FUNDED PROJECTS

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 ...

Easterndaze x Berlin is a concert series connecting DIY labels and collectives from Central and Eastern Europe with like-minded groups in Berlin. The goal ...

YAEL grew up in a village in Rhineland-Palatinate. She had musical ambitions from an early age, first learning to play the guitar, later singing ...

Erin Renfro’s solo project, Blue Babe, is an authentic and atmospheric introspection into a darkness not easily shared with others. The indie pop-rock singer-songwriter-composer ...

For the second time, noiseLab was taking over Teufelsberg in 2019. Artists had been invited to react and respond to the specifics of the ...

After spending the last few years based in Berlin working as producers, arrangers and players for artists such as David Byrne, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, ...

For five days, the Reclaim the Beats Festival presents a variety of music genres such as house, techno, rock and hip-hop in different locations ...

Romanian born, and Berlin Based, Borusiade (aka Miruna Boruzescu) descended from Saturn’s sphere through various channels of transmission such as: the mesmerising show ›Dreamcatcher‹ ...

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. ...

Five Berlin boys and a small cellar: The result resembles a rather dense piece of pastry. It smells a little bit like Indie, tastes ...

In her music kaala combines elements of warm, electronical sounds with organic rhythms and profound lyrics. She sings of the hidden aspects of the ...

Handiclapped has been organising accessible concerts in Berlin since 2008, making it a pioneer of inclusive events. The aim of the concerts is for ...

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

Neo-soul artist MiDi KwaKwa grew up in two contrasting cultures: with her Ghanaian parents in a small West German town. In her formative years, ...

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 ...

SEDA has been singing and performing since she was 8 years old. She was discovered by Sigmund Bothmann, a church musician and director of ...

Saba Lou Khan grew up with R&B, soul, punk, spiritual space jazz and classic rock’n’roll. Her debut single, released when she was just six ...

What are roots? What is identity for people who carry several cultures within themselves, and what does it mean to be »mixed«? p a ...

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, ...

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

The sound of yunis is dynamic and intricate, but always bringing a fully-fleshed vibe that’s capable of moving dancefloors and fuelling the imagination alike. ...

DJ Paypal’s playful moniker and internet-savvy branding hint at a healthy sense of humour, but his music is as lush and soulful as his ...

Maggot Heart is the brainchild of the guitarist, singer and songwriter Linnéa Olsson. Taking cues from the rhythmic gloom of Killing Joke, the aggressive ...

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

Istanbul-born Başak Günak, also known as Ah! Kosmos, operates in an artistic field spanning production, live performance, sound installation works and composition for dance, ...

Silla Thorarensen and Julius Rothlaender are pretty best friends: they shamble through life together, don’t take themselves too seriously, and quarrel with their own ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past 15 years, the Wiesenburg has become increasingly accessible to the surrounding neighborhood. Its protected location and the special nature of its ...

The collective Berlin Reggae United organised concerts in autumn 2020, partly live – in compliance with applicable health measures to contain the spread of ...

Costantino Toth aka Onirologia works as a composer and sound engineer, conceiving sound as an »achronological archive«, tying in themes of transformation and home. ...

Singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Johanna Amelie resides in Berlin. She writes folky, ethereal, and contemporary songs about anything that stirs her emotions, whether it ...

Laure Boer combines the expected and the unexpected. As much music as ritual, performance as spell, Boer fittingly describes her sound as »witchtronic«. Out ...

Hani Alsawah aka Aldarwish is a prominent Syrian Arab rapper and producer who has two albums, more than 50 singles, 90 concerts and three ...

Torn away by a wave into the depths of the sea, Voodoo Beach are surrounding us with dark psychedelic rock, which on the one ...

Newcomers with a special twist, that little something that makes them stand out from the crowd – that’s what the Berlintouch event series has ...

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 ...

Spirit Design, a dynamic musical quartet, consists of Caterina Muran (bass/vocals), Flavio Gonnellini (guitar/vocals), Francesco Schioppa (guitar/organ/drones), and Tobias Kraller (drums/percussion). The band’s journey ...

Over the past few years, the Musikschiff (»Music Ship«) has become a permanent programme element within the event 48 Stunden Neukölln with its young, ...

ILYICH is a musician and storyteller reincarnated in Kherson, Ukraine. Augmenting music performances with performance art, ILYICH pilots full sound of electronic music through ...

After two successful editions, the Berlin Ukelele Festival will be entering its third round on October 27th and 28th 2018. The festival edition invites ...

The Femme*Hain concert series counteracts the marginalisation of FLINTA+, meaning women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, agender, and everyone facing discrimination from patriarchal structures due ...

The artist Christiane Rösinger, born in 1961, has been shaping the Berlin local music scene since the early 1990s as an »indie music icon« ...

Wizzy is a Syrian singer-songwriter, performer and mentor for Queer Syria and the event series Dandanah and Queens Against Borders in Berlin, where he ...

The Down by the River Festival is a live music festival for »freaks, fans and family«. It celebrates the city’s non-commercial concert culture and ...

Molly Nilsson is a Swedish born artist, producer and songwriter residing in Berlin since 2005. She first started composing in 2007 and made her ...

MIKEY. is a songwriter and performer born in Newcastle Australia, now living in Berlin by way of New York and London. They have won ...

THF Radio is a radio station in Tempelhof, based at Torhaus, the independently organised community space in the gatehouse of the subdistrict‘s former airport. ...

In 2017, Max Wiegand’s debut EP was declared »one of the records of the year« by the Zitty editorial team, and many other listeners ...

Allysa Grace is an Asian-Latin-American vocalist and keyboardist from Austin, Texas, now based in Berlin. Her latest release, ›Wondercolors‹, is an edgy catch on ...

Rap duo PALAS, consisting of female MCs Tina Turnup and Babylit, produces versatile, new-school music. Floating from the trap to the cloud, PALAS sound ...

Oihane Roach is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter and composer telling transgenerational stories of love and solidarity. With a warm, clear voice and poetic lyrics, she ...

The Poetry Meets Series ist eine seit 2014 bestehende kreative Plattform für lokale und internationale Künstler:innen, die ihre Arbeit im Kontext von »Love, Peace und Togetherness« ...

As ANOTHER NGUYEN, singer and songwriter Ngoc Anh Nguyen makes electronic-tinged, contemplative pop. Influences like Julia Michaels and Adele meet ARY, Tsar B and ...

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

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

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 party Spaceship was created in 2015 at Mensch Meier as an inclusive initiative within the club scene. The goal of the project is ...

DJ and producer Happy New Tears plays machine-processed music for the melancholy self. Her sets are always brimming with atmospheric, emotional, genre-defying music, inviting ...

With a colorful music, artistry and cultural programme, the SpreeSpektakel has been inviting visitors to the Holzmarkt grounds every year since 2015. The aim ...

gespenster is the project of Phil Haussmann, a Berlin-based songwriter who has previously released two albums and toured extensively with indie-folk outfit Apples In ...

Nalan Karacagil is a musician, producer and DJ from Berlin. As slimgirl fat and part of the trio Gaddafi Gals, she has released three ...

Born in Šiauliai, raised in Vilnius, and based in Berlin, Severija Janušauskaitė aka Severija is a stage and film actress, singer, musician, and composer. As a child, ...

Sound of Berlin combines forces of different Berlin based electronic/dance labels and artists for a common international commercialization on streaming platforms. For the launch, ...

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

Enyang Ha is a Berlin-based Korean electronic music composer and performer. Her approach is based on experimenting with her voice, sampling her body 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 ...

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 ...

World Wild Web (WWW) is the project of French producer Manuel Jesus. His sound is colourful and crowded, an organic conglomerate of distinct influences ...

Malakoff Kowalski is a German-American-Persian singer, musician, composer, and producer. After having been active with his band Jansen & Kowalski, his krautrock solo album ...

Buckle up, Garth and Meredith – Internet-famous Lesbian Cuntry Music™ shooting star THELMA BROOKS is here to steal your hearts and wives, taking them ...

Neromun’s multifaceted approach reflects the complexity of mythical hybrid beings and challenges conventional ideas of identity. Raised as a biracial child in a predominantly ...

Shaking up the scene since 2014, the Poetry Meets Series is an international, multilingual community event showcasing visual art and film, spoken words, DJs ...

Batila calls his combination of Congolese rhythms, a touch of reggae, soft jazzy vibes and some electronic sounds Bantu Soul: a fusion of all ...

With Come Together!, both established and young Sinti and Roma artists have a platform to present themselves to the city and its visitors. The ...

Dylan Hunter Chee Greene is an Asian American electronic jazz musician and from the Pacific Northwest. He focuses on color, noise, and rhythm while ...

Berlin based ANNAVR is a pianist, producer and singer shrugging off the clichés of the music industry. Growing up in rural and coastal post-socialist ...

Alai K is the alias of Abdalla Khamis Abdalla – a Kenyan producer, musician, singer-songwriter and DJ now living in Berlin. Born in Mombasa ...

Lion Sphere blend thumping electronic fragments with heavy hip hop grooves, spacious guitar licks and raw vocals. The Berlin four-piece creates a mesmerizing fusion ...

Empower is an Afro-futuristic and queer-feminist festival and presented some of the most important current work by queer people and/or BPoC active in music, ...

Maryna Russo, Heike Rädeker and Frank Neumeier founded LeVent in 2015. The rock trio from Berlin has already shared the stage with Die Nerven, ...

Since the revival of Berlin Atonal in 2013, the long-standing festival has been held annually in the disused Heizkraftwerk Mitte – an industrial complex ...

Armed only with Nintendo Game Boys and a penchant for mosh pits, DJ Scotch Egg began as an experimental 8-bit gabba and breakcore project. ...

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

Breezy’s hip-hop music and visual art revolves around themes of mental health, inequality, gender expression, and racial identity as a »mulatto«, or person with ...

After sharing a bunk in one of Berlin’s numerous hostels for several weeks, Joakim Jägerhult and Liam Blomqvist from Sweden began to share ideas ...

zoudé captures moods as frames of life in their songs, inviting the listener to participate in honest, intimate, vulnerable, and nostalgia-laced sonic snapshots. Growing ...

In 2019, glanz&krawall started a radical alternative to the classical-music festival industry with Berlin is Not Bayreuth, attracting over 1,000 visitors. In 2020, the ...

JuJu Rogers, a rapper and trumpeter, was born in a working-class city where more than 10,000 American soldiers were stationed. His father, a G.I. ...

3hd is a multimedia festival which deals with the impact of the internet on music and on our society. It is a driving force ...

Glossy and angular,spacious and atmospheric. Ben Jackson’s music sweeps over a broad landscape of sonic textures. The Canadian producer takes rhythmic structures from the ...

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 ...

Growing up in the midst of his parents’ experience of political exile, Ahmed Mahmoud spent part of his life in Palestine before relocating to ...

Moro is an Argentinian musician and composer based in Berlin. Trained as a professional guitarist at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires, ...

The Krake Festival for bold electronic dance music has been taking place since 2010 in Berlin. It promotes outstanding young artists and showcases the ...

OSTIA is a retrowave/indie band from Berlin comprising Lo Selbo, Albertine Sarges, Garagenuwe and Oskar Militia. The sound of OSTIA has been compared to ...

Paz Bonfil and Adi Kum met almost a decade ago in Tel Aviv’s underground circuit. Having moved to Berlin, they founded the powerhouse art-punk ...

The singer and guitarist Timo Tolkmitt and the drummer Till Trenkel have know each other since the 90s, growing up in the outskirts of ...

cesco.blz is a German-Brazilian artist who has established himself both as a rapper and a drummer. His music is a fusion of genres including ...

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