meet&beat 5 / 18.02.11 / VCF Berlin

Dear bass votaries and dance fanatics,

it's time for mambo num... sorry, meet&beat number 5!
After almost one long year we finally huddled together to once more present to you a celebration of genuine sounds and illustrious gathering. radio&fernseh and Pushanski will be playing Dubstep, UK Funky, Garage and beyond on the main floor, joining forces with the good people of Project Squared, namely Gordon, Skratch from Berlin HQ and Asusu from dubstep epicentre Bristol. Visual rear cover by Thomsen. The 2nd floor will be filled with various sounds, or 'Dispodisko' as we like to call it, by Rainerrock and Tres Bjorn. Special appearance by Pushanski. Visuals that will make your eyes twist will be transmitted by buntundinfarbe.

Doors open at 22.00 at VCF. Entrance fee is a paltry 5 €.

See you next friday!

FYI:



Music:
Asusu
Skratch
radio&fernseh
Gordon

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meet&beat de la musique! tomorrow!

Finally a reason to be looking forward to monday: Tomorrow June 21st Berlin is celebrating the beginning of summer with the Fête de la Musique. All over the city there will be stages with free live shows by DJs and musicians from all over the world. Of course we at meet&beat have to be part of this so we gonna built up a small "stage" outside café Schwarzsauer, Kastanienallee 14/15, Prenzlauer Berg. Almost all the peeps from meet&beat will be there. Come along and say hi!

x

meet&beat


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meet&beat 4 13.03.2010 @ VCF Berlin

It’s happening! meet&beat, Berlin’s most likeable club night, will take place in less than two weeks. Those of you who we already had the pleasure of partying with might notice that we have found a new location right in the heart of Berlin. Beside the very central location between Alexanderplatz and Hackescher Markt and it’s luscious sound system VCF offers double fun with two dancefloors. Good ol’ Pushanski and radio&fernseh will pamper your ears with dubstep and bliphop on the main floor. They will be supported by meet&beat freshman Benski DJ. On the second floor meet&beat veterans RainerRock and Très Bjørn will serve finest indietronics for you to wiggle and jiggle till dawn. Visuals will be transmitted by buntundinfarbe. As always we also have a very special live performance in store for you. This time Sneaky will play his very exciting and danceable live electroacoustic set. I have already seen him live and trust me… it’s bodacious. Enough said, come along and enjoy the meet&beat experience with us!

meet&beat 4 @ VCF, 13.03.10, Rochstraße/ Dircksenstraße, 10178 Berlin, 22.00, 5 Euro.

Update: meet&beat 4 on facebook! Feel free to invite all your friends!



        
SNEAKY - live studio session

Sneaky | MySpace Music Videos



            

Emika

No wonder peeps like Shackleton and Scuba move to Berlin, it's about to become the new Bristol. Check out Berlin's very own Emika. Now on Ninja Tune!

Emika - Drop The Other (Scuba's Vulpine Remix)
hiqual download

meet&beat 12.06. @ CulturLawine Berlin

Guess what?! We are having a party and you're invited!
On friday, june 12th we will take a tiny step out of the overworked party locations of Berlin to create space for meet&beat, an evening of pure musical hedonism at the CulturLawine studio in Weißensee. Pushanski, radio&fernseh, RainerRock and Très Bjørn gonna party keenplan style fearing no musical borders and pleasing both music nerds and dance freaks.

The location is only a few steps away from the ( S-Bahn station Prenzlauer Allee or ) tram station Friesickestraße (Tram 12/ M13). The entrance is free and good drinks are served at reasonable prices.

We'd be glad to welcome y'all as our guests!

live is live

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After just two months Lykke Li is back in Berlin. She will perform at Maria next Monday (1.12.).
This video was taken at the American mtvU woodie awards, at the end of the show she does a short duett with Q-Tip.

The 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards

Also Vampire Weekend played The Kids Don't Stand The Chance together with Chromeo (be sure to check the Chromeo Remix in my infinite Mixtape, too!)

The 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards

Plus: In case you have missed MGMT on saturday, here's a live recording french/german tv channel arte did at the festival des inrocks in Paris two weeks ago. They also taped performances with Fleet Foxes and Alela Diane.

berlin, staring at the sun

People - including myself sometimes - try too hard to see what happens overseas from time to time and miss keeping an eye on the local music scene. In the case of Berlin it's actually hard to say 'local', because since decades people come from all over the world to live and record music in this truly inspiring city. A recent example is Brandon Bethancourt aka Alaska In Winter from New Mexico who describes the process of producing his newest album Holiday as followed:

After spending half a year in an east Berlin flat, Brandon Bethancourt (AKA Alaska in Winter) awoke one afternoon after a 16 hour-straight dance party from the previous weekend only to discover that there on his computer, was a fully finished, and totally rad new album.
Yes indeed... Brandon has no recollection of how that music got there on his laptop other than vague fragmented late night memories that involve synthesizers, lasers, berliner pils, haus musik, and possibly some singing... but regardless, Brandon pretty much had so much fun, and miraculously, an album came out if it some how... and Brandon's pumped about it... and you should be too!


Alaska In Winter - Berlin (mp3)

The next song is from his last album Dance Party In The Balkans.


Alaska In Winter - Staring At The Sun (mp3)

Can you guess who helped producing this album? Okay I give you a hint. He wrote songs called Brandenburg (no, it's not Rainald Grebe!) and Prenzlauerberg. Sooo...? Come on!

Okay, you might figure it out when you watch this interview.



ps. check out futurecoder 1/2

fade to grey

Yep, that's what it looks like outside these days. It's the time of the year when it does not make a difference if you look up to the sky or down on the sidewalk. Most of the people choose to do the latter anyway. The way to work, school, friends, or supermarkets becomes a strength-sapping, mood gruelling challenge.
City Slang Records, who have their HQ here in Berlin, seem to sign the soundrack to this kind of weather. Their newest discovery are Dear Reader from Johannesburg. Dear Heart is the perfect song to get swept away by stormy november rain.

Dear Reader - Dear Heart (mp3)

In case you don't manage to peel off your bed sheets in the morning, Port O'Brien's I Woke Up Today is a good starter.

Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today (mp3)

(both via City Slang)