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Hamburger Arroganz
12+ albums
germandeutschhamburgfunk
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"Ennerved, shattered and exhausted? Stressed and somehow feeling used? Then join us, we'll make you have a good time. Supervised and continuously controlled? Afraid that somebody might denunciate ? We guarantee the highest confidentiality!" This is how one of the most controversial German records of the early nineties starts: an invitation to 60 minutes of kinky but harmless fun, served up in a tasty bowl of electrofunk, acid jazz harmonies and lyrics on the verge of the tasteless. The "Arrogance of Hamburg" first appeared in the late eighties with a groovy hymn to their hometown Hamburg, then a breathtakingly new and daring mix between English and German rap on a fusion track resembling Shakatak or Mezzoforte. They released an EP with 3 new tracks, one remix and a bizarre 5 minute play featuring a drunk chainsmoker in a fish and chip shop holding a monologue about the last girlfriend he lost due to his chronic cheating. The then new mix between Electrofunk and German lyrics gave them some moderate airplay and a hardcore group of fans who thought they've found the best thing since sliced bread. "I won't have that chauvinistic crap in my flat" These were the words of my then - girlfriend, accompanying an impressive hurl of the Hamburger Arroganz's second album "Junges Blut" (Young Blood) out of the window, making the CD unusable (and I had to go out and buy a new one). It's not that their lyrics were pornographic or lewd, but "Aepfel mit Zuckerguss" (Apples with Icing) was a
