FUNDED PROJECTS

Tim Koh is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer and visual artist, most notably known as a long-time member of the band Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti. ...

Berlin’s Kala Brisella outline their project with the words »Noise*Rock*Love«. Their music is highly energetic yet diverse, urgent and uncomfortable, feverish, and sometimes latently ...

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

Over the last decade, Maike Rosa Vogel has grown into an important German-speaking indie pop singer-songwriter. She’s one to listen to her own heart, ...

»Friede Merz has mastered the art of being in several places at the same time. « – Wolf Kampmann, Jazz thing This applies to ...

Fuffifufzich is a spaghetti Western, a phenomenon that is at the same time gangster, cowboy and queen. Fuffifufzich can be a woman, a little ...

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 ...

Since 2014, Alexandra Grübler has been dedicated to the musical exploration of resistance, autonomy and identity with her project Baal & Mortimer, which originated ...

The works of Moscoman (or Mosco for short), the producer of numerous underground hits on ESP Institute, Correspondant, I’m a Cliche and Eskimo Rec, ...

With Pari San, two worlds collide. There’s the Berlin-based microsystems engineer Paul Brenning, who grew up with classical music and produces electronic synth music ...

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

Stoic as fuck, with a baby face and a set of blue-collar shoulders, Ellison Renee Glenn aka Black Cracker (formerly Celena Glenn) rocks a ...

Schrunzel & Der blaue Schmetterling is the collaboration between the artist Schrunzel and his girlfriend Sabrina Böckl, aka Der blaue Schmetterling, with the aim ...

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 ...

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

Berlin based Bernadette La Hengst is an electro-pop musician and singer-songwriter with a passion for political and social issues and utopian ideas. In the ...

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

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

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 ...

Komet Bernhard is an icon of Berlin nightlife; he is a techno DJ, dancer at demonstrations, drugs tsar, alternative style icon, actor, cosmic researcher ...

›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 ...

RAYNE began experimenting with poetry early on, writing verses to leave behind for strangers on the walls of Berlin’s underground stations. At 19, words ...

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 ...

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

Shirking notions of identity, Born In Flamez subverts gender and genre with a panoply of influences somewhere in the nether regions between deconstructed pop, ...

Kendy Gable is Berlin-based, American singer-songwriter that weaves poetry and stories into haunting melodies. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe ...

›Political Journalist‹ isn’t a credential we usually have in musician’s bios, but this is exactly what Anika was doing while living between Berlin and ...

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 ...

goldenair is a producer, songwriter and classically trained multi-instrumentalist living in Berlin. He is half of the R&B act GOLDA, signed to Majestic Casual ...

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 ...

LYYX is a musical project based out of Berlin, Germany comprising of Lydia Bauer and Max Hirtz-Wolf. The two are partners in life and ...

The world of Nik Dandelion is transformed into a kaleidoscope of times past – a postmodern dream. Retro sounds and aesthetics are broken up ...

After the break-up of her band Prada Meinhoff, the German-British artist, singer and composer Christin Nichols pursued a solo project. Her debut album mixes ...

Ava Vegas spent most of her youth on Ibiza, living in a small house her parents had built. Influenced by the Spanish island’s techno ...

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 ...

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

Katrin Hahner (Berlin/Reykjavik) is a multidisciplinary and genre-bending sonic and visual artist and mastermind behind the new project KENICHI & THE SUN. Inspired by ...

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

Ziúr is a Berlin-based DJ and producer, dedicated to combining different sonic textures and brainy beats into a functional dancefloor framework – clearly intended ...

Kaltès is a musician and DJ based in Berlin. She has an extensive background in music, having studied jazz and improvisation in Brussels before ...

NOA is an English-speaking singer with Filipino and African-American roots who’s active in the world of alt-pop. Her songs are musical paintings that deal ...

Producer and songwriter Emika has a background in classical piano and composition and was a sound designer for Native Instruments, one of the leading ...

Laurids Richter is a drummer and producer from Berlin, that made a name for himself in the mid-90s jazz and hip-hop scene of the ...

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

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, ...

AUF is the band of singer and guitarist Anne Rolfs and drummer Mathias Brendel, based in Berlin. Anne Rolfs first became known as the ...

Chris Imler is an industry veteran, a jack-of-all-trades, a drum dandy, a beat prophet, and an unmatched player in the Berlin indie scene. He ...

Godmother are critical theory in pop-music drag. A non-binary identity becomes a Weltanschauung, challenging dichotomies such as real and artificial, self and other, sincerity ...

Mary Ocher is a singer-songwriter, poet, director and visual artist. Born in Moscow in 1986, she immigrated with her family first to Israel and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

For over 20 years, singer, rapper and freestyle MC Chabezo was the frontman of various group. In 2020, after a long period of musical ...

Reintroducing the complicated. With linguistic bulkiness, Trucks form the antithesis of both mainstream and teenage Deutschpop. Trucks are also about the self and its ...

Yvois is an Aotearoa (New Zealand)-born, Berlin-based producer of warm, wonky beats and singer of moody aural treats. Armed with a collection of dusty ...

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‹, ...

Shybits is a Berlin based trio made up of friends Liam (UK), Piero (Italy), and Megan (South Africa). The band have been playing their ...

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 ...

Berlin-based Italian producer Shapednoise has been working as an independent musician for the past four years. He focuses his research on noises and experimental ...

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). ...

houaïda is a musician, composer, performer and graduate physicist. She is involved with inter- and transdisciplinary spaces and contributes to the deconstruction of Western ...

Born and raised in Cologne, Germany, Noraa took her first serious steps in music after moving to Paris. In search for a wider range ...

Gina D’Orio is a Berlin musician, producer and singer. She is the main former vocalist from Ec80r and member of Cobra Killer. She started ...

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

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

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

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

Kota No Uta is a producer and singer-songwriter. Her experimental sound is rooted in neo-soul, jazz, and folk music. A story teller, by nature, ...

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 ...

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

COOL FOR YOU is the music/performance project of artist Vika Kirchenbauer. Her last EP ›MOOD MANAGEMENT‹ was released in early February 2017 with a ...

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. ...

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, ...

RUI HO is a non-binary music producer and DJ from China (in the following called they/their as pronoun) whose work is a mix of ...

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 ...

Gotopo is a singer, composer, producer, and performer from Berlin. Her music reveals an Afro-indigenous legacy while combining folkloric stringed instruments and techno-inspired jams. ...

»It all started within herself« describes Kya Kyani, who grew up in Amsterdam to Surinamese parents. Socialised as an orthodox Rastafarian, Kya Kyani was ...

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 ...

Alix Lhoumeau, born 1981, France, is a self taught musician, percussionist and composer. He’s previously collaborated with filmmakers, theatre practitioners and writers on live ...

Jungstötter is the moniker of Berlin-based singer Fabian Altstötter. The frontman of the band Sizarr, which split up in 2016, has teamed up with ...

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 ...

Oyèmi Noize is no stranger to the alternative music scene in Germany. Over a decade of shredding in noisy bands and international touring under ...

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 ...

In compositional practice, Izzy Ment sketches music in an almost childlike manner. Raw material emerges through Izzy’s immersive playing and assembling, serving as a ...

Since their arrival in Berlin as a refugee in 2015, escaping war and violence as a queer and trans person in Syria, Enana found ...

Marco Barotti is a modern performing artist in the broadest sense of the word. After leaving his studies at the Siena Jazz Academy far ...

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

Genre fluid Iranian-American artist Dornika is a Berlin based musician, songwriter, fashion designer, director, activist and producer. Dornika is a staple in Berlin’s vibrant ...

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 ...

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

10 years ago, Johanna Knutsson left her native Sweden for Berlin to dive deeper into the music scene and find her sound in electronic ...

EASTER is the Berlin-based duo of writer Stine Omar and producer Max Boss, who place the deadpan delivery of riddling rhymes atop synthetic post-Eurodance ...

Since its formation in 2003, Anti-Corpos has performed over 300 concerts around the world. Over the past decade, after establishing its base in Berlin, ...

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 ...

Islamiq Grrrls hibernate during the day and loiter at night. While often associated with forests, many Islamiq Grrrls are ecotone species that live in ...

Since 2015, Berlin’s Cuntroaches have defiled countless venues across Europe and the UK, playing festivals and touring relentlessly. The trio’s influences range widely—from metal ...

Berlin-based singer and songwriter Stella Lindner is originally from Southern Germany, born and raised in the Bavarian countryside, on the banks of the Danube ...

Peppi and Mela find each other on Instagram during the Covid-19 pandemic, start rehearsing and come to the quick realisation that it’s a fit. ...

Mapp has quietly been making appearances in the Berlin music scene for the last six years. She has released two EPs and performed at ...

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 ...