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 series and the second live album of German hip hop

German hip hop

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 group Die Fantastischen Vier

Die Fantastischen Vier

Die Fantastischen Vier , also known as Fanta 4, is a German hip hop group from Stuttgart, Germany. The members are Michael Bernd Schmidt alias Smudo, Andreas Rieke alias And.Ypsilon, Thomas Dürr alias Hausmeister Thomas D and Michael 'Michi' Beck alias Dee Jot Hausmarke...

. The group were the second German-speaking

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 artists to make an appearance on MTV Unplugged, after Herbert Grönemeyer

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 in 1995. Contrary to the wishes of the producers, the concert was not recorded in MTV studios in London

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, but in the Balver Höhle

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 (Balver cave), a cave in the Sauerland

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 used mainly for Balver Märchenwochen.

The album peaked at #6 in the German charts

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 as wells as at #7 and #18 in Austria

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 and Switzerland

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.

Track listing

1. "Neues Land" - 3:16
2. "Die Stadt die es nicht gibt" - 4:47
3. "Der Picknicker" - 4:23
4. "Jetzt geht's ab" - 3:07
5. "Hammer
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   " - 4:55
6. "Raus" - 4:17
7. "Millionen Legionen" - 6:14
8. "Le Smou" - 4:30
9. "Ganz normal" - 3:33
10. "Sie ist weg" - 3:54
11. "Tag am Meer" - 5:05
12. "Weiter als du denkst" - 5:13
13. "Konsum" - 4:26
14. "Buenos Dias Messias" - 4:50
15. "Schizophren" - 4:52
16. "MfG" - 4:17

Additional musicians

• Flo Dauner
• Lillo Scrimalli
• Markus Kössler
• Roland Peil
• Markus Birkle
• Michael Heupel
• Anja Bukovec
• Marko Hval
• Gareth Lubbe
• Maike Schmersahl
• Ruben Mesado
• Mirjam Trück
• Razvan Popovici
• Gabriel Mesado
• Matthias Trück
• Emanuela Simeonova
• Manu & Matei Constantin

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions
		Germany Media Control Charts The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...	Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
2000 2000 in music See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....	"Tag am Meer (Unplugged)"	67	-	-
2000 2000 in music See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....	"Sie ist weg (Unplugged)"	81	50	-

External links

• Official website (German)
• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Die+Fantastischen+Vierdiscography at Discogs
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