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 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 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 Festival: Pictoplasma in Berlin / 9+10.04.2010
Again, the famous berlin cinema Kino Babylon Mitte opens his doors for the Pictoplasma Festival. Since 2005, this “festival for contemporary character design and art” brings together an international scene of artists, directors, designers and agencies, offering a unique forum for all those working with – or simply loving – the visualisation and application of contemporary character design.
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 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 Artist Feature: Max Tundra | LIVE in Berlin @ Westgermany, Friday, 19.02.2010
Ben Jacobs, more commonly known by the stage name Max Tundra, is an English multi-instrumental musician, singer & music producer. His work is pred-
ominantly electronic music but incorporates non-electronic styles.
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Other than his full length albums, he has also done remix work for bands of varying genres including Franz Ferdinand, [...]
D/B Recommended: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot EXHIBITION @ The Curve/London / 27.02 – 23.05.2010
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.
For his installation in The Curve, Boursier-Mougenot creates a walk-though aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other musical instruments. Make sure to watch the video below.
D/B recommended: Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab solo concert @ Temporäre Kunsthall Berlin / 17.02.10
Solo LIVE concert by Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab, Monade) at Auto-Kino! / Temporäre Kunsthall Berlin.
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Laetitia Sadier is singer, keyborder and guitarist of the British band Stereolab. Lending her fabulous and unique voice to a mixture of Post-Rock, Easy Listening and Lounge-Music, Stereolab have been called “one of the most influential [...]
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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
