Veranstaltungen
*featuring local berlin based musicians and the NYC Antifolker Seth Faergolzia + DJ Sibsi Sibsi
M:Soundtrack presents welcome for the Upteenth time with a long anti-wierd-folk musical connection to Berlin, Seth Faergolzia (Dufus / Multibird) comes back to the Schokoladen stage, he will be joined by a gaggle of Berlin locals (Heiko B HorrorMe, Susie Asado, Brian Speaker and more) covering the songs of the inimitable Purple Organ RIP. Following this musical memorial, Faergolzia will pull surprises from his 25 year career for you astounded listeners. After Show with DJ Sibsi Sibsi (Fourtrack on stage/ Down by the River Fest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u33Pn5ih8b4&t=26s
https://staumusic.bandcamp.com
https://andthewiremen.bandcamp.com
And The Wiremen is a Berlin-based band, centered around singer/songwriter and New York session luminary Lynn Wright and with a revolving cast of musicians. Playing their first show in 5 years and with a brand new constellation, their atmospheric, joyous music spans a range of influences from blues and jazz to indie, post-rock and electronic music.
https://andthewiremen.bandcamp.com
Stau are a music group from Berlin. Three friends playing lo-fi downer pop - "a nocturnal car ride into the horrors of everyday life and the dreary reality of late capitalism" - like a doomy, ambient Mac Demarco, or something.
Mad Kate | the Tide are a post punk conceptual performance project with the Tide on guitar, loops, electronics and Mad Kate on vocals, poetry, contact mics and performance.
Now joined by Sara Neidorf on drums, Mad Kate | the Tide has just finished an EP This Morning Waking about genderbased violence and is working on an LP sexWORKperformanceART about the relationship between labour, art and the body. Their Discography also includes ALIVE:ness (LP/eBook 2014), Combinatorics (EP/eBook 2013), will be ready – the Teufelsberg session – (LP Freudian Slit Records 2013) and Leather Jacket (Single/remix 2012)
Composed in dialogue with conceptual explorations and texts, Mad Kate | the Tide’s dynamic sonicscapes mix punk, acoustic folk, psychedelic rock and spoken word. They form the backbone for honest, sometimes darkly provocative performance art and movement which provokes and stirs its audiences.
In their multimedia work ALIVE:ness they ask: To what extent are we alive in each other’s lives —physically, emotionally, electronically, living or dead — taking into account our contemporary context of virtual interaction, shape-shifting and polyphysical interpretations of our own identities? What does it mean to be present when the terms of our own existence are relative to how we interact physically and virtually with those most close to us? What does it mean to queer our identity in a global context in order to be more effective activists and global citizens?
SPITPLAY are a new Berlin post-wave noise duo, Godzilla meets Eurythmics. Their music features: a relentlessly straight 90's drum machine, a distorted mantra-monotone bass, synthwave and noise sprinkles and vocal acrobatics oscillating between dreampop sweetness and Diamanda Galas performance. A flowery neologism for a feuilleton drawer would probably be Alien Goth Pop.
Founding members from the Cuntroaches and Chrome Animals.
SPITPLAY - Coming soon to a dry ice disco near you.
doors 19:00 - show 20:00
a Fake-Four-Inc.-Night, more infos soon
https://fakefourinc.com/
doors 19h - show 20h
puschen & little league shows prsnt:
EXEK / dub-post-punk/lofi, aus
exek.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/sound_exek
& BALM / minimalist lofi indie-rock/post-punk, bln
mangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-4 / instagram.com/balmbalmbalmbalm
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. pre-sale tickets available --> vvk.link/33axivk
+ djs kick'n'rush & itty minchesta!
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EXEK are returning to Europe and the UK in May/June 2024! The Australian post-punk outfit will be promoting their latest record ‘The Map and the Territory’ released October 2023 on Foreign Records. The other reason for the tour is that the band is now ten years old. In that time, EXEK have released six albums, and have toured Japan, the USA, and Europe. Their sound is difficult to pigeon hole due to a wide variety of influences (punk, trip-hop, RnB, dub, kraut, avant-garde), but the general consensus is something in the lineage of The Fall, Happy Mondays, ESG, and PIL.
For the band, the highlights are not fame and fortune (well aware of their slim odds), but more so finding recognition amongst the artists they admire and are influenced by. Whether it's supporting Liars and Anika, or being added to playlists by late greats like Mark Stewart and Andrew Weatherall. Come find them playing a town near you!
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»BALM is a trio from Berlin. Balm has a mild post-punk approach with a warm and personal/emotional focus. They might swap Instruments to serve the song. Balm just released an LP on mangelrecords.«
doors 19h, show 20h, aftershow djs tba.
puschen & little league shows prsnt:
GEO / post-punk, no-wave, nl
geoband.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/geo__band
+ tba.
at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3466s4w
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Post-punk/no wave oddity Geo (KJ Braams (bass) Jorne Visser (vocals/guitar), Gijs Deddens (drums) and Ype Zijlstra (keys, electronics) are like a sentient slot machine: whatever seems happenstance is actually by design, and the more mismatched the moving parts appear, the more their music starts to make sense. Since the Groningen quartet’s inception in 2019, they have built a framework of skeletal agit-funk, cartoonish chromatics and neoteric art punk vignettes – sketching negative spaces where chaos and cacophony can sound perplexingly catchy. After releasing their esteemed EP in 2021, the band has entered its next creative chapter.
Out of Body – Geo’s long-awaited debut album – is an oblong snow globe utopia where dancing with two left feet is an actual custom. Out on Erste Theke Tontraeger on April 26, 2024 – this collection of songs constitutes material Geo have been writing and performing when they first entered the circuit. These jitterbug, birdbrained post-punk spiels are in the spirit of gung-ho deconstructionists like The Contortionists, The Fall and Gang of Four. On Out of Body the band play emotions out against each other like some kind of absurdist Punch and Judy show.
Zahni (Neurotic Arseholes, Drowning Roses), Basti (Pressureflip) und Alex (Raum 101, Pressureflip)
WONK UNIT ist eine der vielseitigsten und abwechslungsreichsten Bands, die London im Moment zu bieten hat. 2005 wurden sie von Alex nach Auflösung der Punkband The Flying Medallions ins Leben gerufen.
Punk in England war so tot und langweilig zu der Zeit. Doch mit dem zufälligen Aufeinandertreffen von Alex und zwei sehr talentierten Musikern, Drummer Mez Clough und Gitarrist Gavin Kinch, deren Art zu spielen Alex Songs plötzlich überfrisch erklingen ließen, gab es eine neue Punkrockhoffnung.
Eine in Europa einzigartige Band mit eigenem Sound, eigenem Humor, eigenem Festival und tief verwurzeltem DIY Background. Alex Brindle Johnson ist dabei als Lead Singer, Poet, Skater, Stage Performer und kreativer Motor das Herz der Band, von der nicht wenige behaupten, dass es das derzeit Spannendste sei, was es auf Europas Punkrockbühnen zu sehen gibt.
Formed in 2006 and hailing from the heart of China's cultural and political center, Beijing, GUM
BLEED have rapidly won over the underground scene, establishing themselves as a pivotal force
supporting China's youth culture.
Merging political awareness and metaphorical lyricism with the high-energy blend of punk,
hardcore, rock, and thrash, GUM BLEED crafts a classic and compelling sound. Their impressive
discography includes three albums, four EPs, and numerous compilations.
For a remarkable 18 years, Gum Bleed has been at the forefront of promoting Chinese punk. Not
only committed to shaping the rebellious sound of China's new generation, Gum Bleed's
dedication has taken them across the globe, captivating audiences with over 1,000 electrifying live
performances while actively working to forge connections between their local scene and the
broader global punk community.
The band's third and latest full-length album, "Punx Save the Human Race," was unleashed in
2021 through collaborations with labels in China, Germany, and Poland. As the world emerges
from the pandemic-induced hiatus, Gum Bleed is gearing up to hit European stages, bringing their
unique sound to audiences eager to experience the essence of rebellion and resilience. Get ready,
Europe – Gum Bleed is coming back again!
