FUNDED PROJECTS

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

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

If Black Skin Lover Boy had the choice between paradise and Berlin, he would always choose Berlin. For Black Skin Lover Boy, Berlin was ...

Nichtseattle stands for a bunch of sore songs about self-care in a precarious world. Nichtseattle comes along solo or with a band, melancholic but ...

Under the moniker TEll A ViSiON, Berlin-based singer, songwriter and music producer Fee Kürten is rediscovering herself: evolution not revolution! While she still served ...

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

Luisa Kutza aka A Girl Called Frank learned one lesson early on: life can be hard, but it is always beautiful. With a colonel’s ...

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. ...

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

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 ...

For the very first time punk’d took place in Berlin in October 2017. As the name already reveals, the festival is settled far beyond ...

For over a decade now – first in Paris, then Montreal and now in Berlin – La Fraicheur has been brewing her own blend ...

Born in Cape Verde, Creole singer Vera Tavares captivates audiences with her powerful stage presence and poppy, jazzy, soulful voice. When Vera Tavares sings, ...

Berlin-based rock ’n’ roll band Ponte Pilas have, since forming in 2017, established themselves as an integral part of certain music communities in the ...

Born Tania Takoh, T’neeya is an Afro-R&B artist. Her Cameroonian father and German mother provided influences at an early age. Her father’s love of ...

Timur Tokdemir aka Mechatok hails from Munich but calls Berlin his home now. With his debut EP ›See Thru‹ the producer proved a distinct ...

Starting as angry Thuringian provincial teenagers, the band – which has since moved to Berlin – has developed into an important political mouthpiece for ...

Ria Boss, also affectionately known as Cat Mama, is a real jack-of-all-trades. She has met Kamala Harris, hosts the show ›Cat Mama World‹ on ...

Post Neo: That’s the experimental electronic pop music duo of Nicole Luján and Pauline Weh, based in Mexico City and Berlin. Post Neo’s tracks ...

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 ...

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

At 26, Ethiopian-Israeli rapper and hip-hopper Teddy Neguse has already released three albums and numerous singles. He has also appeared as a featured guest ...

Mono Green – two words, almost like a first and last name, perfectly representing the person behind the project. A lone figure, a solo ...

diveRcity has been enabling adolescents to express themselves through active participation in culture for over a decade. Be it a concert, jam session, graffiti ...

A vantage point to experiencing GIL’s music is one’s body and the haptic-affective sensation music creates; this was also the way in which the ...

Bang On is a Berlin-based festival devoted to diversity and to the local music scene. Since 2016, Bang On’s inclusive events have hosted over ...

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 ...

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

The Down by the River Festival is turning 10 – reason enough to celebrate. As in past years, the 2018 issue of the one-day ...

rRoxymore’s music is an intriguing, one-off blend of contrasting textures – organic and synthetic, icy and warm – a fresh step in dance music. ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Disruption and interference aren’t words you ordinarily associate with pop or dance music, but Planningtorock is on a mission to unseat all norms. On ...

Under the title Menschu Hi Menschu (human is human) the DeutschSintiRoma Festival with free admission focuses on marginalised artistic perspectives. With a diverse programme, ...

»I dance – it’s what I do.« Gigsta gets as much joy from dancing to music as she does reflecting on it – whether ...

Live at Kranoldplatz is an open-air concert series at Kranoldplatz in Neukölln. The event presented musicians active in Berlin, especially in Neukölln, supporting a ...

Night School is a Berlin-based platform and event series for a cross-generational, intersectional audience with discourse, performances online and in person as well as ...

Ultraflex is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Farao and Special-K. Inspired by disco, italo and funk of the 80’s, the Norwegian-Icelandic duco is blending new-age ...

The work of Mexican-born Daniela Huerta hovers between performance art, sound design and multimedia projects. Under the pseudonym Baby Vulture, she developed her own ...

Mind:Body:Fitness is an Australian born and Berlin based artist whose distinctly idiosyncratic music has been showcased my CTM, RBMA, Tropical Waste, Creamcake, NTS and ...

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 ...

Ein Hit ist ein Hit is the city’s probably most secret music show dedicated to pop music in its historical and sociocultural context. Musicians, ...

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

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

Echo is one of the busiest singer and producers in Israel, performing all over Israel, Europe and the East. These days, Echo is releasing ...

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, ...

Karmatürji is the musical project of Ceyhun Kaya and Petra Nachtmanova in collaboration with the well-known Berliner DJ and activist Ipek Ipekcioglu. Their sound ...

Reintroducing the complicated. With linguistic bulkiness, Trucks form the antithesis of both mainstream and teenage Deutschpop. Trucks are also about the self and its ...

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

In 2018, for the fourth time, AHOI Artists & Events presents the Africa festival VIVE L’AFRIQUE at Berlin’s LabSaal-Lübars in collaboration with PROFOLK e.V. ...

World Wild Web (WWW) is the project of French producer Manuel Jesus. His sound is colourful and crowded, an organic conglomerate of distinct influences ...

Gregor Heinze is a pianist, composer and producer. In the 1990s he was active as a musician in the Berlin hip-hop scene together with ...

The moment has arrived for the world to discover the powerhouse that is UCHE YARA – the young wonder, on stage and in the ...

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 ...

Berlin School of Sound returns with the three-day festival POP SOUNDS POP STORIES, this time with a thematic focus on crossover rap, poetry and ...

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 ...

PANDAyiddish aims to present lively and progressive culture of the Jewish diaspora. With this series, the PANDA Theater in Prenzlauer Berg strives to strengthen ...

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 ...

Jamila & The Other Heroes are the new, wild and lively band, based in Berlin that creates funkadelic music. Since 2016 the singer has ...

Berlin-based singer-songwriter Aka Kelzz has always loved making music and is now combining that with sharing their experiences around dealing with mental health, trauma ...

HellD stands for Hellersdorf, an area that has always been classified as a peripheral district of Berlin. Under the motto »Periphery,« the one-day HellD ...

With a colorful music, artistry and cultural programme, the SpreeSpektakel has been inviting visitors to the Holzmarkt grounds every year since 2015. The aim ...

For five days, the Reclaim the Beats Festival presents a variety of music genres such as house, techno, rock and hip-hop in different locations ...

Born and raised in Cologne, Germany, Noraa took her first serious steps in music after moving to Paris. In search for a wider range ...

Initiated in 2019 as an event by YAAM and its inclusive DJ collective Supa Star Soundsystem, the Supa Star Showcase celebrated its third anniversary ...

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

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

The Panafrican Festival Berlin was conceived with the idea of presenting strong and diverse pan-African perspectives to the Berlin public. Along the way, the ...

Sookee is a rapper and feminist, she is political and in a party mood, combative and in need of harmony. Contradictions are part of ...

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