DANK National Blog » Video Of The Week http://www.dank.org/blog The latest info on what's going on at DANK Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:40:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Black Eyed Ötzi http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/black-eyed-otzi/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/black-eyed-otzi/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:41:43 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1876 Read more »]]>

Here’s another Mashup…this time mixing Ausrian entertainer DJ Ötzi (you may know him from his popular cover version of the Bruce Channel song “Hey Baby”) and the Black Eyed Peas.  Check out the video below for a surprisingly good mix of “I Gotta Feeling” and “Ich will mit dir fliegen”

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]]> http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/black-eyed-otzi/feed/ 0 Mashup-Germany – 99 Somma im Kiez (Nena Candela Live) http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/mashup-germany-99-somma-im-kiez-nena-candela-live/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/mashup-germany-99-somma-im-kiez-nena-candela-live/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:06:19 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1868

I came across this interesting mashup of Nena’s “99 Luftballons” and 3 Culcha Candela songs (“Somma im Kiez”. “Solarenergie”, & “Partybus”) by Mashup-Germany and they go together very well.  Have a listen…

]]> http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/mashup-germany-99-somma-im-kiez-nena-candela-live/feed/ 0 Video of the Week! Kackel Dackel http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/video-of-the-week-kackel-dackel/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/video-of-the-week-kackel-dackel/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:06:51 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1853 Read more »]]> I saw this played on “Anderson Cooper 360″ the other night and I had to post it here.  This is a commercial for a German game that consists of a dackle (dachshund) that you feed what looks like a Play-Doh substance and try to be the person to collect it in a shovel after it passes through its digestive track.  Although the game is not available in the U.S., you can play a simplified online version through the gamemaker’s German website.

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]]> http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/12/video-of-the-week-kackel-dackel/feed/ 1 The Beatles In German http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/11/the-beatles-in-german/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/11/the-beatles-in-german/#comments Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:01:27 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1752 Read more »]]> Any fan of the Beatles should know that they recorded German language versions of some of their songs.  Well now you can easily download 2 of their popular songs in German now that iTunes carries their music.  “Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand” (“I want to Hold Your Hand”) and “Sie Liebt Dich” (“She Loves You”) are available to download individually, which is the first time you could do this legally.

Here are the links to iTunes where you can preview or download both songs:
Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand – Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2
Sie Liebt Dich – Past Masters, Vols. 1 & 2

There is also an interesting article I found that details The Beatles’ German Connection: http://german.about.com/cs/music/a/beatleger.htm

]]> http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/11/the-beatles-in-german/feed/ 0 Video of the Week! German Worker http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/10/video-of-the-week-german-worker/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/10/video-of-the-week-german-worker/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 22:04:28 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1650 It’s been a while since we’ve posted a Video of the Week, and I figured I would post this short video showing German craftsmanship at its finest :) to start of the work week.

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]]> http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/10/video-of-the-week-german-worker/feed/ 0 Music Heard at Our GermanFest Booth http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/07/music-heard-at-our-germanfest-booth/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/07/music-heard-at-our-germanfest-booth/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:44:02 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1495 Read more »]]> For those of you that visited us at our booth at GermanFest this last weekend you may have heard some new German music.  Some visitors wanted to know what bands or songs we were playing and how they could get a copy.  So I thought I would make a list of some of the music with a link to purchase if you want…

Seeed – Music Monks

Music

Seeed – New Dubby Conquerors

New

Luxuslärm – So laut ich kann

So

Luxuslärm – 1000 km bis zum Meer

1000

Culcha Candela - Schöne Neue Welt

Schöne

Mehrzad Marashi - New Life

New

Yolanda Be Cool – We No Speak Americano

We

Stromae - Alors on danse (Single)

Alors

LaFee – Best of LaFee (Die Nacht Edition)

Best

2raumwohnung - Es Wird Morgen

Es

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Some university students in Germany thought it would be funny to take the winning song from the German winner of Eurovision and make it into an unofficial World Cup anthem.  After posting their video on YouTube, it became an overnight success, bringing in over half a million views in under a week.  EMI, the company that owns the rights to the original composition, ordered the video be taken down, but that only created more publicity.  That is when Universal Music expressed interest in recording the song and the rights were cleared with EMI, and now the boys who made the parody received a recording contract.  Pretty crazy!

Spiegel Online has a great write up on the entire story here and below is the YouTube video that caused it all…

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Spinner by Revolverheld

Formed in Hamburg back in 2003, Revolverheld is a product of Germany’s Neue Deutsche Welle punk revival.  The band has cycled through several names since forming… Manga and then Tsunamikiller.  In recent years they have produced several top hits in Germany, and Spinner can be added to the list after reaching number 13 on the German charts.

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“Spinner” is available on iTunes

Download the album “In Farbe” for $9.99
on the US store in high quality AAC format, DRM-Free
Download Link

If you know of a song/band that you’d like to see featured in “Listen to This”, send a link to the video or give us the name of the song/band to website@dank.org and we will consider publishing it in a future post.

]]> http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/05/listen-to-this-spinner/feed/ 1 Video of the Week! – Liebherr http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/04/video-of-the-week-liebherr/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/04/video-of-the-week-liebherr/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:25:43 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1297 Read more »]]> German Engineering At It’s Greatest

German manufacturing company, Liebherr, wanted to show the strength of one of their excavator’s, so what did they do to show it?  Why not have it climb up a tower…check it out below!

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Thanks to our DANK National President, Bill Fuchs, for passing this along.

If you know of a video that you’d like to see featured as our “Video of the Week”, send a link to the video to website@dank.org and we will consider publishing it in a future post. Videos must be family friendly!

]]> http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/04/video-of-the-week-liebherr/feed/ 1 Listen To This: Alles kann besser werden http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/03/listen-to-this-alles-kann-besser-werden/ http://www.dank.org/blog/2010/03/listen-to-this-alles-kann-besser-werden/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:12:28 +0000 Stephen Fuchs http://www.dank.org/blog/?p=1221 Read more »]]>

Alles kann besser werden by Xavier Naidoo

Xavier Kurt Naidoo (born 2 October 1971 in Mannheim, Germany) is a German singer and songwriter of South African mother and Indian father, who sings in German and occasionally in English. He sings in a number of styles, including soul, R&B and hip hop.

Xavier’s first album, Seeing Is Believing” was released back in 1994 and was surprisingly only available in the United States.  This song, which reached number 6 in the German charts, is taken from his 5th (and latest) studio album, “Alles kann besser werden”

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“Alles kann besser werden” is available on iTunes

Download the 38 song album for $14.99
on the US store in high quality AAC format, DRM-Free
Download Link

If you know of a song/band that you’d like to see featured in “Listen to This”, send a link to the video or give us the name of the song/band to website@dank.org and we will consider publishing it in a future post.

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