D/B Recommended: Warren Suicide feat. Oval @ Volksbühne Berlin | Friday, 13.01.2012

Berlin’s Punk artist duo Cherie (Vocals & Visuals) and Nackt (Vocals & Sound) are Warren Suicide. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Warren Suicide were founded as an Electro Trio in Berlin in 2003. Nackt and then band member Fremdkörper were looking for a sound, a character while Cherie was drawing a strange figure on [...]

D/B Recommended: Battles & Oval @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Sunday, 10.04.2011

Battles is an American experimental rock group, founded in 2002 in New York City. The band’s current line-up comprises guitarists Ian Williams, Dave Konopka, and drummer John Stanier. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Following a string of EPs, the band released their debut album on the Warp Records label in February 2006, which was [...]

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: OVAL live @ ://about blank in Berlin | Thursday, 04.11.2010

Following his exceptional releases on Thrill Jockey earlier this year Berliner Markus Popp aka OVAL makes a live home appearance at the start of November. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Support comes from DJs Strobocop, Chica Paula and Daniel Meteo. Electronic avantgardist Markus Popp aka. Oval recently released the first new Oval material in [...]

D/B Festival Feature: Sonar Festival in Chicago | First Acts Announced

Sónar presents the first Sónar Chicago on the 9th, 10th and 11th of September 2010. With this new small-format festival Sonar returns to the United States. Some of the artists confirmed to date are The Slew, Oval, Ben Frost, Nosaj Thing, Martyn, Nicolas Bernier + Martin Messier: La Chambre des Machines, The Flashbulb feat. the New [...]

D/B Recommended: Oval new EP Ringtones as free Download & new 70-track Album “O” in September

Electronic avantgardist Markus Popp aka. Oval recently released the first new Oval material in over a decade in Oh on Thrill Jockey. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] In the meantime,  Oval has put together a Free EP, featuring non-album tracks from the O sessions. It’s called Ringtones, and you can download it right [...]

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