26.09.2024
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Martin Pfnür
Chris Liebing in the Blitz Club, the electronic project Banben Berlin live in the Milla – and the “Digital Analog” and “Ritournelle” festivals are going into the next round.
One of the big misunderstandings about electronic music is the view that it always has a certain coolness to it. There is no shortage of artists who provide counter-evidence. Best example: The Berlin-based songwriter, singer and beatboxer Alexander Freund and his project Forbidden Berlin. Inspired by the sound of the German Krautrock era, Freund’s delicately assembled electronic tracks are characterized by two things in particular: on the one hand, by a noticeable desire for experimentation, which gives them something both fluid and unpredictable. On the other hand, there is also a warmth in the vocals and textures that is sometimes reminiscent of the electrified soul of acts like Sohn or Rhye. Live in the Millait could be a forbidden good evening on October 3rd.
The Catalan-Italian duo are on completely different paths Dame Area on the way. Their profession is the cathartic and unbridled, which is reflected in a percussive sound that contains just as many elements from industrial as from electronic body music. And then there is singer Silvia Konstance, who gives these chillingly cool tracks in Spanish an urgency that is evident on the stage Red sun (October 3rd) should increase significantly again.
And thus to someone who would rather let his music do the talking than a lot of words. While other DJs have their online biographies filled with stylistic preferences and role models, stand by Oliver Schories simply: “Quality will find it’s way.” He has a point with that, because the Hamburg native has been impressing for some time now with his melodically produced tech house tracks, as well as as a DJ with his special feel for the atmosphere in the room. That’s exactly what he will do in the Signalman Thiel know what to interpret when he plays there on October 4th.
Which brings us to a team that seems rather unlikely at first: here is the Norwegian jazz and keyboard wizard Bugge Wesseltoftthe German DJ there Henrik Schwarz. The two released their first joint album “Duo” in 2011, which spans a wonderful spectrum between pop, electronica and chamber music. Two years ago, “Duo II”, a continuation of their project, was released, with which they further refined their progressive sound melange. In the newly opened Elektra Tonquartier Bergsonwhich has particularly great acoustics Bugge Wesseltoft & Henrik Schwarz on October 10th they got exactly the framework they needed for their fine sound fusions.
There will be extensive fusion again at this year’s event Digital Analog Festival on October 11th, albeit in a different way. The focus there is always on the interplay between sound and image. Difficult, given the multitude of DJs, VJs, bands and solo acts that are in… Muffatwerk will be represented to highlight someone. But between live electronics (among others Martin Matiske), Singer-Songwritern (Xavier Darcy) or indie rock bands (Talking Pets) there should be something for everyone with free entry.
The particularly hard techno style was particularly popular in the early years of his career Chris Liebingwho, as part of the Frankfurt scene, was jointly responsible for the invention of the so-called Schranz. A sound so hard, fast and impetuous that it can certainly drive out evil spirits. Liebing can do things differently, as he proves on an album like “Burn Slow”. The dark elegance that he develops there has long been incorporated into his sets to a certain extent – if you don’t believe it, you can watch it on October 11th Blitz Club convince of it.
That’s where it’s going on October 18th Ritournelle a series into the next round that, after ending in the Kammerspiele, has now found a new home in the Blitz. This year the “Festival for Advanced Electronic Music” is bringing together a small but very fine line-up. On the one hand with DJ sets from the famous Berlin crossover electronic musicians Modeselector or the Hamburg minimal specialist Helena Hauff. On the other hand, there are also live performances by the Nigerian MC Aunty Rayzorwhose experimental sound draws on influences between Afrobeat, Grime and R’n’B, or the British Murder Boyswho will bring their harsh, but also murderously good Detroit techno sound to the stage.
