As half of Basic Channel, Rhythm & Sound and Maurizio, Mark Ernestus is the genetic engineer behind the Techno sound that has become the European hertbeat. But his tweaking of electronic dance’s DNA began earlier, when he opened Berlin’s landmark vinyl store Hard Wax in the year the Wall fell. Read more
Last night the kick-off for Club Transmediale in Berlin was celebrated and the next week will see again lots of concerts, panels, exhibitions and club nights connected to Transmediale and Club Transmediale, the huge festival for contemporary art and digital culture, which presents advanced artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural impact of new technologies. Read more
French graphic designer and illustrator Cuypi, who is responsible for the design of one of our nice VKMP3-Shirts, will have his first solo exhibition opening tomorrow, Wednesday December 16th, at West Berlin Gallery. Read more
And Lee Perry once again… Read more
In ‘More Brilliant than the Sun’ Kodwo Eshun calls Dub the ‘MythScience of the Mixing Desk’ and recalls Perry describing the Black Ark Studio as a space craft: ‘The drum controls the heartbeat and the bass holds the space. I dub from inner to outer space. The sound that I get out of the Black Ark Studio, I don’t really get it out of no other studio. It was like a space craft. You could hear space in the tracks.’ Read more
Berghain 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!! Read more
Deep House label Underground Quality will celebrate it’s labelnight at Tape Club Berlin this Friday, September 18th. Read more
…is that you couldn’t make such beautiful videos with mp3s!
Who would not love to wander around with a heart-shaped record around the neck like Mayer Hawthorne?
PhonoPhono Berlin is one of the biggest stores for HiFi equipment in and the first choice for many vinyl-lovers around Germany. They will hold a conference called ‘Analog-Gipfel’ tomorrow at their shop in Kreuzberg. It features a lot of lectures, viewings and workshops around vinyl, record players and HiFi stuff. Read more
