Stereo Total

A witty French-German duo with a kitchen-sink approach to pop music, Berlin's Stereo Total combined punk, hip-hop, disco, '60s pop, and rock from France, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as electro and new wave elements, into their own intentionally subversive trashy style. Taking inspiration from all the reminders of socialism that East Berliners threw away in the early '90s, Françoise Cactus and Brezel Goring's early albums, such as 1995's Oh Ah!, were vibrant, noisy collages of styles relegated to the trash heap and tongue-in-cheek covers of hits ranging from KC & the Sunshi...