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hip hop groups, founded 1991 in

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. The four founding members, Showi (Jean-Christoph Ritter), Ju (João dos Santos), Wasi (Wasi Ntuanoglu) and DJ 5ter Ton (''"DJ Fifth Note"'', Alexander Scheffel) all originated in Stuttgart's hip hop scene and modeled themselves at first on the American and French hip hop groups like Breakdance Soundtracks,

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. Massive Töne's debut album ''Kopfnicker'' appeared in 1996, making them well known to the entire German hip-hop scene. It remains today as their most important album and as an emblem for the group. In 1998 Massive Töne switched to the major label Eastwest and produced the single ''Unterschied''. The video for ''Unterschied'' became was an enduring hit in

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. The 1999 album ''Überfall'' brought together highly refined rhythms with strongly expressive lyrics. With well-known performers like

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, they collaborated on tracks and produced four singles from ''Überfall''. Another piece, "2Mille", was recorded especially for the French action-comedy film ''

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''. After the extraordinary success of the album ''Überfall'', which ended up being one of the best-selling German hip-hops albums ever, the group split in 2000 from their MC/producer, Wasi, and founded their own label, Kopfnicker Records. ''Kopfnicker Records — das Album'' was released that same year. At the turn of the century Massive Töne started to take things slower. It wasn't until 2002 that they released the album ''MT3'', whose single "Cruisen" ''("Cruising")'' reached number 5 in the German charts. The album's 14 tracks are range widely in style, from pure party tracks to socially critical songs like ''Deutschland, Deutschland''. In 2005 they released their Album ''Zurück In Die Zukunft'' ''("Back to the Future")''.

Discography

Albums

* 1995 - ''...Dichter In Stuttgart'' ( EP) * 1996 - ''Kopfnicker'' * 1999 - ''Überfall'' * 2002 - ''MT3'' * 2005 - ''Zurück in die Zukunft''

Singles

From ''...Dichter In Stuttgart''

* 1995 - "Sie ist in Gefahr"

From ''Kopfnicker''

* 1996 - "Kopfnicker"

From ''Überfall''

* 1998 - "Unterschied" * 1999 - "Rapgame" * 1999 - "Chartbreaker"

From ''Taxi 2 - OST''

* 2000 - "2 Mille" (with Skills en Masse)

From ''MT3''

* 2002 - "Cruisen" * 2002 - "Geld Oder Liebe" * 2003 - "Traumreise" * 2003 - "Stress"

From ''Zurück in die Zukunft''

* 2005 - "Bumerang" * 2005 - "Topmodel" * 2006 - "Mein Job"

References

External links

*
Massive Töne at laut.de
* https://web.archive.org/web/20060828110902/http://www.flobinali.de/ (Massive Töne's live-band)

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