May 2012
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Music Montag: Monotekktoni
Again, Pale Music’s Berlin Insane compilations have come up with the goods! This time, they helped me unearth the intriguing Monotekktoni, who sounds like Björk taking on Siouxsie Sioux in an awesome-off. The artist herself is a little more abstract in her own description of her music, which I’ve left badly Google Translated, for art’s sake: I-I…
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Technoviking at the 1927 Fuckparade
We’ve uncovered never-before-seen footage of a time-travelling Techno Viking tearing Weimar Berlin a new rave-hole: OK, so we actually made this ourselves – but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. Many thanks to The Artistifier app (“Make any YouTube video award winning”), Zoë, who filmed the video on her iPhone when said app wouldn’t…
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Music Montag: Best of Berlin 2012
What have Roxy Music, Depeche Mode and Thom Yorke all got in common? They’re all in our epic “Best of Berlin 2012″ playlist, a collection of (most of) the tracks I’ve posted on every Music Montag for a year. But what have they got to do with Berlin? Well, you’re going to have to read the original posts to…
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Daily Deutsch: Spargelsaison
by Carla Hackett Daily Deutsch Doodles are a series of illustrations based on contributions to the #dailydeutsch Twitter hashtag, aimed at helping people trying to learn German. “Spargelsaison” = “asparagus season”. Spargelsaison by Carla Hackett.
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nhow Berlin: The Music and Lifestyle Hotel
We have a habit of missing our anniversary (last year, we were in German class when we realised what day it was), so this year we decided to make up for it with a stay in nhow Berlin. Nhow’s PR team kindly invited us to mark four years of marriage – and a decade together – with…