The 80s as a modern synth movement
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Stand: 10.09.2022
– – –Singer Drangsal (Max Gruber) and his band
Credit: pa / POP-EYE / Christina Kratsch
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What has lengthy been sprouting in the German musical underground is now currently being heard by quite a few youthful people today. A wave of aesthetic synthetic audio captures the minds of youthful people with out penetratingly courting its listeners. What does the New New German Wave consist of?
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“Hey, hey, hey, I was the Golden Rider”, “Eisbär” and “Scandal in the limited area”, all those had been the 80s: wild and colourful. Its identify: the Neue Deutsche Welle. A lot of will now think, “The 80s are dead.” However a new German wave is just beginning to inspire and bring young people today with it. In addition to Edwin Rosen and The Doomers, artists these types of as Drangsal, Rosmarin, diggidaniel, Traumatin and Miese Mau belong to the motion.
Today’s strikers and drängers hail from Stuttgart, Hanover or Berlin and carry out in bought out live shows. The audience is thrilled. But what will make the motion so specific? Their representatives decide on concise phrases they generate in their Spotify profiles as messages to their listeners, such as: “Thematically somewhere in between self-discovery and mud in the head” (Miese Mau), “Heartache from’m Marriage ceremony” (Rosmarin ), “when if not at any time” (traumatin) and “praise of oblivion” (diggidaniel). The audio and text differ from the pre-movement. They feature fantastic synthesizer beats, dynamic melodies and soulful, minimalist lyrics, composed generally in German.
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