Recent Articles with Zurich
Mix of the Day: Animal Trainer
Zurich scenesters Animal Trainer—known for their Rakete parties and their releases on numerous labels including Poker Flat, BEEF Records, FLASH, Dantze—bring a precision-crafted mix of textured house music. – more
Tech Talk: Thomas Fehlmann (Slices DVD Feature)
“I find that life in general is a source of inspiration and the vital spark to me where the music, let’s say produces the cement to achieve and to have a good mood.” — watch our Thomas Fehlmann Tech Talk video feature, taken from Slices DVD Issue 4-09. – more
Yello’s Mean Monday Video
Electronic Beats favourites Yello, who are well known for their eccentric and innovative mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals, are back with a book and a new song called ‘Mean Monday. Even though a documentary on Yello, called Electro Pop made in Switzerland, directed by Anka Schmid came out in 2005 there is also – more
Lee Scratch Perry – Live Stream
Lee Scratch Perry will be performing a ‘live jam’ tomorrow night live and direct from the Exil club in Zurich and you can catch it live here on Electronic Beats. Dub pioneer Perry has been a Swiss native for much of the last two decades, and apparently a weekly dancehall night which is held at – more
m4music kicks off in Switzerland with The Streets and Darkstar
Switzerland seems to be having all the fun at the moment. First they announce the Electron festival taking place in Geneva, now they tease us even more with this fantastic boutique festival called m4music taking place in the Swiss cities Schiffbau and Zürich. The SXSW styled festival will take place in just over a week – more
Tosca – Downtempo operatics
Tosca is Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Huber’s pet project. Since 1994 the two Austrian musicians have sweetened our daily grind with first-class downbeat ambient tracks. This spring, the duo releases their new album “No Hassle” on !K7 Records — reason enough for Electronic Beats to meet the two bohemians in Berlin and chat with them – more
Kalabrese @ East Village, London
Sascha Winkler aka Kalabrese is a producer from Zurich, famous for his organic tracks and remixes somewhere between minimal, house, hip hop and funk. In addition to releases on labels like Stattmusik, Perlon or Sonar Kollektiv, his sets at Dachkantine were legendary and the Dosci nights on Thursday at Zukunft, he hosts together with Lexx, – more
Cabaret Voltaire Berlin
Nearly hundred years after Zurich, Berlin finally gets its own Cabaret Voltaire. Just like the one founded by avant-garde Dadaists Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and Hans Arp in 1916, Berlin’s Cabaret Voltaire is also thought as a multi-disciplinary space. The new club will house exhibitions and theater productions, along with a radio studio, a library, – more
