# Jeans Team
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{{Short description|German electronic music group}}
{{Refimprove|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Jeans Team
| image = Immergut Bands-Jeans Team253.jpg
| caption =
| image_size =
| background = group_or_band
| alias =
| origin = [Wedding](/source/Wedding_(Berlin)), [Berlin](/source/Berlin), [Germany](/source/Germany)
| genre = [Electronic](/source/Electronic_music)
| years_active = [1995](/source/1995_in_music)–present
| label =
| associated_acts =
| website = www.jeansteam.de (en)
| current_members = Franz Schütte
Reimo Herfort
| past_members = Gunther Kreis
Henning Watkinson
}}
'''Jeans Team''' are a [Berlin](/source/Berlin)-based electronic music group. The group was founded by Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort 1995 in the borough of [Wedding](/source/Wedding_(Berlin)) and started as a duo as a video art performance group.[{{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 }}][{{Cite web |title=Passé Composers : Franz Schütte, Reimo Herfort, Gunther Kreis & Henning Watkinson|url=http://www.passeprojects.com/jeansteam|website=passeprojects.com}}]
==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](/source/Hackescher_Markt) in Berlin.[{{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}}][{{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}}][{{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}}] 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](/source/VHS), were subsequently sold in the gallery with each video cassette inserted in a self-sewn bag made of denim.[{{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}}]
In 1997, Gunther Kreis and Henning Watkinson joined founders Schütte and Herfort.[{{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}}] In 1999, the Jeans Team recorded their debut album ''Ding Dong'' and after the release in June 2000 on [Kitty-Yo](/source/Kitty-Yo) they toured Germany..[{{Cite web |title=2001 Roskilde|url=https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/roskilde-festival-2001-8428f473-c308-4cc3-9066-1e9de7bfc971|website=concertarchives.org}}][{{Cite web |title=FIB2000|url=https://indyrock.es/benicassim00.htm|website=indyrock.es|language=ES}}][{{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}}]
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](/source/John_Peel_Sessions) at [Maida Vale](/source/Maida_Vale_Studios), prior to a multi-date tour of Russia organised by the [Goethe Institute](/source/Goethe_Institute).[{{Cite web |title=Peel Sessions - Jeans Team|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/johnpeel/sessions/2000s/2003/Mar26jeansteam/|website=bbc.co.uk}}][{{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}}]
By 2009, Watkinson left the group citing fatigue.[{{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}}] Keine Melodien was featured in a commercial for the new [Volkswagen Golf](/source/Volkswagen_Golf) later in the same year.[{{Cite web |title=volkswagen-fight-ad-complaints|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/jan/05/volkswagen-fight-ad-complaints|website=theguardian.com}}]
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.[{{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}}]