Jeans Team

The direct, punkishly simple electronic pop of Berlin's Jeans Team slotted in perfectly with the electroclash wave of the early 2000s, although they both predated and outlived the phenomenon. The group started out in 1995 at the Berlin-Mitte nightclub Gallerie Berlintokio, where Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort, the club's co-founders, began appearing as a video/performance art duo. (This period is preserved in Baby, a 45-minute video from 1996.) Taking the name Jeans Team from an abandoned neon sign they found on a shop in Berlin's Wedding district -- a relic from the 1970s th...