Jeans Team

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Jeans Team are a Berlin-based electronic music group. The group was founded by Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort 1995 in the borough of Wedding and started as a duo as a video art performance group. Jeans Team took their name from a blue and white curved neon sign that hung on a street in the Wedding district above a shoe shop that had previously sold jeans. In 1996, Franz Schütte and Reimo Herfort helped to set up Galerie Berlintokyo, a multi-purpose gallery and performing artspace at Hackescher Markt in Berlin. Early shows performed in the venue by Schütte and Herfort's consisted of a pre-produced 45-minute video film called Baby, to which they contributed electronic sounds. The performance was recorded on VHS, were subsequently sold in the gallery with each video cassette inserted in a self-sewn bag made of denim. In 1997, Gunther Kreis and Henning Watkinson joined founders Schütte and Herfort. In 1999, the Jeans Team recorded their debut album Ding Dong and after the release in June 2000 on Kitty-Yo they toured Germany.. Following the release Jeans Team performed a number of concerts at music festivals including the 2000 Benicàssim Festival, 2001 Roskilde Festival and Melt Festival. Jeans Team would split with Kitty-Yo records when long time collaborator Patrick Wagner left the company.