FUNDED PROJECTS

Initiated by AL.Berlin, The Witches Tales is an event series offering a stage to artists of all kinds of different musical genres. Every week ...

In cooperation with Pink Life KuirFest and bi’bak, Gazino Neukölln was presenting the opening party of KuirFest Berlin. Gazino Neukölln is a troupe of ...

The Down by the River Festival is a live music festival for »freaks, fans and family«. It celebrates the city’s non-commercial concert culture and ...

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

The three-day DICE Conference + Festival puts a spotlight on the work of female, trans and non-binary artists. Their goal is to support a ...

While guitarist Manuel and drummer Johannes were already working on a joint project, singer Maria initially joined the band as a feature guest. That ...

Payman Hedayatifar began his musical journey singing and writing songs in his native Tehran, Iran. Developing a unique atmospheric electronica sound, he soon released ...

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 ...

Steven Warwick is an artist, musician and writer living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making ...

The Whoriental project is a deliberate provocation, a safer space, and at the same time, a meeting place. Queer and trans people often find ...

Zentralheizung of Death (des Todes) started few years ago as a manic pussy galore instrumental astroman band and then added vocals to wreak havoc. ...

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 ...

Mona Yim is a Chinese-German artist, producer, DJ and vocalist currently based in Berlin. Her music can be described as emotive electronica with elements ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Krake Festival for bold electronic dance music has been taking place since 2010 in Berlin. It promotes outstanding young artists and showcases the ...

The SISTER*QUEENS & Friends Festival for hip-hop and feminism brings young rappers to the stage, creating a safer space for partying and sister*hood for ...

Blossom and bloom – that’s what the DJ collective BLVSH stands for, meaning the empowerment of women, trans and non-binary people in a club ...

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

Madam Data is a musician, composer, and sound scientist who explores machine and spirit interfaces. Their fantasies are about truly knowing what sacredness is, ...

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 ...

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

The festival Die Nächte des Ramadan perceives itself as a Berlin-wide culture festival for Muslim-affected art and culture. In 2017 with its concert series ...

Twice a year, the event series Tanzhalle brings together musicians from the genres of reggae, dancehall, cloud rap, and trap. The goal is to ...

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

Berlin based ANNAVR is a pianist, producer and singer shrugging off the clichés of the music industry. Growing up in rural and coastal post-socialist ...

One minute the world was moving closer together, the next it was pulling up national borders again. Well, that’s the bad news. The good ...

The genre of science fiction is more successful than ever, and it has become indispensable to pop culture. But while its images and visuals ...

The AYO City Festival, launched by the artist collective Freak de l’Afrique, aims to provide a platform for BPOC artists and their communities, making ...

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 ...

Founded in 2019 by a small group of sound artists, Sonic Curiosities aim to strengthen, support and celebrate their community through experimental music events ...

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 ...

Eluize spends her time creating, curating and sharing a spectrum of electronic music to soundtrack the hours. The Adelaide-born, Berlin-based DJ, live act, producer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ebow first came to attention with guerrilla performances in laundromats, supermarkets and demonstrations. Nowadays, the artist, who lives in Vienna and Berlin, performs on ...

Trille has been producing a mix of urban pop and storytelling since 2018, creating his own world somewhere between indie and trap. Hard 808 ...

Anthony Hüseyin is a non-binary musician and performance artist of Kurdish-Turkish and Arabic descent who works with voice, text, film and installation. Their works ...

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

Launched in 2020 with the Corona pandemic in mind, Picnic FM seeks to satisfy the hunger for a shared, live music experience in a ...

FERHAT’s EP ›Turkish Delights‹ was planned to be centred on the tensions between eroticism and Islam. However, recent political developments and Istanbul’s current transformation ...

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 ...

Paula Schopf is a Berlin-based Chilean artist. She has been active under the name Chica Paula as a musician and DJ since 1997. Since ...

The open-air series Sonic In(ter)ventions aims to rethink public space as an interactive venue for independent artistic expression through energetic, musical improvisational practices. The ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Lion Sphere blend thumping electronic fragments with heavy hip hop grooves, spacious guitar licks and raw vocals. The Berlin four-piece creates a mesmerizing fusion ...

Instrumental work with audio samples is a fundamental component of contemporary music culture. The Sample Music Festival is the first educational music festival devoted ...

Since the revival of Berlin Atonal in 2013, the long-standing festival has been held annually in the disused Heizkraftwerk Mitte – an industrial complex ...

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

Maura moves with playful ease in her universe between soul-laden head voices and hardcore rap flows, relegating everything to its place that previously thought ...

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 ...

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 ...

NextGen is a new event series by Creamcake, an art and sound collective for experimental music. The collective is devoted to developing innovative projects, ...

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

For the second time, noiseLab was taking over Teufelsberg in 2019. Artists had been invited to react and respond to the specifics of the ...

Founded on the idea of creating a platform for FLINTA* artists, the GRRRL-NOISY collective launched the GRRRL-NOISY Festival in 2022. It was created under ...

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 ...

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

Raz Ohara’s style is like a kaleidoscope in which elements of dub, soul and jazz merge in a dynamic stream. Loops and sounds come ...

The party Spaceship was created in 2015 at Mensch Meier as an inclusive initiative within the club scene. The goal of the project is ...

In 2017, Max Wiegand’s debut EP was declared »one of the records of the year« by the Zitty editorial team, and many other listeners ...

Music Cities Convention is the largest and most extensive gathering on Music Cities. The conference brings together leaders from governments, cities and regions, academics, ...

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 ...

Since 2010, the event series Expatriarch Generations has focused on musicians who examine, question or artistically deconstruct traditional concepts such as gender, genre and ...

With Ghost Town, four (sub)cultural locations in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg were to be revived for one day, illustrating the legacy of the districts. The ...

The ensemble and artist residency Grounded Outer Space People explores the relationship between transmigration and music, curating open listening sessions, workshops and presentation meetings. ...

Jerusalem-born, Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist Carmel Michaeli has constructed the vessel of KARMA SHE to transcend the stage and create extra-sensorial musical performances. KARMA SHE’s ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The VUT mentoring programme aims to bring experienced industry experts from labels, publishing, distribution, booking and promotion as well as self-promoting artists together with ...

An-i is the latest musical moniker for former New Yorker Doug Lee AKA Lee Douglas, who emerged out NYC’s Leftfield Disco scene of the ...

Sound System Culture is a project that was launched in 2018. Its aim is on exploring the different spectra of so-called bass music, from ...

Developed by musicians who emigrated from Asia Minor to present-day Greece because of their ethnic-religious affiliation, the cross-genre art form of rebetiko is now ...

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 ...

Kesiena Wanogho didn’t really get much out of the electronic dance music scene in her hometown. The Detroit native wanted to hear music that ...

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 ...

PeroPero is a progressive-metal duo from Austria, based in Berlin. PeroPero’s complex and explosive grooves confront drums and guitar with wafting analogue synthesizers, while ...

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

The Pop-Ambulanz (›Pop Ambulance‹) intends to act as a counselling service for Berlin pop musicians. It aims to tackle and research a curative-preventative approach ...

A project by DISK Agency, Streaming – Tools for an Unknown Future uses qualitative interviews with artists, project makers and app developers to see ...

Since 2021, the conceptual artists Samuel Casata and Valentin Wagner have taken over the pavilion of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, creating a space for ...

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 — ...

Future East Festival is a contemporary music and new media art festival. The interdisciplinary festival presents electro-acoustic, electronic, and explorative music and audio-visual performances, ...

Five Berlin boys and a small cellar: The result resembles a rather dense piece of pastry. It smells a little bit like Indie, tastes ...

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 ...

We Make Waves aims to connect women by creating a forum for discourse, idea-sharing, mentoring and goal-setting, showcasing the strengths of women in the ...

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 ...

CHILDREN are Steffi Parker and Laura Loop. Influenced by 90s pop music and the indie music of the early 2000s, they’ve been making music ...

Born in Berlin and raised in Texas, rapper and producer DiscoCtrl has been dedicated to hip-hop since he was a kid. His sound meanders ...

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

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 ...

After moving to Berlin in 2010, Philipp Gorbachev befriended Rebolledo and Matias Aguayo, which set the wheels in motion for a series of debut ...

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 ...

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