D/B Recommended: Lower Dens (feat. Jana Hunter) @ West Germany Berlin | Monday, 21.05.2012

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Swarming guitar fuzz, bass waves, Jana Hunter’s voice, and insistent drum throbs are the core components of Baltimore’s Lower Dens.

Hunter, sometimes known for intimate, ghost-heavy weird-fi, is now writing and playing with a group that might get filed as new wave, or drone pop, or post-punk. With due deference to her solo work, we’re very glad. Read more

D/B Recommended: Blackbird Blackbird & Molly Nilsson @ Naherholung Sternchen Berlin | Monday, 21.05.2012

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Blackbird Blackbird (formerly Bye Bye Blackbird) is the moniker/musical outlet of San Francisco, California wunderkind Mikey Maramag. His reverb-laden musical collages tend to lean towards anthemic, inspirational, and dream-driven themes.

Maramag’s influences range from various ends of the musical spectrum. Blackbird Blackbird often tweaks nature-samples and mixes electronic textures with organic instrumentation (guitar, drums, synths, vocal-harmonies). Ghostly female vocals are chopped and screwed, spun around a paint-splattered collage of sound. Read more

D/B Presents: The Spits, Hunx and his Punx & The Black Jaspers @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Wednesday, 23.05.2012

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The Spits are already as ingrained in modern punk music as possible, yet still manage to devour the rip-offs and influence the youth of today without even looking like they are trying.

Going strong now for over fifteenyears, smashing the windows and tearing down the walls of our minds everytime they roll through town, these truly vicious visionaries have cooked punk down to its most powerful base form, crawling like Neanderthals through the muck, and creating a flaming trail of hits that´ll take quite a fit of dementia to ever forget. Read more

D/B Recommended: Moonface @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Wednesday, 23.05.2012

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Moonface is not a band. Moonface is just plain half-old Spencer Krug, in any solo or collaborative projects he’s involved in from now until whenever.

In early 2010 the first Moonface EP was released on Jagjaguwar. It was called Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums, and sounds as the title suggests. Read more

D/B Presents: Sebastian Arnold & Robin Sukroso @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Friday, 25.05.2012

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As a release party for his brand new album Interstellar Getaway on Beeah Music, the self-styled “Mad Scientist Drummer” Sebastian Arnold takes to the stage at Marie Antoinette for another of his dazzling one-man-band live performances.

Support comes in the form of yet another one-man-band act, namely Robin Sukroso, whose show is equally spellbinding and played entirely on a self-made guitar. On top of all that the evening sees the long awaited return of the D/B Sound System on the wheels of steel providing a mix of unparalled eclecticism. Read more

D/B Presents: Jacki in Exile: Dark Carnival w/ Kangding Ray & Grischa Lichtenberger @ Horst Krzbrg Berlin | Friday, 25.05.2012

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Jacki in Exile presents a dark carnivalesque special night at Horst Krzbrg with Kangding Ray and Grischa Lichtenberger of Raster Noton! Kangding Ray’s music reflects his wide musical background, and a particular way of merging beats and atmospheric soundscapes into slowly evolving compositions.

KR combines machines with « real instruments » in a subtle and rythmic suite, integrating noises, walls of distortion, massive bass lines, voices and field recordings, blending techno grooves with dark textures, always on the edge between experimental music and club culture. Read more

D/B Recommended: Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit @ Gretchen Berlin | Saturday, 26.05.2012

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As part of their Africa Special to coincide with the Karneval der Kulturen in Kreuzberg 61, Hardwax’s Wax Treatment hosts another unmissable live performance by Burnt Friedmann and former Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit.

Jaki Liebezeit and Burnt Friedman share a preference for so-called Secret Rhythms, which means that the rhythms are not hidden but less common, often foreign to western culture. Read more

D/B recommended: The Robert Glasper Experiment @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Saturday, 19.05.2012

Posted on | May 19, 2012 | No Comments |

After they blessed Berlin for the very first time last October, Robert Glasper & his Experiment are back in town to celebrate the release of their widely acclaimed new album on Blue Note Records.

Black Radio is Robert Glasper’s fourth release for the legendary NY Label, an album he has been hinting at for years. Read more

D/B Presents: Débruit, Sensational, Koyxen & Dj Scotch Bonnet @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Tuesday, 15.05.2012

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Parisian Synth Magician dÉbruit´s style is a no holds barred sonic assault filtered through dark Congolese sound systems, Downtown L.A. block parties gone wrong, haze filled Kingston recording studios and freaky Tunisian backstreet souks all powered by a fat hip hop engine.

Clark, DE:Bug, Dazed and many more tagged him as one to watch in the near future. He’s been remixing Architeq, Lee Scratch Perry, Konono#1 and more. dÉbruits productions combine freewheelin synthlines, wobbly loops with Middle Eastern instrumentation, chopped, angular African beats, wild bass and some of the heaviest wonky fusions you will hear all year. Read more

D/B Recommended: Hauschka, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O`Halloran @ Heimathafen Neukölln Berlin | Wednesday, 16.05.2012

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Palais Wittgenstein presents a mini festival of modern classical music with a fantastic lineup featuring a collaboration between Hauschka and Samuli Kosminen from Müm as well as Jóhann Jóhannsson and Dustin O`Halloran each performing with a live string quartet.

With such a sensational programme this is sure to be one of the concert highlights of the month of May in Berlin. Read more

D/B Recommended: Kopflos Fest w/ High Places, Lucky Dragons and many more @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Thursday, 17.05. – Saturday, 19.05.2012

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HIGH PLACES are one of the two opening acts of the Kopflos festival. They create danceable pop music that is both artistic and refined. The consistent dialogue between the duo over the span of three albums is always through a rhythmic and melodic ambient space.

High Places mix their particular internal rhythms with a long-standing love for UK and US dance sensibilities like that of UK garage, drum and bass, Chicago/NYC house, Detroit techno, dub, reggae and electro dancehall. Read more

D/B Recommended: Alexander Geist @ .HBC Berlin | Friday, 18.05.2012

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Part Evelyn Waugh novel, part silver screen star, Alexander Geist is the velvet voice of a new epoch in pop music.

Embracing the dry wit of Morrissey, the soundscape of Moroder, and the sensibilities of Manet, he was born for the spotlight. Read more

D/B Recommended: Extra Life & Touchy Mob @ West Germany Berlin | Saturday, 19.05.2012

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Their new album “Dream Seeds” (due May 2012 on Africantape) marks a dramatically new creative direction in Extra Life’s still-young but prolific career.

It is perhaps their most clearly-defined concept album: seven songs dealing entirely with the twin themes of dreams and children. Read more

D/B Recommended: The Ex @ Magnet Berlin | Saturday, 19.05.2012

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Amsterdam post-punk legends The Ex come to Kreuzberg this month. The band who have recorded with D/B favourites Tortoise can still put on a rawkus show over 30 years after their initial formation.

Local support comes in the form of some familiar faces including Tony Buck, Steve Heather and Brendan Dougherty all of which makes for a splendid evenings entertainment. Read more

D/B Recommended: Esmerine @ .HBC Berlin | Tuesday, 08.05.2012

Posted on | May 8, 2012 | No Comments |

Esmerine was co-founded ten years ago by percussionist Bruce Cawdron (Godpseed You! Black Emperor) and cellist Rebecca Foon (Thee Silver Mt. Zion, Mile-End Ladies’ String Auxiliary) soon after the two met while recording the first Set Fire To Flames record Signs Reign Rebuilder (2001) at the old brothel at 10 rue Ontario Est in Montreal.

Esmerine released two critically-acclaimed albums of modern chamber music, If Only a Sweet Surrender to the Nights to Come Be True (2003) and Aurora (2005) that have one foot in the new music/experimental terrain of contemporaries like Rachel’s or Town And Country and the other in the more visceral and lyrical landscape populated by the likes of Dirty Three (and GY!BE themselves). Read more

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