The weekend tends to come and go like good weather or comfortable cash flow: you forget to appreciate just how lovely it is while its happening, it disappears all too quickly and then before you know it, suddenly its back again ready to relax the muscles in your body and splash a smile across your face. In Berlin city, the concept of ‘the weekend’ tends to appear at all odd times during the week for some. But for those confined to the borders of full time work, school or a busy agenda, the weekend’s program of music, club times and parties is a precious little release that makes the rest of life glow and emanate with new freshness and possibilities. Until some time around Tuesday arrives, of course. But then hey, suddenly its Friday again (like right now!) and regardless of the weather or your cash flow, it’s the weekend. Worry wardrobe empty; sweet treats aplenty.
Horst Krzbrg may be lacking in fashion kids and hot hipsters compared to some of your top party hot spots, but once again it proves to be a solid provider of prolific producers and some of the most respected DJs in the IDM universe. Case in point: tonight's Hot Flush Recordings party, featuring Scuba, ROKO and Dieter.
Producers of 2010’s pop-house hit "Changed", Mario Basanov & Vidis will be bopping their Lithuanian heads around About Blank tonight as part of the Best Works Label Night. Their huge, disco-tinged vocal house number favoured by a diverse range of DJs is accompanied by one of the coolest film clips of any electronic music piece in years, armed with incredible conceptulisation and an amazing execution of fastidiously stylized film production.
After celebrating organiser Marcus' birthday earlier this year, the Yes! party faction chalks up 5 big years on the big Berlin party board, and celebrates tonight at Watergate. 5 Years Yes! features Frenchman Sebastien Leger and his effervescent alliance of chunky-wonky club house synths and trim, restrained percussion. Support from Red Robbin and Mitja Prinz.
From one birhtday bash to another, "Last days of…." is an ongoing Berlin celebration of the world’s trashiest celebrities (so replace 'the world' with 'America'). Taking place at Backyard in Kreuzberg, this Saturday night it clocks up two years of paying respect to our favourite attention-guzzling superstars. This time you'll be getting over-intoxicated and dancing stupidly to the Last Days of George Michael.
Madame Claude is a quaint little venue just off Schleseches Tor, where bits and bots hang upside down from the ceiling, and down below in the cellar attentive audiences attend to the sweet sounds of music. Tomorrow night, one half of Melbourne / Berlin indie-electronica duo, How Love, takes to the stage as Andrew Beresford to bring you a “strange concoction of muddled drum beats, off-time rhythms and broke-down samples”. Support from Disordered and DJ Richard Steel.
Expect cinematic melodies drenched in drama and silky, down temp production when Nathan Fake hits up Panorama Bar for a very real live set tonight as part of Leisure Systems. Back at the same venue the following evening, the man working towards his PhD in Political Science and heralded as “the unrivaled idol of experimental synth pop” John Maus, will take control of the Berghain area before later that night Finest Saturday will utilise both floors. Klubnacht devotees (addicts) take note: this weekend Pbar and Bh will be separated into two different events over Sunday, with the downstairs floor operating as a strictly ‘men only’ domain for all the bearded bears and leathered-up lust boys of Berlin. Meanwhie, upstairs through Sunday UK pride is on show, with Radio Slave and two sets from London’s underground house maestro, Spencer Parker, taking you through to Monday morning.
