D/B Recommended: The Master Musicians of Jajouka @ HKW Berlin | Saturday, 02.07.2011
Mick Jagger calls them “one of the most musically inspiring groups still left on the planet” and they have worked with stars such as Talvin Singh, Patti Smith and Bill Laswell. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar, from the Rif mountains in northern Morocco, pass their [...]
D/B Recommended: Volcano The Bear @ Berghain Berlin | Wednesday, 29.06.2011
Volcano The Bear have, in the words of The Wire magazine, “produced some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage…”. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Or, as Losing Today puts it, “No one sounds, has sounded, or will ever sound quite like Volcano the Bear.” [...]
D/B Recommended: Trans Am & Camera @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Sunday, 03.07.2011
Sounding a bit like a cross between Kraftwerk and Man Or Astroman, Trans Am are however a band unlike any other. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Being on the phenomenal Chicago label Thrill Jockey and having worked with people like John McEntire (Tortoise), the band obviously have strong ties to post-rock. But they take [...]
D/B presents: KRAKE FESTIVAL 2011 | 15. – 21. August 2011 in Berlin
KRAKE ist an annual Berlin based festival for challenging electronic music and visual transduction initiated by Nico Deuster of KILLEKILL and Holger Hilgers. The festival took place at the Suicide Circus for the first time in 2010 and was an overwhelming success: numerous groundbreaking artists of high reputation rocked the crowd such as Warp’s electronica [...]
D/B presents: ASTRONAUT MAGAZINE RELEASE with RIVAL CONSOLES LIVE @ The KissKiss Ballroom | Friday, 10.06.2011
Astronaut Magazine celebrates the launch of its first issue and presents, in collaboration with Erased Tapes Records, a showcase by Rival Consoles, who will play some songs of his forthcoming new album “Kid Velo” London-based purveyor of intelligent dance music Ryan L. West aka RIVAL CONSOLES returns with his sophomore album KID VELO, released track [...]
D/B Recommended: Shangaan Electro @ Berghain Berlin | Thursday, 30.06.2011
Shangaan Electro is the new wave of South African dance music and this summer its set to hit Europe. This exciting live show features performances by Nozinja aka ‘Dog’, the clown-masked Tshetsha Boys, as well as Tiyiselani, Nkata Mawewe and the fastest Shangaan dancers around. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]An unmissable showcase of [...]
D/B Recommended: Mira Mode Orchestra feat. Clara Hill @ Jazzclub Telegraph Leipzig | Friday 03.06.2011
While she is busy working on her fourth solo album, Berlin musician Clara Hill still has time for an exciting orchestra project. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]After three albums on Sonar Kollektiv and countless tours all over the world, she has constantly developed her own musical language with the focus firmly on genre-spanning, [...]
D/B Recommended: Laetitia Sadier @ HBC Berlin | Saturday, 04.06.2011
Stereolab’s singer Laetitia Sadier makes a very welcome return to Berlin this week when she will once again grace the stage at HBC. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With the Groop on an extended sabatical and showing no signs of a come-back / reunion, dont miss the chance to witness another of Sadier’s delightful [...]
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