Cartel (rap group)
Cartel was a temporary merger formed in Germany of Turkish hip-hop bands. This was the first nationally became known Turkish-language rap lineup ever. In Turkey, it was the mid-1990s extremely popular, but also in Europe - especially in Germany and Austria - gained greater prominence group.
Career
Cartel was created in 1994 from three different hip-hop projects of Turkish origin in Germany musicians who had, however, previously obtained only regional recognition: Erci E., Karakan and Da Crime Posse.
The produced in Germany in 1995 and first published debut album Cartel ( also known Spyce ) of the formation had been sold in the Federal Republic only 29,000 times before it surprisingly immediately after publication in Turkey reached the top position of the Turkish charts. In October 1996, the group split up. 1997 there is the chance with Peter Maffay on his " encounter" album part in it, with the group this time with a different konstilation: Erci E. / Bektas / Kapman Hakan and Aksit Ugurlu. Song was produced in the Kreuzberg district of Aksit Ugurlu and Kapman Hakan, the final mix of the song was completed in the Road Runner 's Studio by Peter Maffay.
Within the short period of creativity Cartels gave the band around 120 highly successful concerts in Turkey, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, France and Germany. Cartel is the only hip- hop group, which succeeded in Istanbul's İnönü Stadium to fill (as of December 2006). In addition to German and Turkish-language media, BBC London reported on the group, as the music channel VIVA and MTV.
In Turkey, where the occurring also in English, Spanish and German band remained the most successful, Cartel has sold through the official sales to date total more than half a million CDs. Today is the first album of the band in 2004 published "update version" on the market. On 4 February 2011, the group released their new album " Bugünkü NESEN Cartel'den " and her new video " Bir Oluruz ", but without Kabus Kerim.
Importance
Cartel pioneered the use of traditional Turkish music instruments in the rap field. Also known as interpreters of a modernized form of Gurbet Türküleri they take an exposed position. In Turkey, there had also been no rap and hip hop scene practically in front of the success of the band, which Cartels influence must be described as stylistically there even: "The Turkish scene was influenced by this style so blatant that even today have not yet recovered from it and still the same vorjaulen Shit ", it nevertheless provides the German -Turkish rappers Fuat also quite critical. "It is in Turkey, two, three rappers make something innovative. Everyone else (...), just the imitation, a super bad black white copy of Cartel. "
Reasons for the success
The Islamic scholar Maria Wurm sees its publication in music in the migration. Observations on the cultural articulation of Turkish youth in Germany (2006 ) on the treatment of Turkish immigrants living situations of young people in the texts of the group as a major reason for the success Cartels in Germany. In Turkey, the band was in the opinion worm rather " because they came from the West and even more because it represented something Steam, which was recognized in the West" so successful. A particular success of the German Turks in the nationalist circles in Turkey, however, was based on a cross-cultural misunderstanding: "Songs like Türksün (English: You are a Turk ) were meant as an invitation to be more confident to migrants living in Germany adolescents Direct transfer of such texts in one. but Turkey Turkish context brought very different implications with and met in Turkey a nationalist nerve " ( worm). With a sampler contribution against racism Cartel fought to 1996, even against such a one-sided political appropriation. 1998, after the dissolution of the band, also another single was released this regard encounters with the German musician Peter Maffay under the name Cartel, but actually had only Erci E. at this with.
Awards (selection)
- "Golden Box" (Turkey) for selling 100,000 copies of the CD Cartel (within 1 week)
- Twice " Platinum Box" (Turkey) for selling 250,000 copies of the CD Cartel (within 2 weeks )