FUNDED PROJECTS

Unlike many self-taught artists, JakoJako’s musical journey began with a profound knowledge of sound that she could acquire as a trained nurse during the ...

DICE RISING is a new experimental programme for emerging Berlin-based musicians, organisers and other people working in music: three days of online workshops, mentoring, ...

Born and raised in the rough industrial wastelands of North Jersey, oOoOO began playing in punk and hardcore bands in and around NYC as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

EVÎN is a singer, songwriter, producer and one of the most exciting new voices in R&B. Her music blends elements from different genres with ...

Grinder is a small community of 200 people in Norway. Veslemøy Rustad Holseter not only grew up here – the town seal adorned with ...

The Bassquake Weekender is an inclusive and intergenerational festival for bass music. The aim of the event is not only to network, but also ...

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

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

Johanna Borchert is a singer, pianist and composer whose roots lie in jazz. In October 2014, the charismatic artist released her first record ›FM ...

The objective of the #PANDAwomen Festival is to present women from the Eastern European music scene and to support alternative music projects by women, ...

Michael Mühlhaus became a keyboarder for Blumfeld in 1998. He studied popular music in Hamburg, he has initiated the project Nautic United together with ...

Since 2014, Alexandra Grübler has been dedicated to the musical exploration of resistance, autonomy and identity with her project Baal & Mortimer, which originated ...

The Creative Footpring is a non-profit initiative that measures and indexes urban creative space. It advocates for the protection of creative space globally through ...

Istanbul Ghetto Club conceal themselves with masks and veils, but they have nothing to hide. Under the name Istanbul Ghetto Club, they combine the ...

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

After a successful debut in 2017, the WHOLE – United Queer Festival enters its second round in 2018. In cooperation with Berlin’s most successful ...

A’th has been interested in the relationship between migration, belonging, resilience and music not only since her art school degree in interactive performance and ...

The Dunckerstrassenfest began seven years ago as a concept and an initiative by musicians and music-lovers – joyful, unpaid, without commercial interests. In 2019, ...

Mushiva is a Berlin-based Namibian street poet, rapper, and technologist. One-third of the award-winning hip hop poetry group Black Vulcanite and professionally trained as ...

The world of Nik Dandelion is transformed into a kaleidoscope of times past – a postmodern dream. Retro sounds and aesthetics are broken up ...

The Stadt Nach Acht conference discusses different perspectives and topics regarding the club and music scene of Berlin. Following 2016´s success a three-day programme ...

With its cross-genre programme, Torstraßen Festival has established itself as a seismograph of the diverse scenes within Berlin‘s pop music underground. The aim of ...

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

African Beats & Pieces is a series that has been presenting African music at its events since 2017. It places a special focus on ...

SEDA has been singing and performing since she was 8 years old. She was discovered by Sigmund Bothmann, a church musician and director of ...

Boundaries Congress was created as a networking event with the vision of promoting diverse cultural opportunities in Berlin. The aim is providing a space ...

Music Pool Berlin is conceived as a central contact point for music-makers in Berlin. It provides consulting services, networking and qualification opportunities in the ...

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 ...

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, ...

The annual African Food Festival combines traditional cuisine and current street food movements with the latest trends in music, literature, art and design from ...

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

Territory Disrupt was launched in 2022 as a musical and discursive event to take a critical look at the role of music, sound and ...

The independent music label Alvozay, founded by rapper Ebow and DJ Tmnit Ghide, celebrated its festival debut in 2020. With the Alvozay Festival, the ...

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« ...

Aria’s music is a tribute to feelings. The musician, composer and songwriter created her debut album ›Fantasy Is My Religion‹ in this in-between state. ...

Launched in 2017, INCIDENT is an event series that combines punk and noise with experimental electronics and techno. Its focus is on female, queer ...

There’s a raw urgency to Soft as Snow’s debut album ›Deep Wave‹, which was released on UK label Houndstooth in 2018. Starheim’s background as ...

Queer artist Chimp Hardy is no stranger to controversy. Performing painted and half naked, the Berlin-based, Austin, Texas-born DJ and producer challenges listeners to ...

A major aim of the CTM Festival since its inception has been to make space for radical forms of musical expression and dissonant emotions. ...

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 ...

Founded in autumn 2020, Jembaa Groove describes itself as an intercultural music formation. Based on Ghanaian and other West African rhythms and driven by ...

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

The Femme*Hain concert series counteracts the marginalisation of FLINTA+, meaning women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, agender, and everyone facing discrimination from patriarchal structures due ...

Since June 2020, YAAM’s indoor venue has been closed by building authorities, meaning that for the time being, events can only take place in ...

NOA is an English-speaking singer with Filipino and African-American roots who’s active in the world of alt-pop. Her songs are musical paintings that deal ...

  From Lichtenberg over the ether: Cashmere Radio is an experimental, not-for-profit community radio station being on the point of preserving while furthering radio ...

Two singers play guitar and bass and a guy plays drums with varying success. They all play with fire until the house burns down! ...

MOLM Museum of Live Music understands live-music culture as part of a worldwide cultural identity. Within a two-day exhibition in August 2020 in Berlin’s ...

EASTER is the Berlin-based duo of writer Stine Omar and producer Max Boss, who place the deadpan delivery of riddling rhymes atop synthetic post-Eurodance ...

Martin Claudius Maischein, born in Frankfurt am Main, is a musician and music producer living in Berlin. Influenced by the electronic club music that ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Rendez Vous dinner parties organized by Musique Couture are a meeting point for people coming from the fashion, media, arts, movie, or music ...

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

Hani Alsawah aka Aldarwish is a prominent Syrian Arab rapper and producer who has two albums, more than 50 singles, 90 concerts and three ...

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 ...

Deliluh is an experimental rock band consisting of Julius Pedersen and Kyle Knapp. Their sound fuses elements of punk, drone, and contemporary rock music ...

J.A.W is a concert series producing a classical spectrum ranging from jazz over hip-hop to house music. The always musically adventurous concert settings deal ...

babelfis is an indie/pop duo formed by musicians Sevda Hamzacebi and Cem Dinler. Hailing from Istanbul – now based in Berlin, the band pursues ...

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, ...

The weekly event series Hallo Montag at IPSE has set itself the task of promoting young Berliner artists, offering them a stage to present ...

After sharing a bunk in one of Berlin’s numerous hostels for several weeks, Joakim Jägerhult and Liam Blomqvist from Sweden began to share ideas ...

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 ...

The two-part event Rap am Ostkreuz offers a stage to exciting and dedicated rappers who break away from the usual rap canon, both thematically ...

mobilegirl grew up in Munich, where she studied Media Computer Science and has been a fairly new addition to the Berlin electronic music scene. ...

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 ...

Oihane Roach is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter and composer telling transgenerational stories of love and solidarity. With a warm, clear voice and poetic lyrics, she ...

Paul and Leo Eisenach are siblings. For many years they shared a room – nowadays they share a drummer and a keyboard player and ...

During the lockdown summer of 2020, the last planes from Tegel Airport hover close over the small Berlin island of Valentinswerder as singer, curator ...

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 ...

Newcomers with a special twist, that little something that makes them stand out from the crowd – that’s what the Berlintouch event series has ...

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

Since its opening in 2011, the Kreuzberg music venue Gretchen has been synonymous with a high-quality music programme. With the aim of discovering new ...

houaïda is a musician, composer, performer and graduate physicist. She is involved with inter- and transdisciplinary spaces and contributes to the deconstruction of Western ...

Maryna Russo, Heike Rädeker and Frank Neumeier founded LeVent in 2015. The rock trio from Berlin has already shared the stage with Die Nerven, ...

For the voyeur in all of us, Public Display Of Affection have arrived. Conceived as a mixed media art project by Jesper Munk and ...

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

Collo Awata’s art – whether music, sound design, DJing or video – is deeply interwoven with experiences of the African diaspora. By weaving in ...

Born and raised in Istanbul, Berlin-based artist R.A.N. explores the possibilities of how sonic textures and rhythm can be used to evoke a sense ...

There’s an undeniable warmth to Wayne Snow’s music, one that combines a contemporary take on his homeland Nigeria with neo-soul, alternative pop, soultronica, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A place where society comes together, a place of both accidental and informal meetings, a public place: the pub. The future doesn’t look particularly ...

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 ...

Tel Aviv-born artist Mor Elian moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, living there for ten years before relocating to Berlin. Elian co-owns the ...

Molly Nilsson is a Swedish born artist, producer and songwriter residing in Berlin since 2005. She first started composing in 2007 and made her ...

Fraencis crafts his music with the intent of leaving listeners in a slight state of unease as he explores the dark and moody side ...

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

With its diverse programme, Berlin’s musicBwomen* network specifically supports young FLINTA+ talents at all levels of the music industry. FLINTA+ individuals are personally supported ...

Tele was founded in Freiburg end of the 1990s playing typical indie-guitar-rock. ›Tausend und ein Verdacht‹, the band’s self-distributed debut album, was released in ...