D/B Recommended: Madame Claude 3rd Birthday Party @ Madame Claude Berlin | Monday, 28.02.2011

3 Years on Berlin’s Number 1 upside-down French bar celebrates with a special anniversary edition of their exciting weekly experimental series Experimontag. With live performances by Macumbista and Bedroom Bear as well as a DJ set by Avant Reguard, you can count on this being an above average Monday night’s entertainment. See February out in [...]

D/B Recommended: Tyvek LIVE @ Westgermany Berlin | Wednesday, 02.03.2011

Detroit is sitting in despair. A decaying city that is being torn down and neglected. But amongst all the wretched pessimism, the brave and excellent will always pick up guitars and bang some drums. And with a clack of drumsticks, in the middle of the city’s muskeg of trouble, there stand Tyvek. [Audio clip: view [...]

D/B Recommended: MIASMAH EVENING (JUV RELEASE + SVARTE GREINER LIVE) @ NK Project Berlin | Saturday, 26.02.2011/

The Release/listening party for the 13 year old lost album by Norwegian duo Juv. There will also be a Svarte Greiner experimentation set using turntable & effects + the fresh Juv LP. Are Mokkelbost will be djing alongside Erik K Skodvin the rest of the evening. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Juv is the [...]

D/B presents: LUX AETERNA / The Transcendence of Music @ Berghain Berlin | 10-11.03.2011

A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of music. Music today is often simply perceived as commodity and is reduced to the functional. The digital revolution has seemingly left music in an eternal return. Since its beginnings, music has fought against such limitations by allowing us to experience a space beyond the everyday. [...]

D/B Presents: EFTERKLANG LIVE + the Film “AN ISLAND” @ Volksbühne Berlin | Sunday, 13.03.2011

Ever heard of Efterklang? Efterklang [ε f t ∂ k l a η ], 1) danish word for “remembrance” or “reverberation”. 2) indie music group from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2000. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Rarely, a band name has been more suitable: Whenever and wherever you hear Efterklang’s music, suddenly a [...]

D/B Recommended: Buback Label Night @ HAU2 | Sunday, 20.02.2011

An unmissable live performance by possibly the best German band ever, certainly John Peels favourite German band, FSK along with Buback label mates Die Goldenen Zitronen, 1000 Robota and Kristof Schreuf. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This is a great chance to see the cult band Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle prior to the release of their [...]

D/B Presents: Rivulets + Special Guest @ The Kiss Kiss Ballroom Berlin | Tuesday, 22.02.2011

Rivulets is the nom de plume of minimalist singer-songwriter Nathan Amundson. Nathan was born in Denver, CO, grew up in Anchorage, AK, & started Rivulets in Minneapolis, MN in the year 2000. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Rivulets has relased albums on Chair Kickers’ Union & Important Records; & EPs on Silber, Acuarela, BlueSanct, [...]

D/B Album feature: Mind Bokeh by Bibio @ Warp records

Bibio is to strike again in 2011 with new album, ‘Mind Bokeh’, out March 28th in the US and April 4th in Europe and the Rest of the World. The anticipated follow up to his celebrated first album for Warp in 2009, ‘Ambivalence Avenue’. ‘Mind Bokeh’ has exceeded all our high expectations with its full [...]

D/B Festival Feature: DONAUFESTIVAL | 28.04. – 7.05. 2011 @ Krems a. d. Donau

Nodes, shoots and roots: The seventh edition of the donaufestival brings the festival’s content-related construction plan into the fore and makes it its motto. For us, it’s definitely one of the best festivals in Europe. Depicting and tapping artistic networks, but also connecting different artistic media, forming intellectual cross-references has been the central concern of [...]

D/B Recommended: Prefuse 73 new Album “The Only She Chapters” feat. Trish Keenan from Broadcast

Guillermo Scott Herren aka. Prefuse 73 returns with The Only She Chapters. A compelling, exploratory set of compositions woven with the vocal talents of Zola Jesus, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Trish Keenan (Broadcast) amongst others. The Only She Chapters is released on April 25/26 on Warp as a CD, vinyl & digitally – [...]

D/B 11+3 Interview with Falty DL

11+3 is designed to give you an insight into the motivations and aspirations of the best creative minds in the world. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This time with NY beatmaker and dubstep producer Drew Lustman aka Falty DL. Each artist is asked 11 set questions and to contribute 3 “facts” which can be [...]

D/B Recommended: J.Dilla is Still Shining Documentary

Created in 2006, this remembrance piece is created as a tribute to the memory and legacy of James “J.Dilla” Yancey. This is a piece designed for his fans and supporters who knew of his accomplishments before February 2006 and those that have grown to appreciate his genius. Here, we gain a greater insight and understanding [...]

D/B Recommended: Thomas Meinecke & Gudrun Gut @ HAU2 | Tuesday, 08.02.2011

FSK frontman and author Thomas Meinecke’s Plattenspieler series continues at HAU2 and for the first of the year the special guest is musician, DJ and monika label owner Gudrun Gut. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Be sure to expect truly eclectic DJ sets and an interesting discussion between these two front-runners of the German [...]

D/B Recommended: Shorts Attack – Getaway! @ Babylon Kino Berlin | Friday, 23.02.2010

Are you in need of entertaining holiday incentives? Shorts Attack presents an entertaining antidote for those dreary old German winter blues: How about a program of attempted escapism (“Notte Sento”), beach fantasies (“Benidorm”), daydreams, travel diaries (the Oscar nominated animation, “Madagascar, carnet de voyage”), preposterous holiday ideas and hair-raising incidents (“Armer schwarzer Kater”)?

D/B Recommended: Gravenhurst SOLO @ Westgermany Berlin | Monday, 07.02.2011

Gravenhurst is a vehicle for the music of singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Nick Talbot, who lives in Bristol, England and is signed to Warp Records. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Talbot characterises Gravenhurst as a world created by sound and language, ever-changing and conjured from disparate ingredients. Noticeable is the melodic noise of My [...]

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