Captain Capa!

„Berlin Fainting" is the third and last installment of singles taken from Captain Capas album „Saved My Life", for which they got praised and blessed in a rain of confetti. For example at legendary Vans Warped Tour USA, which the boys toured in summer 2012. Unlike their further singles "Faraday" or "Rivals" this one's neither about shredded guitar-riffs nor your emo-make-up-lesson, it's all about synthie-hooks, disco-chords and shedding tears in the big city lights. Call it club-ballad or electropop-sadness if you have to write it down, but it is what it is - a song to break your heart on the dancefloor and to shake up your feet at home in front of your speakers.


Captain Capa - Berlin Fainting

If you took your time for an extensive, fullfilled childhood, you're allowed to grow up late in your twenties. Just like Captain Capa, undergoing their musical coming-of-age right now with their new record 'Foxes'.
What used to be an anchor, slowly becomes an albatross around the neck - a world you don't fit in the more you get away from it. And while old friends are busy building houses, getting kids and making money, you keep losing yourself in a back and forth of touring and slacking.
Captain Capa are probably the hardest touring band in Audiolith - and certainly the most-rousing on. The new album 'Foxes' comes out October 25th, the correspondent single reaches your melancholic choreomania since today.
'Foxes' is the foundation Captain Capa planted under their cloud-castle.

Captain Capa - Foxes Radio Edit

'As far as it goes' is a litte foretaste of the upcoming Captain Capa album 'Foxes'.
The Song was released on the '10 years from now' sampler to celebrate the 10th birthday of their Label Audiolith.
The new album 'Foxes' comes out October 25th and Captain Capa are celebrating the release with an exquisite club tour.



Foxes (+ Audiokommentare)

Captain Capa - As Far As It Goes

Aside from their affinity towards excessive shows and despite of the fact that the three guys from Berlin are leaving behind a trail of rave mobs being bathed in sweat, they have neither forgotten nor repressed that Germany’s situation is still fraught with problems. As long as Egotronic exists, dumb German patriotism and ostracism will be rejected emphatically

Ausflug mit Freunden

Egotronic - You (vs. Captain Capa)

Faraday completes Captain Capas cocktail of guitar-based emo-hymn and uptempo-electro-dancer to it's perfection. A rusty octav-bass, a twisted collegerock-six-string and the oh-so-charming emotional voice of goldenthroat Ashi, chirping lines of broken love and the de-romantization of the starry sky. "And Faraday was right, when he said you need a constant" - hidden messages behind the curtain, and if you stumble upon the nerd-reference to that Island-TV-show: congratulations, you won.

Captain Capa - Faraday

Captain Capa - Roadkill

Tonight Is the Constant

Captain Capa - Lights And Heroes

Das Album "Saved My Life" darf als Danksagung an die eigene Band verstanden werden: Musik als Lebensretter vor dem Tod durch Langeweile. Ab sofort kann sich die Teenage Angst auch bei Audiolith entladen. Zwischen linker Rave Ästhetik und reflektierter Neonfeierei klafft ein Loch. Ein Loch, das Captain Capa mit großen Melodien, lauten Popsongs und Herz-fickenden Elektro-Eskapaden stopfen. Es darf getanzt und geweint werden, und unter Umständen darf mit Daumen und Zeigefingern ein Herzsymbol gebildet und gen Bühne gestreckt werden - egal ob in Berlin, Hamburg oder Klein-Schönewerda.

Captain Capa - Futurepercy

Als kleines, rausgepulvertes Dankeschön für ein aufregendes, spannendes Jahr 2011 schütteln Captain Capa zum Fest der Liebe einen Weihnachtssong aus dem Ärmel.


Captain Capa - Christmas Wishlist

According to the German Hunting Association there are 230.000 animal-vehicle crashes each year.

The two work animals of the Hamburgian labels Audiolith and Cobretti Records have recognized the signs of the times: Dead animals are an integral part of our everyday lives - whether to eat, to wear or just as a roadside decoration. Already more than 20 years ago Bob Dylan sang: "How many roads does a band bus drive before he ever hits a deer?". And also in the meta-meaning the lifeless beasts determine our lives. This far fetched connection by Captain Capa and Supershirt has been squeezed into five new songs going to be released on October 8th on Audiolith. It’s about falling in love and pulling the plug situations, as in the title song "Tote Tiere" to the drunken thing in everyone of us as in "Dein Monster" or emotionally dopey misconduct in "Roadkill" à la Hegemann

Supershirt and Captain Capa got to know each other mentally and musically during joint concerts. Soon after the first shows it was clear to go on tour together. They share the same humor, the close connection with the highway and the not always equally serious approach to their music, most commonly called electro / punk. From the beginning their infernal representatives - the labels Audiolith and Cobretti being like twins, adjuged (with euro signs in their eyes) to the plan.

In October 2010, Amadis sends both bands through all of Germany on the “Tote Tiere”-Tour presented and recommended by Intro Magazine. Of course all participants are afraid. Afraid of themselves - and not of road kills. Collateral damage is more than accepted on the risky ways to the clubs, to the dead animals on the dancefloor, just waiting like a deer in the headlights to be run over by the sound.

The Berlin located Band Supershirt - born in Rostock on the Baltic Sea - have grown into a trio after the release of their hit album "8000 Mark" and the over-hit single "8000 Mark". Timo Katze reinforced Tim Brenner and Faxe System since early 2010 on the six-string axe. On their never ending 8000 Mark-Tour they now have played over 100 concerts. Once trying to blackmail their label with sending a Rambo knife but this being  misunderstood by the the gray-haired codger Lewerenz, Supershirt are now a real part of the family.

In the meantime Captain Capa have saved themselves from the dreariness of their Thuringian spa-town life, by quietly devoting to the magic of various beat machines and synthetic music production. It took them less than a year from the first self burned EP to the epic pop longplayer debut on Cobretti Records. The careful guidance by their Audiolith buddies Bratze, Egotronic or Juri Gagarin took the guys on the stages of the german rave hells, where they feel completely contented. Since then they make every coffepot rattle in joy with their chiptune infected dancepop escapades.

The title song - the cooperation of both bands - "Tote Tiere" together with a video will be available as a free [sic!] download. The songs "Dein Monster" and "Whales" shall appear as the first edition of the Audiolith-split singles series on 7" vinyl. The whole package - that is five songs plus remixes by Deaf Danger and Umami - will be released digitally on every relevant store from Amazon to iTuneZ.

And remember: Even the most delicious look can deceive, you do not eat animals that end with "X" - Beware of fox, ox, ibex, addax, hyrax, lynx and sphinx! 


Supershirt & Captain Capa - Tote Tiere

Captain Capa - Berlin Fainting
Video: http://youtu.be/UJLUEif56kA
iTunes: http://bit.ly/SRJUGj 
Amazon: http://amzn.to/SKAcEB
Audiolith:  http://bit.ly/THI3iV 

Free Download:
Captain Capa - Berlin Fainting (Dadajugend Polyform Edit)  http://snd.sc/ZIOvMn
Captain Capa - Berlin Fainting (Fuzz Galaxy Buzz Remix) http://snd.sc/ZINGD3


Captain Capa!

Andy Chaschin