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.

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January 01 - About Blank, Berlin
January 02 - Sisyphos, Berlin
February 01 - Kuca Records, Belgrade (Serbia)
February 07 - Katerblau, Berlin
February 20 - Arte Concert, Berlin
February 21 - Golden Gate, Berlin
April 04 - Teig & Töne, Putbus
April 13 - Schrødingers, Hamburg
April 18 - HÖR, Berlin
April 19 - Sisyphos, Berlin (b2b Powel)
April 30 - JAZ, Rostock 
May 16 - Renate, Berlin
May 30 - Sisyphos, Berlin
May 31 - Südpol, Hamburg
June 07 - Villa Kalkbrennerei, Stralsund
June 13 - Legal, München
June 14 - Golden Gate, Berlin
June 21 - Tannins&Tunes (Italy)
June 29 - Fusion Festival (b2b Ninze)
July 04 - Wal Bar, Rostock
July 26 - 100 Tage Sommer Open Air
August 01 - Monument Festival (Norway)
August 08 - About You Pangea Festival
August 10 - 3000 Grad Festival
August 29 - Eulenflug Festival
September 26 - Giselle, Düsseldorf
September 27 - Irgendwo, Bremen
September 28 - gART.n, Berlin
October 03 - JAZ, Rostock
October 04 - Treibsand, Lübeck
October 11 - Tanztag, Schwerin
October 27 - HÖR, Berlin
November 08 - Kater, Berlin
November 13 - Golden Gate, Berlin
November 15 - Tiko, Wismar
December 19 - Hafenklang, Hamburg
December 20 - HHV Store, Berlin
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January 01 - Kraftwerk, Rostock
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January 31 - Golden Gate, Berlin (b2b LIA)
Febuary 01 - Südpol, Hamburg
February 07 - Kuca Records, Belgrade (Serbia)
February 28 - Distillery, Leipzig

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"larkness" is an electronica duo formed in the beginning of 2017 in cologne.
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Thiel and Wedekind are filmmaker and designer with teenage band experiences in punk and indierock. After years of passive music loving they decided to start music making again.

Their artistic concept of genre free analogue / digital music without a target group is realised with minimal equipment in their home studios.
The range of their songs is unlimited from ambient to minimal, from indie rock to trip pop.

Their first album "colorful grey" with nine completely autonomous composed and produced songs is not a concept album but a collection of moments and feelings of the first half of 2017.

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