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After I discovered SWISS for myself last year, which was a cultural shock and an extremely positive one at that, it continues now with KEIM-X-ZELLE.
Rap and punk not only go well together, but they also have similar roots.
Rap is not a glossy, big-pants nonsense, but a style that has formed in so-called ghettos in American cities. Poverty, racist treatment by state authorities, exclusion, discrimination, and hopelessness are the ingredients that gave rise to rap.
Punk does not have the same, but similar roots.
The two songs that KEIM-X-ZELLE are releasing with this 7" are more of the softer kind of rap. The aggressive guitars are almost completely absent. It is more spoken word, which makes the lyrics all the more important. The band conveys in both songs what they think about the refugee policy of Europe in general and Germany in particular. Solidarity, humanity, against camps and military. “Between Desert Sand and Barbed Wire” is almost a summary of the path that many people from Africa take. Hope for a new life, a new future ends in barbed wire, in the sea, or, for those who make it, in the reception camp. Is that humanity as we see it?
The second side, “From the Middle of Society,” addresses the topics of Pegida, Hogesa, or whatever they are called. You are racists, Nazis, and nothing more. You do not deserve understanding and will not receive it, not from me and not from the people of KEIM-X-ZELLE.
In times like these, where it sometimes seems as if the right-wing mob is gaining the upper hand, it feels good to listen to KEIM-X-ZELLE.
And... they are right.
“Damn racist scum, hypocrites, liars, murderers, fraudsters...”, nothing more can be added to that.
The vinyl single is limited to 300 copies and is probably already sold out, but if the band releases another record, I can only say, buy it!
KEIM-X-ZELLE hits the nerve of the times!
