Tickets at the door or presale: https://vvk.link/3bfk2pc

Seit 2016 vereinen WARAN Einflüsse aus Hardcore, Alternative und Punk mit sozialkritischer deutscher Lyrik.
Die vier Bremer setzen dabei auf Energie, Präzision und einen kompromisslosen Sound.
WARAN klingt giftig, wütend und nachdenklich zugleich.
2023 haben WARAN ihre erste EP "Zwang" veröffentlicht.

WARAN ist:
Kaphorn: Schlagzeug (ex-Chung, ex-Party Diktator)
Alechz: Bass (TerraFlop, ex-Saprize, ex-Queerfish)
Micha: Gitarre (Noisescape, Gorilla Move)
Killlili: Stimme (Betastone)

KRÄLFE brechen mit ihrer Musik durch die Post-Grunge-Welle hinein  in ein unverwechselbares Sounduniversum.
Auf eigenen Pfaden irgendwo zwischen WIPERS, SONIC YOUTH, SHELLAC und einem Soundtrack zu GHOST IN THE SHELL vertonen KRÄLFE mit neu formierter Liveband u.a. den Verlust der Heimlichkeit und so die Auflösung der Subkultur, die rasante Entwicklung der KI, und die Sehnsucht nach Unbeschwertheit.
Immer brachial, treibend und auf Obertönen schwingend. 
Let there be Noise Rock!

Mit E-Gitarre bewaffnet spielt die dänische FLINTA* Künstlerin A
Mess Songs über #metoo, Geschlechterwahrnehmung und Sex. Das Visions Magazine nennt es "feministischen Powerpop, der von rohen Gitarrenriffs angetrieben wird". Stellt euch vor, The Breeders züchteten Avril Lavigne und überließen die Erziehung Pussy Riot.

powerline & little league shows prsnt:

O. / exp sax & drums duo, uk
otheband.com / instagram.com/o.the.band 

& POINT.NO.POINT / indie/exp, bln
https://lnk.bio/pointnopoint / https://www.instagram.com/point.nopoint/ 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> vvk.link/34t6434 

& after 22h: DJ BOBBI BOULETTI (italo-disco / synth / wave)!

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O. – the London-based duo of baritone saxophonist Joe Henwood and drummer Tash Keary – return with details of their highly anticipated debut album “WeirdOs” and a colossal new single titled “Green Shirt”.

The album is due out 21st June via Speedy Wunderground. Honing their fearless sound through a residency at Brixton’s iconic venue The Windmill, as well as on support slots across the UK and Europe with fellow heavyweights black midi and Gilla Band, O. have now distilled their unique live energy into their debut album, “WeirdOs”.

Featuring production from Dan Carey, WeirdOs is Tash and Joe at their most raucous and free. Across 10 tracks of high-octane instrumentals recorded live to tape, the duo encompass everything from cathartic dancefloor drops, to junglist breakbeats, intricate jazz lines, and sludgy, menacing doom metal.

Coming hot on the heels of last November’s debut EP “SLICE” – which won enthusiastic support from DIY, Dork, NME, Louder, and Rough Trade – the new single “Green Shirt” sees the band expanding on their ever evolving, epiphanic sound combining thundering blast beats with labyrinthine sax.

The band describe the single as “a short rock/metal rinse out. To match the distorted amp sounds coming from Joe, we put Tash's drums through distorted guitar amps on this one. It's named after Tash's favourite green flannel shirt, that was lost several times and then eaten by a dog.”

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POINT NO POINT started as solo project of Berlin musician Jana Sotzko but functions live as a full band with members of GYM TONIC, MATCHING OUTFITS, HALFSILKS, UYUY, and many others. After two solo albums the band recently recorded a new EP as a quintet. Musically they find themselves somewhere between post-punkish vibes, synth-driven experimental pop and kraut-inspired jams.  

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grrrt & little league shows prsnt:

LEM (space-pop, bel) & ALICE GIFT (noir wave/noise-pop, fr/bln)
lemcosmos.be / alicegift.com 

live at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets for the concert at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3d87r00 
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LEM est un trio basé en Belgique. Il est emmené par Nicolas Ekla au chant, Wilf Plum à la basse et Flo Cha auxclaviers. LEM opére une synthèse entre musique électronique, pop décalée et chanson avec des chants en français. Les textes sont à la fois métaphoriques et revendicatifs dans lesquels il convoque régulièrement de glorieuses figures tutélaires comme Fassbinder, Rimbaud, Maiakovski.

lemcosmos.be /// lemspacepop.bandcamp.com

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ALICE GIFT (ex-Velvet Condom) is finally back with a new record.

'Nothing Against Uplifting, But ...' (mixed by ‘The Notwist’ producer Tad Klimp) has just been released on the Parisian label 'Icy Cold Records' and includes exciting B-sides and rarities from the French Berliner. In keeping with the new electronic sounds heard on it, he will be performing in a duo formula at his upcoming shows with new machine support.

In 2021, he was able to successfully launch and promote his debut album "Alles ist Gift" (mixed by ‘Me And My Drummer’ producer Joe Joaquin) despite the severe restrictions imposed by the pandemic.

The song 'Trance Park' profiled itself as the most successful album outtake so far, with a Heavy-Rotation on Berlin's BBC-like Radio station ‚Radio Eins‘.

Live, Alice Gift delivers a toxic mélange of shoegaze, darkwave and synthpop along with his accomplice Djamila Paris.

Alice Gift has already toured and shared the stage with Actors, Clan of Xymox, She Past Away, Film School, Light Asylum, …

cymbelinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/alice-gift-nothing-against-uplifting-but 

KNEIPENABEND / BARNIGHT. no concert/djs tonight, the bar is gonna be open for you though. cozy athmosphere, cheap beer & good drinks, exquisite music, table football, tables outside open aswell if the weather allows it.

We have invited the Berlin band Yelka to perform their latest album "FOR" (released on Karaoke Kalk in June) on our Schokoladen stage, this beautiful evening will be supported by MASHA QRELLA on the Decks. Masha has just released a cover version of Manfred Krug's first West record "Da bist du ja!" (and the woman he leaves in the song is the GDR).

Here is a video Diana Näcke for Masha Qrella "Um die weite Welt zu sehen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LPFs6ZtHQ

Through the folded sky to America
Ten albums in three years. That's still the cosmic mission of the Berlin post-kraut trio YELKA with Daniel Meteo, Christian Obermaier, and the namesake Yelka Wehmeier.
With the album "For," there was a Label change. After releasing three albums in 2023 with Maurice Summen, head of Fun In The Church they passed the label responsibilities to Karaoke Kalk. Karaoke Kalk is a friendly label founded in Cologne known for establishing the Berlin Post-Wende scene (fall of the wall scene).

reverberation, dynamite konzerte & lls prsnt:

OGROM CIRCUS (psych pop, bln) & WOO SYRAH (post-grunge/shoegaze, bln)!

ogromcircus.de /// linktr.ee/woo.syrah

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets for the concert at the doors and in pre-sale --> vvk.link/3bqt61c 

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OGROM CIRCUS: Heartbreaking vocals harmonies, soulful atmospheric folk and some psychedelic space trips ... with a bluesy breeze of soul. After some changes in the line up, the quintet fires up any audience again since 2018. Energetic rhythms, polyphonic vocals and massive organ sounds gonna revive the psychedelic of the sixties in a modern pop-robe.

The band released their debut in 2014 on Timezone Records. The second one “what the sea once took” was released in 2019 in collaboration with Dynamite Platten. The lp was recorded and mixed by musician and producer Rhys Braddock (NZL). Now the new record “the world barely makes a sound” will follow in 2024, also on Dynamite Platten, recorded in a live session on a Tascam tape machine from the 90s.

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Café Chocolat, is a new music series and community building event created by Melissa Perales (M:Soundtrack, Durchlüften, Music Pool Berlin) and Batila (the Dream bus, BantuSoul Allstars). We aim at celebrating and supporting local talents and newcomer black and brown artists & DJ’s within the diaspora of Germany’s communities. Our main thesis is that when communities are supported and treated fairly they will thrive. Aside from the showcases, this series is about surviving as an artist and creator in the black and brown community. We believe with more emphasis on “all of us”, we can create a more equitable event and make a contribution to our music scene. Please come out and support our efforts so we can continue this event! The Dream Bus will be taking us along a journey each evening with special guests

Program #2
Batila & the Dream bus (House band)

Nyangombe (Kinshasa, Congo)

Susan Augusst aka ADORKOR (Accra, Ghana)

+ DJs:  Edna Martinez  - Vinyl Set +  DJ Mauricio Fleury

+ congolese cusine by Food Fruit African ( Ma Bijoux)

Nyangombe returns to Schokoladen with her second performance, this time as a guest at Café Chocolat.  Nyangombe is a self-taught and multidisciplinary artist who integrates music composition, writing, video, performance, and costume in her practice. The common thread of her work is individuality (mix heritage,
woman, artist) in the community in relation and in confrontation with the antagonisms. She works solo, with her band Village Papa Nyangombe and in collaboration with artists from various disciplines and performs in the
urban and alternative art scene of Kinshasa. Her EP “Fatherland” out in 2023 is the reflection of the journey of a mix race artist working, thinking and struggling as a woman in her father’s land-

https://www.instagram.com/nyangombemusic/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RzDLqi-ewI

Susan Augustt  aka Adorkor is a singer-songwriter based in Accra who blends neo afro-soul and Ghanaian traditional music such as highlife, agbadza, and kpanlogo. She has collaborated with Future Stars Charity on their “Periods of Change” project which aimed to provide menstrual hygiene education and health support to girls.she moves seamlessly between genres and styles. She creates neo-afro soul pieces poignantly blended with indigenous Ghanaian rhythms that influence her fuse with the soul, lending their parts in the crafting of a unique live sound that takes listeners on a satisfying journey of culture and taste. Susan is born of Ga-Ewe descent and lived her early years in Obuasi, a suburb of the Ashanti Region in Ghana; she believes these multi-culture experiences have contributed to her versatility in her music. Apart from English, she sings in two local languages, Twi and Ga. If one thing is certain it is the fact that Susan is a live music artiste who would embrace every chance to light up a stage with her performance and music and can rekindle the much-lacking live music scene in our parts.

https://www.instagram.com/susan_augustt?igsh=ZXQ0N3k1cXlsdnNj

DJs: Multi-instrumentalist, producer and DJ Mauricio Fleury has already played with Brazilian music greats such as Gal Costa and João Donato and is known for his energetic vinyl sets. https://www.instagram.com/mauriciofleury_/

Edna Martinez is an artist, DJ and curator. Her music is inspired by the culture of Picó Sound Systems. Martinez's sound encompasses African and Caribbean rhythms, jazz bass, tribal polyrhythms and Arabic melodies. She produces radio shows and has launched various projects in Berlin, including El Volcán, Picó Soundsystem Culture from the Colombian Caribbean, 2018.  @ednamartinezdj

OUR House band  >>>>>> Batila & The Dream Bus
Berlin based live Band with excellent musicians such as Dodo NKishi on the drums, known
from the iconic electronic group Mouse and Mars ,upcoming Guitarist and producer Skyline
Sun, Paul Hoyle on Bass, Inspiring Producer,Singer and healer Nane Kahle on backing
vocals. Sam Konzi on guitar, Adam Pavel and Rachelle Jeanty on percussion .With Batila as
the Band leader and songwriter, the sound of the Dreambus is quite unique, which Batila
himself baptized as Bantu Soul, a fusion of all genres created and inspired by people of
african descent. Bantu, the plural of muntu means people. “Music by people for people '' as
Batila likes to say. Batila’s roots are in the Kongo and with his Artistic being he clearly
declares his love for la “Rumba Congolaise '' and his continent. The sound is groovy, melodic
with empowering messages and stories which will take you on a spiritual journey. And since
it is a Dreambus, you will also experience many other extraordinary Artists jumping on and
off the Bus.    https://www.instagram.com/batilasound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLdtfEkKzBk

Dies wird der Abend des Lebens! Wie praktisch immer im September seit 2011 feiern Kid Ikarus und Petula ihren gemeinsamen Geburtstag bzw. in ihn rein. Wie immer tun sie dies mit allen Leuten, die sie kennen, und ein paar, die sich von der Aussicht auf Trauerhits, Viervierteldings, Urschleim, diskretes Indenarmenliegen und zum Beispiel eine kühle Mate locken lassen.

Anders als immer beschenken sie sich und ihr Publikum diesmal mit fröhlicher Zurückhaltung und überlassen die Bühne zwei anderen wundervollen Poweracts voller – schon wieder! – gutdraufen Freund*innen. Endlich mal gemeinsam feiern und nicht immer nur abliefern!

Stattdessen liefern ab: Die längst zu einem hervorragendenTrio gewachsenen Lake Felix mit emotionalem Bollern und anmutigem Rumpeln. Und eine zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt aus Vertrags- und Spannunganheizgründen noch geheime Band mit sehr gutem Namen und noch besserer Musik hintendran.

Conrad, Sebastian und Melissa möchten euch sehen. Kauft also bitte Karten, das macht man so.

28.9.2024
19:00
Schokoladen

DJ Acidgold (a.k.a. Jonny Tiernan)

„Ja, wir hatten mal was“ ist das schriftstellerische Debüt von Kati von Schwerin und beinhaltet kurzweilige, sowie autobiografische Anekdoten&Kurzgeschichten über Berlins Eigenarten und unangenehme Charakterzüge. So treffen sich die Autorin und ihre große Liebe Berlin zu Beginn der Geschichte bei der Paartherapeutin, die dafür sorgen sollte, dass sich das „Paar“ wieder zusammenrauft. Der Rückblick beginnt und es wird beschrieben, warum die Autorin der Stadt verfiel und was die Auslöser waren, von Düsseldorf nach Berlin zu ziehen. Die Irrtümer und Missverständnisse, aber auch das Schöne. Nach und nach kommen immer mehr Schweinereien ans Licht, die Berlin als Schuft entlarven und zeigen, dass diese Stadt eine trügerische Illusion ist. Die Zugezogenen werden sich womöglich wiedererkennen, die Einheimischen werden trauern, und die, die nie nach Berlin wollten oder konnten werden sagen: „Siehste, ist halt doch scheiße da!“. Am Ende steht der Abschiedsbrief, der die vorhergegangenen humoristischen und überspitzten Erzählungen relativiert und das Buch in purer Enttäuschung und Wut enden lässt. Die Protagonistin macht Schluss mit der Stadt, nachdem sie trotz etlichen Sitzungen bei der Paar-Therapeutin ihre Liebe nicht retten konnte.