{"title":"Berlin Atonal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of \u003ci\u003eBerlin Atonal\u003c\/i\u003e began in November 1982 at SO36 in Kreuzberg. The festival quickly became a hub for groundbreaking musical experiences, featuring innovative artists such as Einstürzende Neubauten, Sprung aus den Wolken, Malaria, Notorische Reflexe, Alu, White Russia, Didaktische Einheit and many others who pushed the boundaries of sonic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the 1980s, \u003ci\u003eBerlin Atonal\u003c\/i\u003e played a pivotal role in shaping the progressive electronic and experimental music scenes in Berlin. However, with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, the festival came to an end as its founder Dimitri Hegemann went on to open the legendary techno club Tresor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, under new direction from von Oswald, Glass and Reachi, \u003ci\u003eBerlin Atonal\u003c\/i\u003e made a triumphant return to its birthplace. It found its new permanent home at Kraftwerk Berlin – an immense unused powerplant located right in the heart of the city. Since then,\u003ci\u003eBerlin Atonal\u003c\/i\u003e has continued to showcase cutting-edge electronic music and art from around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"25082016235210179-live-at-berlin-atonal","title":"25082016235210179 - Live at Berlin Atonal","description":"\u003cp\u003eBerlin Atonal release Mika Vainio’s live performance at the 2016 edition of the festival. Accompanied by the artwork from Vainio's personal archives, its soft lack of focus is reminiscent of the natural looseness in his sound programming, lending itself to jazz as much as any form of electronic music. Right at the tips of his fingers, sparks fly unhindered by background noise, left to saturate in his universe of swollen intent. This pared-down, sensitive, and serious music has no parallel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeep, throbbing analogue laments emanate from the outset reaching far into the furthest fissures of Kraftwerk’s main hall, a chasmic exercise in arching minimalism. Between crisp, upfront sonic assault and backset rhythmic work, it morphs about the cavernous hall exploring to the core the relationship between sound and architecture. Unrelenting and icily atmospheric, the haptic saturation arouses a body of nerves. As ever the scope of Vainio's poignant work is vast, with limited tools at his disposal. Motifs are revisited and reiterated, calmly rendering confrontational and extreme mechanisms. Feedback blasts buzz over and destroy passages, punctuated by sparse rhythm. As the performance draws towards a close, percussive sounds come to the fore. Rhythmic patterns hint but never falling into predictable repetition, always manipulated, Vainio etching away with his machines. 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Entitled \u003ci\u003eMore Light\u003c\/i\u003e the compilation traverses the vast spectrum of musical experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench producer Aho Ssan - who made his debut at Berlin Atonal’s 2019 edition - has smelted the vocals of Exzald S into a multi-layered track that gestures towards a future language for computer-produced music. New York’s Hiro Kone pairs with group A’s Tot Onyx to debut their collaboration with an outstanding showpiece of groaning power-surge electronics, while legendary futurist Gerald Donald XOR Gate alias. Speculative widescreen-electronics protagonists Roly Porter and Paul Jebanasam unveil the first recorded track of their collaborative Altar project, conjuring up an entire ecology composed of both positively and negatively charged emotional-electronic particles. Enchanted Belgian magicians Pablo’s Eye offer a new track that grows out of the melancholic ambient-pop that the collective has been making since the 90s, while Nkisi hones in on a section of her premiere Atonal ’19 set ‘’Initiation” and reworks it into a brawling, bleak, hard-edged trampler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese tracks sit beside a transformational collab between Abdullah Miniawy and Carl Gari, evocative synthesised works from Caterina Barbieri and Laurel Halo, unclassifiable post-ambient from exael and Kazakh-British violinist Galya Bisengalieva and much much more. The festival’s legendary revived imprint which has previously hosted contributions from Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, Marshstepper and others now has a monumental new chapter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berlin Atonal","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x5","offer_id":50417276780875,"sku":"1106189","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/54a41ce5-28a6-470a-8194-2411f782be08_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726724462"},{"product_id":"berlin-atonal-vol-3","title":"berlin atonal vol.3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBerlin Atonal is proud to pick up on a tradition begun in 1984 with the publication of two volumes of live recordings from the 1983 edition of the festival. Those records bore witness to the most inventive, adventurous sounds of the festival, and therefore of their time, containing live bits from Psychic TV, La Loora and Z'EV. 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