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GONJASUFISM

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

In case you ever wondered what a black Tom Waits might sound like, enter Gonjasufi, whose seriously amazing debut album A Sufi and a Killer was released today by Warp Records. Not meaning to be racist, but how come our black friends can make even religious music sound cool? Sheer genius, methinks.

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JEAN MICHEL JARRE

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Another real pioneer amongst those for electronic music plays not tonight but March 5th, yeah, in Berlin. After having been sold out there are again tickets available for this most possibly amazing concert. You may check out his website here.

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TONIGHT IN BERLIN

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Beach House are playing at cosy Roter Salon in Berlin tonight. This Baltimore based band is a mono.kultur favourite, as previously seen here, here, here, here and here.
Roter Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin. Starts 10 pm. www.roter-salon-berlin.de/

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Coming Cosmogramma

Thursday, February 25, 2010

On March 3rd, the second album Cosmogramma by sound phenomenon Flying Lotus will be released. We don’t know what it sounds like. But Warp comforts us with 3 non-album download tracks.
The first track on Cosmogramma is titled Clock Catcher, and our more frequent readers won’t be able to ignore the direct reference to our recent [...]

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CALVIN KLEIN VS. ALVA NOTO

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Not only did fashion label Calvin Klein under the creative direction of Francisco Costa present one of the best collections so far for Autumn / Winter 2010, they also broke with one of the unwritten rules of the fashion industry: for some bizarre reason, the music for the biannual fashion shows is firmly in the [...]

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VOCODED DATA

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Next month’s recommended read is going to be published here - oh, and here.

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CIVIL ACTION

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Coming up: the first event at Berlin’s Civilist.

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WANTED

Monday, February 15, 2010

Great video from Menomena’s Brent Knopf’s solo project Ramona Falls. Directed by Stefan Nadelman, winner of a 2003 Sundance prize for his 22 minute film Terminal Bar. The Ramona Falls debut album is called Intuit, was published in 2009 and features 35 guest musicians.

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MASSIVE COMEBACK

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Massive Attack’s Heligoland, named after a few remote German islands, has been on heavy rotation at the studio recently – having never been a great fan of theirs, their first album after a 7 year hiatus is actually really enjoyable. I was particularly pleased by the return of Martina Topley-Bird, who used to be the [...]

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TURN YOUR RADIO ON

Friday, February 12, 2010

Tonight the exhibition Sounds / Radio – Art – New Music, curated by Marius Babias, Gaby Hartel, Frank Kaspar, and Katrin Klingan, opens at n.b.k. in Berlin:
During the age of the historical avant-gardes, the arts formed a mutually enriching synthesis before the separation and specialization into individual disciplines set in during the 1930s. Radio was [...]

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