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: 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: 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: 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, [...]

D/B Recommended: Gang Gang Dance @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 25.11.2011

Ten years since its initiation and a more than touching band history, New York City’s Gang Gang Dance are one of the greatest and maddest live bands of the present day. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Their music consists of exotic scales, influences from dub, grime and noise music, and the maverick vocals and [...]

D/B Recommended: Kometenmelodien 9: Barn Owl @ Berghain Kantine Berlin | Tuesday, 22.11.2011

San Francisco-based drone duo Barn Owl follow in the footsteps of provocative avant-gardists Alice Coltrane and Keiji Haino, while building on the doom metal foundation planted by Black Sabbath. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti started playing music together soon after meeting in an American Indian science class at [...]

D/B Recommended: Pure X & Sleep∞Over @ Berghain Kantine Berlin | Tuesday, 15.11.2011

Narcotic-hypnotic music for somnambulists: with Pure X and Sleep ∞ Over, the concert series »Kometenmelodien« showcases two of the most interesting representatives of contemporary and timeless american pop music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Both rank first in terms of ambiguity in musical expression such as the use of echo, reverb, distortion and opaque [...]

D/B Presents: ≠ (not equal) w/ Demdike Stare, Andy Stott, Emptyset and others @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 11.11.2011

≠ (not equal)  is a new series of events at Berghain, which aims to situate the relationship between sound research, performance and narration in contemporary electronic music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The focus is on both sonic experiments and on an ongoing exploration into the deep time of techno, so that with ≠ [...]

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 Recommended: Shangaan Electro @ Berghain Berlin | Thursday, 30.06.2011

Shangaan Electro is the new wave of South African dance music and this summer its set to hit Europe. This exciting live show features performances by Nozinja aka ‘Dog’, the clown-masked Tshetsha Boys, as well as Tiyiselani, Nkata Mawewe and the fastest Shangaan dancers around. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]An unmissable showcase of [...]

D/B Recommended: 10 Years Ad Noiseam @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 06.05.2011

The Berlin based Ad Noiseam label was born in early 2001 as a creative out- put for the Recycle Your Ears web magazine, which has been active between 1998 and 2003. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Having reached the (for an underground label venerable) age of 10 years in 2011, Ad Noiseam is celebrating [...]

D/B presents: LUX AETERNA / The Transcendence of Music @ Berghain Berlin | 10-11.03.2011

A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of music. Music today is often simply perceived as commodity and is reduced to the functional. The digital revolution has seemingly left music in an eternal return. Since its beginnings, music has fought against such limitations by allowing us to experience a space beyond the everyday. [...]

D/B Recommended: Konono N°1 & Kompaktorama @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 25.02.2011

Their first show in Berlin in 2007 has been a feast, now they are coming again: Konono No.1 is a collective of Congolese musicians standing for an indigenous urban sound of  amplified likembés (thumb pianos). [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Taken together, the patterns of all of Konono No 1′s likembé-players sum up to [...]

D/B Recommended: Iron and Wine @ Berghain Berlin | Tuesday, 08.02.2011 | New Album, Tour & Stream

Today Iron & Wine release their first album for 4AD, Kiss Each Other Clean, on CD, LP and download. D/B highly Recommended! [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Returning from a three year recording hiatus, Kiss Each Other Clean proves Iron & Wine’s time away from the spotlight was well spent and represents the next [...]

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