Hello and welcome to this new edition off topics part the Music Magazine from germany i live in a and this is what we have in store for you today. Metal corner with a message by heaven show starring. The return of german rep legends and stand of the list. And it will be about pioneering record producer conny plank. We kick off with extreme metal heaven shall burn from thuringia have fans all over the world and a regular at the vatican open air festival the heavy metal his latest album wonder recently won a metal hammer a wart outside of music they also compassion for human rights the environment and Animal Rights and they sponsor a soccer team an interesting outfit. The circle pit is part of every heaven shelburne gig and their appearance at this years back in the Worlds LargestMetal Festival was no exception. We popped by the artists village to meet frontman marcus and guitarist mike its the band six outing at the back an open air. But into the involvement of it by your band makes it here the whole world takes note. We just toward south america while i people were always asking us about. Whats it like playing there are we glad to be back this year it was a big deal. And its so important for bands International Image by. Having shall burn in a somewhat cynical name maybe but theres nothing satanical about these guys theyre more into saving the earth the video for korean was shot in argentina and chile where they toured frequently having grown up in communist east germany this was a dream come true. Steve it was the fuel but time travel the world. Get paid to budget call people. In most countries all a cost is a phone call. And we have a buddy we can visit and a place to crash will open far as it builds a Large Network of friends and thats a huge gift thats isnt me got me with this thing. This middle core group doesnt make feel good music. The video for the song comeback shows shocking images of child soldiers caught up in the horrors of war. H. S. B. Doesnt only criticize violence and racism in their music they pay the price. You this facebook posting must be too much time with host a facebook message against nazis it cost us a few hundred fans. Statement with each clear statement we make on t. V. Costs cd sales. There are people who love our music but it is all political to us are totally different that thats an important part of who we are we can do without those kinds of fantasies. In twenty fifteen they won some new fans when they became sponsors of the soccer club card so i seen it and the teams jerseys are now in a worldwide demand. In twenty seventeen the band also persuaded the Bakken Foundation for young metal bands to join them all for a good cause. You find a tiger those of other clubs are making a difference carlos i see in a supporting initiative for parents whose children have cancer. And im out of that can foundation this country you can also tell that a lot of young people in the stadium are excited to find opportunities to get involved and thats so important to this country. Inspiring people something happened shell burn had been doing for twenty years and theyre not done yet. The army its new must know im going to actually dont need to explain ourselves or prove anything its much were not like some of the younger bands who say oh theyre big and theyve got more in fact you know. We dont care about any of that whats we look forward to our shows and i found things as weve been doing for years you can use in the said you are. A metal band with a message ive been shelburne. Like heaven child burning love and is another from gemini that made it big internationally his new album cover it shot to number eleven on the charts back home weve already featured his new single on the show such a day were going to treat you again to the albums biggest hit so far satellite coproduced with french super study j. David guetta and American Dance music trio cheap cuts. Where. The hours. To get. To. Her were. You know. The told you keep on. The bus. The bad. The big. The so ok. If you. And out of this well. Beautiful robin. Tearing germany with his album here then be off to the u. S. And brazil by the way hes not the only d. J. From germany making some noise right now the trial trial out. Felix yanez had a string of hits singles but fans are still waiting for his debut album. That long wait looks set to be over in february two thousand and eighteen it will include like a riddle. Im. Gloria comprise a t. V. Presenter and the basis from the as intelligent although you wont see them in the video for him and off the song is about a village band joining the battle against racism. And. John. Schwartz is a project set up by roland my own devil tear the video for the single in your eyes and corporates footage from a documentary about north korea. Wow wow wow. Back in the ninetys finished and i did looks where among the groups that made john rep a solid fixture in the charts. Sadly the band was put on a back burner after just. As the musicians and back on solo venturous and now seventeen years later the band has made a celebrated comeback with a new album for. My newspaper a remarkably good should interfere with. The laid back beats and light hearted lyrics that made from standard to look so popular and thereby. Frogman to be a schmidt gave it out on the streets of hamburg where the band formed in one thousand nine hundred seventy its been seventeen years since their last album but the hip hop veterans are still a well oiled team who with their hundred going to find their only in the technician can operate the instruments on the computer and he keeps on taking away until everything sounds wicked thing in the meantime i mostly sit around toying with lyrics chorus ideas and words. Of all to get more. Of the youre my man woman that i can go in and it will then god give the form to then be a parable and think about you that. It all began with their toby on dust bowl in the ninetys before they cofounded from stand until looks but after two successful albums each went their separate way. In. The bands third album flash is out now featuring opera samples and bossa nova beats a classic cornucopia in best from stan a dylan tradition. As if. Theyve evidently lost none of their style or humor which has helped the new album flash off to a lightning top ten launch got the most of night good. If you muslims as. We started with this rough diamond in the german language and we had to polish off the rough edges and now its ready its up. In november they take their sarcastic rhymes and solid rhythms back on the road itll be just like the one nine hundred ninety s. Not quite. What you start for and out of that a big change since then has been social media which give you a whole new platform to present yourself on both sides in the old days you define yourself by your music today its not the image you put out and if you would just be you do this not all some peeps people are going to move. The thing thats when they. Finish standard it looks heroes of the ninetys just like the crossover across. Their album like it got charted in five countries honest release and one nine hundred ninety seven and sold over one point five million copies the band are current thing marking the records twentieth anniversary with a special edition at both new versions of the all the tracks plus a new single a cover of eminems two thousand two mega hit lose yourself check it out. Not the. Sound and thats it and the guano amps to have an exciting blend of red and rock going on right now theyre proud like a got tourist taking them through germany austria the Czech Republic the neverland and switzerland which brings us to our new section. Lunchtime front mantilla linda money and kelly family guitarist joey kelly have published an illustrated book documenting their adventures along the yukon river in alaska. Theyre an unlikely duo. Lindemann france bad boys shock rockers im stunned while the kelly family stand more for Old Fashioned hold some pop in fact the two musicians have been buddies for quite some time and speaking of literary pursuits from home stein keyboarder flock a lot and has just published his second book an insiders look at the remarkable band. Tokio hotel has been living the dream for over ten years now they revisit their story in a new documentary covering the entire journey from their breakthrough as teenagers up to the present. A film team accompanied the band for two years the movie had its World Premiere just recently at the cologne Film Festival a date for Theatrical Release has yet to be named. D. J. Paul found dykes latest single i am alive provides the soundtrack for a new car commercial the artists face and name are also part of the promotional campaign. Vandyke is turning up the revs on the music front to this video previews his eighth studio album out at the end of october. Everything from the vibrant world of pop music on facebook at d w e six. Stories stars and the latest from the music see. Join us in the universe of pop on facebook send us a mess. We love hearing from you. And now we take a bow to a genuine legend of the music business over the yes the producing was a tree of crony plank had a huge impact on german acts like a school pins cost back and habit clinton maya as well as international stuff like that your rhythmix ultravox and john and annie three decades after his death his son stephan plank has paid him in a documentary. On. The debut album by british pop duo your rhythmix. Prospects electronic milestone autobahn. And italian pop classics by john a new. Ball produced by this man conny plunks a new documentary the potential of noise is now celebrating his work in. My legs any time i can to work with groups to find new possibilities and new forms of sound. In the late sixtys and early seventys west german bands like kraftwerk can and noise seen here are shaking off old conventions and revolutionizing rock music. County punk was the one sitting at the controls. Even david bowie was impressed with the new crowd rock scene and he came for a look and a listen. Carney plunks son stuff on practically grew up in his fathers studio now hes made a movie about him it also helped him understand how the groundbreaking producer worked. M. R. I would tend to show a movie like musicians who are authentic and momenta i know and he say but those moments when a band would just coming together with an really becoming a year end and the siesta multiband fooled about he was open to anything which is on now if you said theres this producer doing crossfire today and next week the scorpions theyd say thats impossible. In order to work with him the bands would head out to county punk studio in a refurbished farmhouse outside cologne. You rhythmix were still trying to find their feet when they recorded their first album here in one thousand nine hundred one that was before their breakthrough but conny punk showed them the way. You could have a thing on his but now hes saying there are no rules but that was a day. In the early eighties dov stopped by they had planned to record an album in three days they spent the first two talking and jamming. Kone let musicians do their things and then he gave the whole thing a lift who could use them if. The result was daft provocative classic tungsten miscellany in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. It was a hit but only it is still skilled. To me money is something that runs in and out just like my tastes. Thats why we have a slight lamb different understanding of capital than the industry. Is causing just a. Tiny punk. Died of cancer when he was just forty seven the movie is and to a man for whom music was not a product but a necessity. So do you fancy winning some of the great music from todays show and our quiz we play you a cover of a german hit from the past and you have to guess who the original west by this week we have leon lashley from germany is set. The scene on how. Well that was a nice cover and a really nice voice but who recorded it First Century onsides who d. W. Bought the six and one three three five five barely in germany or to send an email to pop export at v. W. Dot com and please dont forget to include your Mailing Address will be giving away c. D. s from gloria wanna apes alive and shows and heaven shelburne and last but not least are a classic blast from the past after delving through archives we came up with hard to say im sorry no not the nine hundred eighty two original by a soft rock band chicago weve got the techno version by german duo act back in twenty