{{Short description|German electronic music group}} {{Refimprove|date=September 2014}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Jeans Team | image = Immergut Bands-Jeans Team253.jpg | caption = | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = Wedding, Berlin, Germany | genre = Electronic | years_active = 1995–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = www.jeansteam.de (en) | current_members = Franz Schütte<br />Reimo Herfort | past_members = Gunther Kreis<br />Henning Watkinson }}
'''Jeans Team''' are a Berlin-based electronic music group. The group was founded by Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort 1995 in the borough of Wedding and started as a duo as a video art performance group.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.qiez.de/wedding/freizeit/musik/musik-von-der-berliner-band-jeans-team-scheiss-drauf/46966462 |title=Musik von der Berliner Band Jeans Team: "Scheiss drauf!" |access-date=2014-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910200805/http://www.qiez.de/wedding/freizeit/musik/musik-von-der-berliner-band-jeans-team-scheiss-drauf/46966462 |archive-date=2014-09-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Passé Composers : Franz Schütte, Reimo Herfort, Gunther Kreis & Henning Watkinson|url=http://www.passeprojects.com/jeansteam|website=passeprojects.com}}</ref>
==History== Jeans Team took their name from a blue and white curved neon sign that hung on a street in the Wedding district above a shoe shop that had previously sold jeans. In 1996, Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort helped to set up Galerie Berlintokyo, a multi-purpose gallery and performing artspace at Hackescher Markt in Berlin.<ref name="powerline">{{cite web|access-date=2018-11-17 |archive-date=2005-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050123000438/http://www.powerline-agency.com/artists/downloads/jeansteam_bio2005E.pdf |date=2005-01-23 |format=PDF; 1,7 MB |language=en |pages=1–6 |title=Jeans Team. Biography |url=http://www.powerline-agency.com/artists/downloads/jeansteam_bio2005E.pdf |website=Webarchive: powerline-agency.com}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name="motor">{{cite web|access-date=2018-11-17 |author=Admin |date=2008-09-11 |publisher=Motor Entertainment GmbH |title=Jeans Team |url=http://motor.de/jeans-team/ |website=motor.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name="Tsp">{{citation|author=Daniel Völzke |date=2006-12-01 |issue=19388 |periodical=Der Tagesspiegel |title=Fratzen des Alltags. Sie ritten auf Schwänen und toteten Techno: Wie Jeans Team auf ihrem dritten Album den Staat abschaffen}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Early shows performed in the venue by Schütte and Herfort's consisted of a pre-produced 45-minute video film called ''Baby'', to which they contributed electronic sounds. The performance was recorded on VHS, were subsequently sold in the gallery with each video cassette inserted in a self-sewn bag made of denim.<ref name="powerline"/><ref name="motor"/><ref name="bandcamp">{{cite web|access-date=2018-11-17 |date=2017 |language=en |title=Baby VHS Soundtracks |url=https://jeansteam.bandcamp.com/album/baby-vhs-soundtracks |website=jeansteam.bandcamp.com}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
In 1997, Gunther Kreis and Henning Watkinson joined founders Schütte and Herfort.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=May Morgan |first=Frances |date=20 September 2012 |title=Plan B Magazine Issue 04 |url=https://archive.org/details/planb-magazine-04/page/n35/mode/2up |magazine=Plan B |location=London England |publisher=Frances Morgan |access-date=27 October 2024}}</ref> In 1999, the Jeans Team recorded their debut album ''Ding Dong'' and after the release in June 2000 on Kitty-Yo they toured Germany..<ref name="powerline"/> Following the release Jeans Team performed a number of concerts at music festivals including the 2000 Benicàssim Festival, 2001 Roskilde Festival and Melt Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2001 Roskilde|url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/roskilde-festival-2001-8428f473-c308-4cc3-9066-1e9de7bfc971|website=concertarchives.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=FIB2000|url=https://indyrock.es/benicassim00.htm|website=indyrock.es|language=ES}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Melt Festival 2001|url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/zoot-woman-blumfeld-briskeby-chicks-on-speed-slut-sportfreunde-stiller-op-l-bastards|website=concertarchives.org}}</ref>
Jeans Team would split with Kitty-Yo records when long time collaborator Patrick Wagner left the company. They spent 2002 and 2003 without a label working on their second album. During this time, they were featured on John Peel Sessions at Maida Vale, prior to a multi-date tour of Russia organised by the Goethe Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peel Sessions - Jeans Team|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/2000s/2003/Mar26jeansteam/|website=bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref name="motor"/> In 2005, after joining Wagner's new record label Louisville Records, Jeans Team released ''Musik von oben''. By the end of the year, Jeans Team had recorded and released the album ''Kopf auf''.<ref name="lautBio">{{cite web|access-date=2018-11-17 |title=Jeans Team. Porträt |type=Laut.de-Biographie |url=http://www.laut.de/Jeans-Team |website=laut.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
By 2009, Watkinson left the group citing fatigue.<ref name="mainstage">{{cite web|access-date=2018-11-17 |archive-date=2014-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008084803/http://mainstage.de/2009/06/jeans-team-im-interview/ |author=Chrissie |date=2009-06-03 |publisher=Anna Stumpe, Mainstage Musikmagazin, Leipzig |title=Jeans Team im Interview |url=http://mainstage.de/2009/06/jeans-team-im-interview/ |website=mainstage.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Keine Melodien was featured in a commercial for the new Volkswagen Golf later in the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |title=volkswagen-fight-ad-complaints|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jan/05/volkswagen-fight-ad-complaints|website=theguardian.com}}</ref>
Schütte and Herford, who also perform as the DJ duo Tracht & Prügel, began to re-release their back catalogue in 2017, along with previously unreleased recordings.<ref name="popmonitor">{{cite web|access-date=2018-11-17 |author=Bernd Skischally |date=2012-03-21 |title=Interview mit Jeans Team. Das Berliner Duo im Interview über das anstehende neue Album, elektronische Volksmusik und wie es das Nacktflitzen für sich entdeckte |url=http://www.popmonitor.de/interview-mit-jeans-team/ |website=Webcache: popmonitor.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name="bandcamp" />
==Discography== {| class="wikitable" !width="30"| !width="30"|'''Year''' !width="175"|'''Title''' !width="30"|'''Type''' |- | |1998 |"Ein Atom" |Single |- | |1998 |"Hi Fans" |Single |- |Jun |2000 |''Ding Dong'' |Album |- |Nov |2000 |"Keine Melodien" |Single |- | |2002 |"Gold Und Silber" |Single |- |Oct |2004 |"Berlin Am Meer" |Single |- |Feb |2005 |''Musik von oben'' |Album |- | |2005 |"Oh Bauer" |Single |- |Oct |2006 |"Das Zelt" |Single |- |Dec |2006 |''Kopf auf'' |Album |- | |2013 |''Das ist Alkomerz'' |Album |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.jeansteam.de/ Official Site]
{{Authority control}} Category:German electronic music groups Category:Kitty-Yo artists Category:Musical groups established in 1995 Category:1995 establishments in Germany
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