D/B Artist Feature: SOULIST & FULGEANCE are SOULEANCE
SOULEANCE is the result of the partnership between the talented producer Fulgeance and DJ Soulist of What The Funk. Fulgeance is one of the artist belonging to the French label “Musique Large”. Leading and managing several projects (Peter Digital Orchestra and Connecticut), this talented producer and remixer is well known for his devastating beats and [...]
D/B Video Feature: unitxt short film
sound: alva noto featuring text+voice: anne james chaton actor: kyusaku shimada Alva Noto will perform at the MADEIRADIG Festival 2009. http://www.alvanoto.com | http://www.myspace.com/annejameschaton
D/B Movie Feature: The Wolfman
Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man (Del Toro) is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf. The Wolfman 2009 Trailer | Director: Joe Johnston | Writers: Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self | Release Date: 11 February 2010
D/B Artist Feature: Fulgeance & his new Smartbanging EP
Fulgeance’s music is a perfect blend of huge, synth-laced French Electro and modern Instrumental Hip Hop. He takes club music into the realm of intelligent musical arrangements, yet always remains “dumb” enough to work the floor. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] He plays live via two MPC’s and is completely mind blowing to [...]
D/B Movie Feature: Polytechnique
“Based on a December 1989 killing spree at a Montreal college, POLYTECHNIQUE is a sharply-observed piece of cinema.” Screen International “In a truly powerful, contemplative, consternating and horrifying manner, POLYTECHNIQUE manages to create the ghastly dread of the event and a devastating framework of rumination on the importance of living in the face of such [...]
D/B Artist Feature: bRUNA
Barcelona musician bruna fuses melodic synth and crackling electronic percussion with found and field recorded samples to create a unique sound that is as beautifully textural as it is precise and energetic. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] He’s really an absolute growing name in Spanish electronica scene. As a DJ his talent was [...]
MODERN SOLO PIANO FESTIVAL @ Prater
18-22 August | Volksbühne im Prater, Kastanienalle 7-9, 10435 Berlin with: Ming, Hermann Keller, Ulrich Gumpert, Aki Takase, Tomas Bächli, Madalina Pasol, Gregor Heinze, Christoph Binder http://www.modern-solo-piano.de
RADIOHEAD NEW SONG – HARRY PATCH (IN MEMORY OF)
Radiohead’s new song ‘Harry Patch (In memory of)’, is inspired by and dedicated to Britain’s last survivor of the First World War. Thom Yorke: “Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111. I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years [...]
D/B Recommended: Fantasy Filmfest
One of Digital in Berlin`s favourite Film Festivals. 18 – 26.08.2009 in Berlin http://www.fantasyfilmfest.com | Download Programm CinemaxX am Potsdamer Platz / Potsdamer Strasse 5 / 10785 Berlin CineStar im Sony Center / Potsdamer Strasse 4 / 10785 Berlin
D/B Artist Feature: Mira Mode
Mira Mode is a new emerging collective of young musicians teaming with the Berlin based saxophonist and music composer Ede Merkel. The Mira Mode band counts twelve musicians, specifically two singers, three brass-, five strings players and an entire rhythm section. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Together they introduce an urban mix of [...]
D/B Recommended: Sunn O))) Live in Berlin @ Berghain
Friday, October 23 2009 @ Berghain/Panoramabar. Now the offical gig for the new Album “Monoliths & Dimensions” with the Guestsinger Attila Csihar. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Monoliths & Dimensions is the seventh studio album by drone doom band Sunn O))). The album was created and recorded over a period of 2 years [...]
The Five Corners Quintet live in Berlin | Thursday 20.08.09 @ Dot Club
The Five Corners Quintet is a Helsinki-based jazz outfit that updates the past with panache. In 2005, The Five Corners Quintet from Helsinki took the international dancefloor jazz scene by a storm. Dot Club Berlin / Thursday 20.08.09 / 21:00 / 14 € (VVK: 12 €) http://www.myspace.com/thefivecornersquintet | http://www.liveatdot.com “Chasin’ the Jazz Gone By”, their [...]
D/B Artist Feature: FJORDNE
FJORDNE is the solo projekt of Shunichiro Fujimoto from Tokio. Based one two concepts, “sounds texture” and “twisted time”, he utilises an array of acoustic instruments and transforms his sounds into a new time span using the notebook. He released four beautiful albums on four different labels. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] http://www.myspace.com/fjordne [...]
D/B Recommended: Miasmah labelnight feat. Simon Scott, Svarte Greiner and Jasper TX
Miasmah music is a label dedicated to spreading inspirational / environmental / atmospheric / individual and related music, without having to go through a large printing/advertising process.. Instead delivering directly to the listener.
Bill Callahan LIVE in Berlin @ Lido
Bill Callahan, also known as Smog is an American singer-songwriter. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today. Bill Callahan — Too Many Birds [Audio clip: view full [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Paul White
Paul White from little London label One-Handed Music – amazing psychedelic, instrumental hip-hop that lurches pleasingly from one snatched beat to the next. Teasing with a succession of brilliant 7″s and 12″s over the last 18 months, Paul White has risen to claim status as one of the UK’s finest beat breakers and psyched instrumental-hip-hop [...]
Tortoise new album and tour | LIVE in Berlin
One of Digital in Berlin`s favourite Bands live in Berlin. Tuesday 18. August 2009 / Columbiaclub / Columbiadamm 9 -11, 10965 Berlin Following the recent release of their epic new album “Beacons of Ancestorship” as ever on Thrill Jockey, the Chicago band who have long since eclipsed their “post-rock” brand, are now undertaking an extensive [...]
D/B RECOMMENDED: Klangbad Festival | 7-9 August 2009
There are mainly two kinds of music festivals: the usual ones and the adventurous-creative ones. The former present music, which everyone already knows. The others got their finger at the pulse of time and put their ear into niches and near boundary zones. http://www.klangbadfestival-scheer.de/ They point out up-to-date trends, present upcoming musicians and bands, make [...]
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The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island
From Beats, Wonky, Glitch and Downbeat to advanced Hip Hop, we present you extraordinary producers from around the world.
Live laptop concerts featuring contemporary new atmospheric sound scapes and field-recordings.
