{{Short description|German techno marching band}} {{For|the Quebec-based far-right group|La Meute}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021|cs1-dates=y}} {{Self-sourcing examples|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Meute | image = MEUTE by Steffi Rettinger.jpg | alt = Meute group photo, May 2016 | caption = Meute | origin = Hamburg, Germany | genre = {{flatlist| * Techno * house * deep house }} | years_active = 2015–present | website = {{URL|meute.eu}} | current_members=Sebastian Borkowski (tenor sax, concert flute)<br/>{{ill|Adrian Hanack|de}} (baritone sax)<br/>Philip Morton Andernach (bass sax, vocals)<br/>Thomas Burhorn (trumpet)<br/>Hans-Christian Stephan (trumpet)<br/>Johnny Johnson (trombone)<br/>Philipp Westermann (sousaphone)<br/>André Wittmann (marimba)<br/>Markus "Onkel"<!-- "Der Onkel", German for "the uncle", some sources say: "OnKL" --> Lingner (snare drum, hi-hat)<br/>Timon Fenner (snare drum, cymbal)<br/>Marco Möller (bass drum, shaker) |past_members=Hubert Fersterer (baritone sax)<br/>Philip Sindy (trumpet)<br/>Chris Lüers (trombone)<br/>Robin McMinn (snare drum, hi-hat)<br/>Nando Schäfer (snare drum, lyra) }}
'''{{lang|de|Meute|italic=no}}''' ({{IPA|de|ˈmɔɪ̯tə}}, stylized as MEUTE, German for "pack", "rout" or "crowd") is an eleven-piece self-described techno marching band from Germany. The band arranges techno, house and deep house works by well-known DJs, augmenting them with electronic beats created by marching band instruments. In doing so, they seek to "[create] a new genre by combining hypnotic driving techno and expressive brass band music", thereby "detaching electronic music from the DJ desk."<ref name="Meute_About"/> Meute have toured Europe, the United States, and southern Africa, and have performed in a variety of venues, including city streets, music festivals, and classical concert halls.
== Band history == [[File:Meute logo.svg|thumb|The Meute logo consists of the letters M, E, U, and T arranged and resized to form a stylized coat of arms.]] Meute was founded by trumpeter Thomas Burhorn in Hamburg in 2015.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakocay/2022/11/23/techno-marching-band-meute-drops-taumel/ | title=Techno Marching Band MEUTE Drops 'Taumel' | first=Lisa | last=Kocay | newspaper=Forbes | date=23 November 2022 }}</ref> The band had their breakthrough in early 2016 when their video for the song "Rej" by Berlin DJ duo Âme became a viral hit on social media.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.zeit.de/2016/26/meute-techno-blasmusik-band-hamburg/|title=Meute: Apple meets Manufactum|last=Hollenstein|first=Oliver|date=2016-06-16|work=Die Zeit|access-date=2019-12-16|language=de-DE|issn=0044-2070}}</ref> Within a week, their interpretation of the deep house song received more than 400,000 views on YouTube.<ref name="Rej_2016">{{cite web |title=Meute - Rej (Âme Rework) |website=YouTube |date=2016-01-15 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtKdqwRC07A}}</ref>
After the release of their debut album, ''Tumult'', in mid-2017, Meute toured music clubs in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Luxembourg. In total, the band gave more than 150 concerts in their first two years of existence.<ref name="Meute_Live"/> In 2018, Meute participated in the showcase festivals ESNS and SXSW, ending the year as one of the most booked festival bands in Europe.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://euradio.fr/2017/11/27/meute-germany/ |title=Meute (Germany) |work=Euradio |date=2017-11-27 |access-date=2019-08-25 |archive-date=2020-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926212214/https://euradio.fr/2017/11/27/meute-germany/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In addition to formal gigs, Meute has given unannounced concerts in several cities. In June 2018, one such performance in Berlin gained widespread attention when a video of the band performing its song "You & Me (Flume Remix)" went viral. {{As of|December 2024}}, the video has had over 72 million views on YouTube making it the band's most widely viewed to date.<ref>{{Citation|title=Meute - You & Me (Flume Remix)| date=30 May 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFbnhcNnjE|language=en|access-date=2024-12-24}}</ref> Meute's unannounced October 2018 appearance in Rome drew attention to their single "Hey Hey (Dennis Ferrer Remix)" in a similar fashion.<ref>{{cite web|author=Meute |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=NYtjttnp1Rs |via=YouTube| title=Meute - Hey Hey (Dennis Ferrer Rework) |date=2018-10-26 |access-date=2019-06-06}}</ref>
Meute's arrangements have earned recognition from their original artists. In 2017, Meute and Laurent Garnier, whose song "The Man with the Red Face" the band had prominently covered,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meute.eu/music/|title=Meute - Techno Marching Band |website=www.meute.eu|language=en|access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref> made a joint stage appearance at the 2017 Festival Yeah! in France.<ref>{{cite web|author=Culturebox |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?V=XcFbIAdn4PY|via=YouTube| title=Meute vs Laurent Garnier au festival Yeah! 2017|language=fr-FR|date=2017-06-13 |access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref> In 2018, Meute and Stephan Bodzin took the stage at the Festival Reperkusound in Lyon.<ref>{{cite web|author=Reperkusound |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHqh1H9ZFgQ |via=YouTube| title=Stephan Bodzin x Meute|date=2018-06-12 |access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref>
In early 2019, as part of their "Europe 2019" tour, the band toured forty cities across fourteen countries.<ref name="Meute_Live"/> Later that same year, the band played concerts in South Africa and Eswatini with the help of the Goethe-Institut.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/za/de/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21541660 |title=Concert: Meute & Bombshelter Beast live! - Goethe-Institut South Africa |access-date=2019-06-06}}</ref>
Meute undertook their first North American tour in October 2019, with 14 performances in the United States and Canada.<ref name="Meute_Live"/>
In October 2019, Meute released their first live album, ''Meute Live In Paris'', which they recorded in March 2019 at Le Trianon in Paris. The collection consists of 14 previously released songs as singles or on album, as well as three previously unreleased tracks.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thisisedm.it/meute-you-me-flume-remix-live-in-paris/ |author=This Is EDM Magazine |title=Meute - You & Me (Flume Remix) - Live in Paris |work=This Is EDM |date=2019-08-22 |access-date=2019-10-25}}</ref>
Additionally, Meute supports projects by Musicians without Borders with the help of Musik Bewegt, a German philanthropic organisation seeking to use music to make a difference in education, integration, health, and youth.<ref>{{cite web |author=Music Bewegt |url=https://www.musik-bewegt.de/kuenstler/meute |title=Meute |access-date=2019-05-12 |language=DE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512072759/https://www.musik-bewegt.de/kuenstler/meute |archive-date=2019-05-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.musik-bewegt.de/ueber|title=Über|website=Musik Bewegt|language=de|access-date=2019-12-16|archive-date=2020-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125035040/https://www.musik-bewegt.de/ueber|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2023 they appeared at WOMADelaide in Australia. In April 2025, Meute performed at the Coachella Festival in California.<ref>{{cite news | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-04-09/coachella-2025-festival-14-must-see-artists | title=14 artists you don't want to miss at Coachella | first1=August | last1=Brown | first2=Vanessa | last2=Franko | first3=Mikael | last3=Wood | first4=Cerys | last4=Davies | date=9 April 2025 }}</ref>
== Style == Meute's music is based on techno, house and deep house hits. They call their covers or arrangements "reworks". These works are rearranged by the Hamburg musicians and adapted to the instruments of the band. Meute's combination of techno and acoustic brass band instruments is described in a ''Variety'' article as "thrilling in ways both electronic music fans and live music aficionados alike can get behind."<ref>{{cite news | title=Coachella's Most Curious Booking? Meet Meute, Hamburg's 'Techno Marching Band' | first=Charlie | last=Amter | date=22 March 2022 | url=https://variety.com/2022/music/news/coachella-meute-hamburg-techno-marching-band-1235208498/ | newspaper=Variety}}</ref> ''Die Zeit'' describes the band as placing a unique twist on the genres, in that "[t]he hypnotic monotony of the electronic music is retained, but the sterile sounds from the machine are replaced by the warmer-sounding wind instruments."<ref name=":0" /> According to the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', the result sounds "Symphonic. Hymnlike. Orchestral."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin|author=Elena Witzeck |title=Straßenband "Meute": Die Rattenfänger von Hamburg |issn=0174-4909 |url=https://www.faz.net/1.6087379 |date=2019-03-15|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref>
The band plays acoustic or amplified on major festival stages, in techno clubs, and on the street. Their cross-genre appeal has also led Meute to perform in classical settings such as the Hamburg State Opera<ref>{{cite web|url=https://opernmagazin.de/staatsoper-hamburg-meute-at-the-opera-am-10-mai-2018/ |title=State Opera Hamburg: Meute at the Opera - on May 10, 2018 |work=Das Opernmagazin |date=2017-11-03 |access-date=2019-08-25 |language=DE}}</ref> and Vienna Concert House.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://konzerthaus.at/konzert/eventid/57119 |title=Meute |access-date=2019-08-25 |language=de-AT}}</ref>
== Discography == ===Albums=== * 2017: ''Tumult'' * 2019: ''Live in Paris''<ref name="Meute_2019_ParisLive"/> * 2020: ''Puls'' * 2022: ''Taumel'' * 2024: ''Empor''
===Singles=== * 2016: "Rej" (Âme)<ref name="Rej_2016"/> * 2016: "Mental Help" (Gonçalo) * 2016: "Kerberos" (Stephan Bodzin & Marc Romboy) * 2016: "Underground" (Nick Curly / Dennis Ferrer) * 2017: "The Man with the Red Face" (Laurent Garnier)<ref name="Meute_2017_RedFaceVideo"/><ref name="Meute_2019_RedFaceLive"/> * 2017: "Acamar" (Frankey & Sandrino) * 2018: "Miss You" (Trentemøller) * 2018: "You & Me" (Disclosure, Flume Remix) * 2018: "Hey Hey" (Dennis Ferrer) * 2019: "Gula" (Deadmau5) * 2019: "Araya" (Fatima Yamaha) * 2019: "Customer Is King" (Solomun) * 2018: "You & Me" (live) * 2019: "Rushing Back" (Flume, featuring Vera Blue) * 2019: "Panda" (Oscar House) * 2020: "Slip" (Deadmau5)<ref name="Meute_2020_SlipLive"/> * 2020: "What Else Is There?" (Röyksopp) * 2020: "Zig Zag" (NTO) * 2020: "Unfolding" (Rival Consoles) * 2020: "Raw" (original composition) * 2020: "Holy Harbour" (original composition) * 2021: "Weirdo" (original composition with ÄTNA) * 2021: "Intentional Dweeb" (Eddie) * 2021: "Expanse" (original composition) * 2022: "Peace" (original composition) * 2022: "Places" (The Blaze) * 2023: "Sail" (AWOLNATION) * 2023: "Verden" (with Pølaroit) * 2023: "The Coup" (with Henrik Schwarz) * 2023: "Come Together" (featuring The Young ClassX) * 2023: "Hypnose" (Future Edit) * 2023: "Loss of Hope" * 2023: “LoCKDoWN2”
== References == {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Meute_About">{{cite web |title=Meute - Techno Marching Band |author=Meute |website=www.meute.eu |language=en |url=https://www.meute.eu/about/ |access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref> <ref name="Meute_Live">{{cite web |title=Meute - Techno Marching Band |author=Meute |language=en |url=https://www.meute.eu/live/ |access-date=2019-03-28}}</ref> <ref name="Meute_2020_SlipLive">{{cite web |title=Slip (Meute Version) |author=Meute |website=YouTube |location=Old Port, Ibiza, Spain |date=2020-01-20 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMefxohehPQ |access-date=2021-06-23}}</ref> <ref name="Meute_2019_RedFaceLive">{{cite web |title=The Man with the Red Face (Boston Street Encore) |author=Meute |website=YouTube |date=2019-10-06 |location=The Middle East complex, Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnlrlbYVYiM |access-date=2022-01-09}} [5:17] (NB. A spontaneous street encore on a parking lot following a concert abandoned due to a firealarm in club Sonia, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.)</ref> <ref name="Meute_2017_RedFaceVideo">{{cite web |title=The Man with the Red Face (Official Video) |author1=Meute |author-first2=Ronja |author-last2=Frizen |website=YouTube |date=2017 |location=Hamburg, Germany |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhGXn9Qo9HA |access-date=2022-01-09}} [7:54]</ref> <ref name="Meute_2019_ParisLive">{{cite web |title=Live in Paris |website=YouTube |date=2019-10-04 |orig-date=2019-03-20 |location=Le Trianon, Paris, France |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2loN0JFZa0Y |access-date=2022-01-09}} [1:37:08] (NB. A live concert in the theatre Le Trianon, Paris, France, 2019-03-20.)</ref> }}
== External links == {{Commons category|Meute (band)|Meute|3=s}} * [http://www.meute.eu/ Official website] * {{SoundCloud|meutesound}} * {{YouTube|channel=UCY3cAFsquIk7VGMuk-V8S3g}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FVC11hQNWE ''Rooftop Session''], a live concert on the rooftop of the former {{ill|Viktoria barracks|de|Viktoria-Kaserne}}, now fux eg, Hamburg-Altona, Germany, 2020-09-12 [36:20] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VASVraoqGcI<!-- alternative link: https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/de/mediathek/elbphilharmonie-sessions-meute/615# --> ''Elbphilharmonie Sessions''], a live concert on the rooftop of the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany, 2021-09-16<!-- first published on 2021-09-17 --> [39:27]
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