ago is a music project by robin wörn and manuel minniti from stuttgart. the band is complemented by guest musicians during live performances. after releasing their debut single "sun" on vinyl in may 2018, they played a tour in israel with the local group D.R.Y.

along with lead vocalist dmitry polykov of D.R.Y. they released the "blessed" ep on a 7" in october 2019 under the same-titled project.

their debut album "chroma" (produced by ralv milberg) will be released in 2021. the contrasts between the warmth of the middle-east and the coldness of central europe are complemented by pop compositions, vocals and driving rhythms. even so, the songs never sound like off-the-shelf mainstream pop.
the compositions combine modern electronic music like electronica, new wave or synth pop with post rock, shoegaze and a slight kraut rock-impact.

++ fka abu gabi+++ composer vocalist dj ++ +DE/AT{H̶}+++ member of @crvng

[ominous tonalities]

find more original music on 
https://nicolussi.bandcamp.com
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NEXT:

Oct. 5th: phonoECHOES Finale @ esc medienkunstlabor, Graz
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Oct. 17th: composition premiere w/ Jakob Schauer @ Erlöserkirche, Vienna
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Nov. 1st: DJ-Set @ Wien Modern, Vienna
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Dec. 19/20th: DSD live @ SGZHN Festival, Vienna

Let's talk about bags, baby! In diesem Potcast heißt es: Abhängen mit der High Society. Jede Folge trifft Hengameh eine beeindruckende Person aus Popkultur und Politik auf eine Tüte. Den Inhalt dieser Tüte bringen die Gäste mit, schließlich packen sie aus ihrem Innersten aus. Welchen Emotional Baggage schleppen sie mit sich herum? Welches Thema war für sie so schambesetzt, dass sie es lieber im Sack versteckt haben? Wer oder was ist die It-Bag, die sie feiern? Welchen Rat wollen sie anderen in die Schultüte packen? Jeden zweiten Montag begegnen wir den Stars auf Augenhöhe. Abheben ist nicht!

Jingle: Neda Sanai aka Nedalot
Konzept, Redaktion: Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
Postproduktion: Qzeng Productions

“There are at least a few people in this thing determined to keep House Music weird. Chicago’s Alinka is one of them.” – Terry Matthew, 5Magazine

Alinka is the kind of DJ other DJ’s will tell you about. She has a unique power on the decks that comes from lifelong passion and time served, with a focused devotion to her first love – house music. Raised on Chicago’s vibrant house sound with toes dipped into Detroit techno, Europe’s more robust approaches to bass music and the myriad of genre’s coming from cities like Berlin, London and Paris.

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, her early childhood included reluctantly learning the piano, her mother is a pianist, while trying to convince her parents to let her play guitar. Her exposure to Western music was limited, living in a communist country where censorship was common practice. Her family eventually immigrated to Chicago as Jewish refugees in the late ‘80s as the USSR crumbled. This was her first experience of pop music and she fell head over heels for the chart sounds of Madonna and Janet Jackson. Then came house music from local radio shows where you could frequently hear tracks by Chicago legends like Cajmere and DJ Funk, and shows like Sonic Boom helped expose underground music to the masses.

By the late ‘90s, music had taken over her life. Teenage Alinka immersed herself in the dance music scene spending her summer pulling double shifts at a local pool and moonlighting for rave promoters to build up enough cash to buy decks. After a year of skipping class to relentlessly practice her mixing skills, she began her full-time musical pursuit. Working for various club promoters, doing odd jobs passing out flyers and helping with party logistics - anything just to get into clubs underage to see her favourite DJs - all while spending hours digging for tracks at Chicago’s legendary record shop Gramaphone. In 2001 Justin Long recruited her to be the opening resident for his .Dotbleep party at Smartbar where she honed her skills for the best part of a decade.

In 2012, an impromptu meeting with former Hercules and Love Affair vocalist, Shaun J. Wright, changed her life forever. Their evolving friendship resulted in what would be the first of many musical collaborations. The pair launched their Twirl parties and label, continually strived to inspire each other both musically and spiritually, the result has been an impressive catalogue of material for both of them collaboratively and individually on the likes of The Classic Music Company, Jackathon Jams, Crosstown Rebels, Leftroom, and of course Twirl, where as well as their own material the duo have welcomed renowned artists like Spencer Parker, Virginia, LA-4A, Kim Ann Foxman, and Jason Kendig onto the label.

Recent years have seen Alinka really hit her stride as a producer with successful releases on world renown labels like Rekids, Crosstown Rebels, Need Want, Permanent Vacation, and Peggy Gou’s Gudu Records. She also turned out a standout collection of remixes for labels Me Me Me, Live At Robert Johnson, Correspondant, and Get Physical.

Now living in Berlin, Alinka has well and truly found her feet and inspiration. Alinka has used this base to throw down at parties across Europe from Berghain/Panorama Bar to Circoloco, with regular visits back to the US to play standout clubs like Smart Bar and Ukraine's famous ∄ club in Kyiv, where she stands as club’s first international resident, playing a minimum of six shows per year including a curated show.

Her evolution continues with the recent re-launch of her Twirl imprint, highlighted by the ‘Day Dreamer’, ‘Sorry For Not Trending’ and ‘Edgewater’ EPs that finely balance Alinka’s future-focused ethos, with a unmistakable, proud passion for her Chicago heritage.

Since 2017 acting in concert has built a context for queer and anti-racist projects, that experiments with how people gather through sound. acting in concert is mostly based in a very small city called Witten in the Ruhr area in Germany where we organize festivals or concert evenings, if we can muster the courage and endurance to go through with it. Since 2020 acting in concert has also been working as an online label. In all these works we would like to try to focus on ways of relating, such as solidarity, responsibility and care. Together we want to practice how we can create spaces in music that are as free of hierarchies as possible and hopefully are places of retreat for many people – against a violent normative, racist, patriarchal and capitalist world.

Seit 2017 arbeitet acting in concert an einem Kontext für queere und antirassistische Projekte, die damit experimentieren, wie Menschen durch Sound zusammenkommen. acting in concert findet meist in der kleinen Stadt Witten im Ruhrgebiet statt, wo wir Festivals oder Konzertabende organisieren, wenn wir den Mut und die Ausdauer haben. Seit 2020 arbeitet acting in concert außerdem als online Label. Dabei möchten wir versuchen Beziehungsweisen wie Solidarität, Verantwortung und Fürsorge in den Fokus unserer Arbeiten zu rücken. Und gemeinsam erproben, wie wir möglichst enthierarchisierte Räume in der Musik schaffen können, die hoffentlich für viele Menschen Rückzugsorte - entgegen einer gewaltvollen normativen, rassistischen, patriarchalen und kapitalistischen Welt - sein können.

crying at the discotheque

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mgmt contact: camila@vanguardartists.com

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