FUNDED PROJECTS

Uo Ray’m’s work focuses on the relationship between sound and memory: our sense of hearing in hyper visual times and our sense of belonging ...

Cuntroaches are bathed in red light, demonic and louder than hell itself. Since 2015, the band has defiled countless venues all over Europe playing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Founded in 2012 by singer Tobias Bamborschke and guitarist Max Bauer, Isolation Berlin is a German-language indie band. Their lineup since 2013 includes Simeon ...

FHAT is a new duo made-up by American singer-songwriters Aaron Pfeiffer and Sedric Perry. Their journey began with a joint writing session in London, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The son of a soldier from New Orleans and a German mother with Austrian roots, Juju Rogers grew up in a working-class southern German ...

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 ...

Tel Aviv-born artist Mor Elian moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, living there for ten years before relocating to Berlin. Elian co-owns the ...

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

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

Musa is a fighter. As part of the BSMG (Black Superman Gang) with Megaloh and Ghanaian Stallion, the Berlin resident found the right space ...

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 ...

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

Under the moniker TEll A ViSiON, Berlin-based singer, songwriter and music producer Fee Kürten is rediscovering herself: evolution not revolution! While she still served ...

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

Masha The Rich Man is the project of Berlin-based Jewish artist Maria »Mascha« Raykhman. The sound, shaped by Raykhman’s Eastern European socialisation, embraces Yiddish ...

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

Friedberg are the brainchild of Austrian-born Anna Wappel. The four-piece, all-female band are a tour de force of gritty rock energy combined with intuitive ...

Grandma and Grandpa want one thing at all costs: to give their grandson piano lessons. They put aside the money to drag him to ...

Berlin-based, British-born Gemma Ray is an artist who has been given diverse and exotic descriptions such as »torch song psychedelia«, »sideways blues« »girl-group melodrama« ...

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

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

slimgirl fat is a small fish in a big pond. You might know her through her further projects Gaddafi Gals and Nalan381. slimgirl fat ...

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

MADANII is a genre-rebel, a barrier-breaking recording artist and creative instigator from Berlin. With an artistic vision rooted in Persian culture and informed by ...

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 ...

Israeli DJ and producer DASCO has a background every bit as colourful as her music. Born and raised in Tel Aviv and now based ...

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, ...

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 ...

Spoke, as a trained sound and light technician, started their musical career as a DJ in Berlin in the late 2000s, while the first ...

Fenster is a psychedelic pop band consisting of Jonathan Jarzyna (DE), JJ Weihl (USA), Lucas Ufo (FR) and Elias Hock (DE). After releasing two ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin-based solo artist Strip Down has been passionately producing punchy electro synth-pop and bringing it to clubs throughout Europe since 2012. Having taken ...

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 ...

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

La By’le’s sound is like a feverish, percussion-driven social statement. Humorous and provocative, the five-member collective infuses the dancefloor with German, French, Portuguese and ...

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. ...

Christian Naujoks is a Lübeck born and raised visual artist, composer, DJ and singer. Since completing his studies in Electroacoustic Composition and Media Theory ...

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

The moment has arrived for the world to discover the powerhouse that is UCHE YARA – the young wonder, on stage and in the ...

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

Portrait XO is an artist who creates musical and visual works through traditional and non-traditional methods. In collaboration with Dadabots, Portrait XO won the ...

Hani Mojtahedy was born in Sanandaj, a small city in the Iranian province of Kordestan. After studying traditional Persian music, she began her professional ...

Eilis Frawley is a classically trained percussionist from the Elder Conservatorium of Music in Adelaide. She spent a number of years in Seoul, where ...

Two singers play guitar and bass and a guy plays drums with varying success. They all play with fire until the house burns down! ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the cover of their second album, ›Walrus‹, two sisters size up their observers with challenging glances a la Lennon. Tanno Pippi, one of ...

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

Obaro Ejimiwe is a British singer, songwriter and musician better known by his stage name Ghostpoet. After receiving recognition for his first two albums, ...

Better Person is a project by Berlin-based Polish singer Adam Byczkowski. He moved to Berlin in 2013 to pursue a solo career after playing ...

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 ...

There’s an undeniable warmth to Wayne Snow’s music, one that combines a contemporary take on his homeland Nigeria with neo-soul, alternative pop, soultronica, and ...

LAMIA is a 24-year-old, Berlin-based producer and vocalist from London. Reviewed by CLASH Magazine as having a »clear DIY attitude« and BBC Introducing her ...

The story of Chuckamuck is a classic rock’n’roll story. Founded by schoolmates Oska Wald (guitar/vocals), Jiles (drums), and Lorenz O’Tool (guitar/vocals), Chuckamuck were signed ...

The singer, songwriter, composer and performer Barbara Panther has lived in Berlin for over 10 years. Her debut album was produced by Matthew Herbert ...

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 ...

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

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

AZZURRA is a singer-songwriter who combines delicate electronic and dark pop elements with her intimate voice into a deep sound. Inspired by essences and ...

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 ...

Even with plenty of accomplishments behind him, the Reverend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. By night, he likes to roam the canyons of ...

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 ...

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

Jackson Dyer is an Australian singer-songwriter and producer. At the start of 2013, Dyer first arrived in Berlin, where he progressed from playing on ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Born in Istanbul in 1987, Nene H started at the Music Conservatory in Izmir when she was eleven. After spending two years in Ankara ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With funky bass and minimalist ballads, with 2000s R&B and hip-hop vibes, with a multi-faceted voice and multi-layered harmonies, RIIVA is uncompromisingly captivating. Her ...

Clear History are a scorching post-punk trio from Berlin who make a big deal out of little things, sometimes vice versa. Their influences include ...

Berlin’s hip-hop scene hasn’t been the same since SWAG JAM, a weekly live hip-hop jam session by the Berlin crew The SWAG, was launched ...

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

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 ...

Noir moodscapes you can dance to was one critic’s response to Evvol’s 2015 debut ›Eternalism‹. The band – aka Irish singer Julie Chance and ...

For memory formation and emotional connection, 333 Boyz come to electronic music with a refined sense for the unexpected, vital and funny as two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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‹, ...

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

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 ...

›Everything sucks‹ is one of the first singles by the non-binary hyperpop artist IXXF. But that’s not entirely true, as it certainly doesn’t apply ...

Sanni Est is a music producer, filmmaker, performer, composer, DJ, film actress, curator, project manager and an intersectional trans*feminist, mainly working in Brazil and ...