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MILKY CHANCE
BY KAITLYN HARRISON
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hey always said school would be the beginning of your life, to pay attention and gain those skills before you slip under the system just passing to graduate and we all listened sarcastically.
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Clemens Rehbein and Philipp Dausch, the duo famously known as Milky Chance, scoped each other out in their earliest of years of school and immediately clicked. Together they graduated secondary school at Jacob-Grimm-Schule and played in a band until the drummer quit, leaving the two with just each other. The boys built a
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tiny studio in Clemens’ parents house and got to work on their debut album. Within two weeks, they self-produced their album Sadnecessary, which was released in 2013. Two songs from this album, “Stolen Dance” and “Down by the River,” hit the charts in Germany and eastern Europe, with “Stolen Dance” becoming a number one hit for them. Milky Chance’s music is a collection of alternative pop folk rock with electronic and reggae influences, a melting pot of genres that open up a wide range fan base in itself.
There are dozens of remixes with more EDM influences than the original, however their work is an earful of art in itself. “Flashed Junk Mind,” off Milky Chance’s Sadnecessary, is a personal favorite for it’s upbeat reggae tones. For the better part of 2014, Milky Chance has been touring Europe to sold out venues. Their goal of promoting their music far exceeded their predictions as the numbers kept growing. They are currently playing a string of festival dates, including Dockville Festival in Hamburg.
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