Moritz von Oswald Trio live at Berghain Club Berlin
Posted by jelka | September 18, 2009Berghain Berlin is recently the highest rated club around the world, and Moritz von Oswald is widely considered as one of the most innovative and creative producers of electronic music. Sounds like a good combination? Indeed!!
On September 23rd Moritz von Oswald Trio will celebrate the release of their new record ‘Vertical Ascent’ at Berghain with an exclusive live concert.
There’s no other way than talking in superlatives here: Moritz von Oswald can be called a mastermind of electronic music, striking new paths of electronic clubmusic with every project he initiated. With his long time collaborator Mark Ernestus they went went Minimal as ‘Maurizio’ before there even was something like Minimal, Rhythm & Sound brought Dub on the clubbing radar, and with their label Basic Channel they kind of invented the categorie Dub Techno. For the ‘Recomposed’-Series von Oswald, together with Carl Craig, adapted Ravel for a contemporary context and has recently worked on a new sound recording for Walter Ruttmanns silent movie classic ‘Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt’ (1927). Vladislav Delay aka Luomo on the drums und Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) playing the modularsynth are staple names as well, making Moritz von Oswald Trio to a supergroup of electronic music.
‘Vertical Ascent’ combines massive wobble basslines with detailed upper registers, Caribbean steel drums with Berlin techno, polyrhythms with a driving repetitiousness. It’s been released on Londonbased label Honest Jon’s, which originated from an record store of the same name. Both can be called an institution for jazz, reggae, afrobeat and any kind of ‘outernational music’ for nearly 30 years now.
Elekroakustischer Salon is presented and curated by Club Transmediale and Spex and can be understood as a kind of ‘Off-Party’, which not focuses that much on the sweating crowd on the dancefloor but on the musicians and their performance. Moritz von Oswald Trio will be supported by DJ-Sets by Marc Weiser (Rechenzentrum) and Max Dax (Spex Chief Editor).
