Kernkraft 400
Kernkraft 400 is a song by the German Electronic project Zombie Nation ( Florian " Splank! " Senfter, in collaboration with Emmanuel " Mooner " Günther ) and the first single from the first album Leichenschmaus from the year 1999. Considered one of the most successful songs of the electronic instrumental music.
Description
The British music magazine Sound on Sound described the song as follows:
" [ ... ] A brutally simple and irresistible dancefloor stomper Consisting of a pounding synth melody, some basic four- to- the-floor beats, and a deep vocal intoning 'Zombie ... Zombie Nation ' "
" [ ... ] A brutally simple and irresistible dancefloor masher, consisting of a thumping synth melody, some simple four-to -the- floor beats and a deep voice, ' intoned the words Zombie ... Zombie Nation. "
The original master was produced by Florian Senfter early 1999 in Munich on his PC using a SidStation and using a Sound Blaster 16. Kernkraft 400 is based on a sample of the song Stardust, who wrote the British composer David Whittaker games for the soundtrack of the 1984 Commodore 64 computer game published Lazy Jones. To use the melody Senfter later paid an undisclosed sum to Whittaker.
This song was released in Germany for the first time on 15 March 1999 as a 12 " vinyl single on International Deejay Gigolos. On 8 November 1999 a CD single was followed on the label zeitgeist, in the distribution of Universal Music. As a single version was a Remix by DJ Gius used. In the UK it was released on 18 September 2000 on Data Records.
Reception
In Germany, the single debuted on November 22, 1999 in the charts where she was able to hold for 16 weeks. At its peak, it was at position 22 in the UK chart entry, it reached at 30 September 2000 directly 2nd and sold until January 2001, about 200,000 times. The British music magazine Select founded the far-reaching popularity so that it is " equally welcome [ is ] at Pacha as in a Munich subway, Tongo and Coxo like this Teutonic techno ". The magazine judged that it was " not bad for DJ - pair called Splank and Mooner ."
The song developed into a stadium anthem and was similar to Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes one of the most played songs at sporting events worldwide, including use of the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils, FK Austria Wien and the SC Freiburg. The success of the song came as a surprise both for Senfter as well as his record label claims to be. Senfter then founded his own record label to exclusively market its productions. In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 2012 Senfter claimed to have indeed taken by the song no large sums of money, but to benefit from long-lasting revenue from the licensing of the song.
The song was sampled by various artists, including by the rapper Game in his single Red Nation, the rapper Chamillionaire on his single I Got and by the artist Childish Gambino ( Donald Glover ) and Mc chris for The Awesome.
Tracklist
The German Single Version contained the following pieces: