Female Focus festival 2015
https://www.springstoff.de/event/female-focus-festival/ 
Down by the River Festival Vll 
http://www.downbytheriver-berlin.de/
uFair-Das Freiluftfestival Berlin
http://www.ufair-festival.de/ 
Message in a Bottle-Das Musikschiff
http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/page/message-bottle-das-musikschiff
5. Melodica Festival Berlin 
http://melodicafestival.org/
Torstraßenfestival 2015 
http://www.torstrassenfestival.de/
Yo! Sissy music Festival 
http://www.yosissy.com/ 
Wilde Möhre Festival 
http://wildemoehrefestival.de/
DNA Bln 
https://www.facebook.com/DNABLN/
ICH BIN EIN BERLINER Festival 
http://www.ichbineinberlinerfestival.de/
Expatriach Generations
http://www.expatriarch.com/ 
Party Arty 
http://www.party-arty.de/
Kometenmelodien
https://www.facebook.com/kometenmelodien/
Grand Jeté
http://www.grandjete.de/ 
Kiezsalon in der Musikbrauerei 
http://www.digitalinberlin.de/kiezsalon-susanna-n-m-o-musikbrauerei-2015/
Newcomerstage @ ASK HELMUT Guts over fear 
https://www.facebook.com/askhelmut?fref=ts
Females Pressure Perspectives 
https://www.facebook.com/femalepressure/
Blockbühne 
https://www.facebook.com/events/908099949271267/
XJAZZ 
http://xjazz.net/
PIA Pop Im Ausland 
http://ausland-berlin.de/pia

Funded Events 2015

Check out the new episode of our exklusive Mixtape series with the founder of the label Mansions and Millions Anton Teichmann. Full interview and tracklist can be found here: http://dasfilter.com/sounds/filter-tapes-041-a-history-of-mansions-and-millions-von-anton-teichmann

Filter Tapes 041: „A History of Mansions and Millions“ by Anton Teichmann

Lady Of The Lake

Two guitars, a drum set, two female voices and a sound saturated with reverb. Influenced by garage and psychedelic music, blending the world of acid westerns and dark mythology, Canyon Spree's music combines melodic riffs to 60s/70s, fuzzy and echoing tones

01 Badlands

"Bad Grrrlz* do it well" - From old scool to out of scool -  femisisms have always been a part of Hip Hop. Queen Latifah stated already in 1989 "The ladies will kick it, the rhyme that is wicked. Those that don't know how to be pros get evicted. A woman can bear you, break you, take you."(Ladies First) 
Salt N Pepa followed with "Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thing" in 1995: "The thing that makes me mad and crazy, upset. Got to break my neck just to get my respect. Go to work and get paid less than a man. When I'm doin' the same damn thing that he can. When I'm aggressive then I'm a bitch. When I got attitude you call me a witch. Treat me like a sex-object (That ain't smooth). Underestimate the mind, oh yeah, you're a fool. Weaker sex, yeah, right, that's the joke (ha!)"

This Set is a selection of my favourite feminist Hip Hop across the decades mixed with bouncy beats.
"This one comes from the heart." (Ms. Dynamite - "Miss")

Grrrlz* Time - Hip Hop Feminism

There is something spesh going on musically along the Berlin / Montreal / Warsaw axes these days, and this tape is your one way ticket to never going back to unknowingness. Consisting of 11 heretofore unreleased tracks from the M&M stable and beyond, Mixtape 1 serves to document a scene which spans significant geographic distance all the while maintaining a cohesive aesthetic sensibility. 

Magic Island’s “Ostsee” opens the proceedings, and it finds dream pop inhabitant Emma C sounding more confident than ever, not only in songwriting but also in production. Same goes for Antoine93, whose pop star ambitions haven’t been dulled by his time spent basking in the glory of being one of Berlin’s new star club kids. If anything, he has emerged from the haze of all those late nights with a pop sensibility that is tuned to perfection. 

Pascale Project delivers a spaced out track which brings to mind a simpler time in electronic music and Bataille Solaire shores up the Quebecois contributions to the tape with a track that will satisfy the heads who like their tuneage knotty and complex. 

Dylan III is sorely missed around Neukölln, so his contribution here, a skewed take on 80s AM gold replete with flamenco guitar and emotive vocals is very a welcome reminder of his immense talent and charisma. While we’re talking sorely missed, how about Jason Harvey? No two ways about this guy is a beauty, and his track, though objectively “weird” is, in its own way, perfect. Just like him. 

Jack Chosef, Normal Echo and Helen Fry weigh in with punchier, harder takes on their respective brands of outsider electronics, while scene linchpin Sean Nicholas Savage teams up with his Polish partner in crime (and current touring guitarist), Better Person, for a smooth as cover of Chris Isaak’s “Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me). 

One of the most pleasant surprises on the mix comes from Karolini. After years spent fine tuning his coffee making skills, then his cooking skills, then his joke telling skills, Karolini finally found time to produce some music, and, by gosh, it was worth the wait. “Twice As Much” is a timeless piece of songwriting, as instantly memorable as it is distinct from the other tracks on offer here. 

Finally, Warsaw based Olivier Helm and Pictorial Candi collaborate on Ballroom, a digital only bonus track that, like a jellyfish from the depths of the Vistula, is so smooth it hurts. 

All told, what we’ve got here is a beau-tay of comp, an immensely pleasing snapshot of a scene operating at its own pace and in its own world. There's no going back now. 

Kevin Halpin / Shameless/Limitless / Berlin, October 2015

Buy on Bandcamp

Jack Chosef - Hard To Be

Truffle Butter Remix

ft. Sean Nicholas Savage
released via Mansions And Millions 2018

written by Denitza Todorova and Jim Orso
prod. by SUM / ODD
mastered by Freddy Knop 
artwork Molly Dyson

So Wrong (ft. Sean Nicholas Savage)

written and produced by Denitza Todorova
"If It's Written" out on Sept 14 on Mansions and Millions / Morr Music
mastered by Freddy Knop

Hypertext

Berlin based singer DENA is in the London studio for a guest session.
https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/dena-19th-october-2018 

TRACKLIST Dena @nts_live Oct 19 / 2018 

Keshavara - Creators Of Rain
Durkin & Maka feat. Ghostdad - Tropical Rain
Kelela (LSDXOXO Mix) - Truth Or Dare
L’rain (D0UZE remix) - Which Fork 
Arto Mwambe - BTWO
Helado Negro - Glow You
Rosalia - Malamente
Dena - HMU
Bea1991 - Wdsg?
Yaeji - Therapy
Acasual (M00MIN remix) - Spring Theory
Sean Nicholas Savage - Abracadabra
Pictorial Candi - Dead Teens
Dena - The Promise 
Duval Timothy - Ball
Dena - Part Time Love (James Blake Cover)

DENA @ NTS Oct 19 2018

Have you ever taken care of someone for years to the point where you become a vessel, an enabler for this person? [You] feels a million light years away, a glimmering spot in the Cosmos. But then one day your vessel self gets a break and travels in light years through the sharpest black and reunites with You after all those years. You were just hanging there, forgotten, and you realize you've missed yourself more than you've ever missed anyone before. 

But after you've exploded and levitated all over the carpet it doesn't take long, a couple of days perhaps, to go missing this other person you've been necessarily enabling and loving. And perhaps loosing yourself so completely was worth it just for that comeback.

Performed, written and produced by Pictorial Candi.
Mixed by Michał Kupicz.
Photo by Jason Gold.
Released on April 29, 2019 from Berlin to the world via Mansions and Millions and Nicey Music.
Single from the LP record "The secret salts" out June 14, 2019.

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Bury Me Alive

So Wrong

This song centers around the main theme of the album. A celebration of life through the lense of mortality, a feeling of ecstatic aliveness and balance when faced with the madness of existence. It's an upbeat bobbing disco song that addresses the passage of time and the seasons and the blooming and decomposing of the natural world. The choruses sum up the message in a pretty straightforward way: “ So sweet, so nice, everything is waiting to die / So sweet, so high nothing's ever felt so alive”.

So Sweet So Nice

The Musicboard Berlin GmbH is the only institution of its kind nationwide with the aim to fund pop music in new and creative ways, and maintain a dynamic discourse on pop music in Berlin. The Musicboard counts on the innovative power of the music and creative industry. The Musicboard provides a new and courageous form of pop music funding.

The Musicboard is also responsible for the Pop-Kultur Festival, which takes place this year from August 15th-17th 2018 for the fourth time. Because our guests and everyone else involved loved the Kulturbrauerei so much last year, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be able to call it home once again this coming summer during the festival.

Jack Chosef - Hard To Be

Mansions and Millions

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