EASTERNDAZE × BERLIN FESTIVAL SHOWCASES COLLECTIVES FROM 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 & film screening series Easterndaze × Berlin: DIY Music
Topographies follows up on
the first 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.
FULL LIST OF EVENTS
Nov 28 2018. LAND 3C, 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), Chillera (live),
Bryozone (live), Flaty (Gost Zvuk
/ aka Wrong Water / AEM Rhythm Cascade, live), Mlin Patz (live),
Nikolaienko (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 fctionalizes 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 diferent
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 (Budapes
