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XERROX 03

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Xerrox has always been one of my favourite series by our very first cover star, Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto. A project largely based on copying and rerecording ambient sounds and transforming the loss and distortion of sonic information into the piece itself, Xerrox creates a new take on ambient music, soothing and aggressive at [...]

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VOTE FOR THE COMMUNITY

Friday, March 6, 2015

Support our favorite local radio station Berlin Community Radio and help them win funding to sustain their amazing project! The voting for the ‘Crowd for Berlin Media’ is on until 12 March. BCR is all about the community, so hurry up and click the heart button!

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MY OWN PRIVATE I DON’T KNOW

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Photograph by Skylar Williams (for Purple Fashion)
Eckhaus Latta once again proved their inventive and avant garde take on fashion at this years New York Fashion Week FW 2015. Being reminiscent of a certain nostalgia paired with the flair of contemporary twenty-somethings, the runway show merged into an artistic performance. The FW collection was also presented [...]

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EMPATHY WITH THINGS

Sunday, February 1, 2015

Mark Leckey, Circa 87, 2014 (Courtesy: Galerie Buchholz)
Although his oeuvre spans little more than 15 years, British artist Mark Leckey (born in 1964) is already considered a reference for a young generation of artists. After his studies he withdrew from the art world for nearly a decade. In 1999, with the video Fiorucci Made Me [...]

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TIP OF THE TONGUE

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The legendary Glasgow-based record store Volanic Tongue is closing after ten years activity! Run by former Charalambides member Heather Leigh Murray and her husband and writer David Keenan, it was a very relevant place for experimental music. Specializing in new, second-hand & rare underground music and sub-cultural ephemera including books, magazines and DVDs. After closing [...]

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FAREWELL TO THE PALINDROM

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Walking a line between what has passed and what is yet to come, seminal trio to rococo rot have carved an identifiable niche for themselves, and one which has crossed a variety of styles; neither wholly in the realms of ambient or pure electronics. The presentation of their tenth album Instrument will be special, as [...]

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WILD COMBINATION

Monday, October 13, 2014

The long planned tribute to Arthur Russell Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell is now available to listen! The 26-track collection includes covers by Robyn, Blood Orange, Hot Chip, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart and many more. The tribute has been put together by AIDS charity Red Hot. Stream the compilation in full via npr!

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LESS FREE-FORM

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Kindness, the solo project of British singer Adam Brainbridge, announced his second album Otherness and shared a new song called This Is Not About Us. Besides that it is a cool 80’s-throwback track, the video is dominated by the simple style and the absolutely brilliant choreography that is performed by Brainbridge and the second person [...]

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BERLIN ATONAL

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Tonight opens the 2014 installment of Berlin Atonal – a legendary festival of 1980s West Berlin pioneering electronic music that went on hiatus after the fall of the wall, only to return again in 2013 in founder Dimitri Hegemann’s new space, the impressive former power plant Kraftwerk Berlin. Launching with Ensemble Modern interpreting Steven Reich, [...]

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Cuts In The Middle

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Now that the Internets have survived this and Sir William Benjamin Bensussen aka The Gaslamp Killer has recovered just fine from his insane scooter accident – it’s been a year, and see above -, he’s going to go crazy (as usual) at Berlin’s Gretchen tomorrow night. Wicked!

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