D/B Presents: Denovali Swingfest @ Weststadthalle Essen | 30.09.2011 – 02.10.2011

Digital in Berlin is proud to present Swingfest. Hosted by record label Denovali, this years’ festival showcases another staggering line-up, in an extraordinary new venue. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] 21 international artists from across the alternative musical spectrum, under the umbrellas of doom, drone, experimental minimalism and plenty more ever undefinable fusions [...]

D/B Recommended: Digging in the Crates Installation @ Letters Are My Friends Berlin | 01.10.2011

Digging in the Crates is an interactive installation which offers possibilities to explore Sampling as a production technology of modern music. While dynamic data visualizations will be navigated using modified turntables, information graphics as well as auditory contributions helping to understand complex contents and relations.

D/B Recommended: Soundfair presents SOLO @ HAU 2 Berlin | Saturday, 01.10.2011

SOUNDFAIR presents a new version of the performance SOLO during the performance festival “Testing Stage – A Window to Performa New York” at Hebbel-am-Ufer theater Berlin. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]In SOLO only one audience member at a time is able to enter the former ticket sale office next to WAU and experience [...]

D/B Recommended: Sound installation Bach_10K in Augbsurg / Germany

Bach_10K transforms the huge disused gas storage tank in Augsburg, Germany, into an ever-changing soundscape. The hypnotic swing of the 70m-long Foucault pendulum sets the beat for a very slow rendition of Bach’s prelude in C. Chords build up note by note conducted by this gargantuan metronome. At a pace of one note every 17 [...]

D/B Video Feature: Brokendate by Com Truise | Directed by Will Joines

Music as evocative as the stuff made by Com Truise – master of the transporting synth odyssey – necessitates videos that are nothing short of cinematic. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Hence the fully blown-out treatment for “Brokendate,” which rolls everything from eighties cop noir to Blade Runner retro-futurism to slo-mo Hype Williams nods [...]

D/B presents: Guido Möbius LIVE @ The KissKiss Ballroom Berlin | Tuesday, 27.09.2011

As a solo-artist Guido Möbius creates a very unique and intimate sound. A whole lot of instruments, most of them acoustic, define the soundcollage. Brittle soundtissues and sweet tones blend in complex arrangements. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With his debut Möbius masters the thin line between lightness and complexity. The list of the [...]

D/B Recommended: Emeralds @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Thursday, 22.09.2011

John Elliott, Mark McGuire and Steve Hauschildt began playing music together under the name Fancelions in 2005 in Cleveland’s western suburbs of Bay Village and Westlake. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Due to a desire to simplify and focus more on live improvisation, they re-formed as Emeralds, playing their first show under that name [...]

D/B presents: Jasmina Maschina LIVE & Staubgold Farewell Party @ .HBC in Berlin | Thursday, 29.09.2011

We are pleased to present Jasmina Maschina’s new album release Party “Alphabet Dream Noise” – a culmination of sound, song and ambience. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Following City Split # 1 Berlin – her split release with golden diskò ship on Monika Enterprise last year and her debut album The Demelition Series on [...]

D/B Recommended: Elektronischer Hörgenuss V @ Friedenskirche Berlin | Friday, 23.09.2011

With Elektronischer Hörgenuss V, DIENSTbar presents an ambient evening with electronic music performances, real-time drawn projections & vinyl sculptures. Performances by three different projects will be presented: ANY, Immagini di Vetro and Vinyl Terror & Horror.

D/B Recommended: Ekin Fil & Biblo @ O Tannenbaum Berlin | Saturday, 24.09.2011

Ekin Fil and Biblo aka Ekin and Pinar Üzeltüzenci are siblings and two celebrated young musicians from the growing experimental, hypnagogic and lo-fi  music scene in Istanbul. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Their music can best be described as a mélange of Mazzy Star, Pocahaunted, Grouper, Bestcoast and Inca Ore – and would fit [...]

D/B Recommended: Aidan Baker & Picastro @ Schokoladen Berlin | Sunday, 25.09.2011

Aidan Baker is a musician from Toronto, Canada who has released numerous records both as a solo artist and with his groups Nadja, ARC, and Mnemosyne. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Baker is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist. His primary instrument is the electric guitar with which he creates music ranging from experimental and drone [...]

D/B Recommended: Buck 65 @ NBI Berlin | Monday, 26.09.2011

Richard Terfry, who records under the name Buck 65, is a Canadian hip hop rap artist and turntablist. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He raps about real stories, rhymes with real emotion and makes beats that declare the artistic validity of the sampling process. He often uses elements of Americana in his rapping, such [...]

D/B Recommended: Kunst als Klang @ Vitorio Milanese Berlin | 20-26-29.9.2011

Curated by Pantha du Prince, Kunst als Klang presents three nights with equally impressive lineups. From kraut legends Faust to Georgian ambient artist Natalie Beridze / TBA. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]From non-standard electronica duo NSI to a collaboration between Moritz Von Oswald and experimentalist Rashad Becker.

D/B Recommended: Groupshow @ West Germany Berlin | Friday, 30.09.2011

GROUPSHOW is a project by three producers of electronic music based in Berlin: Jan Jelinek, Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The three artists, steeped in the formal language of minimalism, engage in a boundary-free collective improvisation that has its ancestors in both Fluxus and Krautrock.

D/B Recommended: WDR Orchestra “Das Weib des Pharao” LIVE @ Neues Museum Berlin | Saturday, 17.09.2011

This saturday cineasts will be able to enjoy Ernst Lubitsch’s „Das Weib des Pharao“, originally colored.  The world premiere of a restored version, made of the rolls of film rediscovered recently! While famous Emil Jannings is playing the Pharao (!), the WDR Rundfunkorchester, directed by Frank Strobel, will be accompanying the silent movie live – [...]

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