D/B Movie Feature: TRON:LEGACY / The Official Trailer

Posted on | March 9, 2010 | Michael Rosen | No Comments |

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years.

Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. Read more

D/B recommended: Natalie Beridze / TBA live in Berlin @ Hau2 / Friday, 19.03.2010

Posted on | March 9, 2010 | Dirk Markham | No Comments |

Following the release of her new album “Pending” on Laboratory Instinct last year and prior to the immanent release of her forthcoming album, “ForgetFulness” on monika enterprise, Georgian artist NATALIE BERIDZE aka TBA returns to Berlin for a live concert at HAU2 on Friday 19th March.

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Also playing on the night is RAZ OHARA AND THE ODD ORCHESTRA, making for a nice double-bill. Read more

D/B ALBUM FEATURE: EFTERKLANG / New Tour Dates & live in Berlin | Saturday, 08.05.2010 @ Astra Kulturhaus

Posted on | March 8, 2010 | Ariane Greiner | No Comments |

Ever heard of Efterklang? Efterklang [ε f t ∂ k l a η ], 1) danish word for “remembrance” or “reverberation”. 2) indie music group from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2000.

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Rarely, a band name has been more suitable: Whenever and wherever you hear Efterklang’s music, suddenly a wide space opens up right in front of you, or, perhaps, you’d better say: around you. It’s all about friendship, childhood and happyness and the never ebbing source of this trias. Read more

D/B Recommended: Mayer Hawthorne / New Video & Tour Dates / Live in Berlin 20.05.2010 @ Festsaal Kreuzberg

Posted on | March 4, 2010 | Radu Lupo | No Comments |

And he became more and more famous. After one secret and one totally sold out concert Mr. Mayer Hawthorn – Stones Throw’s soul singer with the hip-hop background is back in Berlin – this time in a larger venue.

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Most of the best music ever made came out of Detroit,” claims the singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, who counts Isaac Hayes, Leroy Hutson, Mike Terry, and Barry White among his influences, Read more

D/B recommended: Under Byen @ Admiralspalast Studio in Berlin / Saturday, 13 March 2010

Posted on | March 4, 2010 | Friedrich Reip | No Comments |

Europe is aglow over their new record, but as we know them, Under Byen just won’t take their steps in the most common order.

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It is Belgium, the Netherlands, and of course their home country Denmark which have already seen the release of new record “Alt Er Tabt”, while in the UK and, sadly enough, Germany the usual suspects will have to wait. There’s good news, though, as well. Read more

D/B recommended: process festival @ Ausland Berlin 19-20 March 2010

Posted on | March 3, 2010 | Dirk Markham | No Comments |

PROCESS is a 2 day festival focusing on the sound of systems. Terms like ‘process-driven’ and ‘generative’ are expanded to include live performances based on breath, a train-yard video that generates rhythms dynamically, and a large metal ‘drop machine’ which emulates electronics, with no electronics.

Programme features two evenings of live performances and new-media works, a workshop and a special internet commission, and takes place on March 19 & 20 at Ausland, an iconic venue situated in the heart of Prenzlberg. Read more

The D/B Soundsystem will play every second Thursday of the month @ Madame Claude in Berlin

Posted on | March 2, 2010 | Michael Rosen | 1 Comment |

If you’re looking for a mix of unparalleled eclecticism, look no further than the mighty D/B Sound System. The combined music collections of Dirk Markham & Michael Rosen would easily keep you going for many years, if not decades.

Of course, the focus is on quality, not quantity, and certainly never purely on one genre. The D/B Sound System aim to surprise and delight their Read more

D/B Recommended: 12-hour Autechre Radio Broadcast / Tuesday 2nd March 2010 /6pm til 6am (GMT)

Posted on | March 1, 2010 | Michael Rosen | No Comments |

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Signup to Autechre’s mailing list to receive email notification just before the radio show starts. Autechre on D/B: ae in Berlin & New album Oversteps

D/B recommended: Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra @ Festsaal Kreuzberg, Sunday 07.03.2010

Posted on | March 1, 2010 | Dirk Markham | No Comments |

Following the release of their album Take Off! on Alien Transistor in 2009, we are lucky enough that AMEO should return to Berlin less than a year after their last concert, also at Festsaal Kreuzberg.

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You might have seen them playing with wonderful German band The Notwist, but the Orchestra are an unmissable spectacle in their own right. Read more

D/B Album Feature: BERSARIN QUARTETT

Posted on | February 28, 2010 | Michael Rosen | No Comments |

With some albums, you realize within a few seconds that here you have come across something really special. It is music that touches you straight away. Music that is important, that has a story to tell and that manages to do so without even a single line of lyrics. D/B highly recommended!

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Wonderful orchestral pieces full of longing and melancholy. It is that certain kind of melancholy that seizes you when you are moved while Read more

D/B presents: Serious Beat Producer SOLO with Yoggy One live in Berlin, Friday, March 05, 2010 @ St. Georg Club

Posted on | February 28, 2010 | Radu Lupo | No Comments |

Digital in Berlin presents the young and fresh french Beat Producer Yoggy One. With the addictive freshness of his sound and dense stream of productions, it’s easy to get the feeling that he’s a new player on the scene, but he already had his fill of music experience before finally landing in the beat game.

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At the age of six, he entered the music academy, where he remained for about a dozen years, then traded in his alto violin for a drum kit (in a funk band) and tried his hand at other brass instruments as well. Read more

D/B recommended Festival: Pictoplasma in Berlin / 9+10.04.2010

Posted on | February 27, 2010 | Ariane Greiner | No Comments |

Again, the famous berlin cinema Kino Babylon Mitte opens his doors for the Pictoplasma Festival 2010.

Since 2005, this “festival  for contemporary character design and art” brings together an international scene of artists, directors, designers and agencies, offering a unique forum for all those working with – or simply loving – the visualisation and application of contemporary character design. Read more

D/B Recommended: “EARLY YEARS” EXHIBITION OPENING @ KW Berlin, 27.02.10

Posted on | February 26, 2010 | Dirk Markham | No Comments |

A special opening party for the Early Years exhibition at KW. Bringing together exceptional artists and musicians from Poland and Germany, performances include Felix Kubin and O Tannenbaum DJs.

The exhibition Early Years wanders through the field of institutional self-reflection. It searches for terms fit to describe the emergence of a museum of art in the present, actual artistic, political, and social discourses. Read more

D/B recommended: laika AV event @ Sputnik Kino Berlin, Saturday 06.03.2010

Posted on | February 26, 2010 | Dirk Markham | No Comments |

LAIKA is a project focusing on contemporary AudioVisual arts. LAIKA hosts performances, screenings, discussions and related AV practices.
This time the lineup includes live cinema performance by RAFAËL and a concert by Chris Imler. Read more

D/B Video Feature: Meredith Monk Documentary

Posted on | February 24, 2010 | Radu Lupo | 1 Comment |

Documentary about the composer Meredith Monk and her works. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series.

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Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which dwell in the spaces between music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. Read more

D/B recommended Festival: MaerzMusik in Berlin / 19-28.03.2010

Posted on | February 24, 2010 | Dirk Markham | No Comments |

Under the motto Utopia [lost], the 9th edition of MaerzMusik, explores via exemplary works, premieres and new productions, music as a realm of thought and practice, of memory and hope, but also as a place for the reflection of loss and failure, resignation and decline, death and beyond.

MaerzMusik : Festival of Contemporary Music, various locations 19-28th March
Musiktheater | Orchesterkonzerte | Kammermusik | Performance | Intermedia | Sonic Arts Lounge | Querklang : Schüler komponieren Read more

D/B Video Feature: John Cage Documentary

Posted on | February 22, 2010 | Radu Lupo | No Comments |

Documentary about the composer John Cage and his works/performances. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series.

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John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Read more

D/B Artist Feature: Max Tundra | LIVE in Berlin @ Westgermany, Friday, 19.02.2010

Posted on | February 19, 2010 | Radu Lupo | No Comments |

Ben Jacobs, more commonly known by the stage name Max Tundra, is an English multi-instrumental musician, singer & music producer. His work is pred-
ominantly electronic music but incorporates non-electronic styles.

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Other than his full length albums, he has also done remix work for bands of varying genres including Franz Ferdinand, Architecture in Helsinki, Kid606 and the Pet Shop Boys. Tundra also hosts a weekly radio show on Resonance FM, called Max Tundra’s Rotogravure. Read more

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