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In 2005 the band made a breakthrough with the hit “Through the Monsoon”. There followed further chart placements, sold out concerts, shrieking fans and international successes. Then 2010 suddenly the withdrawal of Bill and Tom Kaulitz to Los Angeles

Now Tokio Hotel is back in Germany after seven years and has a new label and album. “Dream Machine” appeared on March 3 and is hardly recognizable musically. Instead of rock, there is the new Synth-pop in the 80s style, the German songs were replaced by English texts and vocals.

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(10.03.2017)


Tokio Hotel are among the most commercially successful musicians from Germany, with up to now 7 million sold Albums. After the departure from the major label Universal, the band is now under contract with the ProSiebenSat.1 subsidiary Starwatch Entertainment. In addition to singer Bill Kaulitz and multi-instrumentalist Tom Kaulitz, bassist Georg Listing and drummer Gustav Schäfer belong to the Tokio Hotel (photo: Lado Alexi).

Through the monsoon – and back on top!

After almost three years of work, Tokio Hotel will return to the spotlight this spring with a completely new sound and new album. I met the four full-blown musicians for the music and recording magazine “Beat” to an astonishing, relaxed and open chat about the production of the “Dream Machine” recorded in Los Angeles and Berlin.

Really, Google? “. I look at my smartphone and distrust the directions in “Maps”. It will be over field roads. And of course it’s raining. “By the monsoon,” I muttered murmur to myself. But actually: At the end of the muddy paths, an old commercial area off Berlin is waiting for me. And in that the studio-ship of Black Box Music, where in addition to a technology rental are also various rehearsals and interview lofts. And a lot of space.

A successful environment for a reboot. And that was urgently needed in the case of Tokio Hotel. The 2014 album “Kings of Suburbia” could no longer build on the rushing successes of its predecessors, a clear musical line could not be identified and the long-standing no longer a reality of a mature band with the previous major label ran out. The fact that Tokio Hotel would once more stick to the ephemeral enthusiasm of a teenager generation now reaching the age of 30 appeared more than uncertain.

(10.03.2017)

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Exclusive dress rehearsal from Tokio Hotel
Shortly before the tour start, selected fans could see the new Live Show

On March 12, 2017, the Dream Machine Tour of Tokio Hotel starts. But already on Thursday evening, 9th March, three days before the start of the tour, 80 selected fans were allowed to participate in an exclusive rehearsal at the “Black Box” in Berlin. Including our winners Paula and Juliane. Both agreed before the concert: a better gift could not have existed for them.

The four guys have already shown in the small, intimate setting that everyone can look forward to a great show. For weeks alone, the stage design and lighting technology and also singer Bill Kaulitz offer a lot for the eye: he has put four unusual costumes on the stage yesterday alone.

In addition to songs from the current album “Dream Machine”, there was also a single title in German – their debut single “Durch den Monsun”. Here the fans were of course all textsicher! For Juliane, there was a very special moment: She grabbed the plectrum (guitar pick) of Tom.

Now they are working on the last touches and then go on a big tour. Including an appointment with us in the SAW country: radio SAW presents you the concert on 1 April 2017 in the house Auensee in Leipzig.

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(01.03.2017)

Dream Machine – This is the new album from Tokio Hotel

Berlin / Magdeburg –

The music goes on, the red balloon rises. To heaven, into the universe. You yourself are floating on a string. Feels somehow high by listening alone. – These thoughts could come up with the one who heard the new album of Tokio Hotel for the first time. It will appear on March 3.

Actually a nice picture.” Bill Kaulitz grins. This is quite true. After all, the record bears the name “Dream Machine”. The four in Germany are once again on the scene. A comeback is not, says Bill’s brother Tom Kaulitz. “We never felt like we had stopped.”

Tokio Hotel have “always made music”

We have always made music,” says the guitarist. “We only had the problem that Somehow our personalities were more interesting.” The Magdeburgers wanted to create this twist again, as in the album almost three years ago (“Kings of Suburbia”). There should be no tabloid press. Focus on the music. Only the hype remained – before the Kaulitz brothers then escaped to Los Angeles.

The other two lived at the home. Bass player Georg Listing celebrated his 29th birthday. Drummer Gustav Schäfer became a father. Teenie stars will also grow up. Like their music. At least something is close.

The band of Tom and Bill Kaulitz was almost exclusively present on old posters

However, the band did not leave any earlier. In the production of the new record a bit of “nostalgia” had been there, says the Magdeburger. While Tokio Hotel for their German fans were more present on old posters than on big stages, the friends had returned to the musical origin.

Without a producer, without prescriptions, with “incredibly much unhealthy food”, they joined the studio in 2015. “And then we saw where the trip was going,” says Listing.

“Dream Machine” is the dream album of Tokio Hotel

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