FUNDED PROJECTS

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 ...

With live music and DJs, the SO36 is celebrating uniqueness from the stage to the audience. Kon-Fett-I offeres musicians and DJs with and without ...

Gregor Heinze is a pianist, composer and producer. In the 1990s he was active as a musician in the Berlin hip-hop scene together with ...

Alex St Joan is the multi-faceted creation of musician, producer, writer and artist Alexia Peniguel. Born next to a flooded valley in drought-prone Australia ...

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 ...

Steve Mekoudja travels the world with words. The Cameroonian writer is active as a computer technician and cook, runs a podcast and has mastered ...

Post Neo: That’s the experimental electronic pop music duo of Nicole Luján and Pauline Weh, based in Mexico City and Berlin. Post Neo’s tracks ...

KOLLMORGEN is the project of Berlin-born and -raised musician, singer and producer Emma Kollmorgen. Songwriting and sound design go hand in hand in her ...

Ebow first came to attention with guerrilla performances in laundromats, supermarkets and demonstrations. Nowadays, the artist, who lives in Vienna and Berlin, performs on ...

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 ...

Gregor Dys considers himself a sound researcher who transfers (natural) processes, ideas and emotions into soundscapes. Forming the basis of his acoustic storytelling are ...

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

Anneli Bentler grew up in Freiburg, Germany, with a classical music education and a passion for composers like Bach, Debussy, Ravel and Steve Reich. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Femme Bass Mafia is a mentorship programme for women*, trans and non-binary people, offering safer spaces for participants learn and develop DJ techniques and ...

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

Grinder is a small community of 200 people in Norway. Veslemøy Rustad Holseter not only grew up here – the town seal adorned with ...

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 ...

Known as half of Berlin-based indie duo Gurr, Andreya Casablanca’s solo project shows an eagerness to experiment with genres outside of her comfort zone. ...

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

Music for Cinemas is a concert series turning cinemas into sites for music. The screen becomes a back, making room for atmospheric sound explorations. ...

Inaugurated in 2017, the monthly event Basement Bash has become one of Berlin’s most popular concert series. Its goal is to provide a stage ...

Twice a year, the event series Tanzhalle brings together musicians from the genres of reggae, dancehall, cloud rap, and trap. The goal is to ...

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

Launched in 2018, Ick Mach Welle! (»I Make Waves!«) is a project giving people with disabilities further possibilities in making electronic music. Competent leaders ...

The Stadt Nach Acht conference discusses different perspectives and topics regarding the club and music scene of Berlin. Following 2016´s success a three-day programme ...

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 ...

Fall in Berlin is an event organised by the collective Shambala Temple with the aim of bringing together artists from West Asia, especially women ...

Annie Gårlid is a classically-trained viola player, singer, and writer. She makes music under the name UCC Harlo. Many of her »ecclesiastical-wave« sound projects ...

The young German-Cameroonian singer-songwriter, producer and dancer RCSE – pronounced »rosa« – draws inspiration from icons like Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandros and ...

Sleepover Drone is a platform for artists working with drone, ambient, and experimental music. The focus is on female and non-binary artists. The concert ...

After releasing their first EP in 2016, Berlin rock band PABST in 2018 had their debut full-length album. The 12 songs on ›Chlorine‹ were ...

Dancing is MINCO’s passion and the core of her artistic expression. The music she spins is characterised by percussive energy and dynamic grooves. MINCO’s ...

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 ...

Initiated in 2019 as an event by YAAM and its inclusive DJ collective Supa Star Soundsystem, the Supa Star Showcase celebrated its third anniversary ...

»It’s normal to be different« – Graf Fidi has built a career out of this message. As a rapper, social worker, and speaker, he ...

KEØMA was founded by Chris Klopfer and Kat Frankie. Based in Berlin, the duo’s self-titled debut album was released in January 2016 on Embassy ...

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 ...

By the Lake is a one-day-long festival for families, music lovers and adventurers. The warm-hearted, ambitious, and finely curated event enters the third round ...

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 ...

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

junk-E-cat weaves acoustic and electronic elements into a sonic world where saxophones and bass clarinets – both arranged and solo – merge organically with ...

Ari is an artist and electronic music producer based in Berlin. They write, produce and perform genre-bending music that thinks outside the box. Their ...

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 ...

Dino Joubert from the tranquil town of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia was just 14 years old when the American songwriter Elliott Smith died in ...

Music In The Church is a Concert series in the all-enveloping setting of two churches in the heart of Berlin, Elisabethkirche and Sophienkirche, reinventing ...

Nils Ostendorf works in Berlin as a trumpet player and composer. He studied jazz trumpet from 1997 to 2002 at the Folkwanghochschule Essen and ...

»I am not necessarily interested in saying something that has never been said before,« says Max Prosa. »Rather, I want to articulate what has ...

If Black Skin Lover Boy had the choice between paradise and Berlin, he would always choose Berlin. For Black Skin Lover Boy, Berlin was ...

Gloomy psychedelia, shoegaze and extravagant sound experiments characterize the music of Suns of Thyme. These four guys from Berlin create a mystical atmosphere that ...

Made by music lovers for music lovers, Rec Room was originally established as a diverse party series at Berlin club OHM to support female ...

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

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 ...

The self-taught dj, vocalist and producer jpeg.love, also known as co-founder of RAIDERS Records, only started their music career three years ago. A footwork ...

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 ...

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

Pink Lint lives in the space between two colliding images. A city like Berlin provides its residents rather with too many impressions than too ...

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 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 ...

Tereza is a DJ, radio host and curator who, through countless gigs, has established her name in Germany and throughout Europe in hip-hop. This ...

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

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 ...

Keith F’eM is an internet community radio station run by the association of the same name. Based and anchored in Berlin-Neukölln, Keith F’eM regularly ...

Tender Games is the project of German-Jamaican singer and songwriter Ulrich aka HRRSN. Although being something of a late bloomer as far as his ...

Something changed when the then 20 year-old Brian Mitchell heard King Tubby and Lee Perry for the first time. Those dub-wise sounds reverberated through ...

Founded in 2013, the band Black Heino considers itself in the musical tradition of garage rock of the sixties and in the spirit of ...

Sally Dige (»Dee-Ah«) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her darkly poetic yet highly danceable electro-pop songs, DIY stylistic videos, design and visual art. ...

The work of Mexican-born Daniela Huerta hovers between performance art, sound design and multimedia projects. Under the pseudonym Baby Vulture, she developed her own ...

Meat Moabit is a four-part concert series focusing on the diverse genre that are Metal, Doom, Gothic, Rock, Post Punk, Indie (and their crossover-hybrids) ...

Enda Gallery has been active in the Berlin music scene with his soulful music since 2012. After four years of producing, writing and collaborating ...

What happens when a Dutch comic artist and an Israeli producer encounter in Berlin and decide to make music together? An interesting package in ...

Shaking up the scene since 2014, the Poetry Meets Series is a creative space for local and international artists who identify themselves in the ...

Even though Àbáse is both the artist name and solo project of the classically trained Hungarian jazz pianist, producer and DJ Szabolcs Bognar, Àbáse ...

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, ...

In 2016, B O K E H, the artistic alter-ego of New Zealand-raised and Berlin-based artist, Chloë Lewer, was born. Alternating in performance between ...

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 ...

Monika Werkstatt highlights the image of female producers and artists and their work, thereby enhancing their value, rendering them visible and tangible. In electronic ...

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

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

Ditty is an Indian independent artist and urban ecologist whose music is inspired by the natural world. She started by playing music on the ...

The duo veenus x boats is active not only among different cultures but also between genres: German-born Vietnamese singer Vee aka veenus and producer ...

When Worldwiderythm – also known under the artist name Nais – started producing music at the age of 17, he did not set himself ...

Born in Berlin and raised in Texas, rapper and producer DiscoCtrl has been dedicated to hip-hop since he was a kid. His sound meanders ...

Berlin-based Rosa Landers is a singer-songwriter as well as a trained actress working across disciplines. So far, she has created a visual EP in ...

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 ...

With a professional career spanning 15 years, Dan Bodan has pursued a multitude of different avenues in music- and art-making. After releasing song-oriented pop ...

Multimedia artist Hannah Schiefelbein (aka Hannah S. Floss) composes and performs under the moniker Omen. Utilising pop-music elements combined with audio-degradation techniques, she interprets ...

Laura Clock crafts music that is alive with contrasts and contradictions. Shimmery in tone yet shot through with powerful sub-bass and percussive trickery, her ...

Born 1986 in Germany, Daniel Freitag studied musicology and art history in Marburg and Berlin. During his studies he discovered theatre as a place ...

Sohrab was born in Tehran in 1984. He was seven when the Iran-Iraq war ended. His name, originating from an old poem called ›Shahname‹, ...

Having been described as »honest pop,« Magic Island’s soundscape is permeated by haunting and unforgettable flavours. With her Berlin-based solo project, the artist weaves ...

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

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

Inspired by hardcore sounds of the past plus the cutting-edge footwork, breakbeat and jungle that her label champions, Souci cultivates an ever-evolving style. Having ...

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

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

Es ist an der Zeit, dass die Welt das Energiebündel UCHE YARA kennenlernt – ein junges Talent auf der Bühne wie im Studio (wobei ...

Kompbars is a German rap party series with DJs and Live acts. The focus of this concert series is to better connect the hip-hop ...