Jetzt geht's ab!

Occupation

  • DJ house brand (Michael Beck)
  • Thomas D ( Thomas Dürr )
  • And.Ypsilon (Andreas Rieke )
  • Smudo (Michael Bernd Schmidt)

Now it's off is the debut album of hip- hop group The Fantastic Four. It was published on 27 August 1991.

Genesis

In December 1988, returned Smudo and Thomas D, the part of the mainly rapping in English Combo The Terminal team were returning from a joint stay in the U.S., where they had also completed some performances. While their English texts had been largely ridiculed, they had received recognition for German rape. Upon their return they beat DJ house brand and And.Ypsilon who were also members of the Terminal teams, therefore, that they should consistently occur as a German -language band from now, what have welcomed the agreement. Smudo this:

" As of this moment, we translated everything. Really everything. We said no more " scratch ", but " scratch disks". Of course, our music was not rap, but rap. It was a mission. It served our self-discovery. "

As early as 1989 had the Fantastic Four gained with this new orientation a reputation as a good live band. Finally, in 1991 came the record deal with Columbia Records, on 27 August of the same year appeared the album " Now it's off ", the next rape pitfalls also called Skits, short, sketch -like interludes involves. Shortly before, had already appeared with " caretaker Thomas D ' first EP.

Reception

"Now it's off " presented in the German hip -hop scene, the predominantly Anglophone texts wrote, a true novelty, behave accordingly fell reactions. On the radio, the title of this album were first played for entertainment purposes only. The breakthrough achieved Fantastic Four in 1992 with the da? from the follow-up album " 4 wins".

1992 "Now go and see, " again released and reached number 91 in the German album charts.

Title list

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Record label Genre Hip hop music 4 Gewinnt Hip hop skit Sketch comedy Extended Play Discogs Die 4. Dimension Lauschgift Viel Fornika Live und direkt Frohes Fest (song)
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