Wed 2010/11/03
Textor & Renz
Germany
Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg
pre-sale 11 € plus fees due / box office 14 €
start 9pm / doors 8pm
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Textor: voc, b
Holger Renz: g, voc
The following sentences could be read on the website of “Kinderzimmer Productions”, the superb hip hop project from Ulm, in November 2007: “We’re not eighteen ’til we die. We change. Our music and the world change. A quiet smile remains on our faces, but the productions from the children’s room (Kinderzimmer) no longer exist. It is time for something new and unusual”. From 1994 to 2007, Textor and Quasi Modo produced the kind of elaborated hip hop that sparked the hope that there was more to be gotten out of the German art of creating rhymes. Now Textor returns with a new duo project and sings the blues. Blues with guitar and bass and voice. And English lyrics. Considering that Kinderzimmer Productions were famous for their samples, this reduction of music to the essential is actually a huge surprise. But when remembering how vehemently Textor complained about the trend towards infantility in hip hop culture, and how mercilessly he analysed the decline of the music industry, his move to Textor & Renz is actually a very conclusive one. Older fans of Textor’s skills will remember the track on the 1996 album classic “Im Auftrag ewiger Jugend und Glückseligkeit” that allowed all sorts of presumptions: “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues”.
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