Jeans Team

The direct, punkishly simple electronic pop of Berlin’s Denim jeans Team slotted in perfectly using the electroclash wave of the first 2000s, although they both predated and outlived the phenomenon. The group began in 1995 in the Berlin-Mitte nightclub Gallerie Berlintokio, where Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort, the club’s co-founders, started appearing like a video/overall performance artwork duo. (This era is maintained in Baby, a 45-minute video from 1996.) Acquiring the name Denim jeans Group from an forgotten neon indication they entirely on a store in Berlin’s Wedding ceremony area — a relic from your 1970s that could elegance the cover of the albums and typically accompany their live shows aswell — Schütte and Herfort shifted their concentrate even more squarely toward music-making, and extended to some quartet with the help of drummer Henning Watkinson and guitarist Gunther Kreis, whom that they had fulfilled through the golf club. In 1998 Denim jeans Group self-released two singles, “Hi there Followers” and “Ein Atom,” on the Nadel Eins imprint, however they quickly signed with regional digital pop label Kitty-Yo (Peaches, Gonzales, Maximilian Hecker) for his or her 2000 debut recording, Ding Dong, and its own associated “Keine Melodien” solitary. The song’s melodic, unforgettable riff, robotic groove, and minimalist German lyrics managed to get a minor worldwide success, motivating a cover edition by Peaches and mixtape like from 2 Many DJ’s. Following the 2002 EP Yellow metal und Silber, the Group still left Kitty-Yo for the lately shaped splinter label Louisville Information, release a Musik von Oben (2005) as well as the relatively less digital Kopf Auf (2006), both documented as normal at their Nadel Eins studio room/head office. Although Watkinson provides departed the group, Denims Team continue steadily to tour internationally and energetically (frequently as just the initial duo of Schütte and Herfort), DJ independently, and remix sometimes (clients have got included Ciëlo, Pluxus, and Peter Bjorn and John).