Artlake

Anna Sharifi / uon

admin — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:09:56 +0000

Having roots in Jazz music, today ANNA SHARIFI / UON is antagonistic synth pop with a dark electronic vein, influenced by the club scene in Berlin. Tightly constructed beats and Anna’s insistent, vulnerable voice makes up the core of a powerful and raw sound universe, where organic organ and instrumental improvisation gives the musical expression character and soul. The music is heartfelt – doesn’t tie itself to a specific genre but explores the space between R&B, pop, blues, electro and dubstep with an oriental twist and soulful warmth.

Bebetta

admin — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:39:45 +0000

May we introduce you to Bremen’s charming BEBETTA. For 11 years she has been doing her thing with a name loosely taken from the English words ‘be better’. It’s all about community, about bringing people of all color and creeds together and about freeing up minds and engaging them on a natural and spiritual level. Her considered sound touches on house and tech with a real focus on melody, driving drums and emotional sensitivity and the DJ’s own personality always manages to shine through in the sets she lays down.

Die Nerven

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:01:38 +0000

FAKE is a buzzword of our time and in this sense also title of the highly anticipated latest album of DIE NERVEN – a German-speaking post-punk 3-piece with a penchant for gloom and nihilism. Their songs are much about inner and outer crises, about paralysis, lack of power and disorientation. The political finds its space in a rather abstract manner, expressing itself much more in a feeling. Life comes in waves and therefore you need nerves. And this summer, they finally pass by our live stage to “defend their title as the best German live band”. Can’t wait.

Dream Wife

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:21:59 +0000

Since transitioning from a performance art project to an actual band, word has spread widely about the jaw-dropping live shows of Londons DREAM WIFE.
Their sound is as pummeling as it is hooky, a potent mix of art-school sensibility and bubblegum pop adoration. Art punks making music that’s roiling with feminist rage and Spice Girls attitude and while fun is a key factor in Dream Wife’s appeal, they want to challenge you as well as social rules and question them. Their dose of politicized anger is rooted in personal experience. The trio is on their constant mission to create more woman-friendly spaces in music. For Dream Wife, “bitches to the front” is more than concert policy: It’s a promise.

Lej

admin — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 12:34:56 +0000

Hamburgs resident LEJ plays music inside and outside the city, in the north and beyond. Her dynamic sets range from Downtempo, Progressive House and Four-to-the-Floor evolving the dance floor into a place for unbiased encounters and challenges. As a firsthand-witness of female identified artists being underrepresented and in order to react to structural inequalities in the industry she also hosts Female* DJ Workshops and genuinely enjoys realizing untapped potentials.

Madanii

admin — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:25:20 +0000

The German-Iranian singer MADANII will join us for this years edition. Combining Pop, R’n’B, Trap and electronic elements and enriching them with Persian sound samples, the duo creates organically gloomy sound structures that textually deal primarily with her origin and our politically heated present. A multi-dimensional performance, that plays musically as well as visually with the contrasts of the supposedly “foreign” as well as the “conventional“.

Milliarden

admin — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 10:28:59 +0000

As a festival and project that sprang from the capital and its philosophy of life, this time we simply had to invite our friends from MILLIARDEN to join us. In their luggage they have their last album, which they have dedicated to Berlin. Between punk, indie pop and retro German rock, the band analyzes their fascination as well as their own tense relationship to the city. In the process, the glorious times and today’s significant changes in the city, such as the disappearance of creative free space, are critically reflected. An attempt to retake the shamed fancy, crazy, sexy advertising word “Berlin” and to prove it with their own stories.

Odd Couple

admin — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 10:32:01 +0000

Googling the trio ODD COUPLE, Wikipedia spits out the following: Their songs serve a difficult-to-limit number of genres. Indeed! They mix krautrock with dada, psychedelic rap and rock with sparkling glam and exploding riffs. Its exactly these pairings of odd contrasts, province and metropolis, local and cosmopolitan, German and English lyrics, restrained-cool attitude and driving music, which are immensely fun and you do not get to hear often in such a vigorous directness. An uncompromising energetic live band with East Frisian understatement at this years Artlake Festival. „Haste Strom, haste Licht“

Sami Zibak

admin — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:41:47 +0000

Born in the coastal city of Jaffa, SAMI ZIBAK is a well known figure among the alternative musical scene of the Middle East thanks to his unique contribution to the rising of Palestinian underground culture. His most important role in the Middle Eastern scene is him being the first queer Arab Dj out there as well as building the bridge for House Music to become part of the musical spectrum of his crowd. Sami’s sonic vision is an ecstatic samba of iconic glamorous house, soulful tribal sounds of the world, mixed with deep underground house realness. In his sets he interacts with many sub-cultures and riot movements such as his own Palestinian cultural revival, Chicago’s Afro-Latino queer history of House Music, Detroit’s futuristic spiritualism message, and NewYork’s new wave of deep house producers. Experiencing Sami’s dance floor is a dazzling celebration of uniqueness, originality and freedom everybody is encouraged to participate while his journey as a Dj is a mission of spreading awareness and connecting the missing links between all parts of humanity’s mosaic.

Stas

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 12:42:41 +0000

We are stoked our talented friend Stas is flying over from Budapest for this years Artlake Festival. He got involved with music first as a guitar player throughout elementary school. Being a fan of punk rock music during his teens It was a true game changer for him to discover that with the help of a digital audio workstation he could program all the instruments he could have ever wished for all by himself without an actual band. This was the moment he began experimenting with electronic music. Music production is ever since his tool to create the kind of music he didn’t find and wanted to listen to. Today Stas is one of the most active promoters of the tropical and global bass scene in Hungary and founder of Babylon Records delivering forward thinking music and artists worldwide.
His production is inspired by African, Middle-Eastern, Asian and South-American tribal music’s instrumentation and articulation which is then mixed with contemporary electronic music. The result is an exotic fusion of melodies, percussion and bass.

Stefan Biniak

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 11:08:53 +0000

His hometown Berlin always had a big impact on STEFAN BINIAK. The free scene of music and art in its various facets belongs here and shapes the city’s identity. He uses his everyday life here as an inspiration. Hanging with friends and experiencing the other side, the dance floor, diving deep into the feelings people have while enjoying Berlin’s progressive club culture is what gives him ideas and motivation for his own productions.

Vør

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 10:34:33 +0000

Instead of drowning her feelings in Berlin nights our next live-act VØR chose to confront them in her music. Along with her melancholically voice and her spheric sound she’s creating her own mental safe space. A place where one can decelerate and sort ones thought new, were it is just fine to be vulnerable.

More coming soon

admin — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:54:25 +0000