The Berlin based label “bohemian drips” was founded in 2011 by Alexander Meurer and Fillipp Vingerhoets and is specialized in developing, publishing and staging site-specific compositions in settings with distinctive acoustics. The inclusion of the spatial sound in as a compositional dimension forms the basis of this production process: To capture a three dimensional image, those productions are recorded in binaural audio ("Kunstkopf-Stereophonie"). Following this approach, the label organizes a yearly festival for site-specific music in two old water reservoirs in Berlin, Pankow. Since 2016, "bohemian drips" also releases studio LPs.

As a producer, musician, DJ and serial collaborator, Chris Schwarzwälders distinctive style of deep, restrained house is hard to pin down, but you’ll always know it’s him when you hear it. 

Born in Frankfurt am Main in the 80s, he started playing hiphop in the 90s. While making beats on his MPC2000, he dropped into Offenbach’s Robert Johnson club and fell in love with techno. 

In 2009, Chris moved to Berlin and started DJing at KaterHolzig, where he found a group of people who thought about music in the same way he did. In contrast to the trends of the late 00s, the sounds being made from this little paradise on Berlin’s river Spree were slower, softer, and more soulful than a lot of what was being played in clubs at the time. 

It was here that Chris began to cement his reputation as both a solo producer and collaborator, who was capable of bringing his trademark sounds to a whole number of side-projects - many of which have gone on to play to crowds around the globe. He joined the Feathered Sun collective in 2013, together with a group of friends including Acid Pauli, Nu, Jo.Ke and Raz O’Hara. Dreamy, groovy and often improvised, the collective represented a special kind of musical freedom in which a group of producers came together to create something new in a singular, live moment. 

At the same time, Chris’ friend Mira was making moves of her own, and they started to play back-to-back sets, soundtracking the legendary Monday mornings of KaterHolzig, and now, Kater Blau. The two, who are both residents at Kater Blau, have now been playing together internationally for almost a decade, and have formed a common musical understanding that translates throughout every one of their sets - deep, clubby and melancholic. This partnership has also carried on into the studio, where they have collaborated on numerous hits. 

His most light-hearted side comes out in collaboration with Iannis Ritter, where the two musicians take on a weirder, more melodic & electro approach than Chris’ other proejcts. 

If you were to ask him, Chris would describe himself as reserved, logical, rational, melancholic and humorous. Which is why you’d never hear him telling you about the hundreds of nightclubs and festivals he’s played around the globe, or the number of hits he’s had with his productions. If you’re lucky though, Chris might tell you about his favourite synthesizers, and get lost in a conversation all about electronics and sound. Which is exactly where Chris wants to be - lost in electronics and sound.

BEIRUT - CAIRO - ISTANBUL: Combining some of the most innovative players from Beirut, Cairo and Istanbul, Karkhana met in Beirut for the first time in February 2014. They recorded both live and in studio for Italian vinyl label Sagittarius A-Star. They recently meet in Beirut again, albeit with a variation on their last line up, to share their blend of free jazz and psychedelic with various shades and traces of shaabi, tarab, sufi and much more. 

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thanks to all artists stimulating my synapses.
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12.12 Alt Stralau, Berlin
16.11 Monolog Festival, TDA, Berlin
9.11 Espacio Bromelia, Veracruz
7.11 Obra Gris x Discos Cielo, CDMX
9.8 Detect Festival, Fahrenwalde
26-29.6 Fusion Festival, Lärz
21.5 Don de Lenguas, Radio Relativa, Madrid
30.4 Palma Dansa Dance Festival, Mallorca
1.4 AADK Spain residency, Murcia
29.3 Otannenbaum, Berlin
22.3 Orangerie_nk, Berlin
19.3 Radio Relativa, Madrid
8.3 Cashmere Radio, Berlin
5.3 Refugeworldwide, Berlin
22.2 Radiofest Wokule, Biesenthal

2024

21-24.11 Cuevas del Pino , Cordoba
16.11 Espacio Perpendicular, Madrid
1.11 90mil, Berlin 
19-22.9 Seanaps Festival, Leipzig 
14.9 ICG Gallery, Berlin Art Week 
8.9 Attension Festival, Lärz
21.8 WUK Theater Quartier, Halle 
26-30.7 Fusion Festival, Lärz 
18-23.6 Rota Festival, Blanca (ES)
1.6 Cashmere Radio, Berlin 
15.5 Casa Montjuïc x Canino Radioshow, Barcelona 
25.5 In.habit.ants festival, Brandenburg
3.5 Busyhands Festival ,Leipzig
30.4 Berghain Kantine , Berlin
19.4 Barcelona Psych Fest, Barcelona
21.2 Panke, Berlin
1.2-1.8 Radio Relativa Residency, Madrid


Past 

26.8 Zen Lab, Leipzig
23.7 Tesla FM , Barcelona
20.7 Panke, Berlin
8.7 Sphere Radio Kiosk , Leipzig 
2.7 Fusion Festival,  Lärz 
1.7 Fusion Festival, Lärz
16.6 Instituto Cervantes, Berlin
2.02 Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
16.02 Radio Relativa, Madrid
21.1 Pracht, Leipzig
29.1 THF Radio, Berlin
31.8 Klunkerkranich,Berlin
28-31.7  Braille Satellite, Vilnius 
29.6-3.7 Fusion Festival, Lärz
16.05 Klunkerkranich, Berlin
12.03 Radio Relativa, Madrid
23.09 Seanaps Festival, Leipzig
29.08 In.habit.ants Festival, Pehlitz
22.08  Dubstation,  Lärz 
23.07 Liceo Mutante, Pontevedra
29.03 Postklub, Arkaoda , Berlin
11.07 Urban Spree, Berlin
22.06 THF Radio, Berlin
5.02 Sameheads, Berlin
3.01  Gelegenheiten, Berlin
20.12 Passenger Cafe,  Berlin
05.10 Maze,Berlin
27.9 La Fabrica de Hielo, Valencia
24.9 Radio Relativa, Madrid
23.9 Radio Gladys Palmera , Madrid
7.9 At.tension Festival, Lärz
26.7 Wokule Biesenthal, Brandenbourg
29.6  Fusion Festival, Lärz
15.6 Krunkrelkranich , Berlin
03.5 UT CONNEWITZ , Leipzig
16.2 Arkaoda ,Berlin
15.2 Das Hotel,Berlin  
2.2 Cashmere Radio, Berlin

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