Recommendations of the editorial team
The fact that the latent, bad wet waste hit “Layla” reached the tip of local charts, testifies to a pop understanding with a waste bin aura. However: was it better than ever?
1. The Sesame Road
Eurotrash had an infantility like hardly any other genre in pop history. Crevous proof of this is, for example, the ACT COSMIX, which picks up popular figures on Sesame Road and underlaid everything with a delegated Bumm-Bumm beat. Charts and kindergarten merged-and the Cosmix song “Quietsche-Dentchen feat. Ernie” became a top 20 hit in 1995. The follow-up gaga “Books (delicious Happa-Happa) feat. Krümelmonster” rose to 32th place.
2. The smurfs
The fact that the year of the Eurotrash was in 1995 can be seen primarily at a central publication. 1.2 million copies sold and thus double platinum for: The Smurfs and their Tekkno is cool. Well-known songs were pulled through the HI-NRG espresso with pitched voices and toss texts. Music like migraines.
3. Viva
The broadcaster Viva had a large part in the triumphal march and new cheap quark hits. Here the cornbunty disposable boom ran up and down in the mid-nineties.
4. U96
The boundaries between Eurodance and Eurotrash are of course fluid. As fluid as the water in the U96 toilet cistern. The pioneers of the dance floor for Stullis returned in 2022: with a musical for “20,000 miles under the sea” (but without “producer legend” Alex Christensen). The self -description that wants to sell a U96 as a “Godfather of Techno” is already striking. Why not right away: “Boris Becker – Head of Neue Deutsche Thickenthility”?
5. Dolls United
More avatars clawed from the Augsburg puppet box: Who remembers Dolls United and their balla balla version of “An island with two mountains”? This Lummerland massacre stayed in the top ten for thirteen weeks between 1995 and 1996, with half a million units sold, the piece in Germany has platinum status.
6. Pippi, sandmen and pumuckl
Pippi Longstocking, the Sandmännchen and the Pumuckl were also spared by the accommodation by Eurotrash.
7. E-rotic
However, the genre also left traces outside of children’s rooms. Particularly prominent E-Rotic-a German dance floor project that found (of course) greater distribution through pin-up cartoon clips. The shaking song titles were “Max Don’t have sex with your ex”, “Fred come to bed”, “Willy Use a Billy” or “Fritz Love My Tits”-and were frighteningly successful in 1994-1996.
8. The Italians
At the end of the nineties, our Friends from the Mediterranean continued to carry the Eurotrash-Bünde: acts such as Eiffel 65 (“I’m Blue”), Gigi d’Agostino (“The Riddle”) or Prezioso feat came from Italy. Marvin (“Emergency 911”).
9. Mad’House
After the millennium, the name Eurotrash hardly appears. However, the Dutch-French act Mad’House, which put old Madonna hits on Billo beats, could be subsumed, for example. What failed the project in its countries of origin-the tip of the single charts-made Mad’House with her cover version cucumber-who is surprised? – in Germany. Incidentally, via Kontor Records – i.e. the same label, over which “Layla” appears in 2022. But that’s a different story …