FUNDED PROJECTS

Milwalkie is an indie rock band formed by the brothers Matt and Steve Morris from Aberdeen, Scotland. Milwalkie began in 2011 when the brothers ...

Kudur is a music and performance-focused party series organized by the trans/queer PoC members of the Berlin-based collective with the same name. At Kudur, ...

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 ...

otay:onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China. Her artistic practice spans music, performance, installation, and film composition. otay’s work has ...

Valentin Ginies is a musician, producer, DJ and owner of the label 11001 Records, which focuses on techno, ambient, experimental and other abstract musical ...

In 2019, the musical game show Battle of Random Bands brought together musicians from all cultures and backgrounds. Whether they’re newcomers or more experienced ...

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 ...

It’s difficult to tell at what point art ends and life begins, where economics and theatre part ways (if ever), and where the psychosocial ...

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

Anna Lena Bruland was expressly warned by her grandfather, a renowned conductor in Norway in the 50s and 60s, not to pursue an artistic ...

DICE RISING is a new experimental programme for emerging Berlin-based musicians, organisers and other people working in music: three days of online workshops, mentoring, ...

For the very first time punk’d took place in Berlin in October 2017. As the name already reveals, the festival is settled far beyond ...

Rûveyda uses lyrical and musical elements to let her identity as a young Muslim woman living in the diaspora speak. The Anatolian singer and ...

Thom Lucero is an American multidisciplinary artist, musician, composer, and writer who is currently based in Berlin. Growing up in California and pursuing an ...

The event series 5 Seconds – Musik für Hall und Raum has set itself the goal of using the Zwingli-Kirche as a venue for ...

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 ...

Inspired by the desire to experiment and collaborate with jazz and classical music, the singer Donata, educated at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, ...

The Puschenfest is a two-day music festival that returned to the Festsaal Kreuzberg in 2018 after a five-year hiatus. Its aim is to create ...

The Last Postman is a multilingual artistic-pop/indie post-rock experimental project with live electronic elements generated by playing multiple instruments and found objects. It was ...

The first encounter of the members of Modha was rather unexpected, crossing paths as hired musicians playing in a live band. At the time, ...

The Kiezsalon is a forum for innovative music beyond the borders of genre as well as a meeting point for friends, loners, lovers and ...

Mono Green – two words, almost like a first and last name, perfectly representing the person behind the project. A lone figure, a solo ...

From songwriting to the visual counterpart of her music: everything about the work of singer-songwriter and producer Mulay is aesthetic art, forming a counterpart ...

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

canelonely is an interdisciplinary music and video project by Jannik Morton Schneider. With the band Der Ringer, for which he also produced music videos, ...

Jemek Jemowit is a one-man-band, DJ and concept artist who insists on the creative input of the antihipped neighbourhoods of West Berlin. Live, the ...

EVÎN is a singer, songwriter, producer and one of the most exciting new voices in R&B. Her music blends elements from different genres with ...

Off the back of a young and wild experience with his first band Paris Suit Yourself (UK/BigDada), Victor Tricard has grown into a solo ...

Tele was founded in Freiburg end of the 1990s playing typical indie-guitar-rock. ›Tausend und ein Verdacht‹, the band’s self-distributed debut album, was released in ...

Ghanaian Stallion is a German-Ghanaian DJ/producer. In his productions, an array of different sounds merge with each other, including elements of hip-hop, Afrobeat, drill, ...

Miss Red’s forthcoming mixtape is a mindblowing blend of microphone murder and electronic beat explosions. A futuristic vision for dancehall, grime and dub, the ...

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 ...

Half Girl is Berlin’s scariest all-girl-super-group: Julie Miess (Mutter, Britta), Vera Kropf (Luise Pop) Anna-Leena Lutz (formerly Die Heiterkeit) and Gwendolin Tägert (Mondo Fumatore). ...

The Norwegian-Irish singer and songwriter Tara Nome Doyle grew up between city life and untouched nature. Her music embodies these inner conflicts, varying between ...

AIWA: Beats, Rhymes and Beyond from the Arab World is a concert series aiming at intercultural exchange between Berlin-based hip-hop artists and musicians from ...

Amnesia Scanner’s beats sound so familiar, something you’ve definitely heard before but can’t quite place. Energetic kicks and deep bass drums jolt your body ...

Blending Live is an event combining concerts with dance, performance and art, putting an emphasis on local, up-and-coming artists outside of the mainstream. Artists ...

Berlin-based band Gewalt condenses in most-radical tongues the impossibility and inescapability of human existence. This is the nucleus of the art of Helen Henfling, ...

Half-German. half-Malaysian vocalist and DJ Soraya grew up in between cultures, heavily inspired by the variety of genres encompassing soundsystem club music from the ...

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

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

To the moon and back: this is how the musical career of Achan Malonda could be described. Born in 1983 to a Congolese mother ...

Anoki grows up in the 90s between Dutch red facades and a small Bavarian town to an Indonesian-born father with American citizenship and a ...

Pari Eskandari is an Iranian-German singer, composer and producer living in Berlin. In 1988 at the age of three, she fled with her parents ...

When two best friends found a band, the result is a world full of insider jokes. Gurr’s debut album ›In My Head‹ introduces their ...

Born and raised in the rough industrial wastelands of North Jersey, oOoOO began playing in punk and hardcore bands in and around NYC as ...

Jonas Schilling is an electronic music producer and composer from Berlin. As a multi-instrumentalist and sound explorer he likes to work with everything that ...

»Sisterhood, das sind wir!« (»Sisterhood, that‘s us!«) is a line from one of the many new rap songs on the label Sisterqueens, which focusses ...

PANDAyiddish aims to present lively and progressive culture of the Jewish diaspora. With this series, the PANDA Theater in Prenzlauer Berg strives to strengthen ...

In ›Stadt unter Einfluss‹ (›City Under the Influence‹), Christiane Rösinger deals with one of the most pressing political and social issues of the present: ...

Developed by musicians who emigrated from Asia Minor to present-day Greece because of their ethnic-religious affiliation, the cross-genre art form of rebetiko is now ...

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

After garnering massive support from the international media world (KEXP, BBC 6, Gilles Peterson, Soulection, WDR, FIP) of the back of their debut album ...

Collo Awata’s art – whether music, sound design, DJing or video – is deeply interwoven with experiences of the African diaspora. By weaving in ...

»I like to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. I don’t hesitate to irritate. I’m bored by the ordinary.« – xanah operates as ...

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

Since the beginning of the first lockdown, the city’s clubs and music venues have been threatened with closure. Even non-commercial, community-oriented venues like the ...

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 ...

Matching Outfits are a trio of adopted Berliners whose warped, wistful take on indie pop has been compared to »a Super 8 film from ...

Blossom and bloom – that’s what the DJ collective BLVSH stands for, meaning the empowerment of women, trans and non-binary people in a club ...

Danielle Arielli has always been surrounded by music. Her mother, a music teacher, taught her to sing and to play guitar and piano, and ...

The ensemble and artist residency Grounded Outer Space People explores the relationship between transmigration and music, curating open listening sessions, workshops and presentation meetings. ...

The VUT mentoring programme aims to bring experienced industry experts from labels, publishing, distribution, booking and promotion as well as self-promoting artists together with ...

Wolf & Moon are Stefanie Martens and Dennis de Beurs, a Dutch-German artist couple from Berlin. Their first record was made when they packed ...

Éclat Crew is a Berlin-based Electronic Music Collective aiming to support, promote, and inspire the practice and output of female, trans and non-binary artists ...

One minute the world was moving closer together, the next it was pulling up national borders again. Well, that’s the bad news. The good ...

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. ...

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

Johnny Kulo combines old-school soul and R&B. Laid-back grooves, thicc harmonies and catchy melodies – in his music, the Indian artist and producer, now ...

In her many artistic approaches, spanning experimental installations and photography to video and audio works, Natalia Escobar follows an ongoing interest in investigating streams ...

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‹ ...

Kreuzberg-born artist Mesu Diye was inspired by her parents’ Turkish birthplace on the Black Sea when naming her project. Mesudiye, a small village in ...

Every year, more than 70,000 people gather in Berlin for a peaceful demonstration, united by music, for a tolerant and humane society as ›Zug ...

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

Martha Rose is a multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin. She has released two LPs on vinyl and collaborates regularly with her contemporaries in Berlin, specialising ...

Jasmina de Boer and Lukas Streich are We Will Kaleid. In their experimental, electronic art-pop, the duo focuses on dysfunctional aspects of interpersonal communication, ...

Raz Ohara’s style is like a kaleidoscope in which elements of dub, soul and jazz merge in a dynamic stream. Loops and sounds come ...

DJ, Producer and purveyor of nocturnal frequencies, Luna Vassarotti is a italian multidisciplinary artist and founder of Berlin-based record label, Instruments of Discipline. As ...

As the child of Turkish parents, İpek İpekçioğlu grew up mainly in Berlin – surrounded by classical music both Western and Turkish as well ...

After moving to Berlin in 2010, Philipp Gorbachev befriended Rebolledo and Matias Aguayo, which set the wheels in motion for a series of debut ...

Territory Disrupt was launched in 2022 as a musical and discursive event to take a critical look at the role of music, sound and ...

It seems that fate is what brought Max Prosa and Sascha Stiehler together. No pianist could accompany Prosa’s lyrics and stories with such virtuosity ...

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 ...

The event series arkaoda Berlin NOW presents a diversely-curated music programme encompassing electronic music, acoustic music, pop, classical music, and noise. It sees itself ...

With the event series Zusammen Auf!, Mensch Meier seeks to support integration on various levels in order to help overcome societal barriers. The series ...

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 ...

James Chatburn is a Berlin-based Australian soul singer, songwriter and producer. He has combined influences from divided musical worlds to create something that does ...

Since 2019, Das Rattenkabinett have been playing in a new constellation with a new sound: female-fronted and more experimental than ever. Live hip-hop from ...

Karma is a diverse, one-day rock festival and made its debut at Alte Münze in August 2019. Artists from the genres of rock, pop, ...

Following a chance online encounter, a loose internet collaboration began between Tokyo-based Nicolai Zettl (vocals), Italy’s Dodo Dal Bosco (keys), and Munich native Flo ...

After much anticipation, 2016’s eponymous debut cemented Oum Shatt’s distinctive sound: distilled rock ’n’ roll, discreetly interwoven Arabic harmonies and hypnotic rhythms from various, ...

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

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 ...

Launched in 2020, Femme Bass Mafia is a mentorship programme dedicated to women, transgender and non-binary people for the learning and practising of DJing ...

BERvokal is hosting its fifth edition in 2018. From September 14th to 16th, the international acapella pop festival invites participants and listeners interested in ...

With a total of 32 solo DJ sets, 16 B2B performances and three online live shows featuring artists from a wide range of artistic ...

Tehran Contemporary Sounds is a Berlin-based hub, for musicians, artists and collectives living abroad as well as in Iran, with the aim to bring ...

Fraencis crafts his music with the intent of leaving listeners in a slight state of unease as he explores the dark and moody side ...

Laura Landergott (Ja, Panik) and Yair Karelic (Mystical Communication Service) first met in early 2017. The duo constructs a patchwork of indie rock, blues, and psych. ...

Jinka is a writer/singer/producer of Transylvanian origin who dropped the first single of her artist project in mid-2017. She set up her laboratory in ...