D/B ShortMovie Feature: The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
Produced, Written and Directed by Richard Gale. Winner of 12 Film Festival Awards! | http://www.richard-gale.com
D/B ShortMovie Feature: Between
This dark, surreal piece travels through grounds and walls and into moments stuck in time. Director/Screenwriter/Producer/Editor: Tim Bollinger Cinematographer: Daniel Meinl | Sounddesign: Michael Fakesch www.designingsounds.com | www.between-film.com
D/B Recommended: Mirko Mielke`s ABRÄUME / Opening, Friday Oktober 30, 2009 @ Galerie Kvant Berlin
The first solo exhibition of Mirko Mielke at gallery kvant contains two projects about the documentation of disappearance. Great work–highly recommended. Since 2004 Mirko Mielke has been documenting the disappearance of buildings. Architecture gets image carrier and thus an autonomous element of architecture.
D/B Movie Feature: A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers
The story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. Release Date: 21 January 2010. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving [...]
D/B Video Feature: Vladislav Delay / Toive
The Video directed by Carolina Melis and Lorenzo Sportiello. The new Vladislav Delay album “Tummaa” is out now of Leaf Records. Vladislav Delay, Uusitalo, Luomo, Conoco, Sistol. Under a raft of different names this Berlin-based Finnish artist (Sasu Ripatti *1976) has experimented with ambient, broken beat, glitch as well as grooves and house music with [...]
J.Rocc spins new Madvillain (Radio rip)
J.Rocc, with exclusives in hand as usual, jumped on the radio show Fat Beats Live on Eastvillageradio.com to preview some new Madvillain tracks that DOOM and Madlib are working on in LA. MF DOOM and Madlib are Madvillain. The two met in 2002 and soon began working on Madvillainy which would be finished over the [...]
D/B Movie Feature: SOUL KITCHEN by Fatih Akin
In Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef. Directed by the Fatih Akin. With Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel… Release Date: 25 December 2009
D/B Book Feature: Krautrock / Cosmic Rock and its Legacy
A new book charting the history of krautrock will be published by Black Dog in November. Krautrock charts the history of this influential music genre, from its roots in free jazz, psychedelia and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the groundbreaking experiments of Faust, Kraftwerk and Can. The late 1960s in West Germany was a [...]
D/B Recommended: JAMES BLACKSHAW, Monday Oktober 26, 2009 @ Monarch
James Blackshaw writes long-form pieces primarily for solo 12-string guitar and piano that are heavily influenced by minimalist composers and European classical music and which use drones, overtones and repeating patterns alongside a strong inclination for melody to create instrumental music that is both intelligent, hypnotic and emotionally charged. [Audio clip: view full post to [...]
D/B Recommended: TITO 22.10. – 25.10.09 Berlin
Everyone knows that using a turntable is common place practice in Hip-Hop. One particularly sporty form of record scratching called „Turntablism“ sprung out of the culture surrounding DJ battles. In the context of experimental electronic music, the term „Turntablism“ has a different, more open, meaning. In this field of music the record player has, from [...]
Tortoise & Colin Newman (Wire) ON BBC RADIO | MONTHLY COLLABORATION SESSIONS
Fiona Talkington presents a varied musical selection, including an exclusive collaborative session between Chicago’s post rock pioneers Tortoise and front man of post punk band Wire, Colin Newman. In another instalment of Late Junction’s monthly collaboration sessions, Newman and Tortoise meet at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios for an unplanned and unprepared day of music [...]
Digital in Berlin presents: SERIOUS BEAT PRODUCERS with Paul White, Saturday November 14, 2009
Don’t miss the first amazing D/B Night in Berlin. With Paul White* (One-Handed Music / London), Pete Adarkwah (BBE Records / London), Suff Daddy feat. Amenta (Melting Pot Music), Stevo (4lux), D/B DJ Team and special guests. *Paul White has fast risen to claim status as one of the UK’s finest beat breakers and psyched [...]
D/B Movie Feature: The House of the Devil
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret; they plan to use her in a satanic ritual. Director & Writer : Ti West | Tagline: Talk on the phone. Finish your homework. Watch T.V. DIE!
D/B Recommeded: EKA BAR | 7 YEARS ANNIVERSARY | FRIDAY OCTOBER 16, 2009
Our favourite bar in Berlin – the little Portuguese place Eka. LIVE BAND / Dj GArRinchA 7 & Dj Cat Geisheim “The best place I have been in Berlin”. John Travolta EKA – Dunkerstr 9 – Berlin – http://www.eka-leka.de
D/B Recommended: MARY ANNE HOBBS in Berlin @ WMF | Saturday October 17
Mary Anne Hobbs ‘Dubstep Warz’ show for BBC Radio1 in January 2006 is widely regarded at the show that broke the dubstep sound globally… she is best known as an evangelist for underground music. with MARYANNE HOBBS [BBC / Planet Mu / Manchester], JAHCOOZI feat RQM [liVE /Citizen / BLN], ROBOT KOCH [RobotsDontSleep / BLN], [...]
D/B Festival Feature: DIS-PATCH
Founded in 2002 as continuation of the activities of the Belgradeyard Sound System collective, an independent organization dedicated to the promotion of new music tendencies, related art practices and the advancement of the local music and art scene through creating links between Serbian artists and audiences and established artists from around the world. Stress is [...]
D/B Recommended: Mayer Hawthorne live | November 21 @ Bohannon/Berlin
Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region provided. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “Most of the best music ever made came out of [...]
D/B Recommeded: TOKIO – SHIBUYA: THE new generation | 7-14. OKT
ON 07 AND 14 UNTIL 17 OCTOBER 2009 @ Hebbel am Ufer / Berlin. With Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ghost and many more. The district of Tokyo-Shibuya is the Mecca of young Japanese: fashion boutiques, record stores, clubs and love hotels are all crammed one next to the other. During rush-hour the central intersection in front of [...]
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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.
