{"id":2799,"date":"2013-06-14T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T08:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bsrumybg.myraidbox.de\/wordpress\/reif-fur-die-insel-fraktus-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T09:11:03","slug":"ripe-for-the-island-fraktus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibiza-style.com\/en\/ripe-for-the-island-fraktus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripe for the island – Fraktus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The (almost true) return of techno pioneers Fraktus is closely bound up with Ibiza. Whilst Dickie Schubert and Bernd Lade stayed at home after the trio split up, Soundfrickler and the wearer of knitted caps, Torsten Bage, were drawn to the island<\/p>\n

Islands have always featured in the story of rock and pop music. Songs such as Madonna’s “La Isla Bonita”, Belafonte’s “Island in the sun” or Die \u00c4rzte\u2019s anthem “Westerland” are as much a part of the mindscape as the Isle of Wight festival, the Sziget festival on an island in the Danube near Budapest or the Rock’n Roll Butterfahrt to Helgoland. Then there\u2019s Jimi Hendrix\u2019s last live concert: where else but the Isle of Fehmarn?<\/p>\n

“Fraktus” director Lars Jessen (“Dorfpunks”) has done his homework and knows full well the island\u2019s importance as a refuge for chart toppers. For instance, Michel Cretu once lived on the west coast of Ibiza. It\u2019s true that Trio\u2019s Stefan Remmler wasn\u2019t actually there: he headed for Lanzarote. Unlike Stefan Zauner who swapped Munich\u2019s freedom for Ibiza\u2019s. Film producer Klaus Maeck on the choice of location: “Nowadays Ibiza and Mallorca are the islands where German mainstream pop producers can make good money and do so while soaking up the sunshine. This doesn\u2019t only go for DJs supplying their partying pals on holiday with dance music.”<\/p>\n

How does the DJ himself see it, what does Torsten Bage have to say? He\u2019s not exactly over the moon to be here. “The island\u2019s a scrapheap of hippies and disco hangers-on. Practically all I do is commute between my finca and the disco. That\u2019s according to the man with the knitted cap and the tramp stamp. Bage forms part of the band Fraktus whose made-up story Jensen\u2019s film tells in such loving detail that you simply wish you could believe them. Congenial like Bage – frustrated at being denied entrance to the history of pop music, disgusted by his contemporary audience \u2013 hanging around on the terrace of \u201cHierro de Puta\u201d as he calls his finca.<\/p>\n

One shouldn\u2018t make the mistake of tarring Germans\u2019 favourite islands with the same brush. Klaus Maeck chuckles when he recalls filming. \u201cIt was weird when we wanted Willi Herren to appear at a nightclub in Ibiza considering that what he produces is Mallorca sound. We had to film before the crowds arrived in the disco and needed extras because instead of inspiring them to dance, our song \u201cGeilianer\u201d would have driven the clubbers away,\u201d said Maeck about the subtle differences in the target group.<\/p>\n

In the film the island finally comes across as steeped in history, cathartic meaning even. Where better for the band to meet up again after 25 years? They party and drink, dance and argue. In the end they sum up the reunion: “That\u2019s just how I feel. Or how Fraktus so inimitably put it in song: “Oh, oh, oh yeh!\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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