noise

Débora Umbelino or Surma gives experimental music a new meaning. Working with deconstruction, Surma explores not just the different ways in which instruments work, but takes them apart to their very core to draw new sounds from their essence. On the new record "alla", the artist applies that new fearlessness.

From the depths of German Krautrock comes the sixth edition of the Synästhesie Festival. Backed by the beloved local music hot spot – the 8MM bar, which already put artists like Gurr and Sofia Portanet on our radar – the festival unites Berlin’s favorites alongside international acts. Needless to say, organizing a large indoor festival ahead of another wave of Covid in Germany, is quite the task. Yet, after what felt like a dozen documents to scan – vaccinated and additionally tested – festival-goers were invited into the industrial chambers of the Kesselhaus once again.

Astounding sounds for some of the most terrible, cruel and mostly unseen moments of the last century in an artistic but also respectful way.

They don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore. But they do. Trail of Dead's 'IX' is a strong return to their most ambitious form.

Ten years after: what's left of the magical dance-punk formula? Does it still work? Do we need this second DFA 1979-record?