COMPILATION Slipcase Edition (Pre-Order)

Release date: March 2025.

Triple-vinyl slipcase compilation plus booklet.

triple vinyl.
Over 100 largely unreleased songs and skits.
All titles remastered.
Approximately 2 hours playing time.
Plus 96-page booklet in a slipcase.
Language: german. 

With Fettes Brot, Absolute Beginner, Deichkind, Das Bo, Ferris MC, Mr. Schnabel, Sleepwalker, Kastrierte Philosophen, TobiTob, David Fascher, Easy Business, Reim Banditen, Readykill and many more.

A CITY BECOMES COLORFUL.
Hamburg Hip Hop History 1989-1999

The compilation is designed as a journey back in time to the beginnings of Hamburg's hip-hop culture and includes over 100 largely unreleased songs and skits. The triple vinyl is accompanied by a 96-page booklet that tells of the early years of hip-hop, rap and DJing in Hamburg. The work is presented by the editors of the book and the curators of the museum exhibition EINE STADT WIRD BUNT in cooperation with the Hamburg music label Platin Mukke.
The team behind the triple vinyl includes the four editors of EINE STADT WIRD BUNT, Oliver Nebel, Frank Petering, Mirko Reisser and Andreas Timm, as well as three proven experts on the German hip-hop scene. Oliver Herbst, once a DJ for the hip-hop band City Nord, now runs the music label Platin Mukke, on which the record is being released, and was able to reconnect with many old contacts during the research. Also on board: the long-time editor-in-chief of the hip-hop magazine Backspin Dennis Kraus and the music journalist and presenter Falk Schacht.

The team conducted research over a period of more than two years. They contacted bands, rappers, DJs and producers who were active in and around Hamburg in the 1980s and 1990s. They viewed and archived countless hours of radio shows, tapes, demo DATs and live recordings and conducted interviews with hip-hop pioneers from the Hanseatic city.

The records are therefore accompanied by a 96-page, richly illustrated booklet in vinyl format, which traces in extensively researched texts how the new musical style slowly became established in Hamburg from the mid-1980s onwards.

Like the book of the same name and the museum exhibition, the compilation EINE STADT WIRD BUNT looks behind the scenes of a young subculture - and at the same time tells exciting chapters of music, technology and city history from the hip-hop stronghold on the Elbe.

PERFORMERS
Fettes Brot, Absolute Beginner, Deichkind, Das Bo, Ferris MC, Mr. Schnabel, Sleepwalker, Kastrierte Philosophen, Mellow Mark, David Fascher, Easy Business, Reim Banditen, Readykill, TobiTob, ILL Will, City Nord, MK Cram (Poets of Peeze), Dialektik, 2 Ruff, Nina, Flashmaster Ray, Dennis Deutschland, 2BIAS, MC Africa True aka Nana, Vers Chaoten, Die Erstausgabe, THC (Ter Hartchor), RAF (Reimende Antifaschisten), Direkt Aktion, Fogmoor, Syren, Mental Disorda (Crime Code Barets), Dennis the Menace, Selma, 08/15, Hamburg Royal, Skunk Funk, B-Low, Gizmo, AJ, SMG, Phantom Black, Leon Le Pro aka EL'OMC, Paolo 77, Monti, Hanseknaller, Schlechta Umgang and many more.

QUOTES FROM
André Luth, Jan Eißfeldt, Mathias Arfmann, Ale Dumbsky, David Fascher, Fatih Akin, Carsten Bohn, Schiffmeister (Björn Beton), Pasha Kamber (DJ MPK), Boris Ekambi, Sleepwalker, Mr. Schnabel, Nana Abrokwa, Simon Vegas and others.

PRODUCER
Mario von Hacht (Super Mario), Sleepwalker, B-Base, Bubblez, TobiTob, X-Ray, Simple Simon and others

Presented by A CITY BECOMES COLORFUL.

Publisher: Platin Mukke (PYRO Enterprises) and Double-H Publishing.
Author Booklet: Dennis Kraus.
Editorial assistance: Falk Schacht, Mathias Becker, Christian Luda, Oliver Herbst, Mirko Reisser.