Headphones #108: Regulars’ table brothers with humor

As you slowly get closer to midlife, you begin to ask yourself where you stand in what you do. The same thing happened to the men from Da Staummtisch.

Their current album “Nirwana” is in a way the band’s positioning in a culture that is more than 50 years old, but still seems young. “You still associate hip-hop with being young, motivated, new,” says Andreas “Antrue” Staudinger in an OÖN interview. And Hannes “Freistil” Puchner reminds us that hip-hop was still largely a youth culture when the people of Linz entered the scene two decades ago.

“Is our music still young?”

Are we still cool? Or are we already old and only make young music? And: Is our music even young? It was questions of this kind that the trio (Roland “Roleee Solo” Glockner is the third member of the Staummtisch band) concerned themselves with for “Nirwana”. You can hear the answer in the 12 songs. In short, you could say: They still have the fire, are true to their style and, despite all the understandable criticism of the time and its grievances, they have not lost their sense of humor. “There always has to be a laugh,” says Staudinger. “We also like to make insults in private.”

The wink makes songs like “Stödinedsoau” just as special as “Kreiz min Kreiz”, and “Schau ma moi” takes the Austrian mentality to task, according to which not every crisis automatically ends in a catastrophe. At the end of “Nirwana” there is a song called “Letzta Tog” that shows that the three of them are a little older. The message is clear: don’t put anything off. “This is a call for reflection,” says Puchner.

In the dialect (“she has charm”), the hip-hop musicians don’t want to point fingers, but rather build a bridge between generations. “Nirvana” is the musical calling card of a band where they are right now. Good this way.

Da Staummtisch “Nirwana” (Tonträger Records)