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Elninodiablo – The Downey Groove (Out Sep 19th, 2025)
Elninodiablo’s The Downey Groove is a fearless blend of dub, psychedelia & sensual rhythms—born from solitude, made for the dancefloor.
Elninodiablo Channels Intuition Into ‘The Downey Groove’
Conceived during an extended solo stay in the mountains of Cyprus, the album emerged from a period of deep introspection and play. With only a laptop, headphones, and a field recorder, Pantelas shed expectation and allowed intuition to guide the process. What began as informal sketches gradually evolved into a full-fledged album—loose, soulful, and steeped in feeling.
The result is an eight-track voyage through dub-drenched electronics, warm psychedelia, and sensual grooves, rich in texture, full of emotional nuance, and anchored by rhythm. Opening track ‘Purple Hypnotic’ sets the tone with woozy pads, aqueous textures and whispered fragments, before ‘Misteriosa Noche’ flips the vibe with a shimmering, funk-laced swerve. ‘The Soul Monad’ invokes the spiritual influence of Eno, Byrne and Sherwood with a bass-heavy, ceremonial dub, while ‘Subadrift’ offers up a spacey, synth-driven lift-off that draws on echoes of ‘80s/‘90s electronica.
The groove continues on ‘Rodeotheque’, a cheeky disco-boogie detour laced with tongue-in- cheek vocals and playful surprises. Title track ‘The Downey Groove’ follows with live percussion and unfiltered energy, a jam that feels both immediate and expansive. On ‘Rise In Dub’, thick basslines and jungle field recordings build a tripped-out nocturnal atmosphere, before final track ‘Operator Please!’ brings things full circle with sine wave warmth and slow-burning melodic closure, crafted entirely with Ableton’s Operator synth.
A Dubbed-Out Voyage Through Psychedelia and Groove
While no fixed concept shaped the album during its making, its emotional core revealed itself after the fact. Themes of release, rebirth, and feminine embodiment came into focus— vibrational, sensual, and rooted in the body. As Elninodiablo puts it, his creative process never starts in the mind: “It begins with an impulse in the body, a need to express. The meaning only becomes clear once the music is done.”
In this case, the album became a vehicle for personal healing, especially through rhythm, movement, and bass. “It’s sacral, rootsy, and connected to freeing tension stored in my body,” he explains. The bold, unprompted artwork by Tobias Jacobsen intuitively mirrored this energy: otherworldly, vibrant, feminine.
Musically, Elninodiablo defies genre. He describes his sound as spatial, fearless, emotive and sexy, demanding yet deeply intuitive. It’s music that invites surrender, both on and off the dancefloor. “For me, music is spirit in sound, truth expressed through frequency. It moves through you. It transforms.”
Elninodiablo’s journey is as eclectic as the record itself. From Cyprus pirate radio in his youth to spinning at London’s queer underground landmarks like The End, Turnmills, and Fabric, he quickly earned a place behind the booth. His deep understanding of club culture eventually translated into a successful PR career, where he represented artists and labels such as Horse Meat Disco, Salsoul Records, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Tegan & Sara, Strut Records, and !K7.
Queer Spirit, Global Influences, and The Downey Groove
Having laid solid foundations with releases like Shadow Dancer, Dorothea’s Rainbow, and Lunchbox Candy, this new album marks his most liberated expression yet. Studies at Berlin’s Catalyst Music (housed at the legendary Funkhaus studios) helped sharpen his production craft, while extensive travels fed into a style that draws from global influences, moving effortlessly between dubbed-out dream states, hard-hitting club gear, downtempo soul, and eastern- harmonic hybrids. The music evokes vast open spaces, from desert plains to humid jungles, more mood than genre, more energy than structure.
Outside the studio, Elninodiablo also curates Lunchbox Candy, a bi-monthly queer event at Berlin’s Kreuzwerk,, dedicated to radical sound, visual art, and embodied expression. That same fearless spirit pulses through every moment of The Downey Groove.
To mark the release, he’s throwing a party at Lunchbox Candy, the queer-led night he runs at Kreuzwerk that’s quietly redefined Berlin’s underground. With 2K+ crowds, wild performances, a sex worker-run Loveroom, and regulars like Peaches, it’s one of the city’s most in-demand parties, now headlining WHOLE Festival and on the radar for Sydney Mardi Gras 2026.
Artist: Elninodiablo
Release: The Downey Groove
Label: El Niño Diablo Music
Release Date: September 19, 2025
Pre-Save and get it here: bandcampTracks:
1. Purple Hypnotic
2. Misteriosa Noche
3. The Soul Monad
4. Subadrift
5. Rodeotheque
6. Downey Groove
7. Rise In Dub
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Reeperbahn Festival 2025: 20 Years of Discovery in Hamburg
Reeperbahn Festival celebrates 20 years this Sept in Hamburg! 400+ artists, 450 shows & a global music summit. Discover what’s next in music. 🎶✨
This September, Hamburg’s St. Pauli district once again becomes Europe’s epicenter of musical discovery. From September 17–20, 2025, the Reeperbahn Festival celebrates its 20th edition, marking two decades as the continent’s largest club festival and one of the most significant gatherings for the international music community.
A Festival of First Encounters
Reeperbahn has always been about finding what comes next. Across roughly 65 venues, from basement clubs to the Elbphilharmonie’s sweeping stage, more than 400 artists from 30 countries will perform around 450 shows. It’s a rare chance to stumble into a tiny room and see a band on the cusp of their breakthrough-before they’ve made their way onto bigger stages.
The Spirit of “Togetherness”
This year’s theme, “Imagine Togetherness!”, underlines the festival’s role as more than just a marathon of gigs. Reeperbahn is leaning into questions of solidarity, responsibility, and collaboration-both within the music industry and in the culture it reflects. Continuing its partnership with Keychange, the festival maintains a 50% gender balance in its lineup, reinforcing its stance as a progressive force in the live circuit.
Beyond the Music
What sets Reeperbahn apart is the breadth of its programming. Alongside the concerts, the schedule includes art installations, readings, film screenings, political talks, and award ceremonies. Around 5,000 industry professionals from across the globe will attend, making it as much a professional summit as it is a celebration for the 45,000 expected visitors.
Reeperbahn doubles as one of Europe’s most important industry summits, hosting a sprawling conference program that draws over 5,000 delegates from across the global music and creative sectors. Panels, keynotes, and workshops dive into everything from streaming economies to AI in music, artist rights, sustainability, and the politics of cultural exchange. It’s part trade fair, part think tank-a place where managers, labels, and policymakers mingle with artists, sparking conversations that often ripple far beyond Hamburg.
An Open Invitation
Accessibility remains central. The Festival Village on the Heiligengeistfeld and several public stages offer free entry, drawing in curious locals and passersby. It’s a reminder that while Reeperbahn has become a key event for labels, managers, and agents, it’s still rooted in the city and open to anyone who wants to experience it.
Two Decades In
Now at its 20-year milestone, Reeperbahn continues to set itself apart in a crowded festival calendar. It’s not about blockbuster headliners-it’s about discovery, diversity, and dialogue. For anyone passionate about uncovering new voices and experiencing the energy of music in its raw, unpolished form, Hamburg in September remains the place to be.
Must-See Acts: Established Voices & Rising Stars
Reeperbahn’s vast lineup includes names generating true buzz:
Here’s the list with the bold artist names transformed into clean, headline-style headings, followed by their descriptions:
Dry Cleaning
With Florence Shaw’s deadpan spoken-word delivery cutting across wiry post-punk guitars, Dry Cleaning turn everyday banality into strangely addictive mantras.
Blondshell
Brutally candid and melodic, Blondshell’s indie rock unpacks messy emotion with a clarity that hits harder than distortion ever could.
MØ
Still straddling pop maximalism and electro-punk grit, MØ brings festival-ready choruses that are as unruly as they are euphoric.
Twin Tribes
The Texas duo channel coldwave melancholy and occult synth textures, crafting the kind of darkwave anthems that feel both ritualistic and cathartic.
Alice Phoebe Lou
Her otherworldly voice drifts between folk intimacy and cosmic indie psychedelia, always hovering just slightly outside gravity’s pull.
Bosshoss
Their outlaw-country-meets-rock swagger might sound improbable in theory, but live it’s pure beer-spilled abandon.
Anna Ternheim
Stark and crystalline, her songs balance Nordic melancholy with singer-songwriter intimacy, hitting with quiet precision.
Francois and The Atlas Mountains
French indie pop at its most fluid: tender melodies wrapped in subtle electronics and an almost painterly sense of texture.
Bikini Beach
With lo-fi fuzz and garage-rock abandon, this German outfit sound like they’d rather play from a basement than a boardroom—and that’s the charm.
Yukimi
Stepping out from Little Dragon, she sculpts minimalist art-pop that trades in restraint, groove, and emotional precision.
Ebbb
A collective weaving experimental electronics with hypnotic vocals, Ebbb make club music that feels ceremonial rather than disposable.
Easy Easy
Jangly riffs and new-wave inflections collide with bilingual vocals, making Easy Easy one of the most refreshingly off-kilter indie prospects in Germany.
BÆNCH
Denmark’s latest post-punk export thrives on intensity, channeling raw riffs and driving bass into catharsis that feels both immediate and unpolished.
NewDad
Brooding yet melodic, Galway’s NewDad marry shoegaze haze with alt-rock sincerity, conjuring emotional storms that linger long after the chorus.
She’s in Parties
Named after a Bauhaus classic, this UK band take dream-pop shimmer and lace it with a post-punk bite sharp enough to draw blood.
Teenage Dads
Melbourne’s indie oddballs funnel playful hooks and restless energy into jittery guitar pop that never stops fidgeting.
Mary In The Junkyard
Their songs unravel like diary entries set to noisy alt-rock crescendos, fragile one moment and feral the next.
Soeckers
Nodding to Britpop swagger while rooted in German indie traditions, Soeckers deliver melodic rock with a disarming sense of familiarity.
lovehead
Vienna’s trio bottle youthful urgency into wiry, lo-fi indie anthems that sound equal parts spontaneous and heartbreakingly deliberate.
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John Tejada – The Watchline (album out Sept 5)
John Tejada’s The Watchline is a haunting, guitar-led album—dense, emotive, and ghostly—exploring memory, decay, and transformation.
The Watchline is the new full-length album from John Tejada. Across eleven tracks, it marks a clear shift—emotionally focused, sonically weathered—built around dense, guitar-led textures that ask to be unraveled. It’s a body of work less concerned with form than with feeling. The result is a deeply personal, ghostly collection of songs that reveal themselves slowly and deliberately.
The album lives in that space. Songs like “Until the End of the World” and “Where the Light Bends” lean into breakbeats, heavy low-end, and layered distortion. Others, “Driftreturn,” “The Navigator,” “Through the Watchline” are slower, more reflective, carried by tape haze, static, and melodic decay. The instrumentation throughout is simpler than in Tejada’s past work, but denser—guitars, synths, and rhythmic fragments stacked and corroded, then reassembled with care.
March Adstrum contributes vocals on two tracks (“Static Searching” and “Apricity”) adding a submerged melodic presence. Adstrum also created the album’s cover art and helped shape the visual language of The Watchline’s world: storm-worn structures, coastal grids, and hidden transmissions beneath the surface.
Tejada reflects, “The Watchline is this idea of a boundary, a place between memory and forgetting, between land and ocean, between who we were and who we’re becoming. It’s where the past still leaves traces, but the future is being written.”
Artist: John Tejada
Release: The Watchline
Label: Palette Recordings
Release Date: September 5th, 2025Tracklist:
1. Until the End of the World
2. Greywake
3. Northlight
4. Driftreturn
5. Hollowcrest
6. Static Searching (feat. March Adstrum)
7. The Navigator
8. Vaporail
9. Apricity (feat. March Adstrum)
10. Until the Light Bends
11. Through the WatchlineAbout John Tejada
John Tejada is an Austrian-born, Los Angeles–based electronic music producer, DJ, and composer known for his detailed, emotive, and genre-defying sound. Over the last three decades, he has released a vast catalog of work spanning techno, house, ambient, and experimental electronic music.
He was born in Vienna in 1974 and raised in Los Angeles, where he still resides. Coming from a musical family—his father was a conductor and his mother a soprano—Tejada began playing classical piano as a child before discovering hip hop, electro, and eventually the world of electronic production. By his late teens, he was DJing and releasing his own tracks, quickly becoming part of the international electronic scene.
Tejada is also the founder of Palette Recordings, a label he launched in 1996 to release his own music as well as collaborations and works by other like-minded artists. Beyond Palette, he has released on influential labels such as Kompakt, Plug Research, Poker Flat, and 7th City. His music is celebrated for blending warmth, precision, and intricate sound design, often pairing lush harmonies with deep rhythmic structures.
Some of his most recognized works include “Mono On Mono,” “Sweat (On the Walls),” and “The End of It All” as well as multiple albums like Parabolas (2011, Kompakt) and Signs Under Test (2015, Kompakt). He’s also one half of the duo Wajatta with comedian-musician Reggie Watts, a project that fuses house, funk, and live vocal improvisation.
With a career spanning 25+ years, John Tejada has performed worldwide at major clubs and festivals, while continuing to evolve sonically—moving from minimal techno and house toward more atmospheric, guitar-tinged textures in his latest work (The Watchline, 2025).
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Carsten Schulz: LOCKDOWNBEATS at Janine Bean Gallery
“LOCKDOWNBEATS” exhibition by Carsten Schulz (Sept 10 – Nov 1, 2025) unveils haunting photos of deserted Berlin clubs & DJ portraits, documenting a fragile era.
Exhibition Dates: September 10th – November 1st, 2025
Opening Reception: September 10th, 2025, 6 – 10 pmThe artist, Carsten Schulz, as well as several of the portrayed DJs will be present.
Location:
janinebeangallery
Torstrasse 154
10115 Berlin, GermanyWith the works in the exhibition “Lockdownbeats,” Berlin-based photographer Carsten Schulz focuses on a period of caesura: the sudden silencing of a city whose nightlife was otherwise constantly vibrant. Starting with the clubs deserted during the pandemic, he created photographs that go far beyond mere documentation.
Schulz transforms places of wild celebration and collective experience into silent pictorial spaces. He condenses them with atmospheric and formal clarity, evoking the aesthetics of so-called lost places. Added to this are the portraits of the masters of ceremonies of these places, who were virtually on forced leave at the time: their resident DJs, in their usual habitats yet entirely without the enlivening audience.
What began as a snapshot during the lockdown is now unfolding as a haunting contemporary document about the fragility of a cultural ecosystem. Berlin’s club scene, once synonymous with freedom, excess, and artistic experimentation, is not only marked by the aftermath of the pandemic; it is also increasingly under pressure from structural changes and economic dynamics.
The Presence of Disappearance
The current situation sheds a stark light on the precarious situation of clubs: rising rents, declining attendance, economic pressure, and political inertia are increasingly threatening their existence. Media reports speak of a continuing wave of closures. Analyses predict that almost half of Berlin’s clubs will be at risk of extinction by 2025.
Venues such as Watergate, Wilde Renate, and KitKat have announced their closure or are fighting for survival. While the recent recognition of techno culture as UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage recognizes its importance, it cannot guarantee the continued existence of these venues.
In this context, Schulz’s photographic work unfolds a special, aesthetic-documentary urgency. His images reveal not only the beauty of emptiness but also its pull, allowing us to anticipate unpleasant possibilities. Do his photographs depict a contemplative interim or a silence that endures?
Faces of Nightlife
As a conceptual complement to the “Lockdownbeats” series, classic black-and-white portraits of those personalities who have musically shaped Berlin’s nightlife for years—the DJs—were created. Unlike the color photographs of the clubs, these portraits are deliberately reduced and monochrome. The portraits of the DJs were deliberately taken in their abandoned workspaces and highlight the discrepancy of these performers: temporarily off duty and without an audience.
Among those portrayed are: Alex Gallus inside Haubentaucher indoor, DJ Noppe inside Haubentaucher outdoor, DJ Paradoxx inside Insomnia, DJ Ployceebell inside SchwuZ, DJ Senay inside Solar, DJ Tomekk inside Maxxim, DJ Vilify inside Void, Harris inside the 808, Kalle Kuts inside Gretchen, Martin Ka inside Wilde Renate and San Gabriel inside Spindler und Klatt
About the artist:
Carsten Schulz, born in Berlin in 1969, is a photographer and engineer. His initial influence was his grandfather’s camera equipment, which helped him develop an early sense of light, structure, and atmosphere. Schulz has been working intensively as a photographer since 1997, initially focusing on landscapes, stills, and action, later also expanding into advertising and people photography. His visual language oscillates between technical precision and emotional intensity, between construction and atmosphere, movement and stillness.
Project & Collaboration
Editor-in-Chief Juliane Behnfeldt has steered this complex project with congeniality. In addition to artistic coordination, she is also responsible for the extensive communications efforts, combining her long-standing collaboration with photographer Carsten Schulz with her extensive contacts in the music and club industry to create this work of art.
Contact:
Phone: +49 (0)30 470 561 74
Cell: +49 (0)163 17 447 38
Email: info@janinebeangallery.com
Website: www.janinebeangallery.comTaged as/in; art, berlin, Carsten Schulz, Clubs, culture, DJs, documentary, event, exhibition, janinebeangallery, Photography#writtenby:
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Baptiste Lagrave – Crisis (out August 28)
Baptiste Lagrave drops Crisis on Tedri Records Aug 28 — raw, urgent club energy with a Tatie Dee remix following Sep 25. Paris sound at its peak.
Paris-based composer and producer Baptiste Lagrave unveils the next part of his BREAKUP EP — a project that merges the emotional intensity of romantic rupture with hypnotic, driving club energy.
Tracks:
1. CRISIS (out August 28)
More urgent and raw, Crisis unfolds as a pulsating narrative, evoking chaos, chase, and emotional overload with FX-heavy textures and powerful rhythmic programming.
2. CRISIS (Tatie Dee Remix) (out September 25)
French producer and DJ Tatie Dee (@tatiedee_) turns Crisis into a club anthem — a powerful remix blending heavy groove, distorted euphoria, and infectious energy.
Artist: Baptiste Lagrave
Release: Crisis (incl. Tatie Dee Remix)
Label: Tedri Records
Release Date: August 28, 2025About Baptiste Lagrave
Baptiste Lagrave is a Paris-based composer and producer whose sound fuses raw emotional intensity with hypnotic electronic textures and driving club energy. His work explores the space between personal rupture and collective euphoria, crafting tracks that feel both intimate and explosive.
With releases on Tedri Records and collaborations across the French electronic scene, Lagrave continues to push boundaries while staying deeply rooted in the pulse of the dancefloor.
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SAVE THE DATE: The Clinic of The Unbodied
Opening Sep 11: Herwig Scherabon’s “The Clinic of The Unbodied” at Culterim Gallery. Explore blurred lines between species & tech in a sci-fi world!
Solo exhibition by Herwig Scherabon,
Opening at Culterim Gallery on Thursday, September 11th 2025WHEN: September 12 – October 2, 2025.
Opening: Thursday, September 11, 6–10 PM – with performances and drinks.
Conversations: Wednesday, September 18.
Finissage: Thursday, October 2.WHERE: Culterim Gallery (Veterinary), Erich-Weinert-Straße 135, 10409 Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.
WHO: Herwig Scherabon is an Austria-born, Berlin-based media artist whose work intersects data aesthetics, spatial politics, and posthuman ecologies. Trained in digital media and design, his artistic research often draws from critical theory and speculative fiction to imagine new forms of visual storytelling. His practice spans video, 3D animation, sculpture, and installation, and has been exhibited internationally.
WHY: In The Clinic of The Unbodied, Herwig Scherabon creates a fictional environment that fuses clinical aesthetics with science fiction. Animal bones intertwine with speculative prosthetics; impossible joints, synthetic nerves, and imagined implants; questioning what forms of care and control might look like in a future where the lines between species and systems have blurred. The exhibition reflects on the instrumentalization of life and the ethical dilemmas embedded in technological care: What happens when the body becomes a site of experimentation? Where does empathy end and domination begin?
Mark your calendars!
More information soon.
About the Culterim Gallery
Culterim Gallery is a dynamic art space in Berlin that redefines the traditional gallery model. Emerging from the innovative “interim cultural use” concept of Culterim, the gallery provides a vital platform for emerging and established artists by transforming vacant spaces into vibrant exhibition venues and studio communities.
Since its establishment in 2021, Culterim Gallery has quickly become known for its focus on installation art and conceptual pieces, often featuring a diverse range of artists from Berlin and beyond. Their holistic approach extends beyond mere exhibition, fostering a supportive environment for artists through studio facilities, artist-in-residence programs, and various art education formats.
With a commitment to community building and providing visibility for artists at all stages of their careers, Culterim Gallery offers a fresh and accessible approach to the contemporary art scene in Berlin, consistently presenting high-quality exhibitions and fostering artistic exchange.
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‘Ascendia’ September Exhibition at the SLP Galllery
Experience Ascendia by Justine Otto & Giuseppe Gonella at Galerie SLP, Berlin. A visionary duo show on humanity’s rise & transformation.
Vernissage: Saturday, September 6th, 2025
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Admission: free
Venue: Galerie SLP, Bikini Berlin, Budapester Str. 48, 10787 Berlin
Exhibition: 06.09 – 04.10.2025About the Show
Gallery Sara Lily Perez is pleased to present ‘Ascendia’, a duo exhibition by the acclaimed contemporary painters Justine Otto and Giuseppe Gonella. The exhibition explores humanity’s collective rise, transformation, and visionary potential. This is achieved through the diverse but resonant practices of Justine Otto and Giuseppe Gonella. The title comes from “ascend”, meaning to rise, move upward, or achieve a higher state. It serves as a powerful metaphor for transcending boundaries both personal and universal.
“Ascendia” encapsulates the journey of art and the human spirit striving for elevation, meaning, and unity.At its core, “Ascendia” revolves around the idea of shared ascent: individually, spiritually, and as a society. The exhibition sets up a dialogue between Otto and Gonella. They are two painters who explore the tension between inner transformation and outward movement through figuration and abstraction. Their works, when brought together, act as visual metaphors for collective aspirations and the desire to surpass the ordinary.
About the Artists
Justine Otto (b. 1974, Poland)
Otto’s dynamic, multilayered work navigates the space between figuration and abstraction. Trained at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Otto has developed a distinctive visual language that combines expressive brushwork with stamping, scraping, and geometric fragmentation. Otto’s work often explores the layered complexities of identity, memory, and the interplay between the human figure and abstract spaces.
Known for her expressive depictions of human figures, her layered oil paintings often portray mythic or militarized figures that appear fragmented. They depict ambiguous figures ranging from youthful protagonists to archetypes of authority. These are rendered in vivid, jewel-toned palettes that evoke both intensity and dissolution. Her paintings challenge traditional representations of power, identity, and emotion.
Otto’s process embraces tension and contradiction: forms emerge and vanish, realism collides with ornament, and narrative is suspended in psychological ambiguity. Her work offers a critical lens on power, gender, and vulnerability, and has been exhibited extensively across Europe and the U.S.
Giuseppe Gonella (b. 1984, Italy)
Gonella is a contemporary artist based in Berlin, having graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 2008 he has since developed a rich international career, living and working in cities such as New York, Leipzig, Berlin, and Lisbon. His work often explores themes of memory, identity, and transformation, drawing on both classical painting traditions and contemporary visual culture.
Guiseppe Gonella’s paintings reflect on modern human rituals, dreams, and fears. They do so through dystopian and mysterious landscapes. These landscapes blend memory with modern allegory. His expressive brushwork and fragmented narratives invite viewers into emotionally charged, dreamlike worlds where time and space collapse.
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Die Vögel – Phantom Of The Paradise (Out on the 22 Aug 2025)
Robag Wruhme’s Secret Weapon: Die Vögel – Phantom of the Paradise lands Aug 22 on Tulpa Ovi Records. Soundfat & Altrosa vibes incoming!
Man wie geil ist das denn bitte?
Die Geschichte zu Phantom of the Paradise ist die, dass Robag Wruhme dieses Lied bei einem Livset in Kiev der Vögel auf Youtube gesehen / gehört hat. Bei Nachfrage haben Jakobus Durstewitz und Mense Reents aka Die Vögel eine Spielvariante für Robag erstellt. Und genau diese kommt jetzt im Soundfetten Gewandt und in Altrosa auf Tulpa Ovi Records als Secret Weapon. Wir freuen uns sehr!
Man, how cool is that?
The story behind Phantom of the Paradise is that Robag Wruhme saw/heard this song on YouTube during a live set in Kyiv with Die Vögel. Upon request, Jakobus Durstewitz and Mense Reents, aka Die Vögel, created a version for Robag. And this is exactly what’s now being released in a sound-rich outfit and old-rose color on Tulpa Ovi Records as a Secret Weapon. We’re very excited!
– Tulpa Crew
Artist: Die Vögel
Release: Phantom Of The Paradise
Label: Tulpa Ovi Records
Release Date: August 22, 2025Taged as/in; Altrosa, Artist, Die Vögel, Electronic, Kyiv, label, live, Music, new release, Phantom, Records, release, Robag Wruhme, Secret Weapon, Tulpa, vibes#writtenby:
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documenta 16: Naomi Beckwith, stellt Künstlerisches Team vor
Naomi Beckwith ernennt ihr kuratorisches Kernteam für die documenta 16 (2027) mit Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro & Xiaoyu Weng.
Im Dezember 2024 wurde Naomi Beckwith von der internationalen Findungskommission zur Künstlerischen Leiterin der documenta 16 ernannt. Nun gibt sie ihr Kernteam bekannt: Das Ensemble aus Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro und Xiaoyu Weng wird gemeinsam mit Beckwith die Ausstellung, die Publikationen und das Programm der documenta 16 entwickeln.
© documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, Foto/Photo: Nicolas Wefers„Ich bin dankbar, gemeinsam mit diesem Team die documenta 16 zu gestalten. Ich bewundere die Unabhängigkeit in Geist und Denken, die bei allen durch Hochachtung gegenüber Künstler*innen und Publikum gleichermaßen geprägt ist. Wir freuen uns darauf, gemeinsam die vielfältigen Felder aktueller künstlerischer Praktiken zu erkunden und in einen Dialog mit den drängenden Fragen zu treten, die die gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Landschaften unseres Planeten und ihre Zukünfte prägen.”
Naomi Beckwith, Künstlerischen Leiterin der documenta 16Die documenta 16 findet vom 12. Juni bis 19. September 2027 in Kassel statt.
Carla Acevedo-Yates
Carla Acevedo-Yates ist Kuratorin und Wissenschaftlerin. Sie erforscht zeitgenössische Kunst aus dem gesamten amerikanischen Raum aus einer transkulturellen Perspektive. Dabei liegt ihr Schwerpunkt auf der Karibik, Lateinamerika und den Vereinigten Staaten.
Sie war als Kuratorin am Michigan State University Broad Art Museum in East Lansing und am Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago tätig. Dort verantwortete sie die Gruppenausstellungen Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora 1990s – Today. Sie war ebenfalls für entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico verantwortlich. Ihre jüngsten Ausstellungen, Publikationen und Vorträge befassen sich intensiv mit der Diaspora als Ort kultureller Produktion. Diese kulturelle Produktion gestaltet das gesellschaftliche und politische Leben neu.
Romi Crawford
Romi Crawford ist Pädagogin, Autorin und Professorin für Visual and Critical Studies an der School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sie interessiert sich für die Entstehung von Wissen. Dieser entsteht im Prozess des künstlerischen Arbeitens. Sie beschäftigt sich mit einer responsiven, kollaborativen und regenerativen Kunstgeschichtsschreibung. Diese ist vor allem lebendig und nimmt oft experimentelle Formen an. Ihre wissenschaftlichen und kuratorischen Projekte untersuchen häufig historische Beispiele kollektiven Kunstschaffens und setzen diese Praxis fort.
Crawford befasst sich mit künstlerischen Methoden und Strategien. Diese entstehen aus ungleichen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Verhältnissen. Sie untersucht, wie solche Umstände neue Genres, Produktionsformen und Strukturen hervorbringen. Dazu zählen improvisierte und außer-institutionelle Formate. Crawfords Forschungsarbeit betrifft pädagogische Aktivitäten. Diese Aktivitäten sind in den Kunstpraktiken der 1960er und 70er Jahre verankert. Diese Forschung veranlasste sie zur Gründung der Black Arts Movement School Modality und der New Art School Modality. Beide Plattformen sind frei zugänglich, mobil und basieren auf einem neu formulierten Werteverständnis für die Kunstvermittlung.
Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro
Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro ist Schriftstellerin und Herausgeberin von Publikationen. Zu ihren Werken zählen Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews, 1984–1992. Es ist ein Sammelband von Vorträgen von Audre Lorde (2020). In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love enthält ausgewählte Schriften der Philosophin und Abolitionistin Joy James. Sie hat es als beratende Herausgeberin für Divided Publishing (2023) zusammengestellt. Zudem ist Another Sun ein Gespräch mit der Politikwissenschaftlerin Françoise Vergès (2026).
In zahlreichen Publikationen widmet sich Castro verborgenen Einschreibungen, sei es in Archiven, Versen, Liedern oder in Landschaften. Mit jeder von ihr verfassten Seite ehrt sie die Vermächtnisse von Dichter*innen, Wortschöpfer*innen und im Verborgenen wirkender Philosoph*innen.
Xiaoyu Weng
Xiaoyu Weng (der Name wird sh-ih-ow-y-uu w-eh-ng ausgesprochen) ist Kuratorin und Autorin, deren Arbeit sich in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Künstler*innen und Kulturakteur*innen entfaltet. Sie entwirft synkretistische und hybride künstlerische Rahmenkonzepte. Diese rücken zeitgenössische Praktiken in den Fokus. Sie verbinden dabei häufig verschiedene Disziplinen und kulturelle Kontexte miteinander.
Ihre Arbeit hat sich von großen Institutionen über Biennalen bis hin zu unabhängigen Initiativen entwickelt. Diese Initiativen finden in wechselnden internationalen Konstellationen statt. Darin entstehen Freundschaften und neue Verbindungen wachsen. Als Kuratorin war sie unter anderem am Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, der Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, der Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Yekaterinburg und der Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco und Paris tätig.
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