01099

In the organizer's words:

Named after the zip code of Neustadt , theband consisting of childhood friends Gustav, Paul and Zachi convey a reflected joie de vivre in their songs thatseems to speak from the soul of an entire generation .01099 wave the rainbow flag on festival stages, and the Zoomers cheer them on.Their big breakthrough came in the pandemic years with anthems like "Frisch" and "Durstlöscher". In total, their songs have beenstreamed over 500 million times; in the most important popularity currency these days , monthly listeners on Spotify, they currently have over four million, putting them in the top league of German-language artists.

And they seem to be just getting started. The 01099 single "Anders" with Ski Aggu, the golden boy of the current German rap season, was one of the defining songs of the summer. They have played at least one co-headlining slot at every relevant festival .

The third 01099 album, "Blaue Stunden", was released on November 3. Of course, there are once again the sweet odes to wine from the Späti, hanging out outside the front door with friends and the other night owls of Neustadt. But it also contains songs that hint at a certain maturing process of the protagonists and in which other themes play a role than before.

If you look for the secret of 01099, you eventually come across a formula that is not particularly complex: They are completely authentic, no matter howhackneyed this vocabulary may seem. Because they don't fant asize about afictitious hip-hop biography, but are simply themselves - three friends from Dresden Neustadt with an inimitable flair for great melodies and to-the-point lines. Their greatest strength is to reduce universal emotions to their pure essence and use them to create images in the mind .Nothing else happens on this album, and nothing else has ever donegreat pop music .The next blue hours are sure to come.