FUNDED PROJECTS

Growing up in the midst of his parents’ experience of political exile, Ahmed Mahmoud spent part of his life in Palestine before relocating to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gigolo Tears sounds like a banana split, broken hearts and the oiled muscles of a female bodybuilder on the beach. It is the solo ...

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 ...

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 ...

24/7 DIVA HEAVEN are three Berlin musicians pushing the limits – even if it hurts sometimes. Spanning punk, noise, grunge and a riot grrrl ...

It’s not easy to define who or what Perilymph is: lonely DIY bedroom recordings, four-member live band, communal project – the dynamic and concept ...

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 ...

What is the essence of the world? The musician Ariana Zustra aka ZUSTRA ponders nothing less than that. As a child, the native Croatian ...

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

Balbina was born in Warsaw in 1983, but since she’s a 3-year-old girl, she’s living in Berlin. The singer and songwriter is observing her ...

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 ...

Queer artist Chimp Hardy is no stranger to controversy. Performing painted and half naked, the Berlin-based, Austin, Texas-born DJ and producer challenges listeners to ...

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

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 ...

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

Ray Sonder and Saxon Gable are waiting in the wings. As Baby Smith, the two founding members of their successful previous project People Club ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Julia Mikulec aka JUWEEL is a rapper, singer, producer and quintessential artist. Growing up in France, she began singing and playing the keyboard. Before ...

Wooly Aziz is a solo, progressive R&B/soul/left-field project by Jannat Sohail from Pakistan, also listed in the Alternative Power 100 Music List (2020) for ...

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). ...

Martin Claudius Maischein, born in Frankfurt am Main, is a musician and music producer living in Berlin. Influenced by the electronic club music that ...

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. ...

AŸA is an all-rounder. In her music, however, she tells stories that reflect her Moroccan-Yemeni roots. Her electro-pop sound is characterised by a world ...

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 ...

Tucké Royale and Hans Unstern founded BOIBAND in early 2016 with Black Cracker as producer. Boy with I stands for the problematization of manhood, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meron is a Berlin-based singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist with a sound strongly rooted in R&B. He started making music at an early age, writing ...

Maous is no stranger to insecurity and fear, and much like the eponymous mammal, these two things don’t bother Maous either. Quite the opposite: ...

DENA is the project of Denitza Todorova, a singer-songwriter and producer born in Bulgaria who dove into Berlin’s multi-faceted music scene last decade. Since ...

Hailing from Crete, interdisciplinary artist and performer Abyss X became a virtuosa in experimental cross-genre composition by crafting a unique melange of her homeland’s ...

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. ...

»Drei Asoziale mit einem Monsterbass kommen auf die Bühne und erklären dir was!« With a direct yet sympathetic approach, Guterzogene Asis is the crew ...

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 ...

VEE is a Berlin-based singer and songwriter who creates dark, futuristic, avant-garde RnB with subtle trap influences. Inspired by artists like Banks and FKA ...

Dylan Hunter Chee Greene is an Asian American electronic jazz musician and from the Pacific Northwest. He focuses on color, noise, and rhythm while ...

Curaçao born and raised artist Gianni Mae translates her magic into music. Her proud and self-conscious side turns into rousing bangers, her sensitive and ...

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 ...

The sound of yunis is dynamic and intricate, but always bringing a fully-fleshed vibe that’s capable of moving dancefloors and fuelling the imagination alike. ...

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Lotic has dominated Berlin’s electronic music scene for almost a decade now. She released her debut EP ›More ...

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

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

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 ...

As a homosexual BPOC rapper, venturathagay subverts hip-hop culture with cheeky, humorous and explicit lyrics, offering the genre’s largely cis-male, often toxically normative followers ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The multilingual rapper Yetundey knows how to rack up points with surprises. While she oscillates among the German, English and French languages and occasionally ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Batila calls his combination of Congolese rhythms, a touch of reggae, soft jazzy vibes and some electronic sounds Bantu Soul: a fusion of all ...

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

Yippie Yeah is a trio consisting of front singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Marlène Colle, drummer Peter Bartz and cellist Kristina Koropecki. The Neukölln-based band ...

Berlin based singer-songwriter and film producer, ANDRRA alias Fatime Kosumi was born in Rosenheim, as the daughter of Kosovar Albanian parents. She released the ...

The fem*ergy collective, founded in Berlin, brings together Ay Wing, Cégiu, Donia Touglo, Mari.ama, Mya Audrey, Shanice Ruby Bennett and Johanna Amelie as a ...

Schorsch Kamerun and PC Nackt offer the discreet charm of reduction, joined by actress Annemaaike Bakker, performers from the Komische Oper Berlin, the Richardchor ...

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 ...

Allysa Grace is an Asian-Latin-American vocalist and keyboardist from Austin, Texas, now based in Berlin. Her latest release, ›Wondercolors‹, is an edgy catch on ...

Istanbul-born Başak Günak, also known as Ah! Kosmos, operates in an artistic field spanning production, live performance, sound installation works and composition for dance, ...

Musician and performer Kupalua creates complex multidimensional works of art that – oscillating between sound installation and body performance – are both enchanting 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 ...

During the lockdown summer of 2020, the last planes from Tegel Airport hover close over the small Berlin island of Valentinswerder as singer, curator ...

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 ...

Inspired by Parliament-Funkadelic, Prince and Liberace, SADO OPERA hail from St. Petersburg, offering a mix of disco, boogie and electro-funk fused into a high-energy, ...

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 ...

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 ...

DONBA₴GRL is a Ukrainian avant-pop artist based in Berlin. Her sound is characterised by deep bass and Ukrainian folklore. Originally from a small industrial ...

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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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

The story of &love starts in early spring 2016. Two singer-songwriters from Israel met on one of Jaffa’s most hectic street corners during a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

After dedicating a piece to Berlin’s U8 train line at the end of 2019, Syrian composer and percussionist Elias Aboud came up with the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Jeannel is an interdisciplinary artist, producer, singer and cellist. Growing up in a musical household, she received classical cello lessons from age six, and ...

Queen Quail is the dream-pop/alt-country project of Kirstin Edwards. Reverberant guitar riffs and chilling vocals fill the open spaces of her songs with a ...

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

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

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 ...