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MONDAY MUSIC: BRANDT BRAUER FRICK

Monday, March 5, 2012

These boys are the hype of the moment on Berlin’s dancefloors at the moment – as electronic music is continually looking for ways forward, a classically trained ensemble that will play rhythmic club music with grand pianos and percussion and the occasional harp might not be exactly pointing forward, but at least it’s something different.

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MONDAY MUSIC: GONJASUFI

Monday, February 27, 2012

Hey hey, we’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: Gonjasufi is back with his latest 10-mini-track EP MU.ZZ.LE, which is slightly more accessible and a little toned down in comparison to his debut album, which of course was our album of the year 2010, but hey, it’s still a whole lot better than nothing, [...]

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KRYTYKA POLITYCZNA IN BERLIN #3

Monday, February 20, 2012

Martin Zet’s campaign Deutschland schafft es ab (‘Germany gets rid of it‘) in the framework of the 7th Berlin Biennale gave rise to strong reactions and polarized the public opinion. His call for donations of Thilo Sarrazin’s book Deutschland schafft es ab was criticized not only in numerous media reports, but the Berlin Biennale also received [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: SHABAZZ PALACES

Monday, February 20, 2012

I can’t really claim to understand the deeper meaning behind Shabazz Palaces‘ latest video for Are You… Can You… Were You… (Felt), but hey, any footage including a beautiful girl on a bicycle works for me, especially when the soundtrack comes from the warped minds of Shabazz.

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MONDAY MUSIC: KINDNESS

Monday, February 13, 2012

We’re into kindness, generally speaking, but also particularly into Kindness, the one-man-band, if for no other reason that their (his? But who are the others?) video made us laugh, particularly from about two minutes in, when they drop the music and the entire thing mutates into some weird and hilarious mockumentary spoof. Kindness are (is?) [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: M.I.A.

Monday, February 6, 2012

I used to go to college with M.I.A., so to see her turn into a massive pop star never fails to weird me out a little. But whatever you might think of her particular blend of mainstream electro sing-along hymns, there is no doubt she is one of the most interesting and courageous pop stars [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: KANGDING RAY

Monday, January 30, 2012

A little teaser by our friend Kangding Ray, who will be performing material from his excellent album Or at Berghain tomorrow evening, as part of Club Transmediale’s Raster-Noton night, which are always a treat, featuring new lecker material from the likes of Byetone and more. Don’t say we didn’t tell you.

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TONIGHT: HUMBOLDT MEETINGS III

Monday, January 23, 2012

Born in Warsaw (1966), trained in Grzegorz Kowalski’s legendary workshop at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Artur ?mijewski has been a leading figure of video art since the end of the nineties through a striking series of short works which display the crushed condition of the Western body in our inhuman societies.
He achieved international [...]

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MONDAY MUSIC: BOYS NOIZE & EROL ALKAN

Monday, January 23, 2012

Bicycle tricks and a bit of oomph for a rainy Monday morning, and why not to get us going for another week of January grey?

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MONDAY MUSIC: KAREN O, TRENT REZNOR & ATTICUS ROSS

Monday, January 9, 2012

Never change a winning team, David Fincher must have thought, when he invited our third cover star Trent Reznor, with Atticus Ross, to pen the soundtrack for his inevitable adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, after winning the Oscar for best soundtrack with Social Network. In suitably heavy-handed mode, with Karen O lending [...]

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