Talking Pop: Die neuen Deutschpoeten – A different view on the “new Germans”

I’m sure everyone knows these really bad looking posters advertising some big time event in your town. Mostly they are sponsored by big brands, speak about sensational stuff that actually just bores you to death. Even worse are the looks of these ads.

Die neuen Deutschpoeten

A recent example here in Berlin is a concert called “Die neuen Deutschpoeten” or “the new German poets”. It is sponsored by public broadcaster Radio Fritz – for the younger audience. So when a radio announces a show like that, especially a mainstream format radio, it raises some eyebrows. And the line-up is indeed catering for a mainstream audience. Fair enough, that’s their job right? To attract a lot of listeners and get fans to fill a venue.

Adolar – Die Kälte der neuen Biederkeit

Die Leute die hier wohnen sind wahrscheinlich nicht mehr wach.
Oder bin ich alleine?
Stören würde es mich nicht.

The people who are living here are probably not awake anymore.
Or am I alone?
I wouldn’t mind.

It’s funny, when all of a sudden you rediscover music that you’ve cherished a lot for a while. It is also strange when you realise that you don’t have a clue why you abandoned that music in the first place. I mean, we all go through phases. There’s the time when you get really into deep house. Then there’s the time as a teenager when all you want to listen to is skatepunk from Millencolin to Bad Religion to NOFX. Or the time you find yourself listening to radio pop – not admitting it, but you love it! It is only natural that tastes or preferences change over the course of time. You not only grow up like that, you also grow as a person. And that naturally includes adopting a different view on life. A different perspective on politics, friendship, the environment and of course music.

Jungbluth

for the more of us
that lift our voices in a song
the sweeter life will be

Hardcore has always been a thing of unity for me. On saturday I was getting my weekly fix of FIFA with some friends and we were talking about the usual topics: football, sex, work and music. Usually it’s all chitchat, mainly to distract one of your fellow opponents from the game you’re playing. But while that hasn’t worked in a long time, there was one point in this conversation that we started to talk about the music we had playing in the background.
I think by now it is needless to say, that Berlin is still one of the capitals of electronic music. That’s not EDM I’m talking about, but deep house or techno in all its forms. So while we were listening to one DJ-set by German producers Kölsch, we started a little discussion.