It started with an urge to play with sound, a DIY synth, and a desire to know more. After several years buried in books, manuals and patch cables, JakoJako was performing her first live sets around Berlin, and spending every spare penny on Eurorack modules. The passion became all consuming, and in 2017, she left her nursing career to work at the legendary Berlin synth shop Schneidersladen, where’s she’s been sharing her knowledge of tools and techniques with the city’s music makers ever since. 

Technique is no use without ideas to apply it to, and fortunately JakoJako has a natural supply. “When you hear a sound in the environment, say a car passing by, you don’t appreciate the complexity until you think how you might synthesise it.” She explains. “Then it becomes something abstract; a collection of modulated pitches and timbres. I love to listen to the world like this..”

Her approach may seem studious, but JakoJako uses this fluency in the language of sound to convey emotion, and each track is an experiment, with success based on the intensity of feeling it creates. Her debut EP “Aequilibration”, released in 2019 on Leisure System Records, showcased this explorative mindset, with four very different stylistic ideas tied together through emotive sound design, sharp production, and a strong sense of melody. 

The release was followed by a string of live gigs, performed with her modular system and Elektron boxes, including a release party at Berghain, playing a standout set alongside Ben UFO and Marie Davidson. 

With regular events disappearing in 2020, live music migrated online, finding a global audience in shared experience of isolation. After streaming a live set for HÖR Radio, she was invited to take part in an online event for Arté, hosted by Innervisions and United We Stream, alongside Amé and Frank Wiedermann. This led to a filmed live performance in her studio for Fact Magazine’s Patch Notes series, and an in-depth video feature for Electronic Beats, which together have over half a million views (and counting).

Offline, JakoJako has made good use of the time in her studio, producing tracks on compilations for B-Pitch Control and Figure Records, remixes for Crouds on Intumi, and most recently, for New Order on Mute Records. More solo work is in the pipeline too, including a new EP for Leisure System Records, due in mid  2021.

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This was a live recording from TOKYO at UNIT club.  It was a celebration with the entire club eleven crew after ELEVEN had been shut down.  THIS MIX has been UPLOADED TO COMMEMORATE 30,000 FANS on facebook.  Thank you for the support!

DVS1 live at UNIT club in tokyo.(CLUB ELEVEN EVENT) Recorded on AUG/03/2013

Marcel Dettmann is a rarity in electronic music. His precocious disdain for rules has been one of the key ingredients for a decades-spanning arc that started sometime around the fall of the Berlin Wall (with early exposure to post-punk, industrial and synth pop) and continues to this day. His leitmotif is instantly recognisable, expertly layered, playfully syncopated, and though his influence is everywhere, no one quite manages to copy his pioneering sound. His formative influences surface frequently, serious atonal arrangements that follow the logic of EBM descending into a flurry of protean melodies; maybe this versatility is why, for a long time now, Dettmann’s sound has been so synonymous with a city in flux. Bassiani Podcast 130 is an excerpt from his Bassiani set back in March, and you’ll want to make sure you don’t miss this one, because there’s really no one like him.

@marceldettmann

Bassiani invites Marcel Dettmann / Podcast #130

Imagine growing up near Berlin, getting into dance music, going to Berghain for the first time and getting your mind blown by techno. Then, ten years later, you become a resident DJ at the fabled club. Not many people—any people?—can claim this story, but for Fadi Mohem, what would be so many DJs' dreams became a reality. After getting his 2017 debut 12-inch Reckless in the hands of all the right people in Berlin, Mohem established a bold, bouncy techno sound with releases on Modeselektor's Seilscheibenpfeiler, Ben Klock's Klockworks and FJAAK's SPANDAU20, pretty much the cream of the crop of modern techno.

Now, this year, he's becoming one of Berghain's newest residents, alongside other exciting names like Sedef Adasï and Naty Seres (and Lakuti upstairs at Panorama Bar). As heard on his recent collaborative with Ben Klock, Mohem has modern techno down to a science, thanks to a combination of reverence for the old-school and clever rhythmic touches, like the irresistible snare pattern on "Prefix." His RA Podcast sounds like what you might expect from a new generation of Berghain resident: aerodynamic, heavy and, honestly a little midtempo compared to a lot of other young techno DJs. It's the sound the club has made world-famous, with cuts from Reeko, Heiko Laux and Truncate, plus some special moments from aya, DJ Deeon and Petar Dundov. It takes a certain kind of DJ to get to this hallowed place, and Fadi Mohem deserves it.

@fadimohem

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RA.842 Fadi Mohem

This is a reconstruction of the last hour of my closing set at Ostgut Ton Nacht at Berghain, August 2014. I played mostly Techno during this appr. 9 hour set. Towards the end, I liked to calm down a little with the music in this mix.

Tracklist:

01. Rhythm & Sound w/ Bobbo Shanti - Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix). Burial Mix BMX4
02. X-Press 2 - Kill 100 (Carl Craig Remix). Skint 124
03. Kevin Saundersen - Just Want Another Chance (John Tejade Remix). KMS History 03
04. Mathew Jonson - Decompression. Minus 24
05. Gerd - Palm Leaves (Deetron Remix). Clone Royal Oak 10R
06. Mr. White - The Sun Can't Compare (Long Version). Alleviated ML-2225
07. Dennis Ferrer & Jerome Sydenham - Timbuktu (Ame Main Mix). Ibadan 078
08. DVS1 - Lost Myself. Hush 02
09. eLBee BaD - In The Sky. Yore 005ltd
10. Deetron feat. DJ Bone - Life Soundtrack (Rejected Interpretation). Music Man 133R
11. Ame - Nia. Sonar Kollektiv 027
12. Ron Trent - Altered States (South Side Terrace). Djax-Up-Beats 160

Fiedel Closing Set Ostgut Ton Nacht Berghain Aug 2014

Karenn (Blawan & Pariah) @ Awakenings Festival 2015 Day Two (28-06-2015)
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Karenn (Blawan & Pariah) @ Awakenings Festival 2015 Day Two

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XLR8R Podcast 430: Etapp Kyle

dArt pres. Norman Nodge @Elevator/Shanghai

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Answer Code Request Vinyl Mix 10/2012

Rubi & Dasha b2b recorded live in Berlin Friedrichshain.
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Talismann | Boiler Room x Dekmantel Festival 2018

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