{"id":850,"date":"2025-09-18T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.etropolis-festival.de\/act\/zweite-jugend\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:26:02","slug":"zweite-jugend","status":"publish","type":"act","link":"https:\/\/etropolis-festival.de\/en\/act\/zweite-jugend\/","title":{"rendered":"ZWEITE JUGEND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Line-up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zweite Jugend consists of two people: Marcel L\u00fcke (drums) and Eli van Vegas (vocals, sequences). Marcel also plays with J\u00e4ger 90 and H\u00e4tzer and is a permanent member of Combat Company. Eli is the founder and permanent member of Combat Company, trafo21, and formerly Medien. Krebs.Therapie. Both are involved in other projects from time to time, mostly for live performances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marcel and Eli met as friends back in 2009. Over time, their friendship grew to such an extent that Marcel took over tour management for Eli&#8217;s band Combat Company and accompanied the band to all their concerts from around 2011 onwards. After a musical crisis in 2012, Eli decided to establish Marcel as an additional drummer in the band to bring new impetus and appeal to the music. Initially intended purely as a live drummer, Marcel quickly became an integral part of Combat Company. In the summer of 2013, Marcel and Eli had the idea for a side project and even had a name ready: Zweite Jugend (Second Youth). With the founding members of Combat Company splitting up in spring 2015 \u2013 Eli continues Combat Company together with Marcel \u2013 Marcel and Eli decided to seize the opportunity and actually form the band. Shortly afterwards, the two rehearsed a cover show they had already played with Combat Company, which was performed as a replacement for a private concert in July 2015 in place of Combat Company. The songs are almost exclusively derived from old punk music, which suited the guys only as an attitude \u2013 not as a fundamental guide for songwriting and sound \u2013 and so they began writing their own songs in September 2015. The two musicians share a common vision: Zweite Jugend&#8217;s music should be minimalistic, purely analog, pure, yet provocative and aggressive. This runs through all of their songs. A slight reference to the early works of DAF, Nitzer Ebb, and Die Krupps is essential here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since 2016 \/ Love Is Luxury &amp; Electronic Body Music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In October 2015, Zweite Jugend released two \u201cdemo videos\u201d (\u201cHoch die Tassen!\u201d and \u201cLiebe Ist Luxus\u201d), which were intended to give a preview of the work to come on social media. In October and November, they played their first concerts, and due to the enormous feedback on the videos, Marcel and Eli spontaneously decided to release a demo EP entitled \u201cKleines Vorspiel\u201d before the album \u2013 produced in a hurry, as things were moving fast. The edition was strictly limited to 100 copies and sold out within a few weeks. After a concert tour in March and April 2016, the first full album, \u201cLiebe ist Luxus,\u201d was finally released in July. It included the scene hit \u201cHoch die Tassen!\u201d among a total of twelve songs. Several more concerts took the band to the \u201cWGT EBM Warm-up 2017\u201d at the Felsenkeller in Leipzig, among other venues. Music videos for<br \/>\n\u201cHoch die Tassen!\u201d and \u201cEurotr\u00e4ume\u201d were also produced and released. After the album sold out and received widespread acclaim from the scene, Marcel and Eli decided to produce their second album in 2018. Over a period of more than a year, eleven new songs were written, some of which were already tried out on stage during the course of the year. The album was finally recorded in October 2018 in the band&#8217;s own studio. \u201cElektronische K\u00f6rpermusik\u201d is more mature and grown-up than the debut album, but remains true to Zweite Jugend&#8217;s concept in terms of content and sound. In December 2018, the band released the single \u201cLeah und Alissa,\u201d taken from the album, and also produced a music video for it. \u201cElektronische K\u00f6rpermusik\u201d was released on March 1, 2019. 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