D/B Recommended: Charles Hayward, Barberos & Ultraspießer @ NK Berlin | Monday, 16.01.2012

Charles Hayward is a pioneering English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock group This Heat. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He also played with Mal Deans amazing Band, radar favourites Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun Project as well as a short [...]

D/B Recommended: Lonski and Classen & Ellenschneider @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Friday, 16.12.2011

This event will be a true summit of like-minded spirits and a gathering of the tribes before christmas. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The ever-fantastic duo of LONSKI & CLASSEN will exclusively preview material from their forthcoming album, which according to sources close to the band, sounds like the big album that had been [...]

D/B Recommended: Blake Worrell @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Friday, 09.12.2011

The towering talent of BLAKE WORRELL is just about to fully reveal itself to the world. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]And this time it will listen for sure as he walks out from amongst the shadow of the Puppetmastaz to finally present the full on glory of his transatlantic understanding of west coast [...]

D/B Recommended: Purge II w/ Ancient Methods & Sun Worship @ Chez Jacki Berlin | Friday, 09.12.2011

After the success with HTRK and Bruises, PURGE returns in December with more audio agGression and death defying bass featuring Ancient Methods, SUn Worship, Hanno Hinkelbein and the PURGE Allstars. There’s a primal punch to the industrial techno sounds of Ancient Methods. Their records sounds like gigantic machines, made of flesh and wood and metal, [...]

D/B Presents: DEN**HALL w/ Kalbata, Seams & Bill Youngman @ Chez Jacki Berlin | Saturday, 10.12.2011

Kalbata, real name Ariel Tagar, is a bass music pioneer from Tel Aviv. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Regardless of genre, his distinct musical approach comes through in everything he does.

D/B Recommended: Masayoshi Fujita & Will Samson @ Altes Finanzamt Berlin | Sunday, 11.12.2011

Following his appearance at D/B’s Music Salon in the summer, our favourite vibraphone player returns to Berlin for what is sure to be another spellbinding performance. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Masayoshi Fujita (el fog, originally from japan and now Berlin based) plays and composes mainly on the vibraphone, using electronics, loops, live-processing, etc. He [...]

D/B Recommended: Human Elephant & Orchestra of Spheres @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Wednesday, 14.12.2011

A special night, that has been coming for a long long time, ten years since THE HUMAN ELEPHANT self-released his luxury cd-r album and he’s going stronger than ever. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]From the humble basement beginnings in pre-gentrified Neukölln to his first vinyl release on mexican download label UMOR REX the [...]

D/B Recommended: Buke and Gase & Bachelorette @ Monarch Berlin | Wednesday, 14.12.2011

Brooklyn-based BUKE & GASE are Arone Dyer on the “buke ” (a self-modified six-string former baritone ukulele) and Aron Sanchez on the “gase ” (a guitar – bass hybrid of his own creation). [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Both of them play double duty, also mobilizing a small army of foot percussion. These instruments [...]

D/B Recommended: Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Thursday, 15.12.2011

Jaki Liebezeit and Burnt Friedman share a preference for so-called Secret Rhythms, which means that the rhythms are not hidden but less common, often foreign to western culture. The artists have consciously turned away from Western European, Anglo-American regulated rhythm in order to enrich their vocabulary with all globally relevant rhythms.

D/B Recommended: Static & Andrew Pekler @ .HBC Berlin | Thursday, 01.12.2011

Static aka Hanno Leichtmann presents a live record release party for the brand new album on Karaoke Kalk “Freedom of Noise” with ensemble. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Support comes from Leichtmann’s Groupshow bandmate Andrew Pekler plus Karaoke Kalk label owner Strobocop DJing in the bar.

D/B Recommended: Islaja & Golden Diskó Ship @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Thursday, 01.12.2011

This is a night of idiosyncratic forms and feelings, with two of the finest musicians in contemporary borderline songwriting. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Finland’s ISLAJA delivers her poetry and music from a private shadow theatre with looping skills and high drama, while berlin’s own GOLDEN DISKÓ SHIP scans the horizon for melodies and [...]

D/B Recommended: Kid Congo & the Pink Monkeybirds @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Thursday, 01.12.2011

The gigantic tone of Kid Congo Powers’ open-tuned guitar is one of the more readily  identifiable sounds in the history of underground rock. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Best known for his contribution to the development of the contemporary noise guitar with The Gun Club, The Cramps, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds [...]

D/B Recommended: Leisure System 14 w/ Dj Funk, Nathan Fake, Actress & Ikonika @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 02.12.2011

Dj Funk, critically acclaimed as being one of the most influential men in house music, now the biggest getto house icon of all time is set to make his debut performance at the Berghain. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The pioneer of 90s house has been pushing out releases for over 15 years on [...]

D/B Recommended: High Places @ HAU 2 Berlin | Saturday, 03.12.2011

Six weeks after the double concert with Lucky Dragons and Skeletons HAU hosts a further US underground band which pursues the project of a new kind of world music under the conditions of the digital diaspora: HIGH PLACES. The duo consists of singer Mary Pearson and multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber, and in October they have released [...]

D/B Recommended: John Maus & Gary War @ Berghain Berlin | Saturday, 03.12.2011

After playing two packed shows at Berlin’s West Germany venue and a sold out concert at HAU 2 theatre, John Maus finally does Berghain – him being one of the most stunning, daftest, berserk and intense performers of our time. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]When John Maus wasn’t playing keyboards for Animal Collective, [...]

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