Eins Zwo (''"One Two"'') was a

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group from

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, consisting of DJ Rabauke (Thomas Jensen) and MC Dendemann (Daniel Ebel). Rabauke produced his first music with his 'Projekt an der Grenze'. He however, was before Eins Zwo more known for his work as tour DJ with the group

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. Dendemann was formerly mostly associated with his work as a member of the 'Vorgruppe Arme Ritter'. Eins Zwo started out in 1997. Running into each other during a soundcheck that year they decided to make music together and create the demo "S.P.O.R.T". Later that year they accompanied the group

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as support act on a short tour through Germany and enlarged on their "S.P.O.R.T." demotape. The tape was then released nationwide as an EP halfway through 1998 in its unaltered, unmastered form and quickly became highly sought after in the scene. It was reputedly the most illegally copied album in the German hip hop scene that year. In May 1999, their first longplay album was released: ''Gefährliches Halbwissen''. The word-wizardry of Dendemann became through this album the trademark of the band. While their second album, aptly named ''Zwei'' (''"Two"''), released in 2001, held the same high textual, musical and technical standard, it did not have the same impact as their debut album. With the upcoming EP "Discjockeys" the group announced their farewell. Since 2003 both group members have gone their own way. Dendemann released the EP "DasSchweigenDilemma" in the autumn of that same year and in September 2006 the LP ''Die Pfütze des Eisbergs''. DJ Rabauke has mostly been working as a DJ in the

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scene and has, among other things, played at the Melt! festival.

Discography

Albums

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

- ''Gefährliches Halbwissen'' (Yo Mama) *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

- ''Zwei'' (Yo Mama)

Singles

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

- "Sport" *

- "Danke, gut" (Yo Mama) *

- "Hand aufs Herz" (Yo Mama) *

- "Tschuldigung/Weltretten 4-" (Yo Mama) *

- "Bombe/Undsoweiter" (Yo Mama) *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

- "Discjockeys" - (EP, Yo Mama)

References

External links

Official website
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