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Category Archives: sound

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…

HOW SAD, HOW LOVELY

Elizabeth “Connie” Converse disappeared in 1974, leaving behind a haunting body of recorded music that would remain virtually unheard for the next 35 years…

Fwd: ECM

Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer interviewed about the latest ECM remix release ‘RE: ECM’.

PANTHA DU PRINCE

Friday, July 22, 8 pm:
Concert: XI versions of Black Noise: Pantha du Prince/live, Rough Trade UK
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Organized in the framework of the exhibition based in Berlin
Free entrance
Pantha du Prince claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible [...]

28 Days Later

The opposite of fragile or flimsy: Son Lux’s new-new album We Are Rising. Recorded in four short weeks. And clearly on the rise.