Meute: The Eleven-Piece Techno Marching Band

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Meute: The Eleven-Piece Techno Marching Band

Meute is an eleven piece marching band that fuses hypnotic techno sounds with expertly executed instrumentation. The techno project from Hamburg, Germany, composes a wholly  unique sound, infusing electronic music with the unique musical capabilities of a full acoustic arrangement. 

The band has attracted a lot of attention with their “reworks” of tracks by popular electronic artists like Flume, deadmau5, Dennis Ferrer, and Oscar House. 

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First State Studios Top 3 Songs We Hope To See Performed At Firefly
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1. Hey Hey 
Originally by Dennis Ferrer, this track shows the vocal capabilities of the band. 

2. You & Me
A remix of the Disclosure and Flume song like you've never heard before.

3. Rej 
Xylophones and trumpets have never gone this hard at Firefly!! 

Just Like Band Practice..

When Meute begins their set onstage (or, perhaps just as often, among the crowd down below)  it might begin to feel like you are at some psychedelic halftime show. All eleven members of the band don the quintessential red jackets that are reminiscent of high school band practice. However, their sound is far from that, with the drumline and brass sections swirling around punchy stabs to add completely new elements to classic techno kicks and drops.

In an interview with reporter Kalin Pashaliev for Music in Africa, Meute founder Thomas Burhorn spoke on the inspiration for the band’s musical direction. 

“We always thought that there was big potential in the chemical reaction between these two high energetic elements: the directness of an acoustic marching band together with the archaic simplicity of techno music. We thought that this could be huge. But of course, we didn't expect that so many people would also love the idea.”

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