D/B Recommended: The Mokkers @ Bassy Cowboy Club in Berlin | 11.09.2010
Ringo Starr was probably the first who felt pretty certain that one day the establishment of the so called “Mokkerscene” will be inevitable. At a press conference (1964), a reporter asks Ringo Starr, “Are you a mod or a rocker?”, to which he replies, “No, I’m a MOKKER.” Back in these days it was a [...]
D/B Recommended: Elevate Festival 2010 in Graz/Austria | 21.10. – 26.10.2010
From October 21st to 26th, Graz’s Elevate Festival once again stimulates new ways of thinking and listening through an extraordinary combination of electronic music, art and political discourse. With Fritz Ostermayer (AT) w/ Felix Kubin (DE), Hudson Mohawke (UK), Jamie xx (UK), Joy Orbison (UK), Merzbow/Pandi (JP/HU), Mount Kimbie (UK), Pursuit Grooves (US), Terre Thaemlitz [...]
Bye Bye Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin | Final Ceremony with Raster Noton Concerts | Tuesday, 31. August 2010
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin closes down on August 31, 2010. The Closing Party with Aoki Takamsa, Grischa Lichtenberger and Kangding Ray. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Raster-Noton is a German electronic music record label founded in 1996 by Olaf Bender, Carsten Nicolai and Frank Bretschneider. Based in Chemnitz, Germany, Raster-Noton merged in 1999 from separate [...]
D/B Recommended: Möbius & Moebius @ Bar 25 in Berlin | Friday, 27.08.2010
Neumund presents an insurpassably infinite double bill at the Circus of Bar25 this Friday with solo live sets by Dieter Moebius, one half of Krautrock legends Cluster, as well as Berlin’s guitar-loop experimentalist Guido Möbius. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] They already share a name, now they will share a stage too. With [...]
D/B Recommended: Shorts Attack Berlin Beats / 14.09.2010 @ Babylon Kino
Shorts Attack gets to the bottom of diverse Berlin realities in 9 short films: Experience the weird chaos at a late night shop, witness a ridiculous sausage hold-up, try following the historic tale surrounding the Köpenick district and expose undercover ticket inspectors. Be moved by a memorable homage to the interchange station Ostkreuz and a [...]
D/B Recommended: Six Organs of Admittance in Berlin @ WestGermany | Monday, 20.09.2010
Six Organs of Admittance is the primary musical project of guitarist Ben Chasny. Chasny’s music is largely guitar-based and is often considered new folk, however it includes obvious influences, marked by the use of drones, chimes, and eclectic percussive elements. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Via Drag City Six Organs of Admittance is is [...]
D/B Recommended: Zero ‘n’ One. Composing in the digital age @ Akademie der Künste | 15-18.09.2010
This four-day festival, staged by the Akademie der Künste in partnership with its own electro-acoustic studio and the ZKM, undertakes a survey of the multi-facetted landscapes of digitally-assisted musical creation. What happens when we transform music into zeros and ones? The computer has long been an essential tool in the creation and enjoyment of music.
D/B Recommended: MADLIB LIVE in Berlin feat. EMBRYO, J.ROCC & THE SMELLS @ Festsaal Kreuzberg | 13.10.2010
The Beat Konducta and living legend himself hits Berlin! Known as Quasimoto, Yesterdays New Quintet, The Loopdigga, DJ Rels, The Beat Konducta & more. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Otis Jackson Jr., known professionally as Madlib, is a Los Angeles-based DJ, multi-instrumentalist, rapper, and music producer born on October 24, 1973 in Oxnard, California. [...]
D/B Recommended: KRAKE Festival in Berlin / 11.08-15.08.2010 @ Berghain & Suicide Circus
KRAKE is a Berlin based festival for challenging electronic music. KILLEKILL and SALON DU KATZ have joined forces to bring this festival to life. KRAKE is about dancing, freaking and listening. Numerous groundbreaking artists could be assigned. Amongst those are IDM legends PLAID, techno avantgardist CRISTIAN VOGEL, electro futurist RADIOACTIVE MAN and breakbeat nerd BOGDAN [...]
D/B Recommended: “The First Impressions in Berlin” performed by SPENCER & Takeshi Nishimoto LIVE @ Knaack Klub | Sunday, 15. August 2010
Of course ‘I’m Not A Gun’ is Takeshi Nishimoto’s worldwide well-known project in association with the artist John Tejada. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]In September 2010, they will release the fifth full-length album entitled ‘Solace’ on the Berlin-based label City-Centre-Offices.
D/B Recommended: Shorts and the City / 25.08.2010 @ Babylon Kino Berlin
Love is in the air, and it smells like… BIG CITY! In this summer edition of Shorts Attack, interfilm has tracked down an eclectic collection of urban love stories, fleeting encounters, passionate as well as ludicrous dates and even dangerous sex. Revealing the bizarre mating rituals and philosophies of diverse metropolis and providing an entertaining [...]
D/B Recommended: Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson LIVE in Berlin @ Privat Club | Friday, 17.09.2010
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson is a Norwegian emo/post-rock band, formed by journalism students in Bodø in 2003. The band is located in Oslo. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Combining electronic elements with soothing layers of dreamy guitars with pounding, jazzy and intricate beats. D/B highly recommended, not only for postrock fans!
D/B Recommended DENSEHALL with Rudi Zygadlo, DJ Cylob, P45 and more @ Jacki Terasse Berlin | Thursday, 12.08.2010
This time our friends from DENSE invited some of UK finest experimental musicians. Rudi Zygadlo, who is constantly exploring the overlapping borders of pop and dubstep, the legendary Cylob, one of the leading pioneers of post-rave electronica and DJ P45, a fresh young producer &DJ. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]But thats not all: [...]
D/B presents Systm Sessions with Stefanie Sixt & Markus Mehr, Saturday, 14.08.2010 in Berlin @ systM Galerie
Digital in Berlin with the systM Gallery presents a series of events, the D/B systM Sessions. These events will take in live laptop concerts featuring contemporary new atmospheric sound scapes and field-recordings – all set against the backdrop of international art exhibitions and finest French wine. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] All this [...]
D/B presents: THE WHALE WATCHING TOUR live in Berlin / feat. Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurðsson
Between them they have worked with everyone from Björk, Grizzly Bear and Bonnie Prince Billy to Coco Rosie, Múm and Philip Glass. Now THE WHALE WATCHING TOUR unites Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurðsson on one stage and brings them to Berlin for a very special concert. A quartet of extraordinary musicians [...]
D/B Recommended: SEVEN SPEAKERS – a listening environment in Berlin | 15. Juli to 14. August 2010
Seven Speakers is a great listening environment in Berlin Kreuzberg from July 15th to August 14th. Admission is free! The space will present works by Kreidler, CFM, Barbara Morgenstern und der Chor der Kulturen der Welt, Marcus Schmickler, Phillip Sollmann (Efdemin), Bacchus Marteau and Kante, conceived for a seven speaker music installation. Each week will [...]
D/B Recommended: Klangbad Festival | 6-8 August 2010
Certainly one of the finest festivals in existence, Klangbad takes place again this weekend with a line-up as diverse and interesting as ever including: Cluster, Golden Disko Ship, Jaki Liebezeit, Gustav, Jimi Tenor, Robert Lippok, A Hawk & A Hacksaw and many more. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]There are mainly 2 kinds of [...]
D/B Recommended: Bird,Lake,Objects – Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek @ General Public Berlin | 06.08.2010
DISK Session #20 presents Faitiche – a music label operated by Jan Jelinek – to celebrate the latest release Bird, Lake, Objects with a sound performance by Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek, surrounded by original graphic works of Masayoshi Fujita. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Masayoshi Fujita’s route to Berlin was a roundabout one. [...]
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The MADEIRADIG Festival 2010
3-6.12.2010 | Madeira Island
From Beats, Wonky, Glitch and Downbeat to advanced Hip Hop, we present you extraordinary producers from around the world.
Live laptop concerts featuring contemporary new atmospheric sound scapes and field-recordings.
