Freunde,

diese Woche haben wir was ganz Feines für euch! Wir verlosen wir 2×2 Karten für das Wordsound Label-Showcase im Josef heute abend! Zu Wordsound als Label und Spectre und Sensational als Künstler muss man wohl kaum was sagen, da sie eindeutig ein paar Meilensteine in den Bereichen Hip Hop und Dub gesetzt haben. Wer sie kennt, wird sowieso heute Abend dort sein und wer noch nicht von ihnen gehört hat, bildet sich mit Hilfe der Links weiter und kommt dann garantiert auch vorbei. Und vier von euch sogar umsonst. Also, schreibt uns ‘ne Mail an dates (at) dense-shop.de und mit etwas Glück und Voodoo könnt ihr euch zu den Glücklichen zählen!
Das Kalyug Festival bringt nach langer Zeit mal wieder Braunschweigs wichtigsten musikalischen Export auf eine Berliner Bühne: Troum. Ehemals als Maeror Tri unterwegs sind die Drone Records Macher bekannt für ihre Mischung aus analogem Ambient und ritualhaften Soundscapes, die manchmal in den Post-Rock reichen. Eine intensive Atmosphäre ist garantiert.
Wir haben sie euch ja vor ein paar Monaten schon Mal empfohlen und tun es dieses Mal wieder: Fliehende Stürme, Deutschlands deprimierteste Düsterpunk-Band ist mal wieder in der Stadt. Also, setzt euch ein Vogelnest auf den Kopf, holt die Lederjacke mit dem Bauhaus-Patch aus dem Schrank und packt ‘ne Flasche Sterni als Reiseproviant ein…
Darüber hinaus gibt es am Donnerstag einen Abend mit der Scape-Supergroup Groupshow (Jan Jelinek, Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann), bei dem mal wieder gezeigt wird, wo der Hammer in Sachen improvisierter Musik hängt. Und auch das Umlaut-Festival beginnt und lädt zu vier Tagen Musik, Kunst und Performances ein.

Wie ihr seht steht mal wieder einiges an. Wenn ihr aber zwischendurch von all der Aufregung eine Pause braucht kommt bei uns vorbei, wir vermissen euch schon. Aber das wisst ihr wahrscheinlich, oder?

Euer Dense Records Shop.

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a) 02.10.: Wordsound – Crooked Redux Tour 2009 @ Josef
b) 02.10.: Kalyug Festival pt. I @ Raum18
c) 03.10.: Kalyug Festival pt. II@ Wallywoods
d) 07.10.: Fliehende Stürme @ Kato
e) 08.10.: Groupshow @ White Rabbit
f) 08.10.: Umlaut Festival (bis 11.10.) @ Theaterkappele & AT.18

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Freitag, 02.10.:
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WORDSOUND – CROOKED REDUX
European Tour 2009

live:
SPECTRE (Wordsound / Black Hoodz)

http://myspace.com/spectretheillsaint

SENSATIONAL (Wordsound / Quatermass)

http://myspace.com/chunkobliss

MENTOL NOMAD (Wordsound / TheAgriculture)

http://myspace.com/mentolnomad

X.A.CUTE SOUNDSYSTEM (Anorakism / Mesk)

http://www.myspace.com/xacutesoundsystem

BOSSY (Way Of The Dub // Barish Rec)

http://myspace.com/bizzybossy

“They already sounded like today’s hipsters Flying Lotus and Samiyam at the end of the nineties.” (Generation Bass)
…. und sie kommen wieder: Der König des freigeistigen Krächz-Rap, der unkorrumpierbare Don des Underground-Dub und sein begabtester Adept. Sensational, Spectreund Mentol Nomad öffnen die Pforten der Wahrnehmung als klandestines Dreigstirn im Zeichen des Bass. Auf geheimer Mission verbreiten sie eine einmalige, weltweit einflussreiche Soundmixtur aus Hip-Hop, Dub, outernationalen Beats und tiefempfundener Basswellen-Esoterik direkt aus den Kerkern des verrottetenden großen Apfels. WordSound wurde Mitte der 90er Jahre von Skiz Fernando Jr. und einer kleinen Gruppe von befreundeten Bassverrückten gegründet, die in den Kellern und Studios von Brooklyn eine düstere, urbane, politisch und mystisch aufgeladene Spielart von Dub produzierten. Damit nahmen Producer und Künstler wie Spectre (Fernandos Pseudonym), Roots Control, Scarab, Professor Shehab, We™, Bill Laswell und viele andere der auf den „Crooklyn Dub Consortium“ Samplern vertretenen Künstler, einige Merkmale vorweg, die heute dem britische 2Step-Derivat Dubstep ihren Reiz verleihen: die verschleppten Tempi, die verrauchte Klangästhetik, das Interesse für den Orient und vor allem den massiven Bass. Darüber hinaus erschienen auf WordSound LPs aus den Bereichen Drum&Bass/World Music (Leon Lamont, Dr. Israel), eine Zusammenarbeit von DJ Vadim und Kevin Martin (erstmals unter dem Namen The Bug), eine Serie von Hip-Hop-Instrumentals mit Beats von u.a. Rob Swift und Jungle Brother Afrika Baby Bam (Subterranean Hits Vol 1–3), sowie die ersten Veröffentlichungen von rappenden Grenzgängern wie dem verrückten MC Paul Barman oder auch dem jüngst wiedervereinigten Anti Pop Consortium auf dem Vinyl-only-Ableger Black Hoodz. Und nur wenige wissen, dass auch Techno-Liebling Superpitcher dort unter dem Namen Sir Positive eine Handvoll derber Dubs veröffentlichte. Ein Höhepunkt der WordSound-History ist sicherlich „Crooked“, ein selbstproduzierter, semibiographischer Film über Aufstieg und Fall eines genialen Rappers, gespielt von einem der Vorzeigeacts des Labels: Sensational. Ehemaliges Mitglied der Jungle Brothers, ein Young Dirty Bastard und wohl der einzige Rapper, der auch über Stockhausen reimen kann. Nach Jahren der erfolgreichen Zusammenarbeit haben Spectre und Sensational mit “Acid & Bass” erstmal ein gemeinsames Album eingepielt und begeben sich abermals auf ihre gefährliche Mission durch Zentraleuropa. Dritter Mann ist dieses Jahr der zwischenzeitlich in Japan ansässige DJ, Producer und Musiker Mentol Nomad, der in „Crooked“ die zweite, an Skiz’ Biographie angelehnte Hauptrolle spielte und der sein Debut „Mentallica … and its Inhabitants“ ebenfalls auf WordSound veröffentlichte. Seitdem sind mit „Image Eye Nation“ und „Pineal Proof“ zwei deutlich gereifte Nachfolger erschienen, die das WordSound Erbe eindrucksvoll ins ins neue Jahrtausend tragen.

22 Uhr
10€

Josef (Maria am Ostbahnhof)
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33-34
10243 Berlin – F’hain

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KALYUG FESTIVAL pt. I

live:
TROUM
SOLAR SKELETONS
LUNAR DOPA
BEX

+ records and merchandise: (T)reue um (T)reue & Night On Earth Records

Can there be a more beautiful place to get over the national holiday weekend than a vacant Berlin factory hall? A place that is recaptured by counterculture every now and then for concert experiments and sound installations.
In October’s early dawning a pan-european brigade of second hand vanguards, deep drone operators and psychedelic post-industrialists will gather in exactly that kind of place to celebrate a double night orgy in order to paint the eschaton deserts of our everyday lives in brand new colours.

22 Uhr (pünktlich)

Raum 18
Ziegrastraße 11
12057 Berlin – Neukölln

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Samstag, 03.10.:
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KALYUG FESTIVAL pt. II (different location)

live:
DE GRÂCE (ex- HIS DIVINE GRACE, feat. Laszlo P.S. and Soeur Estaque Immakulata)
1997EV
TZII
NIEDOWIERZANIE

+ records and merchandise: (T)reue um (T)reue & Night On Earth Records

Can there be a more beautiful place to get over the national holiday weekend than a vacant Berlin factory hall? A place that is recaptured by counterculture every now and then for concert experiments and sound installations.
In October’s early dawning a pan-european brigade of second hand vanguards, deep drone operators and psychedelic post-industrialists will gather in exactly that kind of place to celebrate a double night orgy in order to paint the eschaton deserts of our everyday lives in brand new colours.

22 Uhr (pünktlich)

Wallywoods / Kulturhaus Peter Edel (Seiteneingang)
Berliner Allee 125
13088 Berlin – Weissensee

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Mittwoch, 07.10.:
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FLIEHENDE STÜRME

http://www.myspace.com/fliehendestrme

VELVET CONDOM

http://www.myspace.com/velvetcondom

20 Uhr
9,50 € VVK

Kato
U-Bhf. Schlesisches Tor
10997 Berlin – Kreuzberg

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Donnerstag, 08.10.:
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GROUPSHOW

http://www.myspace.com/thegroupshow

GROUPSHOW is a project by three producers of electronic music based in Berlin: Jan Jelinek, Andrew Pekler and Hanno Leichtmann.
The three artists, steeped in the formal language of minimalism, engage in a boundary-free collective improvisation that has its ancestors in both Fluxus and Krautrock. GROUPSHOW performances do not recreate previously rehearsed or recorded music. Instead, they attempt to make an open-ended aesthetic process both audible and tangible.
The pursuit of these aims has several practical consequences. Wherever possible, GROUPSHOW position themselves and their equipment in the middle of the performance space, avoiding the use of a stage, risers or any kind of spatial separation between performer and audience. The lighting remains static and clinical throughout the performance while real-time video, filming from directly above the musicians and projected onto a wall or screen, shows the three members playing and manipulating their tangled pile of equipment.
Whenever possible, GROUPSHOW begin playing before any audience members enter, thus deliberately avoiding the dramaturgical imperative of an opening from which the rest of the musical narrative is expected to unfold. As the intensity of the music and degree of the audience’s attention are both subject to flux, GROUPSHOW set no time limit to their performances and members of the audience are free to come and go, engage and disengage with the music as they please.

20 Uhr

White Rabbit / Gallerie der Künste
Potsdamer Str. 98
10785 Berlin

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UMLAUT FESTIVAL (08.10. – 11.10.)

http://www.myspace.com/umlautfestival

08.10. (Theaterkapelle), 21h:
“COMPOSITION 11″
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux

“BB”
Florian Bergmann – bcl (GER)
Clement Nourry – git (FRA)
Fred Jaques – irish bouzouki (BEL)
Hannes Lingens – acc (GER)

“PEEPING TOM”
Pierre-Antoine Badaroux – sax (FRA)
Joel Grip – db (SWE)
Antonin Gerbal – dr (FRA)

09.10. (Theaterkapelle), 21h:
“FO[U]R ALTO + DANCE”
Florian Bergmann – sax
Special Guest – sax (GER)
Christian Weidner – sax (GER)
Benjamin Weidekamp – sax (GER)
Barbara Pereyra – dance (ARG)
Valeria Garre – dance (ARG)

“LYENN”
Fred Lyenn Jaques – voice/baritone guitar/irish bouzouki

“OBLIQ & CHRISTOF KURZMANN”
Pierre Borel – sax (FRA)
Derek Shirley – db (CAN)
Hannes Lingens – dr (GER)
Guest:
Christof Kurzmann – g3 & lloopp. (AUT)

10.10. (AT.18), 16h:
spontaneous Solos
related to works of art
by Dominique Piveteaud

11.10.09 (AT.18), 20h:
“DOWLAND WATERS”
Almut Kühne – voc (GER)
Johanna Borchert – pno (GER)

“RISSER/RÜHL”
Joris Rühl – cl (FRA)
Eve Risser – pno (FRA)

“HOMMAGE À PER-HENRIK WALLIN”
Hermann Keller – p
Joel Grip – db
Sven-Ake Johansson – dr (SWE)

“CUT/PASTE”
Performance
by Dominique Piveteaud

Umlaut ist ein Netzwerk junger europäischer Musikerinnen und Musiker mit dem Ziel künstlerische Prozesse zu fördern. Kern des Netzwerks ist das Independant Label Umlaut Records.
Das Umlaut Festival Berlin ist eine Initiative von Florian Bergmann, Pierre Borel und Hannes Lingens und findet 2009 zum ersten Mal statt.

Theaterkapelle
Boxhagener Str. 99
10245 Berlin – F’hain

AT.18
Jungstr. 18
10247 Berlin – F’hain

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Saturday, 15.08.:
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URBAN WITCHES NOT BITCHES VERNISSAGE

life performances with:
Legs Akimbo
Rubbish Fairy
Company Fuck
DJ McGaffee at the Eschschloraque Rümschrümp

exhibition by
Diana Arce
Fake Mistress
Legs Akimbo
Lucy A. Roberts
Rubbish Fairy

Separated from the power giving source of nature and the wilderness, urban witches use the cityscape as a new primordial forest- a place filled with dangers but also a source of abundant sustenance if they live in harmony with the city and honor it. As a result, the latent power of the city is evoked and an Urban Witch is able to find power in simple man made objects as nature’s energy can be discovered in anything that was created. Urban Witches are in touch with the inherent synchronistic flow of the city which they can ride on just like the U Bahn if they keep their third eyes open. An Urban Witches basic mantra is “TUNE INTO SYNCHRONICITY AND THE CITY WILL ALWAYS PROVIDE.” Urban Witches therefore communicate with the guardians of the city- the Neon Divas and Electric Gods like streetlights and vending machines. Their temples are high rise buildings and dance clubs, they can recognize and interpret the modern signals of graffiti. Urban Witches not Bitches is a gathering of Urban Witches featuring the Altars of the Urban Witches: Rubbish Fairy (London), Legs Akimbo (Team Plastique, Berlin) and Lucy A.Roberts (Berlin). Made synchronistically from found and recycled objects, these Urban Witch altars present how women in the city can create an alternative world outside of the competitive bitch culture “girl power” presented by the mass media with groups like “The Pussycat Dolls”. Urban Witches not Bitches are also very unique- they do not follow a prescribed New Age or Wicca spirituality but instead find power by discovering and expressing their positive, strong and amazing individual natures. Urban Witches not Bitches invite Urban Peeps to visit their Urban Witch Altars in the hope that Urban Peeps can also reconnect with their inner minds and seek alternative astral planes.

20 Uhr / 8 pm

neurotitan shop & gallery
im Haus Schwarzenberg
Rosenthalerstraße 39
10178 Berlin – Mitte

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SOMMERLAGER VS SOMMERLOCH presents. ZIZEK CLUB

live:
Fauna and Douster
[ZZK Records, Buenos Aires]

Skate
[WMF, Unsportsmanlike]

Timeblind
[Soot, Version]

TROPICALLL!!!!
With its African, indigenous Indian and colonial roots in Colombia, Cumbia music has suddenly been catapulted into a new era. In the same way that Kuduro, Kwaito, Baile funk, Reggaeton are intertwined with Dancehall, Hip Hop, Crunk, Dubstep and Techno, Cumbia is now also part of the endless list of genres that have surfaced as urban, electronic and world music are mashed together by the club kids of today.
DJs, producers, and bloggers worldwide who are united by the internet and an insatiable hunger for subculture, bass and uncharted musical territory have been embracing Cumbia and its sexy, bassy riddims.
Following in the footsteps of labels such as Diplo’s MadDecent or Man Recordings in Berlin, Zizek Records reflects a movement where the cross-cultural chaos is the motto and in fact a genre for itself!
The Argentina based label Zizek Records was born out of a regular club night in Buenos Aires called Club Zizek, where local djs have played alongside international crossover artists such as Diplo, Jahcoozi and Daniel Haaksman. Soon Zizek (named after the forward-thinking Slovenian Philosopher) became established as the most innovative and happening dance party in Buenos Aires and probably South America for that matter. With a loyal following they slowly started to build up their own artists on the Zizek Records imprint and touring the world with their homegrown artists and club night.
Still buzzing from their widely acclaimed gig at Roskilde Festival this summer, ZZK Records artists Douster and Fauna are stopping at WMF to smack Berlin accross the face with a dose of their highly contagious and tropical danceable music.

Tropical Fever !! bring it on!!

23 Uhr / 11 pm

WMF
Klosterstraße 44
Berlin – Mitte
U-Bhf. Klosterstraße (U2)

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2. BETONBRUCH FESTIVAL 2009

OUTDOOR-SAND-BAR:
16:00 – 19:00 Nachmittags-Chill-In mit veganer VokÜ und kinderfreundlichem Nachmittagsprogramm mit Spiegelmalen, Riesenseifenblasen …
20:30 – 21:30 Lesung mit belane (short storys & lyrik), roland zauberwald (poetry), don chrischan (pankerknacker, essbesteck, glühbirne), der dirk, Bodo (poetry)
21:30 – 22:00 The Macuto Collective Super 8 Short Film Spectacle
22:00 – 23:30 DJ soonjke (psychedelic/folk/world/electronica) & visuals von maniaco
23:30 – 1:00 DJ OMIT & DJ sleepwaker (standard)

HOF:
23:00 – 23:30 feuertanz der nomadic pyro insomniac

BANDS on STAGE
21:00 – 21:45 babel embassy (ethnotronic / dadawave)
22:15 – 23:00 the plastic bags (indy lofi pop)
23:30 – 00:30 krankheit der jugend (psychelectrolyrics)
00:30 – end    DJ toyota hardcoralla (do the hoff !)

BAR:
21:30 – 22:30 Marschall a.d.K. (Singer/Songwriter: Langschwanzmakaken haben keine Ahnung von Musik!)
22:45 – 23:45 Dani Morera (folk/akustisch/indie) & Nico Liebe & his subconsciousness (akustisch/folk rock: See the world through my Is!)
00:00 – 02:00 DJ Alusie (psychedelikatessen)
02:00 – end    Dj Z (dark balkan beatz)

http://www.myspace.com/betonbruchberlin

ab 16 Uhr / from 4 pm

Location:
Pettenkofer Str. 4c
10247 Berlin – Friedrichshain

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TAMTAMTAM 5

DJs:
Tapemaster Trash /// http://www.myspace.com/16341255
Ben Butler & Mousepad | http://www.myspace.com/benbutlerandmousepad
Flame Stag & Hot Fruits performance DJs /// http://vimeo.com/5440440

Live music:
Batalj (FR) /// http://www.myspace.com/batalj
Ze People Og Korh (SE) ///
Manbird Dog (DE/USA) /// http://vimeo.com/5677146
Brendan Dougherty and Brian Mitchell /// http://www.myspace.com/brendandougherty
GTUK (DE) /// http://www.myspace.com/gtuk

Performances:
Mitsu Salmon &; Ryotaro (JP/US) /// http://lightsake.blogspot.com/
Jessica Taylor (DE/US)
The Fruit Boy/Girl (YOU)

Video:
Dee Mee Tree /// http://deemeetree.com

The symbol of the night is The Incredible Tree-Climbing Goat and we genuinely predict that some time through the night things will happen that will make The Incredible Tree-Climbing Goat pale in comparison. As usual, we have a unique mixture of musical styles and alcoholic beverages, famous artists and introvert geniuses, live performances and visual stimulation, super-interesting people and weirdos who are fun to be with. Several unexpected surprises are also to be revealed throughout the night.Bring yourselves and your friends and let’s all meet again and have fun together.

21 Uhr / 9 pm

5 EUR

Raum18
Ziegrastraße 11
12057 Berlin/Neukölln

On Saturday you have to choose… Do you want to get destroyed by killer basslines (then you’ll go to Raum18, to see Jamie Vex’d and Onra play) or do you want to get your eardrums wasted by hyphy leadsynths (then you head over to the Dry Guillotine at Maria)? If none of this wakens your interest, visit the Kesselhaus instead and enjoy some Beirut’esque Klezmer-Balkan-Gypsy fusion instead.
You might have already heard it, but Sunn o))) finally return to our quiet little town once again. Even though we heard that the concert is already sold out, we have to mention it. But we also heard that if you just grab yourself a beer and sit down at the Prater Biergarten you’ll have a pretty good chance to listen to the concert anyway… On Monday Jimi Tenor and Kabu Kabu will impress us with some afro-jazz. So if you were looking for an opportunity to wear your Sun-Ra inspired Osiris costume, that might be the chance for it. But he isn’t the only legend in town this week, because on Tuesday Jarboe will enter the stage at Café Zapata (in company of some grim doom metal bands, though). Thursday offers us three small but interesting events. First of all we have the bi-weekly Dubstep Standards party at Edelweiss (this time with our dear friends the Society Suckers and their chiptune-dubstep outfit Karlmarxstadt). Then there will be a concert with Jozef van Wissem, the dutch maestro of electro-acoustic lute. He isn’t as famous as Sir Richard Bishop or James Blackshaw, but  a great and fascinating musician nonetheless. Finally there will be a butoh dance performance at the LUX in Kreuzberg. Goose-bumps guaranteed.
The last recommendation we have for you is a new music site called “The V Sessions”. They want to improve your onlince concert experience and premier on coming Thursday with a live performance by Christian Fennesz. The show will cost 5 € and offer multiple camera angles. We don’t know if their concept will work out, but we wish them the best.

Plenty of new stuff came in last week, so come and visit us!

Yours truly,
Your Dense.

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a) 23.05.: Serious Bass with Sirius @ Raum18
b) 23.05.: The guillotine is sharpened once again @ Maria
c) 23.05.: With accordeons and fanfares  @ Kesselhaus
d) 24.05.: The search for the brown note @ Prater
e) 25.05.: Finnish funkstravaganza @ Lido
f) 26.05.: Unheavenly voices @ Café Zapata
g) 28.05.: Renaissance romanticism @ White Rabbit
h) 28.05.: Post-communistic basslines @ Edelweiss
i) 28.05.:  Dance in the secret garden @ LUX
j) Transmission: Fennesz live at www.thevsessions.com

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Saturday, 23.05.:
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SIRIUS

http://www.myspace.com/siriusraum18

live:
Jamie Vex’d (Planet Mu/Hotflush)
ONRA (BoBun/Favorite/Circulations/AllCity)
Timeblind (Version/Soot/Orthlorng)
special guest appearance by Pursuit Grooves (NY)
Doshy (Robox Neotech/Tigerbeat6)
TWRA a.k.a. Beatnik’74 (DUBWD/TBSC)
DUAL (DUBWD)
TAPPI (DUBWD)
Raspel (DUBWD)
zet. (Robox Neotech)

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Raum 18
Ziegrastr. 11-13
12057 Berlin-Neukölln

http://www.raum18-berlin.com/

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DRY GUILLOITINE!

live:
MIXHELL (New Judas / Boys Noize – SaoPaulo)
THE NEW JUDAS ALL STAR TEAM
STEVE aka ONE MAN PARTY (One Man Party – Gent)
T-RAUMSCHMIERE (Shitkatapult – Berlin)

Und wieder ist sie da! Die Guillotine ist gefährdet wie nie zuvor! Der Drummer von Sepultura, der Drummer von Soulwax, ein paar Judas(se) und der Punk Mastermind vom Scheisse Katapult sind am Start. Es klingt nach Gewalt, Schmutz und brachial modernem Electro Dance Musik. Dieses mal werden unsere Gastmusiker den Aufstand gegen die Guillotine ausrufen! Lass krachen!

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Maria am Ostbahnhof
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33-34
10243 Berlin

http://www.clubmaria.de

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A HAWK AND A HACKSAW

http://www.myspace.com/ahawkandahacksaw

Wer wissen will, wie die Fusion von Balkan-Swing, amerikanischem Folk, Klezmer und türkischer Musik klingt, der wird bei A Hawk And A Hacksaw fündig. Das dritte Album des Duos aus dem US-amerikanischen Albuquerque entstand zum Teil im rumänischen Zece Prajini mit Mitgliedern des weltberühmten Brass-Orchesters FANFARE CIOCARLIA. Das Ergebnis ist ein liebevoller, romantischer Trip durch traditionelle Soundwelten, aufgepeppt durch energetischen Gypsy-Swing. Jeremy Barnes und Heather Trost erhielten auf “The Way The Wind Blows” Unterstützung von Zach Condon von der Gruppe BEIRUT, mit der A Hawk And A Hacksaw in England im Vorprogramm von Calexico aurtraten. “First-class Folk” sagt The Guardian und The Times jubelt: “Leaves you wishing more Rock Bands would show such adventure!” (amazon) Für ihre Tour haben sich A Hawk & A Hacksaw jetzt personell verstärkt und werden als 6- oder 7-köpfige Band zu sehen sein.

21 Uhr / 9 pm

13 €

Maschinenhaus
Knaackstraße 97
10435 Berlin – P’Berg

http://www.kesselhaus-berlin.de

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Sunday, 24.05.:
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SUNN O)))

http://www.ideologic.org/index2.html

STEPHEN O’MALLEY, der Doyen des Drone Doom, stattet gemeinsam mit seinem Kollegen GREG ANDERSON als SUNN O))) dem temporären Ausweichquartier der Volksbühne einen Besuch ab. Da sich das auf niedrigsten Frequenzen angesiedelte Gitarrenbrummen, seit jeher das unkaputtbare Markenzeichen dieser ebenso verehrten wie weithin gefürchteten Band, tief ins Mauerwerk noch jedes Veranstaltungsortes einzufräsen pflegt, bittet die Musikbühne alle Interessenten inständig, die im Spielplan angekündigte Anfangszeit von 20 Uhr unbedingt ernst zu nehmen.

20 Uhr (!) / 8 pm (!)

22 €

Prater (Kastanienallee 7-9)
10435 Berlin – P’Berg

http://www.pratergarten.de/

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Monday, 25.05.:
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JIMI TENOR & KABU KABU

“The set-up is so dazzling, the sound so sweeping, that at first the show just rolls over you, especially ‘Out of Nowhere’. There’s involvement, too, in the shifting interplay of orchestra, sitar, guitars, vocals and the funky interjections of Jimi’s key boards and sax.” -the Observer “The eight musicians, wearing spangled cloaks and floral garlands, are deceptively good: tight where the music demands it, but equally able to turn in a bit of hooligan jazz, with blaring trumpet and trombone solos, to complement Tenor’s more wayward tendencies… Tenor sits behind a Fender Rhodes suitcase piano, his flute propped against a piercingly amplified Moog, which he plays with his forehead during Tsunami… Only a few people attempt to dance to Tsunami’s monster riff, but everyone loves it anyway. Tenor’s best songs, such as Strawberry Place, Miracles and Beyond the Stars, the title track of his latest album, have maddeningly catchy hooks. And he can do a lot with one note, as the stomping encore of his hit Sugardaddy proves.” -the Guardian “Silly clothes can’t disguise huge talent, writes Evening Standard on Sep 16 in it’s review of Jimi’s gig at London’s Jazz Cafe. According to the review, Jimi is a remarkable multi-instrumentalist who can write and orchestrate brilliantly. “The performance was full of movement and visual interest… though he and his eight-piece band were again decked in bizarre outfits, the music drove relentlessly hard. Three Nigerian newcomers, a kit-drummer and two hand-drum percussionists, explained this surge of energy, but Jimi’s Fender-bassist and guitarist didn’t spare themselves either. His two-man brass section of trumpet and trombone riffed with taut accuracy and soloed with exuberant power, but as always Jimi was continuously the centre of attention.” -the Evening Standard

http://www.jimitenor.com

http://www.myspace.com/myjimitenor

17 €

20 Uhr / 8 pm

Lido
Cuvrystraße 7
10997 Berlin – K’Berg
www.lido-berlin.de

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Tuesday, 26.05.:
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JARBOE

http://www.myspace.com/jarboeliving

support:
ESOTERIC

http://www.myspace.com/esotericuk

SECRETS OF THE MOON

http://www.myspace.com/secretsofthemoon

AKRIVAL

http://www.myspace.com/akrival

19 €

21 Uhr / 9 pm

Café Zapata
Oranienburgerstr. 54
10117 Berlin – Mitte

http://www.cafe-zapata.de/

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Thursday, 28.05.:
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Jozef van Wissem (NL)
www.myspace.com/vanwissem

+ Support: Steve Gunn/Heidi Diehl (of Vanishing Voice) (US)

+ “Blue” Derek Jarman (UK/1993)

Van Wissem wurde vor einigen Jahren das erste Mal bemerkt, wegen seines radikal konzeptualistischen Gebrauchs von Lautenmusik der Ranaissace: er dekonstruiert vorhandene Kompositionen, beispielsweise in dem er sie rückwärts abspielt. Ebenfalls hat er eigene Stücke für die Laute komponiert, dabei nutzt er Palindrome und Spiegelstrukturen. Die ungewöhnliche Vereinigung von Komposition und Improvisation, lässt eine nie zuvor gehörte Mischung aus zeitgenössischem Folk und früher Musik entstehen. Van Wissem hat gekonnt das kuriose Kunststück vollführt, eine Brücke zu schlagen zwischen der Eigentümlichkeit der Sprache der Lautenliteratur des 17.Jahrhunderts und der Musik der 21.Jahrhunderts. Obschon er subtile elektronische Soundmanipulationen nutzt, ist er der speziellen Klangfarbe, Resonanz und Spieltechnik der Laute treu geblieben. Seit 1999 erforscht Jozef van Wissem palindromische Kompositionenstechniken der Laute, 2008 führte er im Auftrag der London National Gallery „Sola Fide“ auf, welches eine auditive Beschreibung des Gemäldes „Die Gesandten“ von Hans Holbein, aus dem Jahre 1533 ist. Wissem betreibt sein eigenes Incunabulum Label in Brooklyn, und spielt regelmäßig weltweit als Duo mit Gary Lucas (bei Captain Beefheart), Maurizio Bianchi, James Blackshaw, Chris Forsyth, Tetuzi Akiyama und Elliot Sharp.

http://www ​.hairenter​tainment.c​om/jozefva​nwissemgdk

White Rabbit
Potsdamer Straße 98
10785 Berlin

http://www.white-rabbit-berlin.com/

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DUBSTEP STANDARDS

http://www.dubstepstandards.de/

live:
KARLMARXSTADT (Society Suckers side-project)

http://www.myspace.com/walterschultz

FASSA BEN b2b MR. BOOGIE
+ RESIDENTS

3 €

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Edelweiß
Görlitzerstr. 1-3
10997 Berlin – K’Berg

http://www.edelweiss36.com/

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SECRET GARDEN //0
Butoh Dance by Valeria Geremia

Place and non-place; physical and emotional spaces of dreams and desires, joy and pain, metaphors of lige that thus explore even the darkest sides of the sould. angle of reflection and distortion…

L.U.X.
Schlesische Str. 41
10997 Berlin – K’Berg

http://www.lux-berlin.net/

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Transmission
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Christian Fennesz – Live Solo Show

Fennesz cruises along through many different worlds, and he can’t see how that would be a problem. After starting out, guitar in hand, as a member of a rock band inspired by Sonic Youth, the 90′s see him turning to electronic music and acoustic research. He works alone but keeps his eager mind entertained through fruitful collaborations (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Keith Rowe, Ryuichi Sakamoto…). The 2000′s offer him the chance to show what he’s made of: his studio album Endless Summer quickly attains cult status, the Live in Japan recording is voted one the year’s best albums by The Wire, and the latest offering, Black Sea (2008), looks like it’s on track to perform similarly.

21.00 Uhr (Paris) / 9 pm (Paris)

5 €

Live webcast with Multicam shooting covering different angles: http://www.thevsessions.com/

Not much going on this week, but some interesting events nevertheless. Enjoy and visit us someday at the store.

PS: We are even more Web 2.0 now! Add us on facebook and show the world who your true friends are.

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a) 16.05.: Ngoma gets tribal @ Raum18
b) 20.05.: Die Remise improvises @ Maria Terasse
c) 21.05.: Niki Matita’s Minimotique leaves into the summer @ Madame Claude
d) Exhibition: NO ROOM SPACES @ Galerie Open

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Saturday, 16.06.:
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NGOMA

live:
TIMEBLIND [Soot/Version]
DJ ZHAO [Ngoma]
DEE-VD & CHEMO [Ngoma/Dirty Canvas]
DJ JANECK [La Bolschevita/Wiesbaden]
DJ KUSTO [La Regla]

Ngoma returns at a brand new Berlin venue, Raum 18, on Saturday 16th May with a booty-shaking line up. Headliner Timeblind is a sonic scientist from New York, currently living in Berlin. He has released on DJ /Rupture’s Soot Records, Orthlorng Musork and the mighty Tigerbeat6/Shockout label as well as prime 90s techno labels such as Probe, Missile, Synewave and Communique. Ngoma founder and resident DJ Zhao has been active as dj and sound curator since 2001, Zhao organized critically acclaimed long running sound-art series TONE_; founded and performed regularly at techno club PULSE”; and has opened up for groups such as Pan Sonic. DJ Janeck explores the similarity between Latin American music and the sounds of Eastern Europe, the Colombian cumbia with their clarinets and accordions or Cuban charanga with their violins and flutes to his Jewish Roots. DJ Bongo was born in Cuba, and his trumpet work has seen him sharing the stage with the likes of Lauren Hill ,Zap Mama, Dave Brubeck, los Van Van, Raul Paz, Sargento Garcia, Jimi Tenor, Max Herre, Morgan Heritage, Sly & Robbie, Jean Paul and Buju Banton. Without falling victim to the clichés of globalisation, DJ Bongo describes his style as “Electrolatin freestyle” or in other words: “ a corner where everything is possible”. DJ Bongo is a LaRegla resident as is DJ Kusto whose Afro-latin and tropical beats regularly rock the foundations of this venue in GörlitzerPark. DeeVD has been djing in the UK for 15 years and founded London’s ground-breaking Dirty Canvas night (grime and dubstep) and runs the No Hats No Hood label. He moved to Berlin in 2008 to join forces with Zhao on Ngoma. His DJ partner is sonic scientist Chemo, from Leeds but has been djing and producing in Berlin for three years.

With that kind of line-up you know that Ngoma represents the positive side of globalization. Bass culture and musical heritage fuse; ultra-modern riddims meet the wealth of local flavors; irresistable next-level urban dance music arise on every continent. Tanzania, India, Cuba, Egypt, South Africa, just a few destinations where wild styles are born, crucial new scenes thrive – places out of reach to most – NGOMA ambassadors of boom bring the heat from party hotspots across the known world – the wickedest beats and sweetest flows. Forget post modernism, NGOMA is the crazy sound of NOW.

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Raum 18
Ziegrastr. 11-13
12057 Berlin-Neukölln

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Wednesday, 20.05.:
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DIE REMISE IM SOMMERCAMP: WEDNESDAY IMPROV SERIES

Die Remise is starting a new event called “Die Remise Summer Camp@Maria” on May 20th. This Wednesday Improv Series is an outdoor event with a nice stage close to the river, BBQ, drinks and a terrace to hang out. Incase of bad weather there is a possibility  to move to the so called “third room”@Maria. This event takes place on a weekly base and will continue until the end of September  – when we start the Lazy Sunday again.

We would like to invite you to perform. Are you interested? Please let us know….(dont forget to mention possible dates. Thanks.):

live:
Fritz Welch (Drums & Voice)
&
Ignaz Schick (Turntable, Saxophon)
&
Chris Heenan (Kontrabassklarinette)

Brian Mitchell (Gitarre)
&
Brendan Dougherty (Schlagzeug)
&
Guido Henneböhl (Geräte)

Anat Cohavi (Sopransaxophon, Bassklarinette)
&
Ignaz Schick (Turntable, Saxophon)

Frederic Lyenn Jacque (Gitarre, Irische Bouzuki, Bass)

DJ: Jazz Sound System

chill & grill: 18 Uhr / 6 pm
live music: 21 Uhr / 9 pm

Maria am Ostbahnhof – Terrasse
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33-34
10243 Berlin

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Thursday, 21.05.:
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NIKI MATITAS MINIMOTIQUE

Last minimoutique before a long long summer break – perhaps for ever… do not miss this. Also one of the first show of berlin electronic allstar band cushion caroms supported with visuals by u-matic and telematique.

live:
Cushion Caroms – the brandnew band of Takeshi Nishimoto (guitar), 1605munro (electronics) and Miwon (electronics)

Recordentertaining the bar: Niki Matita

21 Uhr / 9 pm
Spenden willkommen / Donations appreciated

Madame Claude
Lübbener Str. 19
10997 Berlin – K’Berg

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Exhibition
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Katherine Newbegin – Behind The Scenes

Behind the Scenes is the result of this question of the history of the places, and its title describes an aspect of the artist’s work. Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1976 Katherine Newbegin majored in photography and English Literature at Hunter College in New York as well as at Yale University. Newbegin was assistant to the German artist Candida Höfer, whose photographs of interiors differ greatly from Newbegin’s. Katherine Newbegin has been travelling throughout Eastern Europe since 2005, and has also traveled in communist Cuba and US states such as Oregon. The American artist depicts the outside world, a world dominated by the past, a world which people use and discard, and which reflects human fallibility in its rooms. A worn-out, lifeless world is presented, whose attributes are isolation, shabbiness, neglect, and emotional emptiness. Newbegin is interested in what is behind the façade. She has to overcome locked doors for her research and often has to sneak into buildings like a thief. Nothing is arranged in her works, nothing is specifically illuminated or staged. Persistently, she circles the object of desire until that one perfect moment has arrived for her to take her photograph. The artist searches for traces. With a large backpack and her camera equipment in tow, the young woman goes on a search for isolated places to track down visual clues which are easily overlooked in this fast paced world. Through her lens she discovers a world long forgotten by today’s consumer. Newbegin chooses locations that have inherited their looks from politics, as it were. Soviet architecture of the 1960s, whose monumental concrete constructions were shaped by the need to prove presence and modernity, is one of the artist’s targets. Melancholy descends on the viewers of Katherine Newbegin’s color photographs. Emotionally empty rooms, hotel rooms, floors, staircases and bathrooms testify to a harshness, a type of reality which is usually hidden or quickly suppressed. In her work, Newbegin investigates these stories and this momentum, thus also analyzing universal conditions for being sheltered or unsheltered. Katherine Newbegin explains her choice as follows: “… set against the western idea of an affluent middle-class family driving to Disneyland, it is this stark contrast which acts as the crux of my fascination with these hotels. One of the most compelling aspects of the vacations offered to the ‘best workers’ of the Soviet regime was the element of control and monitoring which took place during the trips.”

Exhibition running until 2.7., Tuesday to Friday from 2 pm to 7 pm, Saturdays 11 am to 8 pm.

Galerie open
Legiendamm 18-20
10179 Berlin – K’Berg