D/B Recommended: Willy Moon @ Berghain Berlin | Monday, 23.04.2012

A truly great debut single should make the listener ask: Who is this person? And where did they come from? That’s what happens when you first watch the video to Willy Moon’s I Wanna Be Your Man, in which a lean and long-faced young man struts and jerks and testifies in a spotlight, over a [...]

D/B Recommended: Kim Doo Soo & Carla Bozulich & Okkyung Lee @ Ausland Berlin | Friday, 13.04.2012

Kim Doo Soo is the deepest and most introspective of Korea’s acid folk singers. Many are the legends that cling to his songs – political oppression, alcoholism, suicide, a ten-year period of mountain seclusion. Despite having been active since the mid-’80s and having released four acclaimed albums in Korea, most Western listeners only became aware [...]

D/B Recommended: Michael Hurley & Josephine Foster @ Ausland Berlin | Saturday, 14.04.2012

It is no surprise to find out that the unique voice of Michael Hurley was first recorded for release by Folkways Records on the same reel to reel as recorded Leadbelly’s last sessions. Hurley’s career has spanned almost fifty years of craft and his newest LP Blue Hills is a testimony to his continued relevance.

D/B Recommended: Decoy & Joe McPhee @ Ausland Berlin | Sunday, 15.04.2012

Ausland and OTO bring Counterflows to a close with two explosive sets from Decoy with special guest Joe McPhee. Coming together for the first time at OTO in December 2009 where they instantly hit it off we brought them back together last October for two nights that provided one of the highlight’s of what was [...]

D/B Recommended: TV Buddhas @ Monarch Berlin | Sunday, 15.04.2012

TV BUDDHAS, the garage band from Tel Aviv, will perform in celebration of the release of their new EP “Band In The Modern World”, which was produced by Steve Fisk (Beat Happening, Nirvana) and recorded in just less than an hour. The TV BUDDHAS, currently based in Germany, but originally from Tel Aviv, have been [...]

D/B Recommended: Laibach @ Heimathafen Neukölln Berlin | Tuesday, 03.04.2012

Laibach is an industrial group whose members prefer to be known as a collective rather than reveal individual names; they’ve been seen as fascists and of practicing Germanophilia because of their music’s Wagnerian thunder and their military attire. According to Laibach, “We are fascists as much as Hitler was a painter.” Since fascism needs a [...]

D/B Recommended: Afternoon Tea feat. Rehberg, Ambarchi, Rowe, Pimmon & Fennesz @ HAU 2 Berlin | Thursday, 05.04.2012

The concert programme of Hau2 theater in April begins with the reunion of a band which – without any exaggeration – merits to be called a supergroup. In the Sixties guitarist KEITH ROWE was one of the members of AMM, pioneers of free improvised music in England.

D/B Recommended: Baba Zula @ Lido Berlin | Friday, 06.04.2012

The unrivalled masters of 21st century Turkish psychedelic music, BaBa ZuLa go to great lengths to provide their followers with a unique experience both on their live shows and their recordings. By mixing oriental instruments such as the electric saz, darbuka, and spoons with electronics and modern sounds, BaBa ZuLa creates a sound all their [...]

D/B Recommended: Pimmon @ O Tannenbaum Berlin | Saturday, 07.04.2012

One of the highlights of this years Easter weekend comes from our friends at O Tannenbaum who host a live appearance by Australia’s Pimmon aka Paul Gough. The folded and chopped, glitchy ambient his Pimmon project can be traced back to a mid-’80s obsession with Severed Heads and a self-released cassette packaged in a mangled safety [...]

D/B Recommended: Various Vegetables #4: Lambent, Discoxx, Wermonster & more @ Naherholung Sternchen Berlin | Saturday, 07.04.2012

April’s fools are back in the fourth round of Various Vegetables. We tap the beats per minute down and turnip more bass. Our all-round veggiepal and former first advisory body in matters of acquiring new vinyl at the legendary Dense record store, Marius “Discoxx” Reisser is celebrating a record release for his label Stillavailable Records [...]

D/B Recommended: Drum Eyes, Genus Inkasso, Der Tapeman and many more @ NK Projekt Berlin | Saturday, 07.04.2012

Drum Eyes return to Berlin as part of their latest EU Tour. Lead by experimental, gabba hero DJ Scotch Egg, Drum Eyes are essentially a supergroup comprising ex-Boredoms drummer, E-da, and a smattering of collaborators drawn from the underbelly of Brighton’s experimental music scene including members of The Go Team!, and Sloath. Drum Eyes is [...]

D/B Presents: Condre Scr & Svarte Greiner @ S 23 Berlin | Sunday, 08.04.2012

The instrumental music of Condre Scr is a fusion of contoured rock music, rich textured ambient sounds and crystal clear noise. Haunting harmonies, delicate melodies, fibrous drumming and a sense for subtle drones weave multi-layered soundscapes of gloomy sublimeness.

D/B Recommended: Jan Jelinek & Andrew Pekler perform Ursula Bogner @ .HBC Berlin | Tuesday, 10.04.2012

On the occasion of the book release of “sun = black box” by Maas Media, Andrew Pekler and Jan Jelinek will improvise to Ursula Bogner’s compositions which have been reconstructed from original tapes. At the same time slides from her work and life will be shown. Highly recommended! Ursula Bogner surfaced for the first time [...]

D/B Recommended: OM & Nadja @ Berghain Berlin | Tuesday, 10.04.2012

Al Cisneros, former vocalist and bass player with Californian doom-stoner bands Sleep and Asbestosdeath, and Emil Amos (aka Holy Sons), drummer with Oregon rockers, Grails, make up the duo OM. Originally formed by Al Cisneros and Sleep drummer Chris Hakius in 2003, the band released three studio albums before Amos replaced Haikus in early 2008. [...]

D/B Recommended: Schneider TM & Lillevan: Construction Sounds @ Ausland Berlin | Wednesday, 11.04.2012

For his new project, Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider TM has over the years recorded sound material from construction sites in Berlin – a city constantly under construction, like they say. In concert, he will melt such field recordings with electronic live improvisation, while videoartist Lillevan, well known as a pioneer of intelligent live-visuals, will screen [...]

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