hi everyone,
hoping this finds you all well.
i´d like to say something about this mix.
it´s been a very big task for me to do that. 
And i still wonder and i am not entirely sure
whether it´s been the right decision to put it out there. 
I´d like to explain that a bit:

For me the most important part in playing music in public is the interaction with the people on the dance floor, close by the decks, almost in reach, in eye contact with the dancers, to feel what the track does to me and to you, to get lost in it, to give space to that very intimate moment which feels more like a performance to me, where it actually can get very personal, even private.
It´s always an intensive experience for me that is shared between certain people at a certain time for a certain time length at a particular protected place which is guidanced by the music.
With a certain power that a good sound system - which can make 
the whole journey even more joyful - some great light as it has also such a big effect on the whole atmosphere.
it´s always a big challenge for me to have the courage to go on that trip because there is never a guarantee that we can hook, that a connection will happen. That this over the top feeling, that there is only music that moves and pulls our body around for couple of hours, does appear.

So playing records in a mix without all that – under entirely different circumstances, at home with obviously no one around – made that project in a way so special for me. 

i imagined to be with you while playing and that helped a lot. 

Thanks for taking time reading this, i hope you enjoy the music, it´s meant to be played „loud“, preferential on a nice sound system or through headphones to catch all the catchy sounds the artists used in their creations to make our heads and legs go spin.

you don´t know how much this means to me.

take care,
all love 
barbara
                                                                                                    in april 2015 
p.s. thanks to everyone who joined diwa and me playing the garden closing set at the about blank 5th birthday party. you´ve been incredible!

01. louderbach - external envelope
02. murcof - isaías
03. arandel - 5
04. nu (seba &madmotormiquel rmx) - carat
05. myr. - avalon
06. c.a.r. Remixes pt. 1 (roman flügel remix) - idle eyes
07. ess o ess - re-enter (man power remix)
08. manuel tur - flux
09. sozonov feat. anela - metaroom (joy kitikonti remix)
10. andre bratten - trommer og bass
11. speaking in minds - who the fuck cares (christian prommer remix)
12. culoe de song - y.o.u.d.
13. neil flynn - louise (skth remix)
14. lisiére collectif - 1502 -14
15. agents of time - polina (alex smoke rmx)
16. a thousand years - transfiguration
17. coer & nathan oye - last night
18. rj - leo

the grace of grey

hello everyone,
i did put some vinyls together for all 
the beautiful people who came around my life.
THANK YOU for being so supportive!
actually i tried to mention you by your names
but the list got too long for the space that 
soundcloud does offer in this description field...
well, the biggest shout goes to a very special
place and it´s lovely crazy people:
dear sweet blanki,
your love is my love 
and my love is yours.

barbara

undone was released later in may 2016


undone

booking: maen-tse(at)aboutblank.li
24.12.24 :// about blank, blank with benefits - a fine mess
14.12.24 Salon des Amateurs, don´t forget the love, Düsseldorf
14.12.24 Kompakt, record store session, Köln
16.11.24 Institut für Zukunft, Rillenrealität, Leipzig
05.10.24 Alte Post, hot club, Zürich
31.08.24 :// about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin
04.08.24 :// about blank, blank holidays, Berlin
01.07.24 fusion festival, Räuber:innenhöhle, Lärz
15.06.24 :// about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin
09.05.24 :// about blank, about feminism, Berlin
28.04.24 :// about blank BLANK XIV | le blanc c’est nous, Berlin
15.03.24 :// about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin
10.02.24 Gewölbe, my dear, Cologne
07.10.23 :// about blank, born with a nervous breakwown, Berlin
21.07.23 Nation of Gondwana, Grünfeld bei Berlin
08.07.23 Berghain/ Panoramabar, Berlin
10.12.22 ://about blank, 10 Years Dessert, Berlin 
26.11.22 Z-Bau, 7 Years Pulsar, Nürnberg
13.11.22 Berghain/ Panorama Bar, Berlin
08.10.22 ://about blank, Staub,  Berlin 
01.10.22 Kochareal, hot club, Zürich (cancelled)
24.09.22 ://about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin (cancelled) 
09.09.22 Warning, heizhaus, Nürnberg (cancelled) 
27.08.22 Marseille
20.08.22 :// about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin
10.07.22 Antidote, Brüssel
02.07.22 Berghain/Panoramabar, Berlin
11.06.22 Institut fuer Zukunft, connwax, Leipzig
04.06.22 :// about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin
26.05.22 :// about blank, about feminism, Berlin
14.05.22 secret gig, Oderbruch
30.04.22 Institut fuer Zukunft, 8 years IfZ, Leipzig 
23.04.22 ://about blank, 1312 Blank Street, Berlin 
02.04.22 ://about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin
19.03.22 ://about blank, reblanking, Berlin

19.11.21 Z-Bau, Pulsar x Herrensauna, Nürnberg 
05.011.21 ://about blank, rebirthing, Berlin
23.10.21 Objekt Klein a, Lokales Maximum, Dresden 
24.09.21 Kauz, explicit - filth edition, Zürich
21.08.21 sub micro festival
14.08.21 ://about blank, born with a nervous breakdown, Berlin
04.06.21 ://about blank, VEB Nerva goes Techno, Berlin

13.12.20 Institut fuer Zukunft, the onigiri show, Leipzig
31.01.20 ://about blank, dessert, Berlin
01.01.20 ://about blank, Notre Blank, Berlin

16.11.19 Institut fuer Zukunft, about zukunft, Leipzig
02.11.19 ://about blank, blank generation, Berlin
11.10.19 Institut fuer Zukunft, jungle world party, Leipzig
05.10.19 hot club, Kochareal, Zürich
29.09.19 ://about blank, blankless summer, Berlin
12.07.19 Zur wilden Renate, Frauengedeck, Berlin
07.07.19 ://about blank, blank generation, Berlin
31.05.19 it isn´t happening, auf AEG, Nürnberg
24.05.19 ://about blank, labelnight 001, Berlin
19.05.19 Institut fuer Zukunft, Pillenrealität, Leipzig
26.04.19 ://about blank, nine doch blank, Berlin
23.03.19 objekt klein a, http://about a x vent, Dresden
16.02.19 sweat or regret, Brussels
08.02.19://about blank, elements, Berlin
02.01.19 ://about blank, blank down, Berlin


On top of a sweaty, salty, crusted night we are moving downwards over the top because we thought it is going a little over the top to stay here especially to have your say on everything – that it is more than just a testimony, that the material of the soundwitnesses should also have a certain poetic style and over the top elaboration. the combined realization and emotion sensors shall be slid over the top end of the top segment of the sound system and fixed with screws. choreographic insufficiencies are in some places overlaid or even saved by the personal charm of revelation or it`s spouse kitsch and by pleasant and non-violent humour, of which however is over the top ten in some places: the magnificent persistency and superb devotion, which oftentimes borders on grandeur and sublimity – mostly most over the top! Unconditionally bound up with hypnotic and emotionally intense house blueprints as an absolute turn. (diashi)

Barbara Hofmann holds a residency in :// about blank. She is running nights for quite some time, she hosted radio shows and has organized all kind of events. Being part of collectives has shown her all sides of the meaning of self organized parties and reflects her passion for it. Pop was maybe the first strong influence that later driftet into punk and hardcore. The anarchic moment of straight repetitive drums were probably the initial moment to trigger her passion for house and techno which hasn´t stopped till today.

„Ich mag es wenn du an nichts mehr denkst. Die Musik dich auslöscht. Sie war und ist die Konstante.“

Barbara Hofmann

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