MEDIA LOCA

ROEDELIUS, at ctm festival, Wed Feb 1st at 15:00

Mo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:44:34 +0000

Panel discussion with HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS [DE] / SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON [SE/DE] / BORNGRÄBER & STRÜVER [DE] / Moderator: PAUL PAULUN [DE]

Born in Berlin in 1934, Hans-Joachim Roedelius was a cofounder of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab and various groups, including Human Being, Kluster, Cluster, Harmonia, Tempus Transit and Lunzprojekt. He has been part of around 160 record productions, either as a soloist or with band projects.
The Zodiak Free Arts Lab was a new-fangled venue for experimentation at the interface of music, art and performance, run between 1967 and early 1969 by Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Boris Schaak and others on the ground floor of the present HAU 2 building in Berlin.

www.ctm-festival.de
www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-festival/discourse
www.media-loca.com/roedelius

QLUSTER, live at ctm festival, Wednesday Feb 1st

Mo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:23:44 +0000

For their performance, Qluster are not only going to haul an arsenal of analog electronic sound machines to Berlin but have also invited Armin Metz to join them as their special guest.

www.ctm-festival.de

www.residentadvisor.net
www.media-loca.com/roedelius

MIKA VAINIO, live at ctm festival, Friday Feb 3rd

Mo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:14:29 +0000

Having performed at CTM in the past as Pan Sonic, this year Vainio returns in support of his recently-debuted solo live show, featuring an interplay between electronics and live guitar.

www.ctm-festival.de

www.residentadvisor.net
www.media-loca.com/mikavainio

NOTIC NASTIC, live @ Cut&Paste Design Battle, Feb 2nd 2012

Mo — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:55:17 +0000

Next week is a busy week in Berlin!
Please reserve Thursday night for a special event:
http://vimeo.com

JAN JELINEK and STATIC @ Art’s Birthday on Jan 17th, 2012

Mo — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:33:05 +0000

EBU ars acustica special evening:
in cooperation with the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design and the ZKM | Karlsruhe, SWR2 is celebrating the 1.000.049th birthday of art with a live concert, videostream and broadcast at the ZKM_Media Theater, at 8 pm, free admission
For the fifth anniversary of the five-hour live concert at the ZKM_Media Theater this year SWR2 presents sound art from and with JAN JELINEK and STATIC (Hanno Leichtmann with ensemble).
Read full details at:
on1.zkm.de

www.media-loca.com/janjelinek
www.media-loca.com/static

MEDIA LOCA, heute von 20:00 – 22:00 live auf reboot.fm

Mo — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:48:17 +0000

Live aus dem Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin:
Von 20:00 – 22:00 findet heute Abend die 2. Radiosendung von MEDIA LOCA statt, präsentiert von Mo Loschelder.
Heutiger Studiogast ist ELECTRIC INDIGO.
http://reboot.fm
oder UKW 88,4 MHz in Berlin und 90,7 MHz in Potsdam

www.media-loca.com/electricindigo

QLUSTER, interview with Onnen Bock

Mo — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:00:55 +0000

Onnen Bock, the younger part of QLUSTER, has been interviewed by Pascal Savy after the performance at Semibreve Festival in Portugal where he talks about how he had met Roedelius in Corsica during summer 1991, then still being 18 years old. And talking about the way they started to work together and how they are performing now.
www.fluid-radio.co.uk

STATIC “Freedom Of Noise” on Top 10 list of 2011

Mo — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:35:43 +0000

“…Avant-gardists go doleful: a record such as this can so easily tip into the dry cynicism of falsified good intentions, but local hero Hanno Leichtmann gets a muttering Kammerflimmer groove kicking, dipping from meditative to cut-up (and thankfully back again).”

www.exberliner.com/articles/top-10-records-of-2011
www.media-loca.com/static

Album of the Year – NATALIE BERIDZE / TBA “Forget’fulness”

Mo — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:37:42 +0000

www.kickingagainstthepricks.org

More info at
www.media-loca.com/natalieberidzetba

GUDRUN GUT, solo live! @ HBC, 10.12.2011

Mo — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:23:55 +0000

“Les femmes s’en melent” Festival am 10.12. @ HBC, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 9, 10178 Berlin, start: 21:00
Am 09. & 10.12.2011 findet der Ableger des aus Frankreich stammenden Frauen-Musikfestivals LFSM – Les Femmes S’en Mêlent (Frauen mischen sich ein) zum dritten Mal in Berlin statt. Wieder demonstrieren Künstlerinnen, weibliche DJs und Bands zumindest mit dominanter weiblicher Beteiligung an zwei Abenden, dass sie es nicht schlechter können als ihre männlichen Kollegen, auch wenn sie im männlich geprägten Diskurs wenig und wenn oft nur unter bestimmten Aspekten vorkommen.
Live: Gudrun Gut / Yula / Christine and The Queens / Mansfield Tya, plus: Playtime Party w/ DJ Female Macho

hbc-berlin.de
www.media-loca.com/gudrungut

NOTIC NASTIC, live! @ about blank, 09.12.2011

Mo — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:10:10 +0000

“Les femmes s’en melent” Festival @ about blank, Markgrafendamm 24c, 10245 Berlin, start: 23:30
Am 09. & 10.12.2011 findet der Ableger des aus Frankreich stammenden Frauen-Musikfestivals LFSM – Les Femmes S’en Mêlent (Frauen mischen sich ein) zum dritten Mal in Berlin statt. Wieder demonstrieren Künstlerinnen, weibliche DJs und Bands zumindest mit dominanter weiblicher Beteiligung an zwei Abenden, dass sie es nicht schlechter können als ihre männlichen Kollegen, auch wenn sie im männlich geprägten Diskurs wenig und wenn oft nur unter bestimmten Aspekten vorkommen.
DJs:
Mlle Caro / Kritzkom / Hedda / Sarah Adorable
Live:
Notic Nastic / Kaleid (Electrosexual feat. Dorian E) / DAT Politics / Anna Otto / rRoxymore / Mary Velo

www.facebook.com/LFSM.Berlin
www.media-loca.com/noticnastic

Static & Ensemble, live at HBC in Berlin on Dec 1st 2012. Now on vimeo!

Mo — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:33:25 +0000

Static & Ensemble play Sad Rocket from “Freedom of Noise” as part of their release concert on Dec 1st, Line up:
Hanno Leichtmann, electronics and percussion / Sabine Ercklentz, trumpet and effects / Tobias Delius, tenor saxophone and clarinet / Anna Viechtel, concert harp
Live recording by Kassian Troyer / Video snippets by Nikolaus Schroth / Mix and Video edit by Hanno Leichtmann

http://vimeo.com

www.media-loca.com/static

MEDIA LOCA is going on air!

Mo — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:02:28 +0000

On Saturday, 26th of Nov from 8 pm – 10 pm you can attend the first radio show hosted by Mo Loschelder. With studio guest Hanno Leichtmann, presenting his new album plus baring lots of interesting details of his music career.
Listen to the live show or to the archived version at
http://reboot.fm

STATIC “collage, holz, papier 2″ – Great video clip!

Mo — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:12:42 +0000

Done by the artist himself: www.youtube.com/watch

ROEDELIUS live at Moogfest, Asheville USA

Mo — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:52:12 +0000

Nice review of a great performance:
http://blog.billkopp.com

“It’s the kind of record that makes you thankful to have ears.”

Mo — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:56:40 +0000

Read the full review of STATIC’s album “Freedom Of Noise” at

www.popmatters.com

Andrew Pekler & Jan Jelinek play Sonne = Blackbox

Mo — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:22:32 +0000

live at Künstlerhaus Frise, Hamburg, 26th October 2011.
The performers were improvising to Ursula Bogner’s recordings, which have been reconstructed on tape loops.
See extract at
www.youtube.com

More info on the recent release at
www.faitiche.de

NOTIC NASTIC new video, featured at zero:inch

Mo — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:46:22 +0000

Natalie van Sasse van Ysselt has directed the video for the album’s lead single, ‘Cyanide’, which places the group’s singer in a nightmarish origami jungle of constructivist geometry.

www.zero-inch.com

GUDRUN GUT, interview zur “Goldenen Axt”

Mo — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:49:36 +0000

Gudrun Gut über die fehlende Anerkennung von elektronischer Musik in Deutschland, ihre Wunschliste für die Zukunft, neue Projekte und warum sie sich jetzt doch als Feministin bezeichnet hier im Interview:

missy-magazine.de

ROEDELIUS on tour in the US, nice interview!

Mo — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:29:46 +0000

“I don’t approach music intellectually, I just do it.”
For the full interview plus video clip please check
www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en
More info at
www.media-loca.com/roedelius

ANGEL “26000″, great album – great review!

Mo — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:53:52 +0000

Angel (Ilpo Väisänen & Schneider TM) have just released their new album “26000″ on EditionsMego.
Please read a really good review on this very special piece at
www.chaindlk.com/reviews

GUDRUN GUT, winner of “The Golden Axe”

Mo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:33:01 +0000

Im Rahmen des Reeperbahn Festivals hat die Geschäftsstelle des VUT am 22.09. im Hamburger „On Air“ das zweite Mal die Goldene Indieaxt verliehen.
Gudrun Gut wurde mit der Goldenen Indieaxt als Netzwerkerin, für ihre Labelarbeit und ihr künstlerisches Schaffen geehrt. Die glückliche Gewinnerin freute sich über den Preis, der einen starken Symbolcharakter hat, und setzte sich damit gegen die Nominierten Ruben Jonas Schnell für Byte.FM, Charles Caldas für Merlin und Jörg Augsburg für die Leipzig Pop Up durch.

www.vut-online.de
www.media-loca.com/gudrungut

KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF ausgezeichnet mit “Druckfrisch – Musiker des Monats September”

Mo — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:18:37 +0000

Und das sagt Denis Scheck:
Die Auszeichnung “Druckfrisch”-Musiker des Monats September” geht in einem Kantersieg an die deutsche Band “Kammerflimmer Kollektief”, jenes weltweit führende Trio für die aurale Erforschung der psychedelischen Vernetzung von Jazz und elektronischer Musik, mithin von Freiheit und Sound.
Mit “Teufelskamin” ist gerade ihr neues, neuntes Album erschienen, auf dem mit so komischen Instrumenten wie Harmonium und Brummeisen eine berückende Weltmusik, die die Band selbst auch gern als “Surf Noir” bezeichnet, entsteht. www.daserste.de/druckfrisch

www.media-loca.com/kammerflimmerkollektief

NOTIC NASTIC new video, new album

Mo — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:22:55 +0000

The release of their new album “Fullscreen” on Oct 21st 2011 will be celebrated same night at Blumenbar, Prinzenstr. 85, DE-Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Line-Up: Notic Nastic Live, DJs: T.Raumschiere, Blake Worrell, Dave Ag
Doors: 23:00

To get an idea of what to expect check this outstanding video clip (Caligari goes Pop!):
youtube.com

NOTIC NASTIC on Brooklyn Radio

Mo — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:03:05 +0000

Tomorrow at 9 a.m. NYC or 3 a.m. Berlin time NOTIC NASTIC will be featured on Brooklyn Radio with their radio broadcast ’what the f$∆k is going on’.
Tune in to listen at
brooklynradio.net/notic-nastic

Alternatively you can stream anytime on the website
soundcloud.com/noticnastic

Enjoy!

NOTIC NASTIC, band of the month + “Fullscreen” artwork

Mo — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:18:56 +0000

Notic Nastic is featured as “band of the month” in August at:
http://megapeng.net

Here comes a visual foretaste of their album “Fullscreen” which is going to be released on Oct 21st:

GUDRUN GUT performing as Matador (w/ Manon Duursma & Beate Bartel)

Mo — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:24:59 +0000

After more than 20 years there will be the option to finally see Matador playing live again!
Berlin, “Kesselhaus”, August 27th, 21:00
www.facebook.com/event.php

MIKA VAINIO “Life (…it eats you up)”, really great review of an outstanding album.

Mo — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:13:06 +0000

Mika Vainio finally records the guitar album he’s been preparing for such a long time; featuring the sound of his old, sharp, Pan Sonic techno – but focusing on his personal version of doom metal and new industrial post-noise
WWW.PLAYGROUNDMAG.NET/DISCO/24017-LIFE-IT-EATS-YOU-UP

NATALIE BERIDZE, interview by Aram Yardumian

Mo — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:05:03 +0000

If you want to find out where Natalie Beridze is coming from, how she feels when she is doing what she does and what experiences she has made in Buffalo, NY on Martin Luther’s birthday… read this great interview:

WWW.TIMESQUOTIDIAN.COM/2011/08/01/TBA

NOTIC NASTIC, album teaser – video clip!

Mo — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:07:32 +0000

Check out this great teaser for the upcoming album “Fullscreen” by NOTIC NASTIC:

www.youtube.com
www.media-loca.com/noticnastic

To be released on Oct 21st 2011, via Shitkatapult.

Please ask for available tour dates NOW.

NATALIE BERIDZE aka TBA: Tolles Review von einem fantastischen Album!

Mo — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:52:44 +0000

“…Ein fantastisches Album ist es geworden, das reif, überlegt und in aller Ruhe seine Stärken ausspielt. Die wirkliche Schönheit der spröden Songkonstruktionen offenbart sich erst beim zweiten oder dritten Hören. So zum Beispiel bei “What About Things Like Bullets”, bei dem über einem stark industrial-inspirierten Beat eine Klaviermelodie wie ein kalter Luftzug hinwegzieht. Der Beat wirkt verstörend, zerstörend. Immer wieder wird der Song gebrochen, von kurzen Soundeskapaden kaputt gemacht, um sich nach einem kurzen instrumentalen Solopart umso erhabener wieder in den Vordergrund zu spielen….” (Jens Baudisch, BLN.FM)
Das ganze Review kann man nachlesen unter

www.bln.fm

New on Media Loca roster! STATIC alias Hanno Leichtmann

Mo — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:16:03 +0000

Hanno Leichtmann aka STATIC is performing Solo or with guests. The actual quartet features Hanno Leichtmann on electronics and drums, Axel Dörner on trumpet, Clare Cooper on harp and Tobias Delius on reeds.
Their new album “Freedom Of Noise” will be released on Karaoke Kalk on September 2nd 2011.
For more info and pre-listen please check the links below.

www.junodownload.com/products/freedom-of-noise

www.media-loca.com

MIKA VAINIO vs Iggy Pop

Mo — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:20:50 +0000

Whereas previous works by Mika Vainio have utilised guitar “Life (… It Eats You Up)” is the first to use the instrument as its primary sound source. A fascinating, sometimes disturbing and deeply personal work this new 10 track set bears all the hallmarks (exacting attention to detail of tone, rhythm and texture) of Vainio’s previous works with some stunning surprises, such as his cover version of The Stooges’ ‘Open Up and Bleed’.
Tracks such as ‘Mining’ hark bark to the banging beat excesses of Pan sonic, with ‘Crashed’ and ‘And Give Us Our Daily Humiliation’ and the opening ‘In Silence A Scream Takes A Heart’ reveal a new intensity to Vainio’s work and is yet another superb additional to his brilliant catalogue.

editionsmego.com

The new solo album of ROEDELIUS “Piano Piano” – Out now!

Mo — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:36:27 +0000

“Piano Piano” is a very soft, quiet album – meandering fantasies and improvisations on the grand piano. Dreamlike and stylistically self-assured. The first Roedelius album without electronics.
Now released on Bureau B,
www.bureau-b.com

MEDIA LOCA @ c/o pop 2011

Mo — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:12:22 +0000

Mo Loschelder of MEDIA LOCA will take part in the “International Matchmaking Europareise”, this Thursday from 14:00 – 16:00.
Cannot wait to hear the signal! ;-)

www.c-o-pop.de/en/europareise

CHICKS ON SPEED at “Babylon” Movie Theatre, DE-Berlin

Mo — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:37:35 +0000

Friday, June 24th, 23:30h
Videoart at Midnight #25: Chicks on Speed
www.videoart-at-midnight.info

MIKA VAINIO contributes in “Vladislav Delay Quartet”, released on Honest Jon’s

Mo — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:35:39 +0000

On May 27th the self-titled debut album of “Vladislav Delay Quartet”,
with Vladislav Delay on drums/percussions, Mika Vainio on electronics, Lucio Capece on saxophone + noise and Derek Shirley on double bass,
has been released on the outstanding UK label Honest Jon’s.

Please find more info and pre-listening links at
www.honestjons.com
and
www.honestjons.com

CHICKS ON SPEED with “Wordy Rappinghood” at Oddstream Festival

Mo — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:13:47 +0000

CHICKS ON SPEED live at Oddstream Festival in NL-Nijmegen, June 5th 2011.
www.youtube.com
www.oddstream.org

QLUSTER “Fragen”, new album out on May 27th!

Mo — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:15:33 +0000

QLUSTER is the new project of Hans-Joachim ROEDELIUS together with Onnen Bock, where they decided the use of analogue keyboards only and a focus on improvisation through vibrant playing technique. Supported by video artist Florian Tanzer.
“Fragen”, the first album of a trilogy will be released on May 27th at Buerau B, to be followed by “Rufen” and “Antworten” (Questioning / Calling / Responding).
Find more info at
media-loca.com/roedelius and www.qluster

KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF, new on ML roster

Mo — Wed, 04 May 2011 07:28:59 +0000

Media Loca welcomes: the wonderful, eccentric project KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF.
www.media-loca.com/kammerflimmerkollektief
“Delire goes marchin’ in, desire forever.” The fire ain’t out yet, baby!

NOTIC NASTIC: It’s Dark But It’s OK!

Mo — Wed, 04 May 2011 07:10:17 +0000

hypnotic, fantastic, new video of their latest show:

www.media-loca.com/noticnastic

MARCO PASSARANI at Panoramabar, DE-Berlin on Sunday morning, April 17th

Mo — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:41:58 +0000

Another great Sunday morning is waiting for you, Berliners!
www.berghain.de

JAN JELINEK, new track online of the project “Music and Birds”

Mo — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:46:26 +0000

Cosmo Caixa (Museum of Science Barcelona) in collaboration with Sonar was asking Faitiche / JAN JELINEK for a performance, based on bird-recordings. The concert is part of Music and Birds and will take place on the 18th June 2011 at the Cosmo Caixa, Barcelona, Spain. The idea is to perform around five pieces/improvisations – each one focused on one certain bird-recording.
www.faitiche.de/files/ringeltaube.mp3

SYMPHONY X tonight in Berlin!

Mo — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:42:28 +0000

Ari Benjamin Meyers has reformed REDUX ORCHESTRA for a very special performance of SYMPHONY X in it’s original version for 15 musicians.
The Concert will be at HAU 2 this Saturday, April 2nd starting at 10:00 pm.
www.hebbel-am-ufer.de

ROEDELIUS live at ATP 2011

Mo — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:00:43 +0000

On Oct 1st the very special collaboration between Simeon of Silver Apples and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster/Harmonia will perform under the name SILVER QLUSTER at ATP, US/New Jersey.
www.brooklynvegan.com

Roedelius has just formed a new project named Qluster, for more info please read
www.media-loca.com/roedelius

NOTIC NASTIC new podcast mix

Mo — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:02:38 +0000

“This is Notic Nastic!”
check out their hypnotic, fantasic mix at
http://soundcloud.com/noticnastic

NATALIE BERIDZE video clip nominated for Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2011

Mo — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:31:37 +0000

The fantastic clip “What about Things Like Bullets” (Natalie Beridze), directed by Nika Machaidze is nominated in the section MuVi Award,
WWW.KURZFILMTAGE.DE
To watch the clip:
WWW.MEDIA-LOCA.COM/NATALIEBERIDZETBA

MEDIA LOCA Artists, to be heard on SoundCloud

Mo — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:19:58 +0000

You can find a decent collection of actual tracks and mixes at
soundcloud.com/media-loca

ELECTRIC INDIGO – extraordinary video clip!

El Puma — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:28:10 +0000

Great video clip for the new release "VIVA LA PAPPA"
by Pia Palme, Electric Indigo, JSX

VIMEO.COM/20054552
VIVA LA PAPPA info : VIVA LA PAPPA 2011
Release info : VLP_release_info

NOTIC NASTIC nominated for Qwartz Award 2011

Mo — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:11:32 +0000

Their album “It’s Dark But It’s OK”, released on Shitkatapult in 2010, has been nominated at Qwartz Award 2011 for a price in the category Discovery.
Ceremony takes place in Paris on April 1st.
www.qwartz.org