Song
Jet Lag
Running time
3:13 Minutes
Time of origin and release
1989 (production, officially unpublished)
Music, lyrics and production
Music: Ide Hintze
Lyrics: Falco, Ide Hintze
Producer: Ide Hintze
About the song
This sampling number was also produced in 1989 by Christian Ide Hintze, a Viennese poet, action artist, performance and multimedia poet. Falco and Hintze met in the same year, and shortly afterwards Hintze began crafting songs using music he had composed and Falco’s vocal samples taken from the poet’s answering machine.
The drum machine determines the sound, in the background you can hear a gentle synthesizer tone sequence and a small guitar riff. The song is dominated by Hintze’s sung lyrics, which are incomprehensible and only function on a phonetic level. Falco’s contribution („Ob ich dich noch kenne?“, „Absolut jet lag“, „I’m quite sure“) of course makes no sense either, given the origin of these recordings.
Like the other sampling songs from 1989 (with the exception of Ein Tag), this track was never officially released; it can only be found on a CD-R that Hintze burned himself, which later ended up in the archives of the literary scholar Peter Ernst.
Less a song than an experiment, this track won’t excite even the biggest Falco fan.
Lyrics
J-J-Jet
Ob ich dich noch kenne?
Ob ich dich noch kenne?
Absolute jet lag
Absolute jet lag
Ob ich dich noch kenne?
Ob ich dich noch kenne?
Absolute
Absolute
A Do Do Dekn Da Ham
A Do Do Dekn Da Ham
A Do Do Dekn Da Ham
A Do Do Dekn Da Ham
A Do Do Dekn Do Bo
A Do Do Dekn Do Bo
A Do Do Dekn Do Bo
A Do Do Dekn Do Bo
A ha
Na na
Na na na
Du Du Na
Na na
A ha
Du Du Na
Talking
Talking
J-J-Jet lag
J-J-Jet
J-J-Jet lag
J-J-Jet
14… ah… September 89
14… ah… one hour
Talking
14… ah… September 89
14… ah… jet lag
Talking
14… ah… September 89
14… ah…
Maria
14… ah… September 89
14… ah… September
Correct
Correct
Correct
True
Correct!
True
Correct und true
Correct
True
Correct und true
I’m quite sure, sure
A ha
Na na
Na na na
Du Du Na
Na na
A ha
A ha
Du Du Na
Talking
Talking
After jet lag
Talking
After jet lag
Talking
After jet lag
Talking
After jet lag
Talking
A ha
Na na
Na na na
Du Du Na
Na na
A ha
A ha
Du Du Na
14… j-j-jet lag
14… j-j-jet
14… j-j-jet lag
14… j-j-jet
Ob ich dich noch kenne?
J-J-Jet
14… j-j-jet
Ob ich dich noch kenne?
J-J-Jet
14… j-j-jet
14… j-j-jet lag
14… j-j-jet
14… j-j-jet lag
14… j-j-jet
14… j-j-jet lag
14… j-j-jet
14… ah… j-j-jet lag
14… j-j-jet lag
Note: Falco sings in the text blocks shown normally, Ide Hintze sings in the text blocks shown in italics.
The samples with Falco’s voice come from mini-cassette recordings that Ide Hintze’s answering machine made of Falco’s telephone messages in 1989.
My text version is based on the text supplements of the official releases (booklet, inlay, cover etc.), if available. However, all lyrics were tapped and corrected according to the sung word. For songs where no lyric supplements are available, my version is based solely on the sung word or also on lyrics circulating on the Internet. Text passages sung in dialect are in moderate transliteration. Spelling errors, both German and English, were corrected in glaring cases. The spelling is based partly on the spelling valid at the time (text supplements), partly on the new spelling (own interceptions). Punctuation marks have generally been omitted. I am grateful for any suggestions for improvement.