GRENZKONTROLLE

In the artist's words:

In 2020, a then 22-year-old quoted the words of his role model Fred Hampton in an agitated voice: "We don't think you fight fire with fire best". The whole thing takes place at a demonstration of the Black Lives Matter movement on Alexanderplatz in Berlin.

In the year 2025, the now 27-year-old Gaspár Ali stands in front of a castle in a postcard motif and shouts "I can only react to hate with hate". It is the debut song"REVOLUTION" by the punk band GRENZKONTROLLE, whose singer is Don L. Gaspár Ali.

What has happened in the years since 2020 to change his attitude from the words of civil rights activist Fred Hampton to those very words? Anyone who seriously expects an answer to this question must have been in a coma, or is blinded by innate privilege to the dramatic social, climatic and political upheavals.

GRENZKONTROLLE are the angry four-piece collective we need right now! Lyrics about unaffordable housing, somewhere between Fehlfarben, Neue Deutsche Welle, but also the rage of US rap.