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THIRD EDITION OF FESTIVAL CONTINUES TO PAIR ELECTRONIC MUSIC COLLECTIVES OF EASTERN EUROPE + BERLIN TO CELEBRATE DIY ARTS & COMMUNAL ETHOS 

28-30 November 2019 Various venues in Berlin Tickets for each event can be purchased directly at the door. The Easterndaze x Berlin festival once again invites artists, actors and activists from the electronic music scene of Eastern Europe to Berlin, pairing them with locally-based labels/collectives for live performances, DJ sets and talks. Established in 2010, the blog Easterndaze (easterndaze.net) has explored and mapped local DIY scenes operating in Eastern and Central Europe. Founders Lucia Udvardyova and Peter Gonda travelled across the region to record interviews and collect perspectives on how contemporary artists and independent music-related initiatives operate in the region and its socio-political context. The initial result was a series of audio documentaries which then expanded to: a label (Baba Vanga); a networking initiative; radio shows (Resonance FM, Czech Radio, Berlin’s Cashmere Radio); and finally, events around the region, as well as the festival’s first two editions in Berlin (2016, 2018). As the fascination with and discourse around contemporary Eastern European culture gradually enters the mainstream, Easterndaze remains one of the pillars of these investigations nearly a decade strong. PROGRAM EASTERNDAZE × BERLIN 2019: DIY MUSIC TOPOGRAPHIES CONCERTS Thursday 28/11 - Conditional (Berlin) x Serious Serious (Tallinn) Venue: ACUD - Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin-Mitte Line up:

So happy contributing vocals plus lyrics to this track “I Saw Death”, awesome collaboration with nullius in verba!

Grab your track, support this cool compilation and read more about it on Easterndaze ~ 

See nullius in verba play tonight (Nov 30th) in Berlin: Easterndaze x Berlin: Total Black x Exiles x T+U

The compilation was inspired by the concept and initiative of Easterndaze festival as for collective collaboration bringing together three different art projects but similar mindsets, geographically, virtually and symbolically. Formed in Montreal, 2012, Total Black is a record label presently based in Berlin releasing noise, industrial, power electronics, and experimental music. Frequently organizing events with disparate but complimentary sounds, showcasing artists and associates of the label from across the world. EXILES is a Budapest-based experimental techno label 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.

The result of this collective brainstorming materialized in a compilation consisting six tracks of unreleased and exclusive materials from the artists and musicians performing at the festival. Released digitally on Bandcamp and on limited tape records of 50 copies.

Easterndaze x Berlin: Total Black x EXILES x T+U by Easterndaze

FESTIVAL SHOWCASES COLLECTIVES OF 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 & flm screening series Easterndaze × Berlin: DIY Music Topographies (curated by Lucia Udvardyova and produced by Natalie Gravenor) follows up on the frst 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. 

Nov 28 2018. Land3C, 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), 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 different 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 (Budapest) Budapest-based electronic label featuring all shades of experimental and forward-thinking techno.

Care of Editions (Berlin) Founded in 2013, Care Of Editions produces concerts, festivals, and recordings that bring together the worlds of popular and experimental music. In addition to producing music, Care Of Editions develops new and creative ways of distributing this music online.

“We believe in no style”

Még meleg az írás az Easterndaze-ről, aminek célja egy uptodate képet adni a kelet-európai művészeti projektekről, Gdansktól Skopjeig. Legutóbb a budapesti underground szcéna kapcsán írtak pár sort rólunk is és kérdezték Ernőt, hogy mi az a JazzaJ, ki az a JazzaJ és mit akar a JazzaJ. Hozzátok magatokkal ezt a pár gondolatot filozófiánkról ma este az Aurórába, ahol is fellép a Knutdut Men és az  Art Ensemble of Chicago, azaz Meggyes Ádám!

Gig Review - Easterndaze: Trade x Baba Vanga at Silent Green Kulturquartier 30/06/16

Hosted in the dimly lit Silent Green Kulturquartier ex local Wedding crematorium, this evening encapsulated an underground post-net aesthetic raw and inspiring. Comprised of Baba Vanga's line up at Easterndaze x Berlin - Střed Svĕta from the Czech Republic and New Zealand-Berlin act Tlaotlon and local Berlin club night - TRADE - with acts Ziúr, Ausschuss and Simon Kaiser (dj) + visuals by Benjamin Kaiser. This array of artists, while each unique in their own right, meshed perfectly and invited the audience to take a journey together into a fragile dimension filled with the illustrious detail of infinite twisting, winding and slashing of fragmented sound.