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Khalil Chahine is a Berlin-based engineer and producer who combines musical and scientific knowledge (in physics with a focus on psychoacoustics) in his unique ...

Glossy and angular,spacious and atmospheric. Ben Jackson’s music sweeps over a broad landscape of sonic textures. The Canadian producer takes rhythmic structures from the ...

powli is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Berlin. Her instruments of choice are piano and guitar, and she infuses her pop ...

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

With live music and DJs, the SO36 is celebrating uniqueness from the stage to the audience. Kon-Fett-I offeres musicians and DJs with and without ...

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 ...

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

The SoundSysters are a feminist sound crew that was founded in 2013 by women working as self-employed audio engineers. The collective is united by ...

Music In The Church is a Concert series in the all-enveloping setting of two churches in the heart of Berlin, Elisabethkirche and Sophienkirche, reinventing ...

Working since 2011 as 18+ with Samia Mirza, Justine Swinburne released his first solo mixtape ›jj’s prayer‹ this year alongside a 48 minutes visual ...

The Kiezsalon is a forum for innovative music beyond the borders of genre as well as a meeting point for friends, loners, lovers and ...

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

Bonaventure uses music as an identity research tool to connect her African and European influences and to question human relationships. Bonaventure’s compositions are expressive ...

February Montaine was an outsider artist from the Midlands, England, active from the period of 1985 to 1991. Around 2015, Berlin-based artist Sam Potter ...

The musician Ilgen-Nur, born in 1996 as Ilgen-Nur Borali in Kirchheim unter Teck, began playing piano and guitar at an early age, first writing ...

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 ...

Taking place since 2017 in the old water reservoirs in Berlin-Pankow, Speicher is a festival for site-specific music curated by bohemian drips. Its fifth ...

Cecilia and Sascha met on a date back in 2021. They quickly discovered they were both fascinated by the unknown side of music. Together, ...

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

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, ...

An homage to the lunar calendar, Celestial Festival creates space for pan-Asian and pan-BIPOC to connect, form solidarity and give empowerment. The festival’s mission ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Berlin Brass Festival is annually blasting its way into the streets, plazas and parks of the city – brassy, colorful, loud, accessible, for everyone, ...

Anneli Bentler grew up in Freiburg, Germany, with a classical music education and a passion for composers like Bach, Debussy, Ravel and Steve Reich. ...

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

Born and raised in Naples, Berlin-based sound artist, vocalist and DJ Sara Persico started experimenting in early age on the fringes of Naples’ fiery ...

Launched by the Latin American collective TRRUENO and curated in collaboration with the artists of Clam and FreeFormHyperSonixxXOrg, ꐦO111L is an event aimed at ...

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

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 ...

Kutzkelina aka Doreen Kutzke is a German actress, performance artist, composer, singer, and vocal teacher specialising in the art of yodelling. She grew up ...

Berlin’s hip-hop scene hasn’t been the same since SWAG JAM, a weekly live hip-hop jam session by the Berlin crew The SWAG, was launched ...

gölgede-güneşte (Eng.: in sun and shadow), borrowing its name from Eduardo Galeano’s famous book, is a collective musical project of four Berlin-based musicians from ...

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 ...

Berlin-based jazz pianist and composer Ramiro Zayas has been active on the scene for several years, combining his understanding of modal jazz with free ...

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

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

Silla Thorarensen and Julius Rothlaender are pretty best friends: they shamble through life together, don’t take themselves too seriously, and quarrel with their own ...

This concert series intends both to reach out to a local audience and promote neighbourhood culture as well as to strengthen KAOS Berlin as ...

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 ...

Inspired by its unused vacancy, ten students from the Cultural Work programme at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences took on the task of ...

Around a thousand musicians almost lost their rehearsal space when the owner of the former office building on Buchberger Straße in Berlin-Lichtenberg gave notice ...

Tehran Contemporary Sounds is a Berlin-based hub, for musicians, artists and collectives living abroad as well as in Iran, with the aim to bring ...

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 ...

Poetra Asantewa is a sensational balance of poetry, music, intellect and wit. Poetra is a multifaceted Ghanaian performer who combines smooth-like-butter neo-soul beats, lyricism ...

Martina Stock’s musical repertoire cannot be clearly assigned to any genre. It includes key influences of neo-classical, ambient and electronic music and combines acoustic ...

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

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

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

It’s not easy to explain exactly what Kabeaushé does. Let’s just say, Kabeaushé makes the pop of the future. And so much more. For ...

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

DONBASGIRL is a new face in the emerging generation of Ukrainian acts who create contemporary pop including Alina Pash, alyona alyona, and Jerry Heil. ...

Every year, more than 70,000 people gather in Berlin for a peaceful demonstration, united by music, for a tolerant and humane society as ›Zug ...

James Chatburn is a Berlin-based Australian soul singer, songwriter and producer. He has combined influences from divided musical worlds to create something that does ...

During the fall of 2018, after moving to Germany, Aron Ottignon meets Senegalese musician and percussionist Bakane Seck in his Berlin studio. From this ...

Discovery Zone is the moniker of musician and multi-media artist JJ Weihl who is also a founding member of the experimental pop project Fenster. ...

Goodbye or hello? The art festival You Say Goodbye, We Say Hello invited to the Atelierhaus Australische Botschaft (Ost) with music, workshops, art installations ...

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 ...

In the heart of Berlin, right at Alexanderplatz, a new neighborhood is taking shape. The Chor der Statistik, initiated in 2019 by raumlaborberlin and ...

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

The festival Kultur am Dorfplatz is committed to both the existence and preservation of open cultural spaces and to strengthening solidarity in civil society ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Cuntroaches are bathed in red light, demonic and louder than hell itself. Since 2015, the band has defiled countless venues all over Europe playing ...

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

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 ...

Martha Rose is a multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin. She has released two LPs on vinyl and collaborates regularly with her contemporaries in Berlin, specialising ...

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

SOOPERtalk is a round table discussion moderated by Jens Uthoff during the trade fair for electronic music instruments SUPERBOOTH17. Alec Empire, Alissa Derubeis, Holly ...

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

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 ...

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

Berlin-based, British-born Gemma Ray is an artist who has been given diverse and exotic descriptions such as »torch song psychedelia«, »sideways blues« »girl-group melodrama« ...

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 ...

WESTHAFEN! These are four young Berliners who have made it their mission to deliver an alternative to the monotonous hits of mainstream radio. The ...

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 ...

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

Both old and new, organic and lively, harmonic and rhythmic, simple and complex – that’s the sound of the debut album by the three-piece ...

The Poetry Meets Series ist eine seit 2014 bestehende kreative Plattform für lokale und internationale Künstler:innen, die ihre Arbeit im Kontext von »Love, Peace und Togetherness« ...

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 ...

BERvokal is hosting its fifth edition in 2018. From September 14th to 16th, the international acapella pop festival invites participants and listeners interested in ...

Neo-soul artist MiDi KwaKwa grew up in two contrasting cultures: with her Ghanaian parents in a small West German town. In her formative years, ...

After a successful debut in 2021, Refuge Worldwide once again welcomed audiences to the Regenerate Festival. The aim of the festival is to bring ...

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

There’s a lot to celebrate. Handiclapped turns 15. And the Special Olympics World Games come to Berlin. Dance with us in the open air ...

Launched in 2018, Ick Mach Welle! (»I Make Waves!«) is a project giving people with disabilities further possibilities in making electronic music. Competent leaders ...

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

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

Referring to his output as »cyberpunk R&B,« London-born singer-songwriter and producer Gozi pushes the boundaries of what can be considered pop music. Fusing bright, ...

With a total of 32 solo DJ sets, 16 B2B performances and three online live shows featuring artists from a wide range of artistic ...

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

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 ...