Utahpolis

Ah, the wonders of myspace. The rest of the world has now fully bought into the site, allowing for limitless exploration of the sounds of other nations.

I particularly enjoy listening to hip-hop when the primary language isn’t English. Now, there’s definitely a lot of great English rap out there, but it can often get bogged down with predictability and stereotypical phrases. When you can’t understand a word that is being said it allows you to focus on the sounds and beats of the words themselves. Sometimes this works really well, other times not.

Some languages have a natural flow to them that syncs up well with the hip-hop beat. German is not one of those.

MC KlIcKKlAcK a.k.a. ALKAN - Ein TEUFFEL weint nie (A Devil Never Cries)

MC KlIcKKlAcK is one of probably millions of rappers around the world. It’s amazing just how pervasive American music is. Check out any random country’s music on myspace and chances are that most of it will sound very familiar to you.

Here we have a kid from Wels, a city in Austria near the German border. The town was under heavy Allied bombing during WWII and was the home of a concentration camp.

It’s the homeland of Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Strauss, Mahler and presenting…..MCKlIcKKlAcK….straight outta Comp….er…Wels!