D/B Presents: REGGIE WATTS LIVE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Sunday, 29.01.2012

Posted on | January 27, 2012 | No Comments |

Imagine you come to a show and realize midway through that you’re having a really strong trip. Reggie Watts’ intellectually stimulating hilariously clever improvised comedy beatbox performance does exactly this to the audiences.

In his stream-of-consciousness monologues combined with beautifully mastered beatbox interludes, Reggie shifts seamlessly between different personas, musical styles, accents, voices, and even – yes – bodies. Read more

D/B Recommended: Lionel Williams – Exhibition & Concerts @ Mindpirates Berlin | Sunday, 22.01. – Saturday, 28.01.2012

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

Berlin, January. Cold … wet … dark … isolation. One either grins and bears the temporary depression or packs up a melancholic soul and escapes.

The long-looming year 2012 has already become our current calendar. The countdown is on. Read more

D/B Recommended: Jochen Arbeit, Schneider TM, Mueran Humanos, Kulku & Pharoah Chromium @ .HBC Berlin | Saturday, 28.01.2012

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

After the success of the Krautrock night in October 2011, Future Days Booking, amSTARt and deli.kolder will team up again to present another collective event.

Headliners of the evening are Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut) and Schneider TM, who will play a guitar drone-noise-improv set. Read more

D/B Recommended: The Immanent Lie w/ John Duncan, John Wiese and others @ NK Berlin | Sunday, 29.01.2012

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

John Duncan portrays his work as a catalyst, inciting a transmission of energy through which he seeks to compel the audience to actively participate in the process of investigation and self-discovery.

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His lengthy career of electroacoustic intensity and confrontational performance art events is the result of rigorous investigations into a number of arcane, metaphysical, and at times transgressive themes. Read more

D/B Recommended: CTM.12 Festival @ Different Venues in Berlin | from Monday, 30.01.2012 to Sunday, 05.01.2012

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art.

The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January to 5 February 2012. As always, CTM runs parallel to and in cooperation with Berlin’s festival for art and digital culture, transmediale, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012. Read more

D/B Recommended: Teengirl Fantasy & Butterclock @ Naherholung Sternchen Berlin | Wednesday, 01.02.2012

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

Boasting an almost Google-proof name, Teengirl Fantasy is the project of Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi.

Weiss and Takahashi, who craft an atmospheric yet driving sound — borrowing from deep house, shoegaze, and other styles — that makes critics coin terms like “dream-beat,” met during orientation at Ohio’s Oberlin College and began making music together a few weeks later. Read more

D/B Recommended: Soap&Skin @ Volksbühne Berlin | Sunday, 12.02.2012

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

Austrian alternative singer/songwriter Anja Plaschg made her critically acclaimed album debut as Soap & Skin in 2009 as a teenager and is releasing her second album on March 19th 2012.

Entitled Narrow, it’s the follow up to 2008′s rather lovely Lovetune For Vacuum, a set of very gothic torch songs composed largely of spidery piano, electronics and Plaschg’s thick, double-tracked vocals. Read more

D/B Recommended: Aidan Baker & A-Sun Amissa @ West Germany Berlin | Wednesday, 15.02.2011

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

Hot on the heels of the release of his encompassing “The Spectrum of Distraction” release on Robotic Empire, Berlin-via-Montreal’s AIDAN BAKER will further fill the pages in his passport!

Baker is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist. His primary instrument is the electric guitar with which he creates music ranging from experimental and drone to ambient and post-rock to contemporary classical music. Read more

D/B Recommended: Francois & the Atlas Mountains @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Thursday, 16.02.2012

Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments |

Dividing a vinyl record between a Sea Side and River Side betrays an obvious feeling for all things liquid.

On his last album, Plaine inondable (2009), Fránçois sung “Be Water”, a delicious and watery song backed up by a secret Basque choir. Read more

D/B Recommended: Plastic People Special with Floating Points & Abdul Forsyth @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Saturday, 21.01.2012

Posted on | January 21, 2012 | No Comments |

147 Curtain Road – Shoreditch, London. A legendary address, home of one of the most fascinating underground music clubs worldwide, Plastic People – a place truly defined by the love of music.

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With its 200 people capacity and its incredible custom built sound-system, Plastic People has been the shelter of one of the best nights ever – from Dubstep FWD, the eclectic “All Stars” Balance to Broken Beat Co-Op or CD-R. Read more

D/B Recommended: Feedbackorchester @ Friedenskirche Berlin | Sunday, 22.01.2012

Posted on | January 21, 2012 | No Comments |

The Feebackorchester is a powerful ensemble for ten electric guitars under the conductor ship of well-established session musician Herman Halb.

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Standing within a circle of amplifiers the musicians are only using the feedback of their guitars. Their unusual and performance is a remarkable cross among avantgarde, Noise Rock and Free Jazz. Read more

D/B Recommended: Neoangin & Nova Huta & Krach der Roboter @ Monarch Berlin | Sunday, 21.01.2012

Posted on | January 21, 2012 | No Comments |

Jim Avignon wanders through life on adventurous paths.

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A painter in techno clubs, a party animal in Berlin, a festival organiser in Moscow and, again and again, on the road with his one-man-band Neoangin – no doubt, the global player of the under ground prefers life to be diverse.
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D/B Presents: Network Awesome Birthday Party w/ Chuckamuck @ Sophiensaele Berlin | Friday, 20.01.2012

Posted on | January 18, 2012 | No Comments |

Ever want to watch Alice Cooper host The Muppet Show or catch up on old episodes of HBO series Tales From the Crypt, but didn’t know where to find them?

Maybe you just want to zone out for a few hours watching nostalgic old black-and-white TV shows like The Twilight Zone or documentaries on big-wave surfing from the 1970s? Read more

D/B Recommended: Nicolas Jaar & Valentin Stip @ Berghain Berlin | Monday, 16.01. & Wednesday, 18.01.2012

Posted on | January 17, 2012 | No Comments |

You’d have to have your eyes and ears shut to miss hearing about Nicolas Jaar in 2011.

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Following a string of provocative debut singles for the likes of Wolf + Lamb that opened the door to his illustrious sound, his cerebral debut album on Circus Company, ‘Space Is Only Noise’ has become one of the most successful debuts of recent times. Read more

D/B Recommended: Schlammpeitziger @ Monarch Berlin | Thursday, 19.01.2012

Posted on | January 17, 2012 | No Comments |

Jo Zimmermann’s Schlammpeitziger project has been a unique fixture on Cologne’s electronic scene since the early ’90s.

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Zimmermann’s simple, unassuming music is constructed almost entirely using the factory presets of his trusty Casio CZ-230S keyboard, with spare use of samples and a drum machine added for seasoning. Read more

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