Last Friday saw the launch of our NOW AVAILABLE PAUL SMITH COLLABORATION ISSUE, FSM #2 at the infamous Bar 25.
After a lovely trip on the Spree on Captain Jan Sputnik’s boat the team arrived to set up a small exhibition of pages of the brand new mag with the help of Uli Weber, who shot [...]

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After 20 years the amazing Roller Disco at Huxleys Neue Welt in Berlin is re-opening.
Our friends at S O U L KO M B I N A T will be rocking the 500sqm of skate/dancefloor.
Bring your old classic roller-skate and get back to the 70s for a night!
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Do you remember that crazy drunk guy hanging around at the Luna Park with a kickdrum on his back playing an off-tune guitar and singing bewildered?
Looks like he’s a superstar now, and girls go crazy sitting on his bouncing knees.
Bob Log III is playing in Berlin tomorrow at Kaffee Burger.
A kinky location for a kinky [...]

Full length documentary on Fela Anikulapo Kuti – the charismatic and talented Godfather of African music, the originator of Afrobeat, who inspired a generation of musicians and nearly started a revolution in Nigeria.
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Gazelle feat. Weez – Just Now – filmed by Simon Steuri
“In this modern day satire, while the west is giving money as aid to Africa countless of corrupt African rulers return to the source to exchange the same money for luxury goods.
During Art Basel 2009 Gazelle staged a public performance art piece that commented on [...]

Thursday evening saw the German premiere of POWEr by the Canadian duo Artificiel. The performance was held at KHW in cooperation with CTM.10. The audio-visual life show has been developed on commission for the 10th anniversary of Mutek festival in 2009. Assistance for users of pacemakers or people with epileptic tendencies is not suitable.
In the [...]

After Similarity is not Recommendation we headed to Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), a.k.a. the pregnant oyster, for the opening reception of transmediale.10.
We first checked the installation in the main hall, looking like a space ship and made of the doors of an old bulding crafted during German Socialism in the city of Halle. [...]

On Tuesday February 2nd we attended the ¨Music Similarity is not Music Recommendation¨  at the .HBC by Spanish computer scientist and engineer Pedro Cano, who gave us an overview on the newest research and technologies in the field of music recommendation.  Interesting statistics based on a number of new online music services and social interaction [...]

Luckily we arrived to the last bit of the Open Broadcast lecture in the frame of Club Transmediale at .HBC. The presentation of the Swiss software with the aim to create user generated music programs, with a background of culture and science. Invited members share their music archives (songs/records and additional information).  A conventional radio [...]