JAN DELAY & DISKO No.1
BEST OF 25 YEARS – The Tour !!
When did you first hear Jan Delay? At the Weserstadion, when a really good football song echoed through the oval for a change? At a festival, while you were dancing in the audience, up on stage a full-on stylist and entertainer in a soaked suit with the very best band in the world behind him? On the radio, when Nena suddenly sounded really cool with reggae and German pop music? Or already in the nineties at some hip-hop jam between Mainz and Itzehoe, when a tiny group of conviction-driven individuals laid the foundation for what German pop culture is today?
Somehow, somewhere, sometime it must have been. Almost everyone who has not lived under a rock in the last good 30 years and knows how to appreciate a well-crafted beat has their personal Jan moment. Whether Old 68ers, 187 fans, rap nerds, or Rabe-Socke fans. Old school, Gen-Z, or whatever. No one has shaped music in this country like Jan Delay. And no one has developed themselves so consistently, so persistently from album to album, from era to era, from flash to flash. Five solo albums. Four live albums. Three genre-defining bands. And countless shows, from youth centers to Rock im Park. Forever Jan? At least it's time for a small celebratory look back.
Just the facts: On 03.05.2024, Jan Delay's Best Of "FOREVER JAN (25 Years Jan Delay)" will be released. It features his biggest hits and two completely new songs. Additionally, there will be a collection of legendary side projects and rarities (a given for someone who has always dug beneath the surface and whose second song ever was an ode to the B-side) as well as the best moments of his lockdown initiative Diskoteque. All of this will, of course, be available in various configurations, from elegantly limited vinyl boxes for display to CDs for immediate playing and partying. Because when the King of the Scene invites to the rave, it's showtime. Whether in 1999 or 2024.
"FOREVER JAN (25 Years Jan Delay)" packs these 25 years into the most extreme compilation possible – and makes, 🙃
with all its stylistic diversity, especially the common thread of this truly extraordinary career recognizable. Jan Delay is an icon of German pop. He has inspired entire generations to listen to their rave heart and consistently do their thing. Above all, he has always remained a fan. Anyone who has ever shared a dance floor with Jan at five in the morning or discussed the latest album of whoever with him, or has experienced him on stage at least once, knows what music means to him, how it drives him, how it defines his work. The beats, the bass, the whole sound: That is the element of Jan Delay. And he has always directly translated this passion into his own projects.
Whether he found a refuge in the old soul of roots reggae as a young man when the German rap hype became too colorful and the mood in the country turned dark. Whether he gave Schland his original form of dance music (and with it started a new career). Whether he translated his personal enthusiasm for great guitar music into his own version of Rock On & On & On. Or whether he combined all his influences – rap and reggae, funk and soul, Udo and Dr. Dre, Hamburg and the world – and just vibed along: Jan Delay has caught fire and created new fire.
In the summer of 2025, JAN DELAY will once again embark on a major "Best of 25 Years" summer tour with his phenomenal band DISKO No.1.
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