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The Deezer Music Tours, the new project from the streaming service Deezer, is definitely right up our alley! Experiencing a guided audio tour of the city with the right soundtrack in your ear sounds like a great idea to start with! They’ve asked unique personalities from the music industry – Marcus Staiger, DJ Westbam, und Bela B – to share their first-hand insights on Berlin’s recent history and combined those with iconic songs that take you right back in time. Nothing left to do but hop on a Deezer nextbike and listen to three awesome audio guides that will give you musical trivia no Berliner should miss – and all of that completely for free!
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by Michalina | Music, People, Stories
photo: Danilo Sierra
The music industry has long been (and in many ways still is) a boys club, but things seem to finally become more open to women, thanks to the pioneering work of people such as The Black Madonna who’ve been especially vocal about the issues affecting women trying to become part of the music world. In Berlin, Salt + Sass is an interesting event series to check out if you want to learn more about these topics.
While our city is well-known for its electronic music scene, clubs and DJs, people tend to forget that Berlin is also home to a lively hip-hop scene, with collectives such as Broke Boys, Blunt’n’Roses, WEBOOGIE, Berries and more throwing legendary events that don’t rely on 4/4 beats. And guess what – women are representing too!
Here are 10 among our favorite Berlin-based female hip-hop DJs:
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by Guest Author | Music, People
Our blogger colleagues from Dandy Diary once again kicked off the Berlin Fashion Week with their infamous party, this time in a quite unusual night club at Potsdamer Straße. As always there was tons of fun to have and I was swinging my camera in the air as if there was no tomorrow. Enjoy the impressions after the jump!
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by Frank | Fashion, Party, Photos
When I checked out the new video by Sir Serch that a colleague had sent to me I was sitting in the subway surrounded by people. I had to laugh out load at one part of the video and felt a little embarressed about my little public outburst, but the part is just so good. Here you have Berlin-based rapper Sir Serch doing his thing and walking into this vintage store somewhere in Kreuzberg or Neukölln to meet his gang. But his gang has changed, you could say they have been gentrified by hipsterism. And their exchange about it is quite hilarious and to be honest there is quite some truth in it, of course immensely exaggerated. But actor Tom Radisch is really just to good in his role of a total douchebag. If you like German rap or not doesn’t matter, you will certainly enjoy this video. And remember, if you don’t have a beard, you don’t belong here! 😉
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by Frank | Music, Videos
The new adidas music challenge Drop a Rhyme is in full bloom and more and more undiscovered hip-hop talents blossom on Instagram tagged with #unitealloriginals. If you want to explore your own rhyming talents and want to get a chance to be in a special remix with the best raps from all the participants of the challenge you should get into the grove of the A-trak produced beat sample, record your rhyme on Instagram and upload it with the right tags. Fingers crossed!
Splash Mag asked some famous musicians to show you how it’s done, among them Lary, Teesy, DCVDNS and Weekend. After the jump you can check out their rhymes as well as a few favorites of the submissions so far.
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by Frank | Fashion, Music
This weekend might be a little low level when it comes to parties. What? You came all the way from I – don’t – know – where to party in Berlin and you don’t have a Fusion – ticket? Dude..such a shame! Let’s try to find you a few places, that might be a little less frequencied than usual, but still promise fun, right after the jump:
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by Suz | Party
Mrs K. B.
Tomorrow night, on March 12 2011 the Heimathafen Neukölln welcomes the Urban Art Circus to town. This event is also part of the Street Lab Berlin festival mentioned earlier. The Urban Art Circus is planned as a unique art project that brings together urban art forms in an experimental way. Based on hip hop battle traditions several art forms will compete against each other in tournament style.
The audience stands in the middle of this clash of creativity and experiences intriguing hot live performances. The outcome is impossible to predict. For myself I am curious to see how the dancing girls from Mrs K. B. (pictured above) will fight the renowned Puppetmastaz. The date of the show and the address after the jump.
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by Claudio | Events, Music
