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 [...]
D/B Recommended: Felix Kubin, Dickson Dee, Wu Wei & Arto Lindsay @ Berghain Berlin | Monday, 17.01.2011
Felix Kubin is an electronic musician. He has been involved with music since he was 8 years old, when he studied piano, organ and glockenspiel. His youthful experiments really took off in 1980 when he got a Korg MS-20 synthesizer. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]His early works have been released under the title [...]
D/B Recommended: Murcof, Oval, Rechenzentrum @ Berghain | 16.12.2010
This weeks’ electro-acoustic salon at Berghain features three pioneers of “a possible different music”. Fernando Corona a.k.a. Murcof from Tijuana, Mexico, builds his works on the basis of samples of classical music as in his much acclaimed “Versailles Sessions”. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Both Oval (Markus Popp) as well as Rechenzentrum (featuring Hilary [...]
D/B Recommended: Matthew Dear (Live) @ Berghain Berlin | 01.12.2010
Matthew Dear, backed up by his live band, will present his latest album, Black City, today at the Kantine am Berghain. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Released in August, Black City (Ghostly International) is the fourth album from this american music producer/dj (following the acclaimed Asa Breed).
D/B Album Feature: Ring by Reuber | Reuber’s Digest & Live in Berlin @ Berghain | 18.11.2010
With his fifth solo album „Ring“ electro-accoustic artist Reuber has narrowed down his universe to a work of sublime clarity. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Already when Reuber released his first solo album “Anna” in 2000, electro-acoustic loop music had not been experimental anymore.
D/B Recommended: Leisure System with Dopplereffekt & Luke Vibert @ Berghain | Friday, 17.09.2010
This Friday Berghain hosts an outstanding line-up of artists from Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label to celebrate the it’s 19th anniversary and 2 years of Leisure System. Topping the bill will be Luke Vibert aka Wagon Christ and a special live show by electro scientists Dopplereffekt. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Additional live sets by [...]
D/B Recommended: KILLL live in Berlin @ Berghain Club | Thursday, 09.09.2010
After their triumphant European tour in 2007 things got a bit quiet around KILLL, maybe a bit too quiet for a band which has been dubbed as “The best noise act in Oslo, and possibly the best live show I’ve ever seen” (Pitchfork). On these shows the Norwegian all-star ensemble consisting of members of JAGA [...]
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