Music / SDP

"Wir sind keine Band — wir sind eine Verschwörung!"^note We're not a band — we're a conspiracy!
— "Du hast gehofft" ("You Were Hoping")

SDP (an abbreviation of StoneDeafProductions) is a German hip-hop/pop duo based in Berlin, consisting of Vincent Stein and Dag-Alexis Kopplin. They are known for high-energy music and irreverent lyrics, which often make heavy use of the Berlinerisch dialect.

They first formed in 1999 and released their first studio album in 2004. For live performances, their band normally consists of Raphael Seidel (bass), Phil Sunday (guitar), Thilo Brandt (drums), and Mad Maks (DJ).

Not to be confused with the SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands), a major German political party.

Discography

Albums

• Räuberpistolen ("Thieves' Pistols," 2004)
• ...Nur Musik ist schöner ("...Only Music is Nicer," 2006)
• Die Rache des kleinen Mannes ("The Revenge of the Short Man," 2008)
• Kontrastprogramm ("Contrast Program," 2010)
• Die bekannteste unbekannte Band der Welt ("The Best-Known Unknown Band in the World," 2012)
• Bunte Rapublik Deutschpunk ("Colorful Rap-ublic of Ger-punk,"^note A play on Germany's official name, Bundesrepublik Deutschland or "Federal Republic of Germany, 2014)
• Zurück in die Zukunst ("Back to the Future/Art,"^note A play on Zurück in die Zukunft, "Back to the Future;" Kunst means "art" 2015)
• Die bunte Seite der Macht ("The Colorful Side of Power," 2017)
• Die unendlichste Geschichte ("The Most Neverending Story," 2019)
• Ein gutes schlechtes Vorbild ("A Good Bad Example," 2022)

EPs

• Wir sind SDP ("We Are SDP," 2005)
• Antifußballmusik ("Anti-Soccer Music," 2006)
• ...hast du mal ein Problem ("...You Got a Problem?", 2006)
• Anfangen Anzufangen ("Starting to Start," 2007)
• Antiknutmusik ("Anti-Knut Music," 2007)
• Fragen über Fragen ("Questions About Questions," 2007)
• Ganz oder gar nicht ("All or Nothing," 2008)
• Wasserski fahr'n ("Waterskiing," 2008)
• So genial ("So Awesome," 2008)
• Meine Welt ("My World," 2008)
• Ne Leiche ("A Dead Body," 2010)
• Ich steh auf Hausfrauen ("I Like Housewives," 2011)
• Wir ticken nicht ganz sauber ("We Don't Work Too Cleanly," 2012)
• Zeit verschwenden ("Wasting Time," 2016)

Tropes present in their bunte Musik include:

• All Men Are Perverts: Their song "Wer ficken will muss freundlich sein" ("Those who want to fuck need to be friendly") accuses men of feigning affection to get sex out of women and then bailing.
  Frauen täuschen nen Orgasmus vor, Männer, die Liebe^note "Women fake orgasms, men fake love"
  Und wenn du sagst, das stimmt so nicht, dann kennst du noch nicht viele^note "And if you say that isn't true, then you haven't met that many"
• Cover Version: Most notably of Extrabreit's song "Hurra, hurra, die Schule brennt" ("Hurrah, Hurrah, the School's on Fire"). It has more aggressive lyrics with modern slang, but it does feature references to the original version.
• Disposing of a Body: Their song "'Ne Leiche" ("A Dead Body" or "A Corpse") is about finding a dead body in your basement and listing all kinds of strategies, both plausible and implausible, to get rid of it. Candidates include chopping it up and throwing a barbecue for all your friends, building a rocket and shooting it to the moon, and sending to Afghanistan or Iraq ("no one will notice, tons of people die there every day!").
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: Generally Turkish — often for the purpose of sounding "hood" (or the closest German equivalent). There's also some Gratuitous English, but it rarely exceeds the boundaries of anglicisms already accepted in German slang.
  "Und wenn ich Türkisch könnte, würd ich sagen, 'çok güzel'!"^note "And if I could speak Turkish, I'd say 'çok güzel' (very beautiful)!"
• Implausible Deniability: The song "Ich wars nicht" ("It Wasn't Me") advises the listener to respond to being caught red-handed at indiscretions large and small by simply saying "it wasn't me."