Dr Walker wins Best AI Film award
Congratulations to Dr Walker of the Liquid Sky Artistcollective for winning this years Best AI Film award at Experimental Film Fest in the USA with his short movie 'Fragmentet Reality'!
OUT: album 'Kansai Bruises' by Valentina Magaletti & YPY
Musician, producer and composer YPY aka Koshiro Hino of goat (JP) has combined forces with Drummer, percussionist and composer Valentina Magaletti (who has already worked with artists like Nicolas Jaar, Faust, Bat for Lashes, Malcom Catto to name just a few).
For their LP 'Kansai Bruises', the pair crash through Osaka’s neon-lit streets with abrasive drums and handcrafted Japanese electronics that hit like pavement against skin. This is bliss carved from bruises - hope and fear tangled in metallic percussion while dreams of pesto float through sake-soaked alleyways.
OUT: album 'DAILY PAPER' by Escape x Bafe
'DAILY PAPER' is not something you would expect from Escape at first. As fate would have it, he met Bafe (rapper/producer/engineer) and the two realized right away that two geniuses simply had to work together. This album is the first uptempo thing you've heard from Escape. Ghetto tech and Phonk go hand in hand anyway, so why the blinkers. Let's go! Anyway, these are the elements that went into this project. Bafe is featured on every song and produced, recorded, mixed and mastered the whole album himself. Escape of course had a hand in everything, as he did on 'Die or die tryin'. New year, new album, new genre, but the same artist. Check out the little funny game and chase some paper too: DAILY PAPER RUN
Alfred Hilsberg died August 19th
Born in Wolfsburg in 1947, Hilsberg moved to Hamburg where he initially taught history of documentary films at art colleges before becoming a music journalist for at the time influential “Sounds” magazine from the mid-70s. He played a crucial role ushering in Germany’s idiosyncratic take on Punk, releasing more than 100 singles on his ZickZack label, organizing festivals and tours - many by radical underground artists, including the first releases of Freibank related bands such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Abwärts, Xmal Deutschland, Die Erde and many others. He reprised the label in the 90s again releasing artists that would become the influential “Hamburger Schule”. The “Pope of Punk” helped intrepid, visionary ideas gain visibility in close collaboration with Freibank Partner Klaus Maeck, who ran the legendary “Rip Off” record store next door and set up Germany’s first independent distribution network for ZickZack and other labels. Alfred remained connected to music into old age, even though he increasingly withdrew into private life. With his death, German pop culture has lost one of its most important and influential pioneers.
OUT: ep 'Tarantula' by Bazaar Noir
Bazaar Noir, the genre-defying collective that produced for acts like Anderson .Paak and Chance The Rapper, returns with their mesmerizing new EP 'Tarantula' - a hypnotic fusion of Arabian soul and 70s psych-funk. The track marks the second 4th single and was recorded entirely on vintage analog gear, capturing a warm, immersive sound that feels both timeless and urgent. Drums by Mateo (Web Web, Max Herre) bring a jazz-rooted pulse to the mix, grounding the otherworldly atmosphere with earthy precision.
Bazaar Noir is the brainchild of Freibank's Shuko, Roberto Di Gioia, and Jan Krause - an analog dream team whose studio arsenal includes legendary synths like the Moog Prodigy, Polymoog, and Prophet-5. Every element of their music is performed and recorded live, staying true to the warmth and unpredictability of analog sound.
'How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World' out now!
Rosa's latest work is the movie score for 'How To Be Normal and The Oddness of the Other World', directed by Florian Pochlatko, which premieres at the 75th Berlin Film Festival in 2025. Anschütz is signed to the Los Angeles-based label Heartworm Press and currently lives and works in Berlin.
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OUT: album 'Nightvision' by Ikarus
Berlin-based Phonk producer Ikarus delights us with his new album 'Nightvision' which is already his 10th release this year! Strong and dark as usual.