METHODE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Eine Retrospektive
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “I ask you to take note….”
Whether one can really read the "method" out of this, we will now come to that. For all the other na…
Beiträge mit dem Stichwort "Berlin"
METHODE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Eine Retrospektive
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends w/ Vanessa Vivante
Vanessa Vivante: “As a teen, I liked finding interesting and weird music …”
"It was the first time I’ve done a remote collaboration like that. The process reminded me of how …
Records of the Week
Anne Imhof, Eliza Douglas und Billy Bultheel „SEX“ & Pan Daijing „Tissues“
"Tissues", analogous to "SEX", made me think a lot about the untimeliness of such let's call it bore…
Videoeditorial
Hanno Leichtmann performing Villa Aurora
On 6th of November 2021 Berlin composer Hanno Leichtmann performed a new work at Villa Aurora, Los A…
M_Dokumente – Pre-Print – Malaria! ( 1981—1984 )
Bettina Köster: “Everything came easily. We never put an effort into getting any deals”
We found a kitten behind empty boxes in our rehearsal room on Paul-Lincke-Ufer. We called her Malari…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in Conversation w/ Diáne Zillmer
Diáne Zillmer: “In old age you notice how little you actually know”
"We still live the norms of an industrial and production-oriented society, although these have alrea…
Squarepusher– 25 years of “Feed Me Weird Things”
Squarepusher, a night without fear at Berghain
"The album lately existed only on this terrible second-hand record market, where prices have skyrock…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation – Yuko Matsuyama
Yuko Matsuyama: “I seek a truth in a non-verbalized dimension”
"There is a saying in Japan, “Onko-Chishin”, it means, learning new things from the past. But in…
JakoJako (Photo: Katja Ruge) – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
JakoJako: “I have musical dreams, where I hear the most beautiful melodies my brain can imagine”
This interview with JakoJako is part of the ongoing photo-project “Electric Lights – Women in El…
MELANIE JAME WOLF / SAVAGE AMUSEMENT: “TONIGHT”
“Tonight” is a place of future. And apparently there isn’t one”
"I started my performance career, because I really, really didn't want to do a normal job. Performin…
Interview with Folly Ghost aka Max from Berlin based DJ collective No Shade
Folly Ghost: “We have enough hashtags, we need more policies”
No Shade is a Berlin collective that has been offering mentoring programs for queer, female, trans a…
Marco Donnarumma: „Corpus Nil: Eingeweide“
“It’s about understanding that we humans are not any more important than any other creature on the planet”
A lot has been written lately about the end of the artist as we know her/him. The legend is on the s…
Ilse Ruppert – interviewed by Laurence Wasser
ILSE RUPPERT: “People have become very conscious of their image”
"I prepared very little for my shootings, it is in the pressure of the moment that I found the angl…
Luke Slater – Interview
Luke Slater: „Trust me, I am a DJ“
"The word career was a swearword when I was growing up. Anybody at school who wanted to have a caree…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends – Käthe Kruse
Käthe Kruse: “Half-hearted work is worth nothing”
"Difficult to answer. I am open and honest in a straightforward and direct way. That means I do not …
Claire Morgan – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
Claire Morgan: “I can’t think of many things more special than listening to someone you love play music that touches your heart”
"I personally find focus, peace and acceptance in both writing and performing music, and it allows m…
Henrietta Smith-Rolla / Afrodeutsche – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
Afrodeutsche: “Techno. It’s that language that I can speak”
This interview with Henrietta Smith-Rolla is part of the ongoing photo-project „Electric Lights - …
Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 – Interview with Lucia Udvardyova & Natalie Gravenor
Berlin has a bizarre relationship to its “Eastern” neighbors
Even though it's exactly 30 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and most Eastern European coun…
HTRK at Atonal Festival – Interview
HTRK: It’s not as sad anymore because we’re not as sad
"We’ve gone through a whole process of healing and accepting and that just comes out in what you c…
Daso Franke – "Daso" Releaseparty
#dasoforever – “Every second full of burning passion”
On April 2nd of last year our friend Daso Franke died much too soon. During the months prior to his …
Jayda G – Interview
JAYDA G: “MORE THAN JUST AN IMAGE”
"We both smile because we are quite thankful that we don’t have to talk about the remaining being-…
Efdemins „New Atlantis“
Efdemin: The long dive to the self
"The album contains a lot of time, work and suffering. Many years in which I was traveling as a DJ a…
Record of the Week
Colin Self „Siblings“ (RVNG Intl.)
"If this voice leaves you cold, you have long ago sold your humanity to the shadow beings." – Tho…
Record of the Week: „Working Class Woman“ by Marie Davidson
Marie Davidson: “The quality of your creative output does not depend on what is between your legs.”
"I don't want to be a niche artist, I'm not and never have been part of a cool clique, a gang, why w…
Lena Platonos – Interview – DICE conference and festival
Lena Platonos: “I listen to music 24 hours a day.”
"I advise them to fight for their rights and hope for a more optimistic future." – Lena Platonos …
Silvia Jiménez Alvarez aka Jasss in conversation
JASSS: “Those things exist in me and bother me.”
Spain born artist Silvia Jiménez Alvarez already set some significant marks in the world of dark el…
Mouse on Mars
Prioritize the people
It’s about time for me to confess something. At some point during the 2000s, I distanced myself a …
Magnea
Social pop anthropologist
In the first place, Maral Salmassi just wanted to produce the record by the Icelandic dance pop duo …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Marta Collica: “I see myself as the mountain Etna”
"Describing her as a queen is perfect and especially in these troubled times our confused world need…
CTM 2018
Angst and love über Berlin
Another bodily challenging and highly inspiring CTM festival is over. It was again a week of many i…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Claudia Skoda: “Fashion has never been as cheap and inflationary as today and at the same time absurdly expensive.”
When I moved from NYC to Berlin in the mid eighties I was able to experience the last strides of an …
LCD Soundsystem
Intimate and loud in Berlin
When I first heard about an exclusive LCD Soundsystem show at Funkhaus in Berlin, it all made sense …
Rashad Becker & Ena
Friendly Neighbours
While Rashad Becker is best known for being a luminary in the field of mastering, but he is also an …
Mark Reeder
Approved by the Communist Party: Mauerstadt
Recently Mark Reeder released his new album “Mauerstadt”, featuring remixes and collaborations w…
Pop-Kultur-Festival 2017 – The loved ones of the festival team
21 LOVED SONGS & PERFORMANCES
Once again Berlins Pop-Kultur-Festival (happening between the 23th and 25th of August at Kulturbraue…
CTM Festival 2017, the world and a boy with a walkman
AN INFINITE EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY
Last night, after a day full of discussions with my students at the Institute for Popular Music, I h…
Pop-Kultur 2016 in 23 pictures
From Selda Bağcan to Imarhan
The second edition of Pop-Kultur festival is over – and we feel very dizzy from all those impress…
Marginal Consort
Mazuo Imai. Tomonao Koshikawa. Kei Shii. Masami Tada.
On the 6th of June one of the rare performances of the Japanese Noise-Impro-Collective Marginal Con…
Kaput & Attic Magazine & Outernational Days Bucharest
Dreaming in the Discotheque
The beauty of music is that one is not only able to enjoy it alone, but that it’s so powerful in b…
Sara Hartman
“Germans are so refreshingly rude”
Sara Hartman opened up the gigs of the Ellie Goulding's world tour. And this was only one thing wher…
Masha Qrella
I no longer felt trapped
„Feel welcomed in the disco of inner feeling", thats how the label is advertising the new album b…
CTM Festival / Club Transmediale 2016
„Fuck Ambient. Northern Technology. Dark Electronica. Obsessive Techno. Militant House. Noise Pop.”
Between the 29.01. and 07.02. the 17th edition of CTM Festival / Club Transmediale, festival "for Ad…
Robert Henke aka Monolake
„I have learned that there is a point, where complaining doesn’t work anymore.“
Without Robert Henke the history of electronic music would have to be rewritten. Together with Gerha…
FJAAK
“Welcome to our house.”
"They smoke, talk and watch women football or bad shows on the local TV stations." Anton Teichmann …
Record of the Week
Peaches “Rub”
The title track of the album pretty much constitutes the work that is most typical of Peaches. How a…
Rona Geffen
“It was always the kick that moved me”
The electronic musician Rona Geffen is part of an astonishingly fast growing posse in Berlin: Young …
Mark Reeder
Memories of a border hopper
For Kaput, Mark Reeder has sought out some private photographs from the 80s and 90s, and talks about…
Take a walk in... Berlin Wedding
With Robert Hood through Berlin Wedding
Disturbed by all the tourists in Berlin Mitte? Just walk up the hill to Wedding and sweat it out. …
CTM Festival / Club Transmediale
Losing the concept of time and space…
Starting the year with a trip to Berlin to attend the CTM Festival is a good tradition . …
