D/B Presents: REGGIE WATTS LIVE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Sunday, 29.01.2012

Imagine you come to a show and realize midway through that you’re having a really strong trip. Reggie Watts’ intellectually stimulating hilariously clever improvised comedy beatbox performance does exactly this to the audiences. In his stream-of-consciousness monologues combined with beautifully mastered beatbox interludes, Reggie shifts seamlessly between different personas, musical styles, accents, voices, and even [...]

D/B Recommended: The Immanent Lie w/ John Duncan, John Wiese and others @ NK Berlin | Sunday, 29.01.2012

John Duncan portrays his work as a catalyst, inciting a transmission of energy through which he seeks to compel the audience to actively participate in the process of investigation and self-discovery. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]His lengthy career of electroacoustic intensity and confrontational performance art events is the result of rigorous investigations into [...]

D/B Recommended: CTM.12 Festival @ Different Venues in Berlin | from Monday, 30.01.2012 to Sunday, 05.01.2012

With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art. The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January [...]

D/B Recommended: Michael Kiwanuka @ Roter Salon Berlin | Monday, 30.01.2012

With his acoustic blues-folk sound and timeless soulful voice, singer/songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has been favorably compared with the likes of Curtis Mayfield, Terry Callier, and Van Morrison. Born in Muswell Hill, London in 1987, to Ugandan parents who had fled Idi Amin’s regime in the ’70s, he initially developed a love of rock music, in [...]

D/B Recommended: Teengirl Fantasy & Butterclock @ Naherholung Sternchen Berlin | Wednesday, 01.02.2012

Boasting an almost Google-proof name, Teengirl Fantasy is the project of Nick Weiss and Logan Takahashi. Weiss and Takahashi, who craft an atmospheric yet driving sound — borrowing from deep house, shoegaze, and other styles — that makes critics coin terms like “dream-beat,” met during orientation at Ohio’s Oberlin College and began making music together [...]

D/B Recommended: Plastic People Special with Floating Points & Abdul Forsyth @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Saturday, 21.01.2012

147 Curtain Road – Shoreditch, London. A legendary address, home of one of the most fascinating underground music clubs worldwide, Plastic People – a place truly defined by the love of music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With its 200 people capacity and its incredible custom built sound-system, Plastic People has been the shelter [...]

D/B Recommended: Feedbackorchester @ Friedenskirche Berlin | Sunday, 22.01.2012

The Feebackorchester is a powerful ensemble for ten electric guitars under the conductor ship of well-established session musician Herman Halb. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Standing within a circle of amplifiers the musicians are only using the feedback of their guitars. Their unusual and performance is a remarkable cross among avantgarde, Noise Rock and [...]

D/B Recommended: Neoangin & Nova Huta & Krach der Roboter @ Monarch Berlin | Sunday, 21.01.2012

Jim Avignon wanders through life on adventurous paths. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]A painter in techno clubs, a party animal in Berlin, a festival organiser in Moscow and, again and again, on the road with his one-man-band Neoangin – no doubt, the global player of the under ground prefers life to be diverse.

D/B Presents: Network Awesome Birthday Party w/ Chuckamuck @ Sophiensaele Berlin | Friday, 20.01.2012

Ever want to watch Alice Cooper host The Muppet Show or catch up on old episodes of HBO series Tales From the Crypt, but didn’t know where to find them? Maybe you just want to zone out for a few hours watching nostalgic old black-and-white TV shows like The Twilight Zone or documentaries on big-wave [...]

D/B Recommended: Nicolas Jaar & Valentin Stip @ Berghain Berlin | Monday, 16.01. & Wednesday, 18.01.2012

You’d have to have your eyes and ears shut to miss hearing about Nicolas Jaar in 2011. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Following a string of provocative debut singles for the likes of Wolf + Lamb that opened the door to his illustrious sound, his cerebral debut album on Circus Company, ‘Space Is Only [...]

D/B Recommended: Schlammpeitziger @ Monarch Berlin | Thursday, 19.01.2012

Jo Zimmermann’s Schlammpeitziger project has been a unique fixture on Cologne’s electronic scene since the early ’90s. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Zimmermann’s simple, unassuming music is constructed almost entirely using the factory presets of his trusty Casio CZ-230S keyboard, with spare use of samples and a drum machine added for seasoning.

D/B Recommended: Plaid & Dorian Concept @ Gretchen Berlin | Friday, 20.01.2012

London has bred many great Techno artists, more specifically the artists on Warp. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Ed Handley and Andy Turner aka Plaid are among the ranks. Plaid’s live performances are complete multi-media experiences powered by laptops.

D/B Recommended: Masayoshi Fujita & Hanno Leichtmann & Jutojo @ .HBC Berlin | Wednesday, 11.01.2012

Masayoshi Fujita (el fog, originally from japan and now Berlin based) plays and composes mainly on the vibraphone, using electronics, loops, live-processing, etc. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He has been influenced and inspired by electronic music, dub, jazz, hip hop, etc, and pursues his own sound and own world.

D/B Recommended: Certain People 3: Star Slinger, Niki & the Dove, Vondelpark @ Berghain Berlin | Thursday, 12.01.2012

Star Slinger is Manchester based one-man hip hop beat machine Darren Williams. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The 24-year-old takes influences from all over the world, from past to present – from memphis rap to shoegaze.

D/B Recommended: Warren Suicide feat. Oval @ Volksbühne Berlin | Friday, 13.01.2012

Berlin’s Punk artist duo Cherie (Vocals & Visuals) and Nackt (Vocals & Sound) are Warren Suicide. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Warren Suicide were founded as an Electro Trio in Berlin in 2003. Nackt and then band member Fremdkörper were looking for a sound, a character while Cherie was drawing a strange figure on [...]

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