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Where do you start in an attempt to keep up with today's German music scene? Where do you find current German music that YOU want to hear?
Since day one, we have offered German music Web links here at our site, but if you don't know where to start, it can be a time-consuming task to wade through all those links! This page provides some guidelines and jumping off places for finding and listening to German music. On the right, you'll see some of the best links for German music.
One of the very best links, if not THE best, is Laut. The Laut.de site offers a wide array of information on artists, songs, genres and almost anything having to do with music — from blues to rock to jazz. If you want to know more about a group or the music they play, Laut.de is the best place to start.
"MT3" - eine Hip-Hop-CD
von Massive Töne.
As most people know by now, there is a lot of music available on the Web, including German music. Not all of the online music out there is legitimate, but you can find legal/non-pirate sources of MP3 files and streaming audio for German music, including Apple's iTunes. The German music-video broadcaster VIVA has a page about the group Glashaus where you'll find a link to a download of the remix version of the song "Bald (...und wir sind frei)" - one of their melodic rock tunes. Both VIVA and MTV Deutschland offer streaming video and audio. Laut ("der Musikkanal") also sells German music CDs and offers sample tracks online, as does Amazon.de.
You can search Laut and other sites by genre. If you like hip hop or rap, you'll discover German rap is much more than just the Fanta4. Other groups that sing German rap or hip hop include Deichkind, Plattenpapzt, Eins Zwo, and Regenundmild. But some of them have been accused of singing in "Kopfnicker-Style" (head nodding style), a more melodic form of hip hop.
On the softer side are performers such as Mannheim-born Xavier Naidoo ("Zwischenspiel"), the groups Pur, Rosenstolz and Goldjunge (not to be confused with the American group Goldfinger, which has done a cover of Nena's "99 Luftballoons"). They sing German soft rock ("Deutschrock") or a type of German soul music. Naidoo's Vorbild (example) is Herbert Grönemeyer.
Rammstein has no monopoly on German metal. Maybe you'll like the sounds of J.B.O. (formerly the "James Blast Orchestra" until James Last sued them over the name), Keilerkopf (more crossover) or Das Department.
Of course, there's much more. Have fun exploring and listening to deutsche Musik!
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