Gerard - Manchmal
6 GIFs and a sentence per music video

Manchmal is the contemporary redefinition of a romantic song for the age of “the end of courtship”.

S O H N - The Wheel (Nvie Motho Remix)

Both S O H N and Nvie Motho happen to live in Vienna, but until recently they had nothing to do with each other: S O H N used to be Trouble Over Tokyo and was rooted in the Austrian indie community, while Nvie Motho is best known for producing Gerard’s Lissabon, a cutting edge hip hop track. These are people from very different scenes who yet somehow belong to the same fashionable movement of combining electronic with r&b elements. 

[This is what FM4 should be playing on heavy rotation. Internationally (or should I say internetionally? </badpun>), S O H N and Gerard are the ”homegrown” off-mainstream acts that get the most attention at the moment, yet they are being ignored (zero plays of either) by the one institution that should care about them: Austria’s “alternative and avantgarde” radio station. Oblivion to new developments is not going to help against the fading relevance of radio. Just saying.]

[ETA: I am sorry for the perceived FM4 bashing. At least in the case of S O H N, it is not the radio station’s fault but rather due to circumstances or a viral marketing strategy or whatever.]

Gerard - Manchmal

Just when I was finally not listening to Lissabon on a daily basis anymore, Austria’s future hip hop superstar Gerard released his next single off the upcoming Blausicht album. Manchmal is a wonderfully relaxed and honest and sweet track about the day after a one night stand after a party, with a video starring, among others, the singer of Likewise.

Currently a free download on the Gerard Facebook page.

Gerard - Lissabon
6 GIFs and a sentence per music video

Flashbacks and memorabilia, beaches and aquariums, making out and fighting.

Gerard MC - Standby

Not to brag or anything, but when this guy becomes bigger than Cro and Casper combined, I will be able to say we bumpfisted at the Popfest. (I will, however, not mention that my vocabulary didn’t include this word until then, or that I thought it was called “Bampfi” and that I believed it was some kind of cute Upper Austrian expression for hands, or that I afterwards learned that it is apparently super uncool to do that anyway.)