Jeans Team

Jeans Team
Background information
OriginWedding, Berlin, Germany
GenresElectronic
Years active1995–present
MembersFranz Schütte
Reimo Herfort
Past membersGunther Kreis
Henning Watkinson
Websitewww.jeansteam.de (en)

Jeans Team are a Berlin-based electronic music group. The group was founded by Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort 1995 in the borough of Wedding and started as a duo as a video art performance group. [1][2]

History

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Jeans Team took their name from a blue and white curved neon sign that hung on a street in the Wedding district above a shoe shop that had previously sold jeans. In 1996, Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort helped to set up Galerie Berlintokyo, a multi-purpose gallery and performing artspace at Hackescher Markt in Berlin.[3][4][5] Early shows performed in the venue by Schütte and Herfort's consisted of a pre-produced 45-minute video film called Baby, to which they contributed electronic sounds. The performance was recorded on VHS, were subsequently sold in the gallery with each video cassette inserted in a self-sewn bag made of denim.[3][4][6]

In 1997, Gunther Kreis and Henning Watkinson joined founders Schütte and Herfort.[7] In 1999, the Jeans Team recorded their debut album Ding Dong and after the release in June 2000 on Kitty-Yo they toured Germany..[3] Following the release Jeans Team performed a number of concerts at music festivals including the 2000 Benicàssim Festival, 2001 Roskilde Festival and Melt Festival.[8][9][10]

Jeans Team would split with Kitty-Yo records when long time collaborator Patrick Wagner left the company. They spent 2002 and 2003 without a label working on their second album. During this time, they were featured on John Peel Sessions at Maida Vale, prior to a multi-date tour of Russia organised by the Goethe Institute. [11][4] In 2005, after joining Wagner's new record label Louisville Records, Jeans Team released Musik von oben. By the end of the year, Jeans Team had recorded and released the album Kopf auf.[12]

By 2009, Watkinson left the group citing fatigue.[13] Keine Melodien was featured in a commercial for the new Volkswagen Golf later in the same year.[14]

Schütte and Herford, who also perform as the DJ duo Tracht & Prügel, began to re-release their back catalogue in 2017, along with previously unreleased recordings.[15][6]

Discography

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Year Title Type
1998 "Ein Atom" Single
1998 "Hi Fans" Single
Jun 2000 Ding Dong Album
Nov 2000 "Keine Melodien" Single
2002 "Gold Und Silber" Single
Oct 2004 "Berlin Am Meer" Single
Feb 2005 Musik von oben Album
2005 "Oh Bauer" Single
Oct 2006 "Das Zelt" Single
Dec 2006 Kopf auf Album
2013 Das ist Alkomerz Album

References

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  1. ^ "Musik von der Berliner Band Jeans Team: "Scheiss drauf!"". Archived from the original on 2014-09-10. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
  2. ^ "Passé Composers : Franz Schütte, Reimo Herfort, Gunther Kreis & Henning Watkinson". passeprojects.com.
  3. ^ a b c "Jeans Team. Biography" (PDF). Webarchive: powerline-agency.com. 2005-01-23. pp. 1–6. Archived from the original (PDF; 1,7 MB) on 2005-01-23. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  4. ^ a b c Admin (2008-09-11). "Jeans Team". motor.de. Motor Entertainment GmbH. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  5. ^ Daniel Völzke (2006-12-01), "Fratzen des Alltags. Sie ritten auf Schwänen und toteten Techno: Wie Jeans Team auf ihrem dritten Album den Staat abschaffen", Der Tagesspiegel, no. 19388
  6. ^ a b "Baby VHS Soundtracks". jeansteam.bandcamp.com. 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  7. ^ May Morgan, Frances (20 September 2012). "Plan B Magazine Issue 04". Plan B. London England: Frances Morgan. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
  8. ^ "2001 Roskilde". concertarchives.org.
  9. ^ "FIB2000". indyrock.es (in Spanish).
  10. ^ "Melt Festival 2001". concertarchives.org.
  11. ^ "Peel Sessions - Jeans Team". bbc.co.uk.
  12. ^ "Jeans Team. Porträt". laut.de (Laut.de-Biographie). Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  13. ^ Chrissie (2009-06-03). "Jeans Team im Interview". mainstage.de. Anna Stumpe, Mainstage Musikmagazin, Leipzig. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
  14. ^ "volkswagen-fight-ad-complaints". theguardian.com.
  15. ^ Bernd Skischally (2012-03-21). "Interview mit Jeans Team. Das Berliner Duo im Interview über das anstehende neue Album, elektronische Volksmusik und wie es das Nacktflitzen für sich entdeckte". Webcache: popmonitor.de. Retrieved 2018-11-17.
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