Musicboard-Berlin > Funded Projects
Around 150 funded musicians and music projects in Berlin are supported by the Musicboard annually through its Scholarships and Residencies, Support Tour Funding as well as the funding programmes Karrieresprungbrett Berlin, Pop im Kiez and Festival Funding. You can view all of the projects funded thus far by Musicboard Berlin here.
 
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ROSEMARINE (Photo: Anika Krüger)

ROSEMARINE

The band ROSEMARINE is an experience in itself: trashy, grungy vibes meet electronic sounds, all framed by experienced songwriting. It is an artistic statement, ...
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mokeyanju

Jumoke Adeyanju aka mokeyanju is a passionate dancer, writer, vinyl selector and DJ as well as a multifaceted artist and curator with a deep-rooted ...
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Bang On

Bang On is dedicated to supporting Berlin-based bands, musicians and other talent, with a particular focus on creating a safe, diverse and welcoming atmosphere ...
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Ultraflex

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 ...
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Danielle Arielli

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

Born and raised in Istanbul, Berlin-based artist R.A.N. explores the possibilities of how sonic textures and rhythm can be used to evoke a sense ...
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Berlin Reggae United

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

Spoon is a DJ workspace for women*, trans and non-binary people. Initiated in 2018, Spoon regularly offers practical training on turntables for DJs, whether ...
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Portrait XO

From a young age, Portrait XO was inspired by jazz and improvisation, although her upbringing was strongly focused on classical piano. After listening to ...
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Muzi

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 ...
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Die Wilde Jagd

Die Wilde Jagd (›The Wild Hunt‹) is a project of Berlin-based musician Sebastian Lee Philipp in collaboration with co-producer Ralf Beck and several guest ...
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Severija

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, ...
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Milwalkie

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

Jascha Kreft and Tammo Dehn are childhood friends, native East Frisians, Berliners by choice and experts in curiosities. Since 2014, they have been fusing ...
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rRoxymore

rRoxymore’s music is an intriguing, one-off blend of contrasting textures – organic and synthetic, icy and warm – a fresh step in dance music. ...
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RENU

RENU is a British-Bengali, Berlin-based composer, producer, tabla player, percussionist and curator who started her musical journey around 2000. Her quest for musical experiences ...
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LARY

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

Lüül (Lutz Graf-Ulbrich) is a Berlin-born musician, singer/songwriter, and guitar player. He played in German Krautrock bands like Agitation Free and Ash Ra Tempel, ...
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Jenseits von Nelken und Pralinen

Jenseits von Nelken und Pralinen is a small, nicely curated festival on the International Women’s Day, March 8th. Besides discussions and award ceremonies, Berlin ...
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SWITCH

The workshop series SWITCH has taken on the mission of strengthening women, PoC and the queer scene through accessible music education. The aim of ...
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Kutzkelina

Kutzkelina aka Doreen Kutzke is a German actress, performance artist, composer, singer, and vocal teacher specialising in the art of yodelling. She grew up ...
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Snøffeltøffs

Snøffeltøffs are two boys from Berlin who serve unpretentious Grarage Rock with a real Popstar attitude (»Shit-Fi Pizza Wave« is what they call it). ...
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GIL

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 ...
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LiveBytes Berlin

LiveBytes Berlin is a platform for up-and-coming Berliner artists and local venues – with the aim of giving them national and international attention. Audio ...
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Collo Awata

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

The Berlin Song Week is an event concept for the creatives »behind the song«. Songwriter and producer get the chance to present themselves to ...
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Deaf Kat Night

Klark Wolke aka Deaf Kat Night (DKN) was born in a small village near Schwerin. The deaf musician was able to feel music for ...
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Alex St Joan

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 ...
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Laura Lee & the Jettes

Better known as one half of Berlin-based indie duo Gurr, Laura Lee is stepping away from its ashes and back into the furnace to ...
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berta.berlin

berta.berlin is a sophisticated and expertly curated concert video format with a focus on Berlin. With hi-fi sound and HD video quality, berta.berlin presents ...
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Future East

Future East is a Berlin-based platform and festival for presenting radical and explorative music and audiovisual performances, working primarily with non-Western artists. The project ...
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Vida Vojić

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

Laurel Halo is an American electronic music composer and producer, currently based in Berlin. Since her now cult-status debut album Quarantine was released by ...
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Incubator

Berlin Community Radio – Incubator is a project aimed at Berlin based emerging electronic music talents with a special focus on underrepresented and marginalised ...
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Feels Trip & Bukowski

Reverberating rimshots, organic bass and spacey synths meet melancholic vocals with lyrics about dysfunctional relationships and inner turmoil – two friends maneuvering from R&B ...
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Lamb Kebab

Best known for her visceral rap performances, Berlin-based Cuban-American artist Rachel de la Torre (aka Lamb Kebab) attempts to reexamine the perspectives and roles ...
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Catnapp

Favouring emotional expressionism and intense beats, Catnapp is pushing the boundaries of electronic music with a unique and bold take on songwriting and production. ...
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Deliluh

Deliluh is an experimental rock band consisting of Julius Pedersen and Kyle Knapp. Their sound fuses elements of punk, drone, and contemporary rock music ...
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Zusammen Auf!

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

K.ZIA

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 ...
Ich brauche eine Genie

Ich brauche eine Genie

Founded in 2017 by the musicians, writers and activists Sandra and Kerstin Grether, Ich brauche eine Genie – Popkultur, Feminismus, Spaß und so (»I ...
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LiVKI

Olivia Anna Livki (aka LiVKI) is a DIY force of nature: a singer, bassist, songwriter, producer, director and video-editor who also designs her own ...
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MRJAH

The DJ and producer duo MRJAH from Berlin is a pioneer in German trap music. In early 2013 the Duo produced the famous ›Splah!Mag ...
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Das Rattenkabinett

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 ...
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Lianne Hall

Lianne Hall has already been through quite a lot. In the 90s, she toured the squats of Europe with the feminist punk band Witchknot, ...

World Wild Web

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

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. ...
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Nevis

If you’ve ever spent a night roaming Berlin bars and tumbled into a blue-foggy morning, with a grin still on your lips, you should ...
Alex Stolze

Alex Stolze

Music is something the Berlin-born Stolze considers integral to his life – a need apparent in the passion he puts into each of his ...
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Anthony Hüseyin

Raised in conservative Urfa in Southeastern Turkey and educated in the cities of Istanbul and Rotterdam in both classical and jazz singing, Anthony Hüseyin ...
Nalan (Photo: Linus Müllerschön)

Nalan

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

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 ...
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Temple Haze

Temple Haze’s music is an ever-evolving and ever-changing tapestry. From his roots in blues and alt-country music to modern downbeat, ambient and lo-fi, Temple ...
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Garagen Uwe

Not much is said in Uwe’s garage. But that’s no big deal. The air smells like gasoline while analog synthesizers rustle in idle. Uwe’s ...
Le Vent

LeVent

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

Erregung Öffentlicher Erregung play post-punk. They combine the energy of early punk with Krautrock’s driving beat and love for monotony, as well as the ...
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#PANDAwoman Festival

The #PANDAwomen Festival aims to present the female side of the current Eastern European pop music scene, whether onstage or behind the scenes, strengthening ...
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gölgede-güneşte

gölgede-güneşte (Eng.: in sun and shadow), borrowing its name from Eduardo Galeano’s famous book, is a collective musical project of four Berlin-based musicians from ...
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Karmatürji

Karmatürji is the musical project of Ceyhun Kaya and Petra Nachtmanova in collaboration with the well-known Berliner DJ and activist Ipek Ipekcioglu. Their sound ...
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1000 GRAM

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 ...
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Sohrab

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‹, ...
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MADANII

MADANII is stirring up the Berlin underground music scene after having being included in Musikexpress’s Hotlist for 2018. With the unique combination of pop, ...
Yuriy Gurzhy (Photo: Balint Meggyesi)

Yuriy Gurzhy

Yuriy Gurzhy is an Ukrainian and Berlin-based musician, DJ, producer and radio broadcaster. Together with the German writer Wladimir Kaminer he started the now ...
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M.E.S.H.

M.E.S.H. was started by James Whipple. M.E.S.H. is a project situated within the interior grandeur of the digital, sometimes connecting to the socio-physics of ...

KARMA SHE

Jerusalem-born, Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist Carmel Michaeli has constructed the vessel of KARMA SHE to transcend the stage and create extra-sensorial musical performances. KARMA SHE’s ...
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Celina Bostic

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 ...
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Speicher

Taking place since 2017 in the old water reservoirs in Berlin-Pankow, Speicher is a festival for site-specific music curated by bohemian drips. Its fifth ...
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Valeria Frattini

Valeria Frattini is an Italian singer-songwriter living in Berlin. As half German and half Italian and with time spent abroad in the US, her ...
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Nene H

Born in Istanbul in 1987, Nene H started at the Music Conservatory in Izmir when she was eleven. After spending two years in Ankara ...
Phia (Photo: Marcelle Bradbeer)

Phia

»Phia seems to possess the past of [an] Australian with the inspiration and musical edge of a true Berliner« (Berlin Sessions). Otherwise known as ...
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Mynolia

With electric guitar, soft vocals and a VHS camera, Mynolia captures the melancholic side of summer. Her psychedelic folk is a New Zealand-Canadian-German cocktail ...
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Prada Meinhoff

Influenced by German oldschool hip hop as well as influences spanning from Peaches to Die Goldenen Zitronen, Hole, Kurt Weill, John Frusciante, Suzi Quatro ...
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Kometenmelodien

The concert series Kometenmelodien, which takes place in the Kantine am Berghain, directs listeners’ ears to exciting new artists making music in the genres ...
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Baal & Mortimer

Since 2014, Alexandra Grübler has dedicated herself to the sonic exploration of questions of resistance, autonomy and identity with her project Baal & Mortimer, ...
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Music Pool Berlin

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 ...
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Lucrecia Dalt

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

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. ...
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Sample Music Festival

Instrumental work with audio samples is a fundamental component of contemporary music culture. The Sample Music Festival is the first educational music festival devoted ...
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Kicker Dibs

More than half their lives – that’s how long Kicker Dibs have been making music together. They are more like the family you can ...
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UCC Harlo

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 ...
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LIE NING

Dream and reality, desire, compulsion and knowledge form the basis of human passion. We move in the spaces in between, constantly changing perspectives. LIE ...
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Voodoo Beach

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

HellD stands for Hellersdorf, an area that has always been classified as a peripheral district of Berlin. Under the motto »Periphery,« the one-day HellD ...
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KEØMA

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 ...
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Istanbul Ghetto Club

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

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 ...
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Andreas Spechtl

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

February Montaine was an outsider artist from the Midlands, England, active from the period of 1985 to 1991. Around 2015, Berlin-based artist Sam Potter ...

Radical Sounds Latin America

In 2021, Radical Sounds Latin America entered its third round with a hybrid programme of events both online and in person to musically address ...
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Fall in Berlin

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

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 ...
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African Food Festival

The annual African Food Festival combines traditional cuisine and current street food movements with the latest trends in music, literature, art and design from ...
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Vamp Acid

Vamp Acid is a live acid dance producer, dark electro DJ and designer. Peppered with 80s analogue beats, her music combines sensual vocals with ...
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Yosa Peit

Having previously lent her voice to the London based cosmic jazz collective Nostalgia 77 and renowned German beatmaker Dexter, Yosa Peit settled into the ...
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The Amplified Kitchen

Set in the garden of ://about blank, the Amplified Kitchen is a series of events on the conditions of production and reception within electronic ...
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Fangirls

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

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

VALENTIN heralds a new era in the music industry. She paves the way for upcoming artists who, just like she did, grew up hand-in-hand ...
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Monibi

Raised in France, DJ, radio presenter and music producer Monibi has arrived in her current home of Berlin after a phase in Scotland. Weaving ...
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WaqWaq Kingdom

WaqWaq Kingdom is a Japanese tribal bass duo consisting of dubstep-noise savvy Kiki Hitomi and Shigeru Ishihara, the latter of whom has been orbiting ...
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