Fri. 31.01.14 - 23:00 until Sat. 01.02.14 - 10:00 CTM 2014 - Actress, Concrete Fence, Metasplice, Dasha Rush, Helena Hauff, Oake, Marcel Dettmann
About Berghain, Panorama Bar, Säule Berlin

CTM 2014 - Actress, Concrete Fence, Metasplice, Dasha Rush, Helena Hauff, Oake, Marcel Dettmann

The 15th anniversary edition of CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Arts – will take place January 24 – February 2, 2014 in different venues across Berlin, including the HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Berghain, Stattbad, and the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.

Under the title Dis Continuity, CTM 2014 zooms in on a range of musical pioneers whose curiosity and pursuit of new, idiosyncratic forms have kept them off the radar, even while their explorations and discoveries continue to influence how we create and experience music today. In so doing, the festival aims to encourage dialogue between past experimentation and a rising generation of creative minds. The festival's 15th anniversary is also an occasion to reflect on its own history, and to address the increased desire for historic references felt at the dawn of the post-digital era. More information on the theme here.

The festival’s mix of concerts and club events will once again be supported by an extensive daytime program of talks, workshops, exhibitions and more. As always, CTM will be held parallel to and in collaboration with transmediale – festival for art and digital culture which takes place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

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The De Compress programme snakes its way through subaltern territories of dark, exploratory techno.

Ideally suited to the gothic, resonant dimensions of Berlin’s techno cathedral Berghain, De Compress opens with the hazy narcotics of CTM curatorial force Michail Stangl aka Opium Hum and the occultist alchemy of Berlin Current duo OAKE (Downwards). Downwards label boss Regis partners with Russell Haswell to present malignant, visceral techno steeped in noise as Concrete Fence (PAN), an aesthetic simulated in the planar-shifting, analogue experimentation of Philadelphia duo Metasplice (Morphine Records) that tests the bounds of psycho-physiological endurance. Bodies craving rhythmic traction will find a degree of relief in the netherworld techno of Fullpanda label founder Dasha Rush, the geometric and combustible retro acid and 80s wave of Helena Hauff, and the synthesis of acid-laced techno with the bass-heavy UK breakbeats in brothers Truss and Tessela's live improvised TR\\ER collaboration. 

Line-Up:

Actress (UK)
Marcel Dettmann (DE)
Moiré (UK)
Moerbeck (DE)

Eintritt:

Abendkasse: 15€