Schokoladen Events Musik

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ALP BAKU
Das Baku ist ein Tier, das sich von den Nachtschäden der Menschen ernährt. Es lebt in ihrer Nähe, an den Rändern der Dörfer und Städte. Die Menschen mögen das Baku. Sie legen Bildchen von ihm unter die Kopfkissen ihrer Kinder. Alp Baku spielt Gitarre und singt dazu.

"Alp Baku tauchte letztes Jahr aus dem Berliner Untergrund auf. Das Baku ist ein mythologisches Wesen, das sich von den Träumen und Nachtschäden der Menschen ernährt. Die mysteriös labyrinthischen Lieder des Singer/Songwriters sind bevölkert von rauchenden, auf „Liegen liegenden“ Figuren. Fernab verkopfter Befindlichkeitslyrik hat Alp Baku kleine, seltsame Song-Diamanten geschrieben." -The Greatest Berlin

LISIKO

Lisiko is a singer-/songwriter project based in Berlin. The songs can be described as sad, psychedelic and sometimes disharmonic. They often reflect images and scenes experienced in dreams and are suitable for various interpretation. The severity of this is counteracted by a humorous twist, if such as in “robotsong” Lisiko tries to see the world through the eyes of a robot that cannot leave his home-lab due to the faulty design of his battery system.

https://soundcloud.com/alpbaku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7sVV6BXK2g
http://www.soundcloud.com/lisiko

Topsy The Great

Topsy The Great is an instrumental power noise trio. The band was born in Prato, Italy, in 2008 and the name is inspired by the tragic story of an elephantress, Topsy, killed by electrocution in Central Park by Thomas Edison to demonstrate that alternating current was dangerous in domestic use. Not a random choice. The abrasive and sharp sound is a particular and unconventional artistic/aesthetical choice: low cost transistor amplifiers, d.i.y. pedal effects, anachronistic 70s drum set. Since the beginning Topsy The Great showed a rude punk attitude, inclination to noise and irregular rhythms. Those elements were developed in the first two EPs, s/t (2009) and “vol II” (2010). Particularly the second one shows the live energy of the band, the experimental and d.i.y attitude. In 2011 the band recorded their first full length album, that was released in Sept. 2012 by FromScratch and Santavalvola on vinyl and digital download and in Oct. 2012 by Carrots vs. Flashlights on tape. “Con esto es netamente sensato decir que Topsy The Great es una banda con un sonido acelerado, enérgicamente eléctrico, con la potencia y peso de un paquidermo de enormes proporciones. “ (The Holy Filament, September 2012) “Got to listen this to feel it, understand it, but once you will got the taste of it, once when everything came through, you will love it and finally you will scream for more.” (Brushvox, August 2012)

Antihairball

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Antihairball ist ein Produkt für Katzen, die zu viele Haare verschluckt haben, und zugleich das jüngste Noiseprojekt von Matthias Schrei (Schredder, And light goes beep (beep), Blockflöte des Todes) sowie Andreas Meyer und Jan Schlaeger (Tolshog, Schaden, Feedbackorchester, Halb, Blinker_inc. u.a.). Diesmal liegt die Ambition in der Nichtambition, was also noch viel raffinierter ist. Schöne frische minimalismusnoisetracks werden mit der gebotenen Grobschlächtigkeit und ohne viel Federlesen hinweggedroschen, um direkt in die Körper einzudringen und für eine gute Verdauung zu sorgen. Neuerdings zuweilen als Gastsängerin dabei: Alexandra von Bolz'n .... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Topsy-The-Great/128760827181392
http://www.myspace.com/antihairball

Famed Rec present
http://www.reverbnation.com/missrata

Downfall Of Gaia

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Kumulus

tobias: drums // kloko: bass // marius: guitars
dark.instrumental.post.rock from köln/ ger. http://downfallofgaia.com/
http://www.metalblade.com/downfallofgaia/
http://www.kumulusband.blogspot.de/

And The Wiremen (US) // is a Brooklyn-based ensemble led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lynn Wright. As the primary songwriter and lyricist, he specifically works and collaborates with core members Paul Watson (Sparklehorse) on trumpet, Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu) on bass, and longtime partner in crime Jon Petrow (Cloudroom) on guitar (with whom Wright also shares time in another laudable Brooklyn-ba...sed outfit, Bee and Flower). The experience, ingenuity, and craft this collection of musicians brings to the table is further enhanced by their collective willingness to defy genre. They are improvisatory, whimsical, and pleasurably good at leaving a listener playing a song-to-song guessing game. At times heavily Latin-influenced--with strokes of cumbia and an underpinning of Colombian and Brazilian percussion--these songs comfortably move into jazz, avant-pop, or blues--sometimes within the same number--despite a deceptive minimalist approach to song structures. Lyrically, Wright is cogent, funny, and literate; a virtuoso, really. He has a knack for catchy one-liners (hardly throwaways) and passages that sound indebted to some wily trident of Faulkner, South American Surrealism and film noir--aspects which combine to push both the music and Wright's smooth, cool-as-a-cucumber delivery into the lofty realms of fable. - Pete Simonelli (Enablers)

Dominik Gerwald (D) ist Frontmann und Songschreiber der Stuttgarter Band YASMINE TOURIST.

Seine Musik brachte ihn bereits durch ganz Europa, nach New York und in Vorgärten deutscher Schlagerproduzenten. Jedenfalls: er bringt seine Lieblingsgitarre mit und spielt Songs seiner Band und Songs, die er für sich behalten hat. Das klingt mal alt, mal neu, mal geborgt, mal blau. Aber immer nach ihm http://www.yasminetourist.com
http://listn.to/yasminetourist
http://www.facebook.com/andthewiremen
http://www.myspace.com/andthewiremen

Thursdays =Good Music
ZEBU! (US) // was founded at Hampshire College in 2003/4. The powerhouse duo of Ted Lee (No Sound, Egg Eggs) and Steve D'Agostino (The Wild) create improvisational surf noise punk that defies the logic of rational musical creation. Originally called "Professor Fishface and the Fuckfaces", ZEBU! crafted its sound among the jam bands and stoned minds of a educationally vapid institution. Striving to reach great musical heights, the band has released 16 recordings that run the range of noise explosions to rock and roll classics. The band has shared the stage with such diverse musicians as The Mammals, Screaming Females, Gary Wilson, Laura Stevenson and the Cans, Exits to Freeways, The Can Kickers, etc.

Ted lives in Easthampton!
Massachusetts!
Steve lives in Atlanta!

We just recently finished our third tour of Germany that featured our playing at the LA PAMPA FESTIVAL.

You can see footage of some of those performances on you tube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykax_r3c6BY

Ted Lee is the founder of the wonderful Feeding Tube Records, which releases ZEBU! to the world.
you can find the music at (www.feedingtuberecords.net) or visit the store at 90 King Street to stop up on all your favorites. http://ubez.tumblr.com
http://www.ubezzebu.com
http://stereokiller.com/zebu

Abstract Random is a rap electro dub hop mashup infused with feminist politics. Their shows are a multimedia spectacle including visual projections, face paint and costumes. Something different.
JAMILAH MALIKA (vocals) , LOVERSUN aka F.NOCERA (producer, vocals, visuals) & AYO LEILANI (vocals)
Three people, three years, countless shows from galleries & parks to clubs and festivals like; NXNE, Canadian Music Week, Under The Volcano, AfroPunk, Womens' World Conference, Nuit Blanche, Allied Media Conference, Pride and more. Abstract Random has been blessed to open for amazing acts like Shabazz Palaces (SubPop Records), THEESatisfaction (SubPop Records), Climbing Poetree (NYC) and LAL (Toronto). This past April they toured Europe for 3 weeks and played shows in Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Paris, where crowds took in the best of Abstract Random's two EPs and recent album Siren Songs.

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http://abstractrandom.bandcamp.com
http://abstractrandom3.wix.com/ar-new-website
http://www.facebook.com/abstractrandom3
http://riotgrrrlberlin.tumblr.com/

BJÖRN KLEINHENZ (SWE) + Pete Thompson (Swe)

on JUNE 1st 2013 @ 8 p.m.

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Björn Kleinhenz // is a swedish independent mucisian.
He was born in southern Germany in the summer of 1981 but moved at an early age to Sweden where he has lived since. After growing up playing punk and hardcore in the small southern town of Sölvesborg he set off as a solo artist around his 20th year and has since then been a highly productive record artist and performer.

Björns debut album came out in 2003 and in the same year he played his first shows abroad, in Germany and Austria. He has since then had a love affair with the german speaking countries and the shows are so many one does not quite have the energy to count any longer. Six albums have been released together with over ten other releases in different formats.

In 2011 the album Djago Bråk came out and early in 2012 a collaboration project with photograher Simon Rydén for which Björn recorded a collection of nine songs. When Björn does not make music or tour he likes to read Thomas Bernhard, Sture Dahlström, Nicole Krauss and Alice Munro. At present his hero is Stephen Fry and he has for a long time found it hard to decide wether Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is a genius or an idiot.

Pete Thompson // is a Swedish country/folk/rock band. Simple songs, love songs, sad songs, loud songs and the blues.

We make music for our own pleasure but we hope that someone listens, who wants to be alone?

In the fall of 2013 we release our debut album "I" on JellyFant Schallplatten.

www.facebook.com/ptthpsn
https://soundcloud.com/peterthisell

DJ Team Berg & Tal (Indie, Elektro, Pop)
At Oslo

Mit der Erfindung eines Genres, das sich kein Mensch zu definieren wagen sollte, Independent_Indie_Bash_Pop, treten At Oslo aus der Asche ihrer nicht vorhandenen Ahnen in den Alltag der Berliner Musikszene. Ein gelernter Gitarrist am Schlagzeug, ein gelernter Cellist an den Vocals, ein gelernter Pianist an der Gitarre und ein gelernter ungelernter am Bass werden nur durch den Willen am Leben gehalten, sich auf Bühnen selbst geil zu finden. Independent_Indie_Bash_Pop ist der Musikstil des neuen Jahrzehnts und kombiniert ein Gefühl der Überlastung durch ehemalige Outsider, die zum Mainstream wurden, mit dem Willen, selbst zu dieser Gruppe zu gehören. Früher oder später werden sie wohl um die deutschen und amerikanischen Top Ten nicht herum können, aber sowas müssen Menschen eben in Kauf nehmen, die gute Musik machen und gewillt sind, sich hochzuschlafen.
Max, Conz, Luc und Blasi haben den Bandnamen nicht aus ihren Vornamen zusammengesetzt und den Titel des ersten Albums von sich selbst geklaut. At Oslo wurde von einem Kater erfunden und ihr Greatest__Hits_Debut_Album wird Geschichte schreiben:
Anything could explode these days.
Seht uns nackt übern Platz rennen, in ein Sterni-Mate-Mix-Planschbecken springen und dabei laut HUBU HUBU schreien! Das und

<http://www.myspace.com/atoslo> www.myspace.com/atoslo

Facebook: At Oslo

Robotnik

Robotnik is Chris Morrin.
A stint working in a fruit and veg market brought about the perfect moniker for the musician, when his Polish counterparts dubbed him Mr. Robotnik (Polish for worker). The word struck a chord. Morrin liked what it represented - an insatiable appetite for one's labour.
Possessed, unhinged and strikingly original, Robotnik channels a more furious Beck, a more sporadic Mark Linkous and through a frenzied mix of lyrical lullabyes and unforgettable live shows, has become one of the rare wonders of the Irish music scene.
The buzz around Robotnik’s debut album, 2008's ‘Pleasant Square’, soon scored the young Dubliner support slots with Crystal Castles and Laura Marling, and the video for the single 'People Walk Away' was quickly snapped up by MTV2 in the UK.
Veering even closer to the edge, Morrin has just finished his long awaited second album; “I've written a lot about my primal needs. It's pretty blunt what I've written about. The album is very personal, describing my issues with intimacy, love and sex”.The album was produced by Chris Morrin and Yensin Jahn (Yo La Tengo, Calexico, Lambchop) in the winter of 2012 in Berlin.

<http://www.robotnik.mu> www.robotnik.mu

http://onetimestory.com/

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