BOUNCE CAMP

Sampo is an audio-visual perfectionist. Evidence for this bold opening of the feature is his music project BOUNCE CAMP where he carefully handpicks slightly forgotten aesthetics of music genres that have degraded into minimal umtsa-tumpsa and left the beauty of music behind. Sampo Hänninen comes to pick up disco music where it left in the 80s. His BOUNCE CAMP alter

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Thomas Azier

When I think about it, I really remember more gloomy days and more darkness than light in Berlin. It’s a pity on the one hand, but on the other it’s a thriving environment for all those moody artists who find their creative fuel in the overcast skies over Berlin. Here’s maybe the best proof for my theory. His name is

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Björk – Biophilia

Biophilia is an iPhone/iPad release of Björk’s latest album created in collaboration with Scott Snibbe and her longtime design collaborators M/M (Paris). Comprising a suite of musical pieces and interactive artworks, Biophilia is released as ten in-app download experiences that are accessed through a three-dimensional galaxy, the album’s theme song Cosmogony. The first single Crystalline, is now available, others soon

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THE NEW YORK ART LEAGUE vol.2: BRIAN KENNY

27, wants to have a third eye, an extra arm and an extra pineal gland media: multimedia, focus: illustration and music Brian Kenny was born 1982 in Heidelburg, Germany, on an American military base. While growing up he traveled extensively throughout the US with his Army family. As a teenager, Brian was a competitive gymnast. After high school, he went

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1 Year GRATEFUL GRAPEFRUIT: Presenting THE NEW YORK ART LEAGUE

It often happens that people compare Berlin in 2010 to New York in the 1970s and 1980s – because of the city’s flourishing art and fashion scene, free spirit, crazy night life and overflowing creative energy. But forget about Berlin now, it’s all about New York. The first association you have when you think about art and New York is

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Party For Horny Nerds: SKILLS

SKILLS is a performance duo that isn’t afraid of experiments. For the same reason it/they will perform solo at the Party For Horny Nerds and will make you hold your breath and stare for two. Here is for example one of the why-s: Music makes me switch the right buttons in my life! When I get angry I become a werewolf. Berlin

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Party For Horny Nerds: EMIL

Emil doesn’t drive. Thank God he does other things like being an effin terrific DJ. He is also part of the Bulgarian invasion on German land. EMIL DOESN’T DRIVE was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, moved to Berlin in 2004. Soon he started buying disco, italo, spacedisco, wave and new beat records and taught himself how to mix different sounds and

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Party for Horny Nerds: TABEA

Tabea Tito is the girl next door and the German part of Grateful Grapefruit Entertainment that doesn’t really look German. She will also be our opening act at the 1 year anniversary party of the zine. Setting the mood with some music from the golden years of music history and bringing some retro sexy back packed in style and fashion

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Party for horny nerds: BERGLIND

Berglind is hysterical. She will also teach me Icelandic. But first things first – she will be also performing live at the Party For Horny Nerds – the 1st anniversary party for Grateful Grapefruit on October 7th at Soju Bar Kreuzberg. The Icelandic beauty will bring the sexy back and the crazy track in the party. She will be performing

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Vadoinmessico: In Spain

Vadoinmessico is a pretty complicated name. This five member band from the UK plays mediterranean alternative folk with a bit of psychedelic rock thrown in the mix and have been featured at festivals all over the world including the last SXSW. I wouldn’t be actually telling you about the band if it wasn’t for Valero Doval‘s amazing visualization of their album and their

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Robyn – Dancing On My Own

She is really dancing on her own in her latest video. Robyn just did the last editing to the video and posted it right away on vimeo and her blog. It’s a non-pretentious video with nice shots, cool stop motions and the usual overflow of positive energy we expect from Robyn. The mix is a bit different from the album

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Kele

Tenderoni is a slang used to describe y boy or a girl you’re interested in but who is too you for you to get involved with. Kele Okereke obviously has one or at least had one to get inspired for the first single off his new album “The Boxer” (out 21 June 2010 right on time for my birthday) called

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