Veranstaltungen
reverberation fest & little league shows prsnt:
MERMAID MAN (de)
mermaidman.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/mermaidman_music
& MARCEL GIDOTES HOLY CRAB (cz)
holycrab.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/marcelgidotesholycrab
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/40huhzk
+ after 22h: ship those hakes w/ DJ HELLER THAN HELL & FRIENDS
- outernational world disco -
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MERMAID MAN (de)
Mermaid Man launched their debut album, “Let's Dance To The End Of The World,” in September 2024 and embarked on an extensive tour across Europe. On 16.09.2025, the Berlin-based project will unveil a new single that will give a taste of the upcoming EP titled "Salt", further enhancing the musical evolution and identity of Mermaid Man and thereby refining his distinctive musical style. Following extensive acclaim from numerous press reviews in Germany and beyond, soldout performances, and a consistently expanding audience, another European tour is planned, along with shows in Brazil and the United States.
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MARCEL GIDOTES HOLY CRAB
Established in 2019, Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab is a Czech Psychedelic band known for their unique blend of Rock, Kraut, and Jazz influences, characterised by a modern sound. They gained recognition with their debut EP “Bay Of Roots” in 2020 and their self-produced album “Humidity Breaking Limits” in 2021, showcasing a more complex musical expression. Their second album, “Farm Alarm”, highlights vocal harmonies and acoustic instrumentation while addressing the climate crisis, solidifying their status as one of the most progressive Psychedelic acts in the Czech Republic. Last year a big boom came with the soundtrack for the Felvidék PC game and this year they have released a double album called Sorcerers Laughing Out In The Heat.
Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester – beat italiano, berlino / italo-schlager mit punk im blut – live!
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at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. concert-tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/40oe9n4
+ after 22h --> DJ Sibsosibso + DJ GlitziGlitzi + DJ Headache
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»Zehn Leute, ein Sound: Das Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester ist ein wildes, liebevoll chaotisches Musikerkollektiv, das seit 2010 den italienischen Schlager auf links dreht – mit jeder Menge Herz, Schweiß und einem Augenzwinkern. Was als spontane Idee zur Fête de la Musique begann, wurde schnell Kult – nicht zuletzt als langjährige Hausband des legendären Berliner Clubs Antje Øklesund.
Ihr Ding? Musica leggera – die großen Songs aus dem goldenen Zeitalter des Italo-Pop. Aber eben nicht in seichter Lounge-Version, sondern mit Druck, Beat und einem Espressolöffel Punk. Der Tagesspiegel nannte sie mal die „Ramones des Chansons“ – und ganz ehrlich: Das passt.
Live ist das Gebäckorchester ein Erlebnis zwischen Euphorie und Melancholie. Es wird gesungen, getanzt, gelacht und vielleicht auch mal geweint. Aber garantiert nicht stillgestanden.
Venite tutti! Kommt rum, singt mit, lasst euch mitreißen – Italo-Style.«
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»Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester – Italo-Pop con il Punk nel Sangue
Dieci persone, un sound: l'Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester è un collettivo musicale selvaggio e amorevolmente caotico che dal 2010 rivoluziona la musica pop italiana, con tanto cuore, sudore e un pizzico di allegria. Quella che è nata come un'idea spontanea per la Fête de la Musique è rapidamente diventata un classico di culto, non da ultimo come storica house band del leggendario club berlinese Antje Øklesund.
Il loro genere? Musica leggera: le grandi canzoni dell'epoca d'oro dell'Italo-Pop. Ma non in una versione lounge superficiale, bensì con grinta, ritmo e un tocco punk. Il Tagesspiegel li ha definiti i "Ramones della Chanson" – e onestamente, ci sta.
Dal vivo, la Bäckereiorchester è un'esperienza che oscilla tra euforia e malinconia. Si canta, si balla, si ride e forse anche si piange. Ma di certo non restano fermi.
Benvenuti a tutti! Venite, cantate e lasciatevi trasportare, in perfetto stile italiano.«
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»Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester – Italo-Pop with Punk in its Blood
Ten people, one sound: The Adriano Celentano Gebäckorchester is a wild, lovingly chaotic musical collective that has been turning Italian pop music on its head since 2010 – with plenty of heart, sweat, and a wink. What began as a spontaneous idea for the Fête de la Musique quickly became a cult classic – not least as the long-time house band of the legendary Berlin club Antje Øklesund.
Their thing? Musica leggera – the great songs from the golden age of Italo-Pop. But not in a shallow lounge version, but with punch, beat, and a touch of punk. The Tagesspiegel once called them the "Ramones of Chanson" – and honestly, that fits.
Live, the Bäckereiorchester is an experience oscillating between euphoria and melancholy. There's singing, dancing, laughter, and maybe even tears. But they certainly don't stand still.
Welcome everyone! Come along, sing along, and get carried away – Italian style.«
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movie - 7:30 pm sharp
music - 8:30 pm
Berliner Doom was formed 2018 as a Grind Core Duo in Berlin by Boris and Daniel. Soon after that the band turned a trio by opening up to a more gender-open set up by establishing a female singer and female themes into the music and the lyrics. After the release of the last Album “Wer das hört ist doom” the band hooked up with the French singer Claire Roy in Februay 2024 to further influence the bands sound.
Coming from Rennes, the capital of Rock in France, Claire´s artistic approach is inspired bybands like Rendez-vous, Les Clopes, Deux, and the british Post-Punk scene. So after shecrossed paths with Berliner Doom, she gave the sound of BD a new twist into the fileds ofdarkwave, midtempo pop.
Claire hasn’t been part in a band since ages, but she made the move and contributed to therecord her fragile and bright lyrics, which shine bright as light from the waves of dark once ina while Boris Guschlbauer is the main composer of BD. He has already been part in countlesspunk and grindbands since he was a teenager. At the age of 15 he played his first gig.He also travelled half of the world specially the Himalaya mountains and so his is responsibleto short cut the melodies of Berliner Doom ino this unique late 80ties/ early ninties guitarsound.
Daniel WTO, the drummer, is mostly taking care of the record and the production things ofBD. His musical influences range form punk, hardcore, to electro, hiphop and drumandbass,as you notice on the record the drums are strongly influenced by drumloops anddrummachines, more then on speedup punk patterns.Also enagaged is producer, guitarist and studio engineer Marten Thielges.He is producing and mixing the songs and is responsible to make the final arrangementsHe also contributed the synth lines. Currently he runs a studio in Berlin und Stuttgart.
little league shows prsnts: LÙLÙ (power-pop, lyon/marseille) + tba.
allocestlulu.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/allocestlulu
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at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. concert-tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/40o1eog
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LÙLÙ is a power-pop supergroup from Lyon and Marseille, sharing members with local fixtures such as Pogy et les Kéfars, Irnini Mons, AVIONS, Edgar Suit and Fontanarosa. Lùlù craft and sing in French and Italian, love songs for the anxious and glam rock gems for the dreamers. They have but one thing in mind: delivering hits. The soundtrack to sleepless nights during the heatwave, nights on the town with the gang chasing up the sunlight and staring at your spilled drink, for fans of Sheer Mag, The Nerves, The Hives or Radioactivity.
little league shows & porcupine recs prsnt:
NIL / indie/shoegaze, le
nilfuzz.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/nil_fuzz
& DOGDAZE / shoegaze/post-punk, bln
dogdazebln.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/dogdazebln
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available at --> https://vvk.link/40hwn5c
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»NIL's Debut settles somewhere between longing, ecstasy, and melancholy, while combining the bands various influences from shoegaze, postpunk and indie, into a charged wall of sound. On top of the driving drums, connecting with powerful yet melodic basslines, there are floating surfaces of reverb, which are broken up by crystal clear guitars and energetic, yet soulful vocals. And while all this is still settling in your ears, it already shatters...«
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HERBST IN PEKING (dub-post-punk/bln) + TJ WHITE RABBIT (dub witch house/bln)
Tickets: https://vvk.link/3zqef00
Record Release: Herbst In Peking / Mond Rauch & Marijuana (Peking Rec)
Herbst in Peking, gegründet 1987 als wilde Mixtur aus Sixties-Psychedelic und Punk-Energie und im
System-Zusammenbruch mit »Bakschisch-Republik« Lieferanten einer Hymne zum historischen
Vorgang, sind seit vielen Jahren schon mit elektronischer Basis und Dub-Sounds unterwegs, mittels derer
die zudem von der Kult-Radioshow »Grenzpunkt Null« bekannte Dunkel-Stimme von Mastermind Rex
Joswig poetische Setzungen zelebriert. (Alexander Pehlemann, ZONIC)
Wenn Underground das ist, was unter der Oberfläche brodelt, dann sind Herbst in Peking eine Band aus
dem Untergrund. Ihre Musik speist sich aus den Tiefen des Unter-Bewußtseins. Im HIP-Sound
vermischen sich Rock, Electronic, Doom & Shanty zu einer zwingenden Melange. HIP schreiben eine
eigene dunkle Poesie & erweisen großen Stimmen aus Vergangenheit & Gegenwart Respekt.
(William Blake/Gottfried Benn/Fernando Pessoa/Charles Bukowski/Kai Pohl/Bert Papenfuß/ etc.)
Herbst in Peking ist 300%-iges THC ganz ohne Hanf, ist Poesie krass,
Musik grell und Stimme radikal. (Jens Pittasch, BLICKLICHT Juni 2016)
Die Geisterfahrer auf dem Highway der deutschen Populärmusik, die Pet Shop Boys aus der Stalinallee,
wie ein Fluß ohne Wiederkehr rauschen sie durch die Nacht auf dem Weg zum Grenzpunkt Null.
Vorgestellt wird das aktuelle H.I.P. Album Faust Am Meer (Moloko+/Peking Records), auf dem die
Band ihr Konzept von elektronisch hochgejazzter Rockmusik mit seitlichen Arabesken zu Ambient, Dub
& Shanty weiter ausgereizt hat. (
Alien Transistor Night at Schokoladen
If you were to receive signals from space—from distant stars and planets—with a broken portable radio, they might sound like the releases from the Alien Transistor label. Since its founding in 2003, the label has been searching for pop in places where no one else would expect to find it: in the shimmering psychedelic, sometimes jazzy sound of The Plastik Beatniks, the explosive music of o'summer vacation, cumbia-influenced dub reggae by The Alien Dub Orchestra, or the experimental electronica of Soft Violet (to name just a few).Many of the artists are connected in one way or another to the label's founders, brothers Markus and Micha Acher of The Notwist. The label releases music that fits Alien Transistor's open, genre-spanning concept—and that can even come from another galaxy.
Tonight, the label is happy to be at Schokoladen with Saroos & SUN.
Saroos are firmly embedded in the cosmos of Alien Transistor: a trio that bridges instrumental hip-hop, ambient textures, and post-rock atmospheres. Sometimes playful, sometimes cerebral—always emotionally resonant. Their music manages to be both abstract and approachable, brainy yet effortlessly fluid. It’s the rare kind of sound that gets both hemispheres of the brain to nod in sync.
Florian Zimmer, Christoph Brandner, and Max Punktezahl—also known from bands like The Notwist, Driftmachine, and Lali Puna—released their sixth album, Turtle Roll, in June 2023 via Alien Transistor, The Notwist’s own label. This time, the focus was on collaboration: seven out of eleven tracks feature guest vocalists. While these voices will take a backseat in the live shows, their influence on the instrumentals remains palpable—subtle imprints that linger even when the lyrics are gone.
Video: https://youtu.be/2stitHF3U-k
SUN (duo Version feat. Marcus Rom of Oh no Noh)
“I was primarily concerned with atmospheres, with moods that move me—and hopefully others as well,” says Berlin-based drummer and songwriter Andi Haberl, aka SUN, about his solo debut album “I Can See Our House From Here,” which was released in the summer of 2024 on Notwist's own label Alien Transistor. While Haberl relies on a wide variety of acoustic layers and samples to create the desired moods, the multi-instrumentalist roughly locates the result, which has matured over many years, between the poles of “ Gold Panda/Four Tet, Steve Reich, Krautrock, and film soundtracks.”
In fact, the Berlin-based musician spent a good 15 years refining his solo recordings to find exactly the frequencies and sounds that really move him. “I want to take people on a journey. And it's definitely a personal journey, because when my parents separated and sold the house I grew up in, I really felt like the ground was being pulled out from under my feet. That's why I dedicated the album title and the track of the same name to our old house – so I could keep it in my memory forever.”
At Schokoladen SUN/Andi Haberl (drums/sampler) will bring the results of this long journey to the stage alongside with Markus Rom (Oh No Noh) on banjo and electronics(Oh No Noh). A long-time member of The Notwist and various other bands/projects (including Alien Ensemble, AMEO, jersey, Ditty, Bella Wakame), Andi Haberl has also collaborated with My Brightest Diamond, Owen Pallet, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. The new album “I Can See Our House From Here” is his first solo release as SUN.
Video: https://youtu.be/ZiLkYHUYefE
Dirk Markham
M:Soundtrack X am:Start presents: Release : The Erich Weinert Studioband (Bln) + Michał Biela (Pl)
The Erich Weinert Studioband is a collective in which roles shift:
There's no set schedule for who finds the lyrics to the melodies or the rhythm to the harmony.
They meet in the eponymous studio, where drummer Ed Rich records all stuff on tape-machine.
The result is heart-warming songs for dancing feet.
Fixed stars are the wonderfully clear vocals of Lydia Pfefferkorn (Jacques Palminger & 440Hz Trio),
the soup-salting piano of Fabian Skodda, as well as the signature sound of a soulful harmonica
played by Coward Harpendale (Andre Welt), and last but not least:
guitarist F.S.Blumm, who is involved in numerous projects and recently switched to bass.
The band locates its sound somewhere between everyday poetry and ancient pop music.
Die Erich Weinert Studioband ist ein Kollektiv in dem die Rollen wandern:
Wer gerade den Text zu den Melodien oder den Rhythmus zur Harmonie findet ist nicht festgelegt.
Man trifft sich im namensgebenden Studio, wo Schlagzeuger Ed Rich auch in einigen anderen
Formationen Musik aufs Tonband bringt. Am Ende stehen beherzte Lieder für tanzende Beine.
Fixsterne sind dabei der wunderbar klare Gesang von Lydia Pfefferkorn (Jacques Palminger & 440 Hertz),
das Suppe salzende Klavier von Fabian Skodda, sowie der Signature-Sound einer beseelten
Mundharmonika, gespielt von Coward Harpendale (Andre Welt) und zu guter letzt: der in eine Vielzahl von
Projekten verstrickte Gitarrist F.S.Blumm, welcher erst kürzlich zum Bass gewechselt ist. Die Band verortet ihren Sound zwischen alltäglicher Poesie und uralter Popmusik.
Lydia Pfefferkorn: Gesang
Fabian Skodda: Piano
Ed Rich: Schlagzeug
Andre Welt: Mundharmonika
F.S.Blumm: Bass
Michał Biela is a distinctive voice in Poland’s alternative scene. A co-founder of the post-rock band Kristen, he has also played with Ścianka, Kings of Caramel, and Enchanted Hunters. Since his 2014 solo debut—nominated for the prestigious Paszport Polityki award—he has crafted minimalist songs that blend folk and Americana with Polish poetic traditions, praised for their elegance, restraint, and haunting atmosphere.
Michał Biela ist eine prägende Stimme der polnischen Alternativszene. Als Mitgründer der Post-Rock-Band Kristen spielte er zudem bei Ścianka, Kings of Caramel und Enchanted Hunters. Seit seinem 2014 erschienenen Solo-Debüt – nominiert für den renommierten Paszport Polityki – begeistert er mit minimalistischen Songs zwischen Folk, Americana und polnischer Liedtradition, die für ihre Eleganz, Reduziertheit und eindringliche Atmosphäre geschätzt werden.
