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Bud Spencer und Terence Hill waren gestern...Ein schlagfertiges Rap-Tag-Team ist im Begriff wieder neues Feuer im Bielefelder-Untergrund zu entfachen. 
Simply Rap!, bestehend aus Tobzen und Afree, ist seit 2012 in dieser Formation aktiv, um gemeinsame musikalische Visionen zu connecten und zu verwirklichen. 
Die gemeinsamen Wurzeln reichen nunmehr 8 jahre zurück, wo man in der alten Heimat Steinhagen bei ersten Freestyle-Sessions aufeinandertraf. 
In den folgenden Jahren machten Beide ihre ersten Schritte mit eigenen Projekten. 
Mit den Jungs von Sinnfusion war Afree auf einigen Jams im Bielefelder-Umkreis unterwegs und veröffentlichte im Jahre 2007 die „Bestandsaufnahme“-EP .Etwa zur gleichen Zeit veröffentlichte Tobzen mit der Air Morden Klikk und dem Psytology-Kollektiv erste LPs und sammelte ebenfalls Liveerfahrungen. 
Der weitere Werdegang war geprägt von der legendären „Ranz-Wg“, in der sie gemeinsam wohnten und in vollen Zügen das Leben zelebrierten.
Hier entstanden erste Tracks in der gegenwärtigen Kombo unter unzumutbaren Umständen, was die Zwei aber nicht davon abhielt weiter dranzubleiben und immer mehr musikalisches Material anzusammeln. 
Resultate der exzessiven Sessions sind mittlerweile auf dem „Stick Up Tape“ verewigt und werden in absehbarer Zeit auf der ersten EP zu hören sein. Let´s get ready to ruuuuuuumble!!!

UPCOMING

PAST
⊹⊹08.11.25⊹⊹ Blue Rider Radio
⊹⊹08.09.25⊹⊹ Subbah Forest Rave
⊹⊹08.08.25⊹⊹ Bordello Aperitivo
⊹⊹03.25⊹⊹ Good Bar
⊹⊹11.24⊹⊹ Good Bar
⊹⊹06.07.24⊹⊹ Bordello Aperitivo
⊹⊹19.06.24⊹⊹ Radio Sofa
⊹⊹15.06.24⊹⊹ forest rave
⊹⊹07.06.24⊹⊹ Folder FM - Borisov
⊹⊹ 23.05.24⊹⊹ Kino for Your Ears - Ventilator Cinema
⊹⊹ 04.05.24⊹⊹ OCCII (Bandgurl)
⊹⊹ 25.04.24⊹⊹ Speaking Rhythms - TitsOut4Snacks x OT301
⊹⊹ 06.04.24⊹⊹ Cyborgian Echo Expo @ NDSM Treehouse
⊹⊹ 28.03.24 ⊹⊹ UvA 𝔹𝕠𝕖𝕜𝕗𝕖𝕤𝕥
⊹⊹ 26.03.24⊹⊹ StrandedFM
⊹⊹ 21.03.24 ⊹⊹ ɖཞɱ ųŋıɬ x 𝕲𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖔
⊹⊹ 09.03.24⊹⊹ TNP Radio
⊹⊹ 08.03.24⊹⊹ Big Toilet Radio - Women’s Day Special
⊹⊹ 02.03.24⊹⊹𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗻 x 𝐹𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐼𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒫𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝐹𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 (cafe x expo room)
⊹⊹ 24.02.24 ⊹⊹ Pretty//Ugly Presents: Youniss, BUG, Kiss my Knoblauch, & Factory Girl @ ℜ𝔬𝔬𝔡𝔨𝔞𝔭𝔧𝔢
⊹⊹ 02.02.24 ⊹⊹𝒯𝒩𝒫 𝑅𝒶𝒹𝒾𝑜
⊹⊹ 24.11.23 ⊹⊹ 𝒸𝑜𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑜𝓇𝑒 {⋆⌘⋆} 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝚃𝚘𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 - 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞
⊹⊹ 20.10.23 ⊹⊹ Kruispunt & Pacific Ondergronds Presenteren Amsterdam Punk Event @ Garage Noord
⊹⊹ 17.08.23 ⊹⊹ Kruispunt Presents - Slipgevaar @ Garage Noord
⊹⊹ 24.06.23 ⊹⊹ Pretty//Ugly Presents @ OCCII with Swan Meat, Tonto and Red Shades
⊹⊹ 11.06.23 ⊹⊹ AUC Dormsessions @ De VerbroederIJ
⊹⊹ 14.04.23 ⊹⊹ Unlikely Animal Friends - TNP Radio
⊹⊹ 03.02.23 ⊹⊹ Echobox Presents
⊹⊹ 25.11.12 ⊹⊹ TNP Radio
⊹⊹ 19.11.22 ⊹⊹ Vondelbunker Halloween
⊹⊹ 25.03.22 ⊹⊹ La Fam x The Platform community day afterparty @ Studio K
⊹⊹ 23.03.22 ⊹⊹ Wednesdays on Web Radio
⊹⊹ 16.03.22 ⊹⊹ Het Bedrijf Radio
⊹⊹ 10.02.21 ⊹⊹ Wednesdays on Web Radio
⊹⊹ 21.02.19 ⊹⊹ Scopophilia Liberation Party

SHORT BIO:

Factory Girl is interested in music as the unspoken language, using her sets to explore mercurial narratives which take inspiration and direct samples from literature and other media to create points of emotional tension and resolution. She weaves together everything from harsh noise to folk, jungle, juke, trip-hop, dub, noise and an array of ambient sounds.

LONG BIO:

the “factory girl” was a step in the assembly line of production, industrial or creative. 19th century textile weavers or Edie Sedgwick. worker or muse, never the auteur.

in the 19th-century, immigrants poured into Ellis Island and constituted the new working class. women began working outside the home, and it was these “factory girls” who bastioned the hidden foundations of New York’s economy, fashion and culture. this new generation of more liberated women took smoke breaks and became the first “dating class” who could go out and spend their own cash at cafes and diners and dance to live music late into the night. they were still severely oppressed and limited by class, grueling and dangerous work, rarely able to express themselves creatively, and subject to die at any moment in a factory fire.

skip to Edie Sedgwick, one of the first influencers, relatively untalented and famous for doing nothing. nicknamed “Factory Girl” by Andy Warhol, there was a palpable contrast between her (she had a trust fund and was an actress for fun) and the working class. still, she suffered in her own way as her mental illness was exacerbated by violations from every side. Warhol, Bob Dylan, and other men cast her as their muse, then left her to rot when she no longer served their purposes.

although Edie was far removed from the factory girls before her, the parallels were there. Warhol called his studio a factory and he was busy churning out commodities with the help of unsung female models, helpers, etc. I think in both cases the term “factory girl” was a little affectionate but mostly derogatory because it was totalizing: whether you were a 19th century weaver in a textile factory or Edie, a factory girl is all you were, a step in the assembly line and never the auteur.

I am inspired by the indomitable spirits of the factory girls before me, cogs in the machine of industrialization who must’ve brought a feminine sensitivity, attentiveness and care to otherwise mindless work. even if they didn’t have time or energy to make their own art or music, or be recognized as artists, I’m sure they found ways to express themselves how they could.

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