Live und direkt

Live and direct is an album of German hip - hop group The Fantastic Four in 1996 and sparked the promise of a band to finally release a live album.

Construction and content

The album consists of a live and a studio CD. The live recordings ( Lauschgift Tour 1996) were made in the club Huxley's Neue Welt in Berlin (19 February 1996), in the turbine hall in Oberhausen (22 February 1996) and in the theater house cheeks (1 June 1996). The second CD contains previously unreleased recordings remixes of Waxdoctor, Kenny ' Dope ' Gonzales, Die Krupps, Aphex Twin and Guru of Gang Starr. As a bonus for the buyer direct CD includes a data portion with a screen saver, an interactive press part and three videos of the band.

Two singles were released from the album. Version was released in 1996 and reached number 58 in Germany, in Austria number 38 in the charts. The Single ( 1997) The picnickers reached # 42 The album itself reached # 17 in the German charts and number 30 in Switzerland.

Title list

Disc 1

Live

Disk 2

Directly

Criticism

• From " the Spitzzüngigkeit and the rhyme - virtuosity of Fanta 4" is "live only short-winded incomprehensibility " remained. ( Schallplattenmann )
• Allmusic rated the album 2.5 stars out of five.