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Lucrecia Dalt first discovered the craft of music after a brief career as a civil engineer in Medellín, Colombia. Since that time, she has ...

Since its debut in May 2014, the XJAZZ Festival has quickly established itself as an important alternative Berlin festival that skillfully looks beyond stylistic ...

The Berlin Artists Go Green project, initiated by Green Touring Network, provides up-and-coming acts with information and counseling to make their actions more environmentally ...

Zurück zu den Wurzeln (Back to the Roots) is a festival that has been actively promoting inclusion and participation at cultural events since 2017. ...

Sissip grew up traveling around the world with her family before settling in a small town near Frankfurt as a teenager. She began her ...

Chaos Commute are less than three years old, nevertheless the band has toured the country in over 50 concerts and with two EPs in ...

Klangteppich (»Sound Carpet«) is a festival presenting contemporary musicians from the Iranian diaspora. The focus of the second issue in 2019 was on artists ...

The virtuoso Zac Bru aka Detroit Bureau of Sound masters and preaches the craft of live performance. His influences are futuristic and avant-garde, spanning ...

Ultraflex is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Farao and Special-K. Inspired by disco, italo and funk of the 80’s, the Norwegian-Icelandic duco is blending new-age ...

Nashi44 stands for ›ASIAN BERLIN PUSSY POWER‹. This is what the talented MC from Neukölln calls her attitude, which not only stands for empowering ...

Martyna Kubicz aka MIN t is a composer, producer and vocalist hailing from Wrocław, Poland. She has graduated from multiple music schools in Wrocław ...

Aria’s music is a tribute to feelings. The musician, composer and songwriter created her debut album ›Fantasy Is My Religion‹ in this in-between state. ...

The quartet Die Höchste Eisenbahn, consisting of Moritz Krämer, Francesco Wilking, Felix Weigt and Max Schröder, dominates the art of intermediate notes. Their music ...

The Rendez Vous dinner parties organized by Musique Couture are a meeting point for people coming from the fashion, media, arts, movie, or music ...

From Berlin via Tel Aviv comes Moscoman, the producer behind underground hits on ESP Institute, Correspondant, I’m a Cliche, Eskimo Rec, and the curator ...

The project Ver.mi.sch.t. seeks to encourage networking and cooperation between neighbourhood venues and musicians. In the process, it places a strong emphasis on musical ...

The SoundSysters are a feminist sound crew that was founded in 2013 by women working as self-employed audio engineers. The collective is united by ...

Sound maker, poet, and artist Vida Vojić could be described as a vessel of untold secrets. Sound is the carrying vehicle for the outbursts ...

Gaddafi Gals formed in 2016 with blaqtea, slimgirl fat and walter p99 arke$tra. All of them had other projects at this point: blaqtea as ...

Berlin-based rock ’n’ roll band Ponte Pilas have, since forming in 2017, established themselves as an integral part of certain music communities in the ...

Hendrik Weber aka Pantha Du Prince is one of the popstars of the electronic music scene, and he definitely earned his fame. Born 1975 ...

No Shade is a club night series and DJ training programme for female and non-binary DJs based in Berlin. The idea is to help ...

Tatiana Heuman works on music and sound creation between Argentina and Europe. She plays drums, likes loops, repetitions and surprises. Her unique approach to ...

tuftyhead is a dark-disco duo based in Berlin. In early 2018, Max Hirtz-Wolf, composer and originator, moved from his home of Berkeley, California, to ...

Why Be is a musical project by artist Tobias Lee, made in collaboration with visual artist Daylen Seu. Their work focuses on tracks and ...

The idea of Bardenale came from a passion and curiosity for Berlin singer-songwriters. Originally conceived as an open-air live event on the grounds of ...

A vantage point to experiencing GIL’s music is one’s body and the haptic-affective sensation music creates; this was also the way in which the ...

  From Lichtenberg over the ether: Cashmere Radio is an experimental, not-for-profit community radio station being on the point of preserving while furthering radio ...

Ziúr is a Berlin-based DJ and producer, dedicated to combining different sonic textures and brainy beats into a functional dancefloor framework – clearly intended ...

Norwegian-native Julie Mehlum has been an integral part of the Berlin indie scene for a few years now- as co-songwriter and singer of alternative folk ...

Cult’Sup’ is an event series designed to create space for the exploration of diverse African cultures. In a safer space, people of all ages, ...

Hans Unstern is a multitude who writes songs, builds musical instruments, releases albums and radio plays, and gives dazzling performances. On ›DIVEN‹, their latest ...

Launched by the Latin American collective TRRUENO and curated in collaboration with the artists of Clam and FreeFormHyperSonixxXOrg, ꐦO111L is an event aimed at ...

Efdemin behind the decks means motion, gesticulating, chuckling, dancing, sweating and going through the records over and over again. His DJ-sets are a lecture ...

An urban scenery. An adult girl in search of love. A young woman in search of extremes. Search for meaning and senseless crash between ...

For the voyeur in all of us, Public Display Of Affection have arrived. Conceived as a mixed media art project by Jesper Munk and ...

Techno has always been about imagining the future and feeling the excitement of change and discovery. This aspiration has been guiding Stefan Goldmann in ...

Music Pool Berlin is conceived as a central contact point for music-makers in Berlin. It provides consulting services, networking and qualification opportunities in the ...

Luisa Kutza aka A Girl Called Frank learned one lesson early on: life can be hard, but it is always beautiful. With a colonel’s ...

Launched in 2020 with the Corona pandemic in mind, Picnic FM seeks to satisfy the hunger for a shared, live music experience in a ...

Danielle de Picciotto is a wanderer. She explores the regions between the inner and outer edges of our collective psyche and turns her impressions ...

DJ and producer KABLAM (aka Kajsa Blom) was born by the Swedish coast, and has lived in Berlin since 2012. She started her career ...

She’s Drunk is a project which was launched by Berlin-based French producer David Monnin about six years ago. Due to his long-time experience as ...

She Knows define themselves as more than a mere music act. Always inspired by the creative power of their peers, singer and lyricist Teresa ...

People Club are a five-piece indie soul band formed in Berlin in late 2017. Their distinctive aesthetic blends social-commentary lyrics with classic soul-ensemble sounds, ...

Steven Warwick is an artist, musician and writer living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making ...

With a mix of hip-hop, pop and everything in between, stockdale have been delighting their fans since their formation in 2018. Aiming to make ...

The MellowJam places an emphasis on togetherness and community. With workshops, performances and music, the festival took place over three days directly along the ...

Sera Kalo is a genre-fluid, Berlin-based Caribbean-American singer & songwriter. Quiet in nature, Sera’s music serves as a powerful outlet for her unfiltered thoughts ...

The Berlin based three-piece experimental folk band have been biding their time. Each member has already lived a lifetime, learned life’s hard lessons, written ...

Berlin School of Sound returns with the three-day festival POP SOUNDS POP STORIES, this time with a thematic focus on crossover rap, poetry and ...

Zentralheizung of Death (des Todes) started few years ago as a manic pussy galore instrumental astroman band and then added vocals to wreak havoc. ...

KAOS turns ten in 2023! Over the past few years, KAOS has offered talented artists and creators a space where they can work, grow, ...

Yvois is an Aotearoa (New Zealand)-born, Berlin-based producer of warm, wonky beats and singer of moody aural treats. Armed with a collection of dusty ...

The emerging Berlin-based duo NOSOYO (pronounced no-soy-yó) is composed of two dynamic artists: Donata (vocals, guitar, songwriting) and Daim (vocals, drums, songwriting). Daim is ...

A guy, a girl, two guitars with lots of reverb, and punchy beats. Fangirls’ sound is an electrifying symbiosis of grunge, garage, and California ...

Having previously released two records of oneiric ambient music on Martin Hossbach as 1k Flowers and having worked with artists such as Jungstötter, P.A. ...

The concert series Kidz Klang is an open-air event for kids, young people, and families – for people from 0 to 99 years old. ...

Gender-fluid Iranian-American artist Dornika is a Berlin based musician, visual artist, drag performer and vocal coach. Born in Tehran, she migrated with her mom ...

The Creative Footpring is a non-profit initiative that measures and indexes urban creative space. It advocates for the protection of creative space globally through ...

During the fall of 2018, after moving to Germany, Aron Ottignon meets Senegalese musician and percussionist Bakane Seck in his Berlin studio. From this ...

The Dragonale 2019, founded by the neighbourhood initiative Dragopolis and organised in cooperation with Initiative Kreativ Haus Kreuzberg and Gretchen club, took place on ...

Brussels-Born and Berlin-based, K.ZIA is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter fusing future R&B and soul by virtue of her Afro-European cultural and ethnical background. With the ...

Berlin-based Italian producer Shapednoise has been working as an independent musician for the past four years. He focuses his research on noises and experimental ...

The mission of Pathwaves is to dismantle patriarchal and misogynistic structures within the field of music production and to counteract the fact that around ...

UNTRAINING THE EAR explores new ways of experiencing sound. With strategies of unlearning and processes of relearning, the listening sessions aim to decipher sound ...

Martina Stock’s musical repertoire cannot be clearly assigned to any genre. It includes key influences of neo-classical, ambient and electronic music and combines acoustic ...

With Ambient im Garten, the STAUB collective, along with labels Unrush and Intergalactic Research Institute for Sound, is carefully bringing electronic-music culture back into ...

A project by DISK Agency, Streaming – Tools for an Unknown Future uses qualitative interviews with artists, project makers and app developers to see ...

Heroines of Sound was created in 2014 as a platform to present musicians of advanced pop and the contemporary avant-garde. After five successful festivals ...

Berlin-based jazz pianist and composer Ramiro Zayas has been active on the scene for several years, combining his understanding of modal jazz with free ...

As a platform with events, GRRRL NOISY aims to connect musicians and music-lovers, helping them to reach their full potential. The collective, organized by ...

As the child of a German mother and an African-American father growing up in Berlin, Celina Bostic learned early on to adapt to the ...

Goodbye or hello? The art festival You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello invited to the Atelierhaus Australische Botschaft (Ost) with music, workshops, art installations ...

Andreas Spechtl has been the singer, guitarist and songwriter of Ja, Panik since 2006, which has released five albums to date. In summer 2016 ...

The international network female:pressure, a network founded by Electric Indigo that brings together female, transgender, and non-binary musicians from the field of electronic music ...

mobilegirl grew up in Munich, where she studied Media Computer Science and has been a fairly new addition to the Berlin electronic music scene. ...

Bonaventure uses music as an identity research tool to connect her African and European influences and to question human relationships. Bonaventure’s compositions are expressive ...

Since 2013, much of Claire Tolan’s work has found its foundation in the sounds of ASMR, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Tolan has hosted ›You’re ...

For about ten years, diveRcity has been enabling young people to enjoy themselves and their cultures. Whether with a concert, jam session, graffiti battle, ...

As Blazey, Millé and Nik are a duo active in the genres of pop, soul and hip-hop. Their respective musical backgrounds, as well as ...

Boundaries Congress was created as a networking event with the vision of promoting diverse cultural opportunities in Berlin. The aim is providing a space ...

This festival is all about the creative and content-related examination of the sound system as a cultural concept, offering visitors a participatory approach on ...

A place where society comes together, a place of both accidental and informal meetings, a public place: the pub. The future doesn’t look particularly ...

The internationally know brother duo of Ali and Basti Schwarz discovered its passion for electronic music and techno in the early 90s as club ...

The concert series Soul*Jazz*Mirror offers up-and-coming artists a stage, allowing them to present themselves to an audience in a professional environment. Especially for younger ...

PeroPero is a progressive-metal duo from Austria, based in Berlin. PeroPero’s complex and explosive grooves confront drums and guitar with wafting analogue synthesizers, while ...

24/7 DIVA HEAVEN are three Berlin musicians pushing the limits – even if it hurts sometimes. Spanning punk, noise, grunge and a riot grrrl ...

As a musician and installation artist, Jessica Ekomane was one of Berlin Community Radio’s 2017 Incubator residents. Her compositions seek a cathartic effect, interspersing ...

Eat my Fear make queer-feminist hardcore punk, loud and angry with a clear political stance. The songs deal with experiences of migration, foreignness, structural ...

The Berlin collective DECOLONOIZE has set itself the task of strengthening BIPOC artists from the fields of punk, rock, indie, alternative and traditional music. ...

Cecilia and Sascha met on a date back in 2021. They quickly discovered they were both fascinated by the unknown side of music. Together, ...

Muzi is widely acknowledged as the hottest young DJ/Producer emerging from the South African electronic music scene. Having relocated to the epicentre of electronic ...

Trille has been producing a mix of urban pop and storytelling since 2018, creating his own world somewhere between indie and trap. Hard 808 ...

Hüma Utku, born and raised in Istanbul and based in Berlin, is an electronic music composer and sound artist. She combines her musical practice ...

Fascinated by Berlin and its possibilities, Anaïs Tuerlinck found the perfect playground for her freely improvised music, noise and performances of all genres. She ...

Istanbul Ghetto Club conceal themselves with masks and veils, but they have nothing to hide. Under the name Istanbul Ghetto Club, they combine the ...

The event series Sarau Mundi aims to create a stage for diversity. Berlin-based pop musicians and other artists had been invited to present their ...

Discovery Zone is the moniker of musician and multi-media artist JJ Weihl who is also a founding member of the experimental pop project Fenster. ...

This kind of music can only be made by people gathered together by the wind: 1000 Gram is made up of half-Swedish West-Berliner Moritz ...