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DB

And, speaking of our friends at Raster-Noton, we should make sure to mention Japanese electronic wizard Ryoji Ikeda’s new audio-visual installation db which just opened at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof, and suffice to say, this is not to be missed.

MONDAY MUSIC: KANGDING RAY

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.

WEDNESDAY MUSIC: SHABAZZ PALACES

We’ve mentioned it before, but since it’s all grey and rainy outside, more time for the inside, and what better moment to have a little peek into Shabazz Palaces latest and rather brilliant album Black Up – a certain someone’s favourite album of the year, and that’s saying something.

ASLSP

Call it a reaction to the speed of modern life, call it a new experience of sound, call it a tourist attraction of the unusual sort – the small East German city of Halberstadt certainly ventured into new territory when it launched the performance of ASLSP by avant-garde composer John Cage in the year 2000, [...]

15 YEARS OF RASTER-NOTON

Speaking of music, tonight is a special night on an entirely different kind of wavelength: our friends at Raster-Noton will be celebrating their 15th anniversary at Berghain this evening, and they really threw in everything they have to offer (which is a lot), from our very first cover star Carsten Nicolai to Atom TM, from [...]

mono.kultur #29: the music

As you might have noticed, it’s CANT/Chris Taylor week over here, so how about some actual music: Hear CANT in a full concert, recorded live at Moogfest in Asheville, N.C.
For all you German FANTs out there, get ready for next week:
09.11.11 Berlin – Magnet
10.11.11 Hamburg – Indra
16.11.11 Köln – Gebäude 9

200 People Dipped In Blackness Making Clouds Forming Altered Carbon

(We) came in the door/(we) said it before vs. (our) body traveled, our mind (…) behind the music – thanks, Palaceer, for the best concert so far in 2011. And see you soon.

A MUSICAL BOUQUET

There might be limits to our love for James Blake, but the Essential Mix he compiled for the BBC earlier this week is a trip worth taking once or twice – so I guess you better grab it right away.

KUNST ALS KLANG

Our friends at Jutojo will be participating at the first night of the Kunst als Klang festival – curated by Pantha du Prince and featuring the venerable Faust and Moritz von Oswald, among many others –, with an audiovisual treat in collaboration with Phillip Sollmann – aka Efdemin – that looks more than promising: a [...]

THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Isn’t that what life is all about, after all: endings and beginnings (and whatever we manage to squeeze in between)? Which reminds me that I should listen again to a friend’s debut album made entirely out of endings…