FUNDED PROJECTS

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 ...

KOLLMORGEN is the project of Berlin-born and -raised musician, singer and producer Emma Kollmorgen. Songwriting and sound design go hand in hand in her ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Otis Mensah is a musician and performing artist exploring the intersection of rap, poetry, and experimental music(s). Taking influences from the rhythmic, expressive freedom ...

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 ...

Lani Bagley and Craig Schuftan are Ducks!. They make electronic music for dancing and dreaming, influenced by Disney and disco, combining synthesiser and vocal ...

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). ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Known as half of Berlin-based indie duo Gurr, Andreya Casablanca’s solo project shows an eagerness to experiment with genres outside of her comfort zone. ...

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 ...

Half-German. half-Malaysian vocalist and DJ Soraya grew up in between cultures, heavily inspired by the variety of genres encompassing soundsystem club music from the ...

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

The American techno producer has only recently moved to Berlin. The passionate musician has released two albums as well as numerous EPs and singles ...

As an interdisciplinary artist, Pan Daijing creates music based on performative practices that transfer movements and architectures into stories. In doing so, the musician ...

In her many artistic approaches, spanning experimental installations and photography to video and audio works, Natalia Escobar follows an ongoing interest in investigating streams ...

Patrick Christensen aka PC Nackt is one of the most versatile artists in the German music scene. As a composer, producer and performer, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lyra Pramuk is a vocalist, composer, and performance artist based in Berlin. Her work fuses classical vocalism, pop sensibilities, performance practices and contemporary club ...

Philo Tsoungui is a drummer, composer and producer. As an ensemble member and solo artist, Philo has performed at venues around the world. Philo ...

Laura Landergott (Ja, Panik) and Yair Karelic (Mystical Communication Service) first met in early 2017. The duo constructs a patchwork of indie rock, blues, and psych. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anoki grows up in the 90s between Dutch red facades and a small Bavarian town to an Indonesian-born father with American citizenship and a ...

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

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

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 ...

With her eerily beautiful original compositions, characterised by atmospheric vocals and dense piano sounds, the musician and producer Ava Bonam opens the world to ...

Rûveyda uses lyrical and musical elements to let her identity as a young Muslim woman living in the diaspora speak. The Anatolian singer 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

›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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Gaddafi Gals formed in 2016 with blaqtea, slimgirl fat and walter p99 arke$tra. All of them had other projects at this point: blaqtea as ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Beneath the dynamic beats and soothing energy of Sorvina’s vocal tone lies an artist whose passion for rap and hip-hop transcends mere performance — ...

Breezy’s hip-hop music and visual art revolves around themes of mental health, inequality, gender expression, and racial identity as a »mulatto«, or person with ...

Off the back of a young and wild experience with his first band Paris Suit Yourself (UK/BigDada), Victor Tricard has grown into a solo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Konstantin (born 1992 in Cairo) studied jazz drums at the Musikhochschule in Basel until 2014 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He also ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kreuzberg-born artist Mesu Diye was inspired by her parents’ Turkish birthplace on the Black Sea when naming her project. Mesudiye, a small village in ...

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

Dino Joubert from the tranquil town of Soest in North Rhine-Westphalia was just 14 years old when the American songwriter Elliott Smith died in ...

Johnny Kulo combines old-school soul and R&B. Laid-back grooves, thicc harmonies and catchy melodies – in his music, the Indian artist and producer, now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

Cherilyn MacNeil is the South African singer and songwriter most widely known under the pseudonym Dear Reader. Her singular style of alternative pop is ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

From Berlin via Tel Aviv comes Moscoman, the producer behind underground hits on ESP Institute, Correspondant, I’m a Cliche, Eskimo Rec, and the curator ...

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

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

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

HYENAZ are Berlin-based sound and movement artists Kathryn Fischer (aka Mad Kate) and Adrienne Teicher (aka Bad Conscience). The dance tracks, soundscapes, performances, installations ...

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

In the works of Laura López Castro you can find the poetry of Comte de Lautréamont, the folklore of Atahualpa Yupanqui, ›la Nueva Canción‹ ...

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 ...

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

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. ...

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

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). ...

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

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

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

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