D/B Artist Feature: Tunng | Live in Berlin @ Festsaal Kreuzberg / 23.04.2010
Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom. The band is often associated with the Folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work.
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Tunng are often noted for their use of strange instruments, including sea shells. They supported Doves on dates at the [...]
D/B Recommended: CLUSTER new Album & live in Berlin / Friday, 26.03.2010 @ WMF
Cluster is a German experimental musical group who influenced the development of contemporary popular electronic and ambient music. They have recorded albums in a wide variety of styles ranging from experimental music to progressive rock, all of which had an avant-garde edge.
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Cluster has been active since 1971, releasing a [...]
D/B Artist Feature: Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson are a young and excellent postrock Band from Oslo/Norway. D/B highly recommended, not only for postrock fans.
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Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson came to be when a group of four classmates Morten (drums), Gjermund (guitar), Torbjørn (guitar) and Audun (bass) at the Bodø University decided [...]
D/B recommended: Natalie Beridze / TBA live in Berlin @ Hau2 / Friday, 19.03.2010
Following the release of her new album “Pending” on Laboratory Instinct last year and prior to the immanent release of her forthcoming album, “ForgetFulness” on monika enterprise, Georgian artist NATALIE BERIDZE aka TBA returns to Berlin for a live concert at HAU2 on Friday 19th March.
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D/B ALBUM FEATURE: EFTERKLANG / New Tour Dates & live in Berlin | Saturday, 08.05.2010 @ Astra Kulturhaus
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.
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Rarely, a band name has been more suitable: Whenever and wherever you hear Efterklang’s music, suddenly a wide space [...]
D/B Recommended: Mayer Hawthorne / New Video & Tour Dates / Live in Berlin 20.05.2010 @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
And he became more and more famous. After one secret and one totally sold out concert Mr. Mayer Hawthorn – Stones Throw’s soul singer with the hip-hop background is back in Berlin – this time in a larger venue.
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D/B recommended: Under Byen @ Admiralspalast Studio in Berlin / Saturday, 13 March 2010
Europe is aglow over their new record, but as we know them, Under Byen just won’t take their steps in the most common order.
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It is Belgium, the Netherlands, and of course their home country Denmark which have already seen the release of new record “Alt Er Tabt”, while in [...]
D/B recommended: process festival @ Ausland Berlin 19-20 March 2010
PROCESS is a 2 day festival focusing on the sound of systems. Terms like ‘process-driven’ and ‘generative’ are expanded to include live performances based on breath, a train-yard video that generates rhythms dynamically, and a large metal ‘drop machine’ which emulates electronics, with no electronics.
Programme features two evenings of live performances and new-media works, a [...]
The D/B Soundsystem will play every second Thursday of the month @ Madame Claude in Berlin
If you’re looking for a mix of unparalleled eclecticism, look no further than the mighty D/B Sound System. The combined music collections of Dirk Markham & Michael Rosen would easily keep you going for many years, if not decades.
Of course, the focus is on quality, not quantity, and certainly never purely on one genre. The [...]
D/B Recommended: 12-hour Autechre Radio Broadcast / Tuesday 2nd March 2010 /6pm til 6am (GMT)
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Signup to Autechre’s mailing list to receive email notification just before the radio show starts. Autechre on D/B: ae in Berlin & New album Oversteps
D/B recommended: Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra @ Festsaal Kreuzberg, Sunday 07.03.2010
Following the release of their album Take Off! on Alien Transistor in 2009, we are lucky enough that AMEO should return to Berlin less than a year after their last concert, also at Festsaal Kreuzberg.
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You might have seen them playing with wonderful German band The Notwist, but the Orchestra [...]
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!
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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.
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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 the [...]
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.
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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, theatre, and [...]
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 locations [...]
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.
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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 pioneer of [...]
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Every second thursday of the month @ Madame Claude
The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island / Portugal
