Twine & "Lämpchen" Ben

Mühlviertel’s “Wackelkontakt” causes a hit on the net

Zwirn frontman Jürgen Maier and his nephew Ben in the million-clicked video clip

(Bild: Screenshot Instagram/zwirn.band)

A mountain hut hit, an alpine remix and a dancing nephew as a flashing floor lamp - the Mühlviertel band Zwirn has created a real viral hit with their new version of the Oimara earworm "Wackelkontakt". Unbelievable: over 1.3 million (!) people have already clicked on the accompanying video.

If I were a piece of furniture, I'd be a lamp from the seventies. I like to glow, I like to go out, I like to blow the fuses" - these are the opening lines of "Wackelkontakt", the song by Bavarian singer-songwriter Oimara, which has become an absolute hit in the mountains. Whether at après-ski, alpine festivals or in the car: the catchy tune can currently be heard everywhere.

"It deserves an Alpine version"
Recently also as a rocking alpine version by the Mühlviertel band "Zwirn". Frontman Jürgen Maier in an interview with the "Krone": "We thought to ourselves: this song is banging out of all the huts, it deserves an Alpine version!" No sooner said than done: the band gave the hit a good dose of Alpine flair, complemented by crisp accordion sounds and their unmistakable "Zwirn charm".

Little "Zwirn" inspires as a flashing floor lamp
But the real coup came with the accompanying video clip: Singer Jürgen picks up the guitar while his nephew Ben dances across the stage as a flashing floor lamp in a seventies look - a tongue-in-cheek homage to the song lines and a real eye-catcher. Social media is celebrating: the clip has collected 1.2 million views on Instagram in the last ten days.

Little Ben is anything but a stranger to "Krone" readers and "Krone" festival fans. At the latter, he proved as a four-year-old that he had the entertainer genes of his dad Siegi and uncle Jürgen when he warbled the Zwirn summer hit "Locker" into the microphone.