HOMESaint Pauli. Our main act @ heart-stopping Zwischenstromball this year.
I listened to an interview with these two smart and funny guys and I can tell you right on: you´ll like, no, you´ll love them!
Saint Pauli aka Max and Ralf are knowing each other for already more than ten years. Originally coming from “the Schwarzwald”, they decided to escape from this small place and moved to Hamburg for making music. In the beginning they played in a few bands together, but soon they wanted to start their own music thing.
The first six years Saint Pauli hidden themselves in the studio – just to produce, produce, produce – before they went out in all the clubs and started with live-sets. Doing the DJing set in just a few years ago. So it´s kind of the other way around than in so many other cases.
What is more different between Saint Pauli and all the other masses of DJs out there?
First of all, they are not just laying down some beats. I would go so far saying that they have kind of a concept when they´re on stage. While one of them is spinning the records, the other one is taking care of the audience. How? – by e.g. putting on stupid big glasses, playing handcuffs, using the trumpet air horn – stuff like that. One of their main characteristics are the masks. The monkey masks.
Apparently they have a special relation to animals, because Saint Paulis first plan was to switch masks at every number. They already had got a giraffe and a wolf… but soon they found out thats a bit too much. So they finally stick to one. And the monkey was the winner.
Besides all this, secondly Saint Pauli said something in that interview I listened to, which is more important when you´re making music, than anything else. Next to the technical aspect, which is of course a necessarily one, they are primary “responding to the crowd, to the spirit of their audience and adapting their dj-set this way.” What a simple but genius plan!
All that remains to be said is
3-2-1…Saint Pauli!
For monkey music click the link below:
http://www.myspace.com/saintpauli
For monkey video:
