Under the name Monolake, sound designer, programmer and techno icon Robert Henke mined the intersection between abstract computer music and dance-deri...
Episode 20: Berlin's Perennial Allure with Perel
After several years in Halle, Annegret Fiedler moved to Berlin in 2010 with aspirations of producing a new sound. She combined her rock sensibilities ...
Episode 19: Berlin’s Fertile Avant-Garde with Pan Daijing
From the margins of techno and noise, Chinese-born artist Pan Daijing pulls from myriad influences, including migration, dreams and sensuality, to cre...
Episode 18: Trap Takes Berlin with Marcus Staiger
Rap will forever be preoccupied with regionality. With his trap-influenced single "Ich bin ein Berliner" (“I’m a Berliner”), Berlin rapper Ufo361 crea...
Episode 17: Isolation Berlin’s World Apart with Martin Böttcher
Indie rock band Isolation Berlin offset their melancholic lyrics with jangling, often upbeat melodies. This juxtaposition has resonated with German mu...
Episode 16: Navigating Berlin’s Queer Musical Landscape with Lotic
When Lotic moved to Berlin from Texas in 2012, they found a scene that wasn’t quite fitting their needs. Since then, Lotic and other expats – such as ...
Episode 15: “Bad Kingdom” Breaks Through with Alexandra Dröner
Berlin-bred duo Modeselektor came of age in the post-Wall era. As such, their unique blend of electronic music ignores all divisions, pulling from a v...
Episode 14: The Hard Wax Equation with René Pawlowitz
Under his Head High and Shed aliases (to name but two), Berlin producer René Pawlowitz has established himself as one of the city's most essential tec...
Episode 13: Indie Reinvention and “Thirteen Thirtyfive” with Daniel Rérat
Berlin label BPitch Control has a reputation for releasing techno and electronic music, but the imprint has also trafficked in non-techno sounds – inc...
Episode 12: Rave Tourism and “Berlin Calling” with Dirty Doering
Brotherly techno duo Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner are perhaps best known for "Sky and Sand," which featured in the smash 2008 film _Berlin Calling_ (which...