Die Zähmung der Hydra is a 2012 German hip-hop album by Shaban & Käptn Peng.

[1][2] Johannes Gwisdek was then a full time musician, with experience in music creation for plays and movies, and DJing.

Before the album's release, Robert Gwisdek had moved out of Berlin to his parent's more rural home; there, he began to create rhymes about the forest creatures he saw.

[2] In an interview with the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, Robert Gwisdek denied the album was rap and that he was a rapper or that it was hip-hop, saying instead that he merely sung faster than average, criticizing the typical perception of what hip hop is thematically.

[1][3] In one track, they rap about two lovers who successively transform into different kinds of animals, first foxes and then albatrosses and pelicans.

As Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi they released another album a year later with a different approach, Expedition ins O, which received more attention.

He praised the album as "play[ing] with the German language in a way that is as eloquent, funny and full of enthusiasm as one has not heard for far too long".