these 3 uhhh … and yeah, that's it!" "Okay cool, thanks!"
Does that mean he just shuts down after half a beat or what?
Bargeld? No.
He just has a talent to distill it so much, that whatever he ends up with, is still enough to make it work.
For example, in the studio, when we turn on some music and tell him to write something to that,
he actually does. And then when he's done, he has to laugh about it himself.
And then he presents us one single sentence.
And like I said, I think that's a crazy talent, to reduce it to such little material, and still get away with it.
It might be the hardest thing to do really.
So he's the Johnny Lydon of German rap.
Probably, yes.
Okay, so you got punk. What's Megaloh - a sprinter? A decathlete?
He's just THE rapper.
If you do rap in that genre, you have to do it like he does.
He's a true MC in a classical sense.
You don't have to compare it, those are just two different sports.
And it can happen to be similar music, but they remain two different sports.
For the project "Herb & Mango" with him and Trettmann, we had to find a musical platform that makes all that audible.
We were able to level their two voices up against each other,
and I remember cutting the verses from 16 bars to 12,
so it became less about length and doing it just for the purpose of sporting,
and more about the awesomeness of the song.
Hang on, you cut 1/4 of a writer's content and took it away from them?
Sure, that's exactly our job.
It may sound funny, but that's what it comes down to.
You can't just press record and take what you get.
Your job is to cut things out, to tell them to do things differently, that's what producing is all about.
It's our job.
That sounds like we should give this a quick listen.
You guys can already think about your questions and we'll send someone around with a mic.
But first, we're going to listen to?
"Anorak" by Megaloh, Trettmann and us.
Alright, let's get down to business now:
How important is it for an artist's survival, also in times of Spotify and so on,
that your pieces are also suitable for gym playlists?
Gym playlists … okay
Sure, you could think it's important,
because we only earn money from streaming and things like that,
at least in our case, because we don't go on tour, we don't perform live,
so it's about how much music we sell or stream.
You could focus on being placed in these playlists.
And in order to do that it's probably easiest to just stick to the sound people are used to.
All 20 of those songs pretty much sound the same.
Same pattern, same construct.
That doesn't mean it's a bad thing, but it's all the same type of music.
You can play along,
or what worked in our case, was to produce the complete opposite of that and attract attention that way.
That also gets you into playlists.
And if you make music that reaches people emotionally, they add it to their own playlists too.
You don't want to just get into the editorial playlists.
If your listeners send it to all their friends and they add it to their playlists too.
then that also gets you plays and the money you need to get by.
That sounded like you have a secret agenda.
It's been a while since we last heard something new from you guys.
Suspicious.
Suspicious indeed.
Would you like to name a date?
Somebody else is responsible for dates.
Yeah …
Silence.
So maybe there are secrets to be uncovered soon.
Does somebody have the mic and a question?
A hand signal. Great.
Hi
First of all I wanted to say, 808 ftw, keep it up.
Then I wanted to ask all 3 of you:
I don't know how you see this, but we as people want to be liked and loved.
There are 2 groups of people for whom that's not very productive.
The first one being villains in wrestling,
and the second group being artists that play the role of outsiders.
And now you guys are rightfully receiving lots of love for your art
and from lots of people sitting here, myself included.
How does becoming less of an outsider, and gaining appreciation for what you do, have an influence on you?
That's a good point.
There's that phenomenon where you lose all drive as soon as your struggle ends, and things become boring.
But I don't think we're very susceptible to that, because this is what we've always done.
There's no other way.
We did it for 10 - 15 years without any success,
struggling to be able to pay our rent, over such a long amount of time,
and that shows that we were never able to do it any other way.
And now we're in a phase where everything becomes possible,
and we can work with all our heroes, and we're enjoying it, but also staying true to ourselves.
Our taste hasn't changed.
And I think we're pretty unsusceptible to that, because we were already of a certain age
when our success kicked in.
Maybe had this happened at 20 or 25, it might have been different.
But now we're just thankful to be able to go into the studio and work with people that we're fans of.
And being able to make music with them, so I think we're pretty safe.
A symptom of that and something that should calm you down is
that when we receive awards for what we do, we usually feel really awkward about it,
we just want to get back to the studio and be amongst ourselves again.
We're really doing it for the love of it all, it's fun creating music, and photos and videos.
That's why we do it.
Are there any other artists you'd like to work with.
Be it a German rapper or international artists,
and do you approach them, or do you wait to be approached by them?
We typically approach these people directly.
Of course we also have people approaching us, and we check them out to see if we want to work with them or not,
but we're definitely working our way down our wishlist at the moment, every chance we get.
That's true. Here's a secret:
We were joking about how our to-do-list is the same as our wishlist.
Any other questions?
I saw something in the back ...
Does everything have to involve all Kitschkrieg members,
or does she also go off and shoot videos for projects you guys are not interested in?
It has to be all of Kitschkrieg.
We tried it differently once, and it didn't make us happy.
I can take your picture without their approval.
I guess now the time has come for us to applaud and thank these people,
and let them know that we're excited for what is to come.
We started off with "Billie Holiday", so maybe we can end this session with that video.
Thank you, Kitschkrieg.
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