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Years active
  
1998 (1998)–present

Origin
  
Germany (1995)

Website
  
www.xpq-21.com

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Past members
  
Nicque Annelie Bertilsson Hitch Sascha Kepper Killer Martin Hillebrand Alex Gsell

Members
  
Jeyênne, Nicque, Moritz Zielke, Annelie Bertilsson

Albums
  
Destroy to Create (feat. Jeyênne), Belle Epoque, Chi, Hey You

Genres
  
Industrial music, Dubstep, Drum and bass, Breakbeat

Record labels
  
Bloodline, Fourbiddentones, Dying Culture

Similar
  
CompulsorySkin, Marc Broude, Obszön Geschöpf, Ad Inferna, Psyborg Corp

Profiles

Myspace

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XPQ-21 are a German electronic body music band, led by Jeyênne. They are best known for their single "White And Alive", a hit on the Deutsche Alternative Charts in 2002, and "Rockin' Silver Night" and "Dead Body", DAC hits in 2006.

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History

Jeyênne started in the German dance music scene as a hiphop DJ in 1987, later moving to techno. He started recording under his own name in 1992.

In 1995 he met former member Nicque and formed XPQ-21 as a duo. They released their first single "A Gothic Novel" in 1998 and their album Destroy To Create in 1999.

Nicque left in 2003 and the band since then has been Jeyênne with backing members. Live members have included Annelie Bertilsson (Cat Rapes Dog, And One) who first replaced Nicque, Martin Hillebrand, Moritz Zielke and Alex Gsell.

Instruments

Jeyênne combines analogue synthesizers (Korg Monopoly, Roland 909, Roland 303) with digital sequencing on Apple Macintosh, typically working in Logic Pro, now Ableton Live.

Jeyênne has run EMS (Electronic Music School) in Cologne since 2010 and Berlin since 2011.

Name

The name "XPQ-21" was originally the title of a song, as "a combination of letters that mean a lot to me ... it was the first hit/club hit, and later we thought: 'Okay, let's make it a band name.'"

Albums

  • Destroy To Create (CD, Fourbiddentones FBT-002-CD, 1999)
  • Belle Epoque (CD, Bloodline LINECD-012, October 2000)
  • Chi (CD, Dying Culture CULT006-2, 22 August 2002)
  • Alive (CD, Trisol TRI-261-CD, 24 March 2006)
  • "Rockin' Silver Night" DAC 7 weeks, peak no. 9; no. 88 for 2006
  • "Dead Body" DAC 6 weeks, peak no. 10; no. 97 for 2006

    • Singles

  • "A Gothic Novel (Science Fiction)" (9:30) / "A Gothic Novel (Body Version)" (6:04) // "Pornography (FuckU)" (5:09) / "Pornography (Cy's Version)" (6:24) (12", Fourbiddentones FBT-001, September 1998; CD, Bloodline LINECD-026, August 2000)
  • "Hey You (Edit)" (4:00) / "Hey You (Nicque's Version)" (7:34) / "Hey You (Belle Version)" (6:14) / "Ghost" (7:08) / "Another Playground" (6:33) / "Sequencial" (6:57) (CD, Bloodline LINECD-053, April 2001)
  • "White and Alive (Club Version)" (5:43) / "White and Alive (Wollschläger Remix)" (7:41) / "White and Alive (S.P.O.C.K Remix)" (6:54) / "Israel" (9:38) / "White and Alive (Original Version)" (5:12) (CD, Dying Culture CULT004-5, 12 July 2002)
  • DAC 8 weeks, peak No. 4; No. 32 for 2002

    • Compilation appearances

  • "Monster" (5:52) on Electronic Lust V.1 (2×CD, Orkus EFA-61606-02, 1998)

    • Songs

    White & AliveChi · 2002
    A Gothic NovelDestroy to Create (feat Jeyênne) · 1999
    Bela Lugosi's DeadBelle Epoque · 2000

    References

    XPQ-21 Wikipedia
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