Tocotronicis a German rockband founded in 1993. Similar to Blumfeld, Tocotronic not only innovated German language rock music, but also inspired a number of later bands. Their influence on pop culture is widespread, from fashion (Tocotronic made the combination of 1970s style track suit tops with cheap second-hand ad-shirts famous in Germany) to the playful and weird look of their early records. Tocotronic are from Hamburg and are released on L'Age D'Or, together with Die Sterne- forming the so-called hamburger schule("School of Hamburg"). However, they dislike this classification; they rather like to see their music as "discursive-rock", which emphasizes their rather intellectual approach on pop music.
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