Quadratur des Kreises
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| Quadratur des Kreises | ||||
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| Studio album by Freundeskreis | ||||
| Released | February 21, 1997 | |||
| Genre | German hip hop | |||
| Label | Four Music | |||
| Producer | Philippe Kayser | |||
| Freundeskreis chronology | ||||
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Quadratur des Kreises (German for "Squaring the circle") is the debut album by German hip hop group Freundeskreis. It hit #12 in Germany, #34 in Switzerland and #38 in Austria. Three singles were released from the album, the first one being the hit "A-N-N-A", which peaked at #6 in the German charts and reached the top 30 in Austria and Switzerland.
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Quadratur des Kreises (Intro)" ("Squaring the circle") | 2:43 |
| 2. | "Leg dein Ohr auf die Schiene der Geschichte" ("Put your ear on the tracks of history") | 5:11 |
| 3. | "Lasst Mich Nicht Alleine" ("Don't leave me alone") | 3:26 |
| 4. | "Enfants Terribles International" (French: "Terrible children international" feat. Déborah) | 5:20 |
| 5. | "Letzten Sonntag Bei Donato" ("Last sunday at Donato") | 1:24 |
| 6. | "A-N-N-A" (feat. Donato Wharton & Davide Petroca) | 6:06 |
| 7. | "Nachtrag" ("Addendum") | 0:37 |
| 8. | "Future Mothers" | 4:26 |
| 9. | "Vorspiel" ("Foreplay") | 0:38 |
| 10. | "Baby, wenn ich down bin" ("Baby, when I'm down" feat. Theresa J. Burnette) | 5:16 |
| 11. | "Cross The Tracks" (feat. Donato Wharton) | 4:56 |
| 12. | "Wenn der Vorhang fällt" ("When the curtain falls" feat. Wasi) | 4:15 |
| 13. | "Zwischenteil" ("Interlude") | 0:58 |
| 14. | "Overseas/Übersee" (feat. Afrob) | 6:53 |
| 15. | "Cassandra & Christina" | 0:34 |
| 16. | "Telefonterror" ("Telephone terror" feat. Cassandra Steen) | 5:45 |
| 17. | "Im Land der 1210er" ("In the land of the 1210s") | 4:21 |
| 18. | "Enfants Terribles" (French: "Terrible children") | 5:45 |
| 19. | "Easy At Last (Outro)" | 0:58 |
Singles[edit]
| Year | Title | Chart position | |||
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| Germany | Switzerland | Austria | |||
| 1997 | "A-N-N-A" | 6 | 15 | 27 | |
| 1997 | "Leg dein Ohr auf die Schiene der Geschiche" | — | — | — | |
| 1997 | "Wenn der Vorhang fällt" | 77 | — | — | |
Certifications[edit]
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Germany (BVMI)[1] | Gold | 250,000‡ |
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‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
External links[edit]
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- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Freundeskreis; 'Quadratur des Kreises')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 5 October 2017.