D/B Recommended: Klangbad Festival 2011, Scheer | 5-7th August 2011
Certainly one of the finest festivals in existence, Klangbad takes place again this August with a line-up as diverse and interesting as ever including: WIRE, Red Snapper, Die Goldenen Zitronen, Felix Kubin, Bob Rutman Steel Cello Ensemble, Moebius + Tietchens, Gudrun Gut and many more. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]There are mainly 2 [...]
D/B presents: Masayoshi Fujita & Nigel Wright LIVE @ The KissKiss Ballroom Berlin | Tuesday, 26.07.2011
Next Tuesday our favourite vibrophone player Masayoshi Fujita aka El Fog will perfom in our monthly Digital in Berlin Music Salon. [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 has been influenced and inspired [...]
D/B Recommended: MF Doom & @ Astra Berlin | Friday, 22.07.2011
Daniel Dumile is a British American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM, where the “MF” stands for Metal Fist, Metal Fingers, or Metal Face. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger [...]
D/B Recommend: STAALTAPEFEST @ Staalplaat Store Berlin | August 2011
Staaltapefest offers to Berliners and visitors to Berlin alike a good possibility to encounter some of the hidden jewels but also some of the established creators in the Berlin scene. Preslav Literary School’s presence develops like a drone that slowly fills the hearts and souls of a growing number of devoted listeners. While at the [...]
D/B presents: Kraut & Rüben Release Party @ Horst Kreuzberg Berlin | 22. Juli 2011
Record Release Party for the DJ Mix CD “Kraut und Rüben: Gebrüder Teichmann Play Staubgold” featuring special live guests Schlammpeitziger (A-Musik, Sonig) and Andrew Pekler (Scape, Kranky). [Audio clip: view full post to listen]After Peter Grummich’s ‘Dinner Music For Clubbers’, Alec Empire’s ‘Rauschgold’ and label owner Markus Detmer’s aka Monsieur Croque’s ’100 Jahre Einsamkeit’,
D/B presents: WASSERMUSIK Festival 2011 @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin | 15.07.–06.08.2011
Wassermusik, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s major summer festival, addressed a range of topics in its first two editions, including surf music, sailors’ songs and the accordion. Last year, the central theme was important waterways. The three festival weekends in 2010 followed a strict geographical order, and were dedicated to the unique cultural landscapes [...]
D/B Recommended: Erykah Badu @ Tempodrom Berlin | Wednesday, 03.08.2011
Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), better known by her stage name Erykah Badu is an American recording artist, record producer and actress. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Her work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, [...]
D/B presents: The Digital in Berlin Boxing Salon @ The KissKiss Ballroom in Berlin | Saturday, 02. Juli 2011
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” Muhammad Ali With its Boxing Salon, Digital in Berlin presents a new regular event to screen the most exiting fights, live and in stereo at a special location. Prior to and following the main fight we will show an selection of [...]
D/B Recommended: The Master Musicians of Jajouka @ HKW Berlin | Saturday, 02.07.2011
Mick Jagger calls them “one of the most musically inspiring groups still left on the planet” and they have worked with stars such as Talvin Singh, Patti Smith and Bill Laswell. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar, from the Rif mountains in northern Morocco, pass their [...]
D/B Recommended: Volcano The Bear @ Berghain Berlin | Wednesday, 29.06.2011
Volcano The Bear have, in the words of The Wire magazine, “produced some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage…”. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Or, as Losing Today puts it, “No one sounds, has sounded, or will ever sound quite like Volcano the Bear.” [...]
D/B presents: KRAKE FESTIVAL 2011 | 15. – 21. August 2011 in Berlin
KRAKE ist an annual Berlin based festival for challenging electronic music and visual transduction initiated by Nico Deuster of KILLEKILL and Holger Hilgers. The festival took place at the Suicide Circus for the first time in 2010 and was an overwhelming success: numerous groundbreaking artists of high reputation rocked the crowd such as Warp’s electronica [...]
D/B presents: ASTRONAUT MAGAZINE RELEASE with RIVAL CONSOLES LIVE @ The KissKiss Ballroom | Friday, 10.06.2011
Astronaut Magazine celebrates the launch of its first issue and presents, in collaboration with Erased Tapes Records, a showcase by Rival Consoles, who will play some songs of his forthcoming new album “Kid Velo” London-based purveyor of intelligent dance music Ryan L. West aka RIVAL CONSOLES returns with his sophomore album KID VELO, released track [...]
D/B presents: Damo Suzuki LIVE @ Friedenskirche Charlottenburg Berlin | Saturday, 04.06.2011
True to his relentless tour-schedule, former Can frontman Damo Suzuki is back less than a year after his last Berlin show. This time for a very special collaboration with Günter Schickert (“Samtvogel”) and his band Ziguri with Dieter Kölsch und Udo Erdenreich. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The tour schedule of this 60 year [...]
D/B Presents: BJ Nilsen (SE) & Stephan Mathieu (DE) LIVE | Decks: Hanno Leichtmann @ The KissKiss Ballroom Berlin | Saturday, 04.06.2011
BJNilsen is a sound and recording artist. Primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He has worked for documentary film, television, theatre and sound designer. For this performance [...]
D/B presents: Shigeto LIVE @ Monarch Berlin | Monday, 06.06.2011
Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw’s case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach records under the name Shigeto. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] It’s his middle name; it’s also his grandfather’s name, a tribute to the Japanese branch of Zach’s family tree. Shigeto also means [...]
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