D/B Recommended: Deaf Wish @ Kastanienkeller Berlin | Friday, 29.04.2011
Deaf Wish have certainly taken the conventional trajectory of a band and brutalised it. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]They began one weekend in Melbourne, Australia, wrote, recorded and played their first show in days that could be counted on one grimy hand. After that was nailed and the CD sold in vomit bags, [...]
D/B Recommended: 10 Years Ad Noiseam @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 06.05.2011
The Berlin based Ad Noiseam label was born in early 2001 as a creative out- put for the Recycle Your Ears web magazine, which has been active between 1998 and 2003. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Having reached the (for an underground label venerable) age of 10 years in 2011, Ad Noiseam is celebrating [...]
D/B Recommended: OPENING “TRACE” @ LEAP Berlin | Friday, 29.04.2011
With the exhibition TRACE we examine the role of the “body” both digital and physical and its ability to change the architecture of the landscape and our perceptions of space. What is the role of the body and what resistance can it offer against digital reproduction? Living in a cross-linked world we have to cope [...]
D/B Recommended: Tom Thiel & NSI @ .HBC Berlin | Saturday, 23.04.2011
Following the release of his new album on Shitkatapult, Sun Electric founding member Tom Thiel performs a live show at .HBC. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Support is from Non-Standard Instute, a duo comprising Max Loderbauer and Tobias Freund. A great line-up if youre looking for some cutting-edge electronic computer music.
D/B Recommended: September Collective @ HKW Berlin | Thursday, 28.04.2011
The September Collective are a super group made up of Stefan Schneider aka Mapstation (also To Rococo Rot), Berlin chanteuse Barbara Morgenstern and Polish experimental percussionist Paul Wirkus. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With support from Berlin-based Italian artist 9, this promises to be a fine evening at Haus der Kulturen.
D/B Tech Feature: Korg Monotribe
One exciting new Korg product to be unveiled at this years Frankfurt Musik Messe in the Korg Monotron. Combining some of the best features from Korg’s hugely popular Electribe sequencer and the recent monotron ribbon synth in a pocket sized instrument. In a world seemingly ruled by digital, Korg created an analog sensation with the [...]
D/B Recommended: Densehall #8 @ Jacki Berlin | Friday, 15.04.2011
The best record store in town continue their regular Densehall series with another great lineup including live sets by Pastacas, Andrew Pekler and Bill Youngman. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With DJ sets by Dustin Giesling, Marius Reisser, Florian Sievers and the KOhviradio DJ Team. It’s the eighth installement already of the infamous Densehall [...]
D/B Festival Feature: LAST ECHO OF FEELING in Ulm/Bavaria | 15-17 April 2011
Die Begegnung Samuel Becketts (1906–1989) mit der deutschen Romantik während seines Berlin- Aufenthaltes im Jahre 1936 ist gewissermaßen Ausgangssituation und Inspiration für die neue Ausgabe des Festivals mit neuer Musik. [German Announcement] Beckett hatte damals mit Hilfe stundenlanger Wanderungen durch Berlin versucht, seiner Einsamkeit und dem Schmerz um eine verlorene Liebe zu entkommen. „How I [...]
D/B Recommended: Taunus @ O Tannenbaum Berlin | Wednesday, 06.04.2011
A rare live appearance by Gaston side-project Taunus aka Jan Thoben and Jochen Briesen (Semuin) tonight at O Tannenbaum, one of the finest bars in Neukölln. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This is sure to be a sensational performance and an unmissable event for anyone with an ear for post-rock and minimal acoustic neo-folk.
D/B Recommended: Blurt Live @ Marie Antoinett Berlin | Tuesday, 05.04.2011
Ted Milton (born 1943) grew up in Africa, Canada and Great Britain. He published some early poems in magazines like Paris Review. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]In 1969 his poetry was published in the anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain. In the mid-sixties he began performing as a puppeteer, [...]
D/B Recommended: Battles & Oval @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Sunday, 10.04.2011
Battles is an American experimental rock group, founded in 2002 in New York City. The band’s current line-up comprises guitarists Ian Williams, Dave Konopka, and drummer John Stanier. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Following a string of EPs, the band released their debut album on the Warp Records label in February 2006, which was [...]
D/B Recommended: The Ex & Axel Dörner @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Wednesday, 13.04.2011
Dutch post-punk legends The Ex make a welcome Berlin appearance this April. Over their lengthy career the band have worked amongst many others with D/B favourites Tortoise for the In The Salt Tank series and are well loved for their explosive live shows. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Local support comes in the form [...]
D/B Tech Feature: Digital Harinezumi
The Digital Harinezumi is a tiny camera, created by the creative minds at Powershovel/Superheadz in Japan (a music label, art book publishing company and more). Released for the first time in 2009, the Harinezumi has become a cult item among photographers and artists, due to its peculiar qualities:
D/B Presents: Svarte Greiner @ The Kiss Kiss Ballroom Berlin | Tuesday, 19.04.2011
Svarte Greiner is the one man project of Erik K. Skodvin (half of the duo Deaf Center & label manager of the Miasmah label). [Audio clip: view full post to listen]While the duo creates dusty grey soundscapes in a surrealistic world of sounds not far from that of David Lynch/Angelo Badalamenti, Svarte Greiner is further [...]
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