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 [...]
D/B Recommended: Mountains LIVE @ Friedenskirche Charlottenburg Berlin | 19.05.2011
Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, two sonic explorers whose long history, shared philosophies, and love of sculpting sound, has resulted in some of the most densely layered and blissful music crafted in recent memory. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The duo is known for obscuring the boundaries between acoustic instrumentation and electronics. [...]
D/B Recommended: Nadja & Thisquietarmy @ Bei Roy Berlin | Saturday, 11.06.2011
Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff alternately based in Toronto, Canada & Berlin, Germany. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The duo makes music that encompasses experimental/drone, ambient, shoegazer, & doom metal. They have since released numerous albums with such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Conspiracy Records, Hydrahead Records, and Robotic Empire.
D/B presents: Laurie Anderson “Delusion” LIVE @ Volksbühne Berlin | 17&18.05.2011
Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety [...]
D/B Recommended: Times New Viking @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Thursday, 12.05.2011
Few bands take Guided By Voices as their point of reference, but certainly in the case of Times New Viking that cant be a bad thing as their recently released album Dancer Equired goes to show. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With support from Jemek Jemowit and the D/B Sound System, count on another [...]
D/B Recommended: Fulgeance @ Panke Berlin, Saturday, 14.05.2011
This one is not to be missed as it’s a very worthwhile concept for a club night: vast is a project introducing diversity to Germany’s clubbing fraternity with a superb mix of Glitch, Hip-Hop, Wonky, Dubstep and lots of other goodies… [Audio clip: view full post to listen]vast opens the next heavyweight Beatmaker-round and presents [...]
D/B Recommended: Ty Segall @ Westgermany Berlin | Thursday, 19.05.2011
Apart from drumming, singing and playing guitar in four different bay area garage bands, Ty Segall still has the time for his own thing. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Burying ’60s sing-alongs and dance crazes beneath waves of reverb and giddy thud, he’s carved out his own shelf in the neo-psych garage alongside SF [...]
D/B Presents: Schneider TM @ The Kiss Kiss Ballroom Berlin | Tuesday, 31.05.2011
Since the late 80’s Dirk Dresselhaus is active in different musical fields. From 1989 until 1997 he played and sang in indie-noiserock and -pop bands like Locust Fudge or Hip Young Things. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Before he became more active in electronic music around 1997 with his project Schneider TM (City Slang, [...]
D/B Recommended: Deaf Wish @ Kastanienkeller Berlin | Friday, 29.04.2011
Deaf Wish have certainly taken the conventional trajectory of a band and brutalised it. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]They began one weekend in Melbourne, Australia, wrote, recorded and played their first show in days that could be counted on one grimy hand. After that was nailed and the CD sold in vomit bags, [...]
D/B Recommended: OPENING “TRACE” @ LEAP Berlin | Friday, 29.04.2011
With the exhibition TRACE we examine the role of the “body” both digital and physical and its ability to change the architecture of the landscape and our perceptions of space. What is the role of the body and what resistance can it offer against digital reproduction? Living in a cross-linked world we have to cope [...]
D/B Festival Feature: LAST ECHO OF FEELING in Ulm/Bavaria | 15-17 April 2011
Die Begegnung Samuel Becketts (1906–1989) mit der deutschen Romantik während seines Berlin- Aufenthaltes im Jahre 1936 ist gewissermaßen Ausgangssituation und Inspiration für die neue Ausgabe des Festivals mit neuer Musik. [German Announcement] Beckett hatte damals mit Hilfe stundenlanger Wanderungen durch Berlin versucht, seiner Einsamkeit und dem Schmerz um eine verlorene Liebe zu entkommen. „How I [...]
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