KANTINENBEATS Hip Hop. Live.

For all those who live hip hop not as a dress code, but as an attitude. This is rap as a form of expression and poetry with punchlines. Music that is loud, direct and handmade.

– Line-up –

– Yasmo & die Klangkantine
– EsRAP & Gasmac Gilmore
– Nenda
– Monobrother
– David Scheid

As a special, he (cabaret artist, actor, DJ) will be playing his DJ set in the afterhour until the early hours of the morning.

–> Yasmo & die Klangkantine
Yasmo & die Klangkantine are back – with fresh tracks, a new sound and the infectious energy that has made them one of the best live bands in the country! After celebrated concerts and sold-out shows, the eloquent rapper and her big band are back on stage with a new album in their luggage. Musically, they go one step further: the unmistakable mix of rap, jazz and big brass power sounds even more diverse, even bolder – and, as always, hits you right in the heart and on the twelve.

Anyone who has ever seen Yasmo & die Klangkantine live knows that razor-sharp lyricism meets rousing arrangements, explosive enthusiasm meets attitude. And if you haven’t seen them yet – you should do so now!

New album. New sound. Same power.

Yasmo & die Klangkantine live – better, louder and more urgent than ever.

–> EsRAP & Gasmac Gilmore

Through their releases and concerts in recent years, EsRAP have developed into a role model of Austrian resistant pop art with a migrant background and enjoy corresponding media attention.

Siblings Esra and Enes Özmen grew up in the old working-class district of Ottakring in Vienna and in their mixed German/Turkish lyrics deal with questions of identity, being foreign in their own country as children of the third generation, the necessity of rebellion experienced first-hand, rap as resistance and also being a woman in the male-dominated hip hop world. In contrast to the usual division of roles in this world, Esra contributes the hard and fast rhymes, while her brother Enes takes on the more melodic vocal parts with his sensitive voice. Musically, EsRAP find inspiration in the Turkish oriental genre of arabesque, which they like to combine with modern beats.

The release of their debut album “Tschuschistan” (Springstoff 2019 ) was followed shortly afterwards by the EP “Freunde dabei”, which was produced together with GASMAC GILMORE.

With GASMAC GILMORE, the two siblings brought a top-class band on board, which not only provided an additional boost of intensity live, but also proved to be a logical musical expansion in the direction of “Balkan sounds with a spaghetti western touch” since the anthem “Freunde dabei”. The joint song catalog has grown considerably in the meantime, and in June 2021 they delivered a long overdue Laid Back anthem to their beloved Vienna Ottakring with the song “OTK feat. After EsRAP subsequently focused on the release of their second album “Mamafih”, new material was recorded with Gasmac Gilmore at the end of 2022. The song “Reden über Wien”, released in February 2023, was the first herald of the joint album, which was released in September 2023. A very elaborate video was produced for the song “Benzer brennt” as the last single for the album.

–> Nenda

The Tyrolean musician and rapper Nenda is of mixed race and, according to the lyrics to “Mixed Feelings”, left her home in the Ötztal valley because she was asked too often whether she understood German. Today, Nenda lives in London and dedicates her debut single to the topic of everyday racism: “too white, not black enough” (and vice versa), the lyrics say, and also: “Osterreich, is that the one with the kangaroos?” A super-funky and funny number about all the questions and confusion that Nenda faces in everyday life, in the UK as well as in Austria, sung and rapped in a mix of English and Tyrolean.

–> Monobrother

“Mir geht’s um die Menschen” is the fourth studio album by Viennese rapper Monobrother (release date: September 15/Honigdachs). What sounds like the most hollow of all political slogans, the 37-year-old sees as the utopia of a lifelong cabana in the goose pile for everyone. The people he characterizes in black-humoured role prose could all be taken from a Deix collage – as caricatures of the authoritarian petty bourgeois, opportunistic social functionary, internet junkie or television philosopher.

The anti-summer hit “The Bill Please!” reckons with the God-given right of white Europeans to vacation in crisis regions. In “Kreisverkehr”, the unveiling of an EU-funded sculpture leads to an angry torchlight march by small-town residents of Lower Austria. In André Heller Battle Rap, Monobrother uses a mosaic of quotes to transform the eponymous jack-of-all-trades into a battlerapper who floats above it all. In “TV Philosopher”, he plays the frustrated talk show intellectual (“kana knows Heraclitus anymore from you fools”).

Long-time companions such as Fid Mella, Stixx, B.Visible, Digga Mindz and Kapazunda are behind the productions of the twelve beats, some of which are spherical.

Mir geht’s um die Menschen” rides wildly through the red-white-red panopticon and satirizes the general scramble for the sovereignty of interpretation of normality: sharp-edged, poetically pointed and always with the aim of tickling the comedy out of the prevailing doomsday mood. And the album cover also suggests this: The beaten hope for a good life for all dies last.

–> David Scheid

Hip hop can be funny and cabaret has to be DOPER.

David Scheid is a cabaret artist, actor and DJ. With his first program “REMIX, das Programm mit dem Plattenspieler” he won the “Grazer Kleinkunstvogel”, the “Goldener Kleinkunstnagel” and the Bavarian “Mittlere Schafrichterbeil” in 2016.

This was followed by numerous TV appearances on ORF and Bavarian Radio, including several times on the program “Pratersterne” (ORF 1). With the role of “Dave”, known from the show “Die Tagespresse”, David Scheid plays his way into the hearts of the young television audience in the format “DIE.Nacht” (ORF 1). The youth reporter is a symbol of a generation that is growing up in abundance, “Generation Y”. In 2018, “DAVE” became its own series on ORF 1; season 2 will be broadcast from November 7, 2023, also on ORF.