D/B Album Feature: BERSARIN QUARTETT
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! [Audio clip: view [...]
D/B presents: Serious Beat Producer SOLO with Yoggy One live in Berlin, Friday, March 05, 2010 @ St. Georg Club
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. [...]
D/B recommended Festival: Pictoplasma in Berlin / 9+10.04.2010
Again, the famous berlin cinema Kino Babylon Mitte opens his doors for the Pictoplasma Festival. 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.
D/B Recommended: “EARLY YEARS” EXHIBITION OPENING @ KW Berlin, 27.02.10
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 [...]
D/B recommended: laika AV event @ Sputnik Kino Berlin, Saturday 06.03.2010
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.
D/B Video Feature: Meredith Monk Documentary
Documentary about the composer Meredith Monk and her works. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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, [...]
D/B recommended Festival: MaerzMusik in Berlin / 19-28.03.2010
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 [...]
D/B Video Feature: John Cage Documentary
Documentary about the composer John Cage and his works/performances. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 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 [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Max Tundra | LIVE in Berlin @ Westgermany, Friday, 19.02.2010
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. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Other than his full length albums, he has also done remix work for bands of varying genres [...]
D/B Recommended: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot EXHIBITION @ The Curve/London / 27.02 – 23.05.2010
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways. For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. Make sure to watch the video below.
D/B Video Feature: Philip Glass Documentary
Documentary about the composer Philip Glass and his works/performances. Directed by Peter Greenaway, part of the “Four American Composers” series. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Philip Morris Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is [...]
D/B recommended: Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab solo concert @ Temporäre Kunsthall Berlin / 17.02.10
Solo LIVE concert by Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab, Monade) at Auto-Kino! / Temporäre Kunsthall Berlin. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Laetitia Sadier is singer, keyborder and guitarist of the British band Stereolab. Lending her fabulous and unique voice to a mixture of Post-Rock, Easy Listening and Lounge-Music, Stereolab have been called “one of the [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Lee Fields & The Expressions
Lee Fields is a bona-fide, unadulterated, pure, gut-bucket soul singer. While the crate-digging funk and soul community bestowed “legendary” status upon him due to his undeniably solid series of rare 7″ singles recorded and released on his own labels in the 70s, he’s never been one to sit in a dusty corner. [Audio clip: view [...]
D/B Recommended: systM / gallery bar presents: THOMAS OLIVIER MYERS FADING TO WHITE / 13.02.-13.03.2010 in Berlin
systM is a bar AND systM is a gallery for design disciplines. The spectrum reaches urban art, graphic, interior and product design, fashion and far beyond that every disciplines defining spaces. Thomas Olivier Myers art photo works stems from the wish to show the passage of time by movement and overlapping images rather than by [...]
D/B Recommended: INSTALLATION Martin Backes / Hopelash @ APPARTEMENT BERLIN / Tuesday, February 16th 2010
Hopelash is a work about today`s democracies, political realities, media as an instrument and the power of the spoken word. Appartement / Prenzlauer Allee 242 / 10405 Berlin, 20h In today’s democracies, the media has become an instrument used to manufacture a desired political reality. During the last USA presidential election 2008, communication or rather [...]
D/B BOOK REVIEW: RAFAEL RASHID – BEHIND THE BEAT: HIP HOP HOME STUDIOS
Before the track, there is a love… Behind the Beat is a look into the creative spaces of producers and DJ’s from the US and UK.
D/B Recommended: 2 Years Madame Claude Event in Berlin / 27.02.10
One of Berlin Kreuzberg’s very finest authentic lounge bars and concert venues, Madame Claude reaches the ripe old age of 2 at the end of the month. The exceptional live program features concerts most nights including the weekly “Experimontag” for experimental sounds and a fortnightly “Campfire Session” for singer-songwriters.
D/B Artist Feature: eLan
eLan is an another superb producer from San Diego, United States. His cool synth sounds are a musical journey rooted in Funk, Boogie, Down- and Instrumental Beats. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] You can Download his latest Album famLay free on his MySpace site. Highly recommended. You heard it first here.
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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.
