Easterndaze x Berlin 2018
Published November, 2018
by Easterndaze
FESTIVAL SHOWCASES COLLECTIVES OF EASTERN EUROPE + BERLIN SECOND EDITION FROM NOV 28 – DEC 1 2018 AT VARIOUS VENUES
Beyond folklore clichés and Cold War discourse, below the radar of the tastemaking music press, DIY, alternative, independent music scenes are thriving in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2010, Easterndaze has explored and mapped local DIY scenes operating in a digital realm, introducing the creative personalities and collectives behind them to provide context.
The concert & flm screening series Easterndaze × Berlin: DIY Music Topographies (curated by Lucia Udvardyova and produced by Natalie Gravenor) follows up on the frst edition in 2016, by presenting music collectives from Eastern Europe, pairing each of them with groups from Berlin’s diverse DIY scenes in the name of collective spirit and communal effort.
The concert series takes place at several important Berlin arts and music venues. The festival exemplifes a decentralized curatorial model—the lineup of individual each event is curated by the collectives themselves.
Audiovisual sister duo WIDT (Antonina Nowacka and Bogumila Piotrowska) from Warsaw and legendary Berlin-based producer Christoph de Babalon rejoin forces after their commissioned work for the 2016 edition of the festival, presenting their new, mutual album and project TEYAS.
The labels T&U (Budapest), Exiles (Budapest) and Total Black (Berlin) will release a joint cassette compilation on the occasion of the festival, entitled “Easterndaze x Berlin: Total Black x Exiles & T+U” reflecting the aesthetics and philosophies of their individual platforms.
The accompanying flm program will be presented at Soundwatch Music Film Festival Berlin (soundwatch.de) Nov 7 – 16 at Lichtblick-Kino.
Easterndaze × Berlin is funded by Musicboard Berlin.
Nov 28 2018. Land3C, WIDT x Christoph de Babalon present TEYAS at Panke, Gerichstr 23, 13347. 20:00. Free Entry.
Nov 29 2018. Room 4 Resistance x Intruder Alert with DJ OCCULT, Gigsta, Luz, ASTMA (live), B.YHZZ (live), KRY and interior design by NehoTigra at OHM, Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179. 23:00. 8€.
Nov 30 2018. Total Black x T+U & Exiles with Oil Thief (live), Ciarra Black, Entertainment, FOR. (live) (Farbwechsel / Exiles), Nullius in Verba, Purgate (live), Zanias (Candela Rising / Fleisch) b2b Luna Vassarotti (Instruments of Discipline), Alley Catss (live), Fausto Mercier (live), Juhász Tamás (live), ooo & MA’AM (live), TELEϟPORT (live) at Urban Spree, Revaler Str. 99, 10245. 21:00. 8€.
Dec 1 2018. Care/Of Editions x Muscut with Adam Asnan (live) — record release, ST/NE (live) — record release Mike Kitcher (dj), Who Cares (dj), at arkaoda berlin, 16-18 Karl-Marx-Platz, 12043. 20:00. 8€.
PARTICIPATING LABELS/COLLECTIVES/CULTURAL ACTIVISTS
Land 3C
Present their audiovisual project which fictionalizes the topography between the Baltics and the Balkans.
WIDT (Warsaw) + Christoph de Babalon (Berlin)
Audiovisual sister duo WIDT (Antonina Nowacka and Bogumila Piotrowska) from Warsaw and legendary Berlin-based producer Christoph de Babalon rejoin forces after their commissioned work for the 2016 edition of the festival, presenting their new, mutual album and project TEYAS.
Room 4 Resistance (Berlin)
ROOM 4 RESISTANCE is a Berlin-based queer femme / non-binary forward collective focused on community-building and creating safer space & visibility for underrepresented artists in dance music. R4R runs parties at ://about blank, curates panels & workshops to promote women, gender queers, non-binaries, trans, black and POC artists – to explore the political dimensions of the dance floor, and create bridges between different communities.
Intruder Alert (Warsaw)
Intruder Alert is a Warsaw-based music label / series of events navigating the murky waters of “post-club” music, referencing rave, acid, techno, “global” ambient and various mutations of DAW-driven bass music.
Total Black (Berlin)
Total Black is a record label presently based in Berlin releasing noise, industrial, power electronics, and experimental music that is frequently organizing events with disparate but complimentary sounds, showcasing artists and associates of the label from across the world. Formed in Montreal, 2012.
T+U (Budapest)
T+U (Technologie und das Unheimliche) is a Berlin-Budapest-Elsewhere based publishing project and cross-disciplinary movement. T+U aims to circuit the cultural phenomena resulting from the confrontation between the conditio humana and technology by thematic issues and related projects. Regarding to this mission, T+U mediates between cultural technologies within the context of post-digitality and tries to contaminate para-academic thinking with artistic tactics.
EXILES (Budapest)
Budapest-based electronic label featuring all shades of experimental and forward-thinking techno.
Care of Editions (Berlin)
Founded in 2013, Care Of Editions produces concerts, festivals, and recordings that bring together the worlds of popular and experimental music. In addition to producing music, Care Of Editions develops new and creative ways of distributing this music online.
Muscut (Kiev)
Muscút (Ukrainian: Мускáт, pronounced [Muskát]) is an international label founded by Dmytro Nikolaienko in 2012, that explores sounds of hauntological research, musique concréte and library music.