FUNDED PROJECTS

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

»There is power in rage« — this adapted saying not only references the title of their debut album ›Precious Rage‹, released in winter 2022, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

To the moon and back: this is how the musical career of Achan Malonda could be described. Born in 1983 to a Congolese mother ...

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 ...

With a unique sound, Kaleo Sansaa immediately captivates audiences. The artist creates a mesmerising blend of experimental hip-hop, trap, and Afro-pop. Following the successful ...

After studying veterinary medicine and music education in Berlin, Isabel (Izzy) Ment began writing and producing her debut EP ›As The Words Come Through‹ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Erfolg is the German-language solo project of Johannes von Weizsäcker, whom some may know as a member of the London-Berlin pop group The Chap. ...

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 ...

Malakoff Kowalski is a German-American-Persian singer, musician, composer, and producer. After having been active with his band Jansen & Kowalski, his krautrock solo album ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roman Klobe, also known as @cowboyklobe, is a dynamic musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the vibrant musical landscape of Berlin. With his eclectic ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Costantino Toth aka Onirologia works as a composer and sound engineer, conceiving sound as an »achronological archive«, tying in themes of transformation and home. ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

Before starting his most personal music project under the stage name Berus, the Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist and producer took a few detours. He toured the ...

Güner Künier comes from the Turkish port of Izmir. In the early 1990s, she moved to Germany with her family. She started playing 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 ...

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

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

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. ...

Born in New York City of Trinidadian heritage, singer-songwriter and vocalist Kosmo Kint has been part of the recent NYC music scene, singing in ...

On his debut album ›Monologue‹, released in 2019, Syrian singer-songwriter Yousef Kekhia questions the material and idealistic appropriation of reality. »Hal Ard Lamin?« (»Whom ...

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 ...

Born in Yaoundé and currently based in Berlin, Elsa M’Bala aka AMET is a sound artist who makes live podcasts as a mixture between ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Born in India, Nishad Pandey spent extended periods of time in Japan, the UK, the USA and Australia, where he completed a bachelor’s degree ...

In their project Æ, Indonesian vocalist and producer Akila and half-Bolivian, half-Danish vocalist and instrumentalist Elias explore the dualities they have been faced with ...

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, ...

Kitty Solaris is underground and disco, cool, direct, soft and sincere: »Solaris sounds almost like a grunge Lana Del Rey; it’s dark and moody, ...

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 ...

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

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

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

SO SORRY is a Berlin-based FLINTA* band composed of Zuza (vocals), Shanice (bass), and Käthe (keys). The three musicians have worked together on different ...

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

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

otay:onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China. Her artistic practice spans music, performance, installation, and film composition. otay’s work has ...

Barcelona-born Laura Elle describes herself as a »fat queer singer-songwriter«. Intimate and introspective, her music revolves around soulful vocals that form the centre of ...

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

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, ...

Schattenspiel is a three-member formation that combines cello and electronic dance music in a 90-minute audio-visual live experience of light and sound. At the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Yellow Bird is a Modern Roots Music and Indie Folk band with one foot in the Avantgarde and Jazz. Manon Kahle comes from the ...

Originally from Paju South Korea, bela (they/them) is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin. They are known for electronic music performance ...

Gloria de Oliveira is a German-Brazilian multidisciplinary visual artist and musician, based in Berlin. Her bewitching sound spectrum is supported by her densely atmospheric, ...

First a firefighter and then a carpenter whose first construction project was a drum kit, Rudolf Moser’s unique path took him to Berlin, where ...

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

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 ...

DJ and producer KABLAM (aka Kajsa Blom) was born by the Swedish coast, and has lived in Berlin since 2012. She started her career ...

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

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 Norwegian-Irish singer and songwriter Tara Nome Doyle grew up between city life and untouched nature. Her music embodies these inner conflicts, varying between ...

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

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 ...

It’s difficult to tell at what point art ends and life begins, where economics and theatre part ways (if ever), and where the psychosocial ...

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

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

Edwin Oberender, born 1997 in Berlin, received piano lessons as a child and later taught himself the basics of playing the electric bass, electric ...

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

BANTUNAGOJÊJE is when Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat meets jazz in downtown Salvador. In addition to influences like Afrobeat, fusion jazz and funk, the band’s sound ...

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

Linda Finny is a Berlin newcomer who’s already perfected an infectiously energetic sound, managing to be both atmospheric and punk. She is currently working ...

The female producer and artist collective Monika Werkstatt was founded in 2015 by Gudrun Gut in reference to free jazz label FMP’s tradition of ...

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). ...

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 ...

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

Barbie Williams is an Argentinian singer, songwriter, and producer. She studied Contemporary music in Buenos Aires, where she developed a particular interest in jazz, ...

It seems that fate is what brought Max Prosa and Sascha Stiehler together. No pianist could accompany Prosa’s lyrics and stories with such virtuosity ...

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 ...