M:Soundtrack x The Dreaming Diaspora:  w/ Wooly Aziz (Pakistan / Bln) ft. Tanaad (Thailand) + Legion Seven (CA/DE) + VIO (Bln & Mehfil Collective (Pakistan/Bln) **The evening will be a collaborative exploration of sound and culture w/ music and snacks

The Dreaming Diaspora is a familial creative exchange centring BIPOC* artists and the celebration of collective ambition, with a Night of the Dreaming Diaspora carrying tales of devotion, war, and migration.

Featuring Artists:  Wooly Aziz featuring Tanaad, Legion Seven , VIO,  & Mehfil Collective

Showtime: VIO: 20:00 — 20:30.
Legion Seven: 20:30 — 21:00.
Wooly Aziz x Tanaad: 21:15 — 22:00.
DJ-set:  M:Soundtrack x Wooly Aziz ab 22:00 - open end

Wooly Aziz is an evocative, genre-fluid project from Lahore, Pakistan, composing stories of submission, devotion, war, and migration. Transcending borders with their atmospheric compositions, “wistful vocals” (Rolling Stone), and lyrical storytelling, Wooly Aziz is anchored in the emotional extension of their colonial and geographical traces — reflected in their newly conceptualized record: Dreaming Diaspora, from the first track, called Take Off, to the last one, Landing. https://www.instagram.com/wooly.aziz/

FEATURING: 

Tanaad is Pead Rasanon a Bangkok-born music producer, musician, and DJ, currently based in Berlin (also known as pTR, r.flav & DRIPTECH). He is the initiator of the blozxom community and record label project. His work includes live performances and DJ sets, with notable appearances at events such as the Wonderfruit Festival, Beat Forest Festival, Boiler Room x Maho Rasop Festival, Ghost2565: live without dead time in Bangkok, Korat & Chonburi (Thailand), and the Asian Meeting Festival in Tokyo, Kobe & Kyoto (Japan)

Recently, Tanaad performed with Mon Sisu Satrawaha and Unthaitled Collective in “Somtam Manifesto” at the closing Exhibition of Rirkrit Tiravanit: DAS GLÜCK IST NICHT IMMER LUSTIG at Gropius Bau, Berlin in January 2025, He designed sound and music for short films, including "No Exorcism" by Komtouch Dew Napattaloong, which premiered at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, in 2024. He also did a live soundtrack for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s "Vapour" which premiered at the Busan Film Festival in 2015. An alumnus of Goethe Talents in 2020, he has hosted shows on dublab and Bangkok Community Radio. https://www.instagram.com/___7.o__o7/?hl=en

LEGION SEVEN  (CAN/DE)
  is a multi-hyphenate storyteller whose work is an erratic vehicle on a splendid path. Their projects are consistent only in a refractive departure from the biblical cult rigidity into which Seven was born. The wreckage of this rigidity, strewn with dream-mythology, science-fiction, chaos-logic and exuberant lies, lays the path on which Seven gains momentum and puts momentum on display.  + Legion seven https://www.instagram.com/legion_se7en/

VIO is a Berlin based Indie Soul artist whose music seeks a delicate dialogue between oneself and one’s surroundings. Their music gravitates towards a feeling of distant present and warm melancholy,

Through their identity as queer and POC artist, they dive into themes like the exploration of scattered pieces of identity, research of belonging, and complexity of relationships. VIO’s lyrics don’t attempt to hide vulnerability but turn it into their power.  +  VIO https://www.instagram.com/itsvioss/

Mehfil is an emerging community-food collective that playfully revamps elements of Pakistani cuisine. Founded by Shanzeh, an architect who has transformed her passion for design into a creative exploration of experimental fusion cooking, Mehfil combines her love for South Asian flavors with event and space curation — prioritizing making these initiatives both accessible and affordable.

More than just a culinary venture, Mehfil aspires to collaborate with artists from the Global South to craft meaningful, immersive experiences. We seek to evoke a sense of home and nostalgia for the South Asian diaspora while creating a space where communities can gather, share stories, and connect through food and art. 

For this collaboration with Dreaming Diaspora, Mehfil is drawing inspiration from Pakistani tea time snacks.

EXTRA EXTRA :::

Mehfil Collective will be selling South Asian Snacks at Merch table! bring some hunger with you

https://www.instagram.com/mehfil.meh.fil?igsh=MXExbXl5d2I5bTYzdQ==

Das Konzert ist ausverkauft!

ELL vereint mit weiblicher Stimme und wenigen Instrumenten die Schönheit einer
Schlagbohrmaschine mit der Power einer duftenden Kirschblüte. Oder umgekehrt?
Wer vermag das schon zu beurteilen! Erst recht, wenn man dieses Krach-Pop-Duo
noch nicht Live gesehen hat.

Lisa-Anna (sie/ihr) und Lennart (er/ihn) sind laut Rockband-Duden vielleicht
personell unterbesetzt, jedoch fehlt es ihnen an absolut gar nichts. Das haben über 30
Shows in ihrem Debüt-Jahr 2022 als Liveband gezeigt.

Sympathisch? „Jep,“ Authentisch? „Oh ja!“ Sound? „Hä, wie machen die das?!?!“
Publika im deutschsprachigen Raum sind ELL schutzlos ausgeliefert und verlassen
Shows in der Regel mit einem zementierten Grinsen, einer neuen Frisur und diesem
warm-wohligen Gefühl, wenn man mit viel Liebe ein Butterbrot gemacht bekommen
hat.

Das sind ELL.
Besetzung: Weiblicher Gesang, Multi-Amp Bass, Schlagzeug

brighter agency & little league shows prsnt:

EILIS FRAWLEY / spoken words/pop/indie, bln, sinnbus
eilisfrawleydrums.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/eilisfrawleydrums 

& SEASOUL / dreampop/singer-songwriter/folk, bln
linktr.ee/seasoulmusic / instagram.com/seasoulmusic 

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors or in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/3lnoe1c

& after the show: tpts prsnts: DJs Whywolf & Cool Cat Tommy T
mutant-disco funk post-punk grooves

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The solo project of EILIS FRAWLEY combines direct and unforgiving spoken word amidst kraut-like rhythms. With a focus on social structures, feminism, mental health, and storytelling she speaks truth to creative insecurities, personal tragedies, and the impacts of living abroad. Debuting in 2019 with tours in Germany, the UK, and Australia, her first two EPs "Never Too Emotional" and "Adult Life" were released through Reckless Yes Records (UK) in 2020. Eilis Frawley is a classically trained musician from Adelaide, Australia. Eilis is the drummer and singer for local Berlin bands Kara Delik and Restless and has worked as a freelance drummer with Laura Lee and The Jettes and Anika. Eilis’s debut full-length album "Fall Forward," produced by Kat Frankie, will be released on March 7th 2025 on sinnbus.

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Dreampop, singer-songwriter, folk – SEASOUL's music inhabits the spaces between genres and
styles. Always in search of the strange, the authentic, and the delicate, the Berlin-based musician
invites us into her pastel-colored world of radical gentleness. Uncompromising and curious, the
classically trained singer and music producer is on a constant musical journey: sometimes it’s her
solo project, sometimes a collaboration, sometimes politically charged art (performing with KAFVKA
on stage), and at other times she’s behind the keys of her second project, the underground punk band
JOLLE. Versatile yet always true to her aesthetic, Seasoul sails through all the facets of her truth:
"Moods of the sea, change quickly like me (...)".

beav boloney & little league shows prsnt:

MILK TV / art-punk, bel
milktv.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/milk.tv.band 

& ZERO DISCOUNT / post-punk, bln
zerodiscount.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/zerodiscountband

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. presale tickets available at --> https://vvk.link/3jl0ms0 

after 22h: JINX w/ DJ Pris V
post-punk / no-wave / dark-wave / obscure 80s dancefloor
mixcloud.com/pristinevelvet 

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Catchy artpunks MILK TV! The power trio feeds on playground nostalgia, cheep TV programs and a good dose of post-Reagan cynicism to bring some jerky and raucous pieces of rock music that feel like Devo, Wire, Sonic Youth & Deerhoof ain›t standing too far in the rear mirror. And you›re driving your old cousin›s shitty Honda Civic, but you wish it were a DeLorean flying under the milky-way.

ZERO DISCOUNTis a fabulous postpunk band from Berlin!

Otis Mensah is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, poet and musician exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and notions of home. Drawing from a rich lineage of Black musicality, Otis’ poetic-sonic practice pulls multidimensional sound and text from archival material and reflections on dreaming and nature. 

Following their tenure as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, UK, Otis has performed alongside Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz. before the noise my cousin is the debut album from Otis, entirely produced by the intern following a longstanding Berlin-centred collaboration. Exploring notions of youth, its transience and malaise, ‘before the noise’ grapples for a deeper sense of kinship and home as it journeys artistic-tribulation and coming-of-age with dreamlike sonics and daring abstract-rap cadence. 

before the noise my cousin RELEASE - it is the debut album from experimental musician & poet Otis Mensah entirely produced by the intern @itsmetheintern following a longstanding Berlin-centred collaboration. Exploring notions of youth, its transience and malaise, ‘before the noise’ grapples for a deeper sense of kinship and home as it journeys artistic-tribulation and coming-of-age with dreamli

He will  be Singing raps like they’re hymns. Hosted by @decolonoize_berlin 31st March at @schokoladen.bln (19:00) Otis will  be performing live alongside El Congo Allen, Monica Mussungo, , David Matayaunga and some special guests! Berlin, it’s FREE ENTRY! Come and get yourself a copy of the exclusive vinyl after the show! 

https://linktr.ee/thesemodernarchitects?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=b0e88e05-0cd1-4b1a-a47d-8e9737145f4b

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

https://buhai.bandcamp.com/album/tamtam

These Modern Architects
 
#These Modern Architects are a Berlin-based alternative rock band, blending anthemic hooks with atmospheric synths and driving guitars. Their debut single ROME dropped on February 7th, 2025, with the follow-up What's In It For Me? set for release on February 28th. With a bold, energetic sound influenced by bands like Foals and Arcade Fire, These Modern Architects are ready to bring their music to the stage. 
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thesemodernarchitects?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=b0e88e05-0cd1-4b1a-a47d-8e9737145f4b

Buhai
 
Die Musik von Buhai bewegt sich elegant zwischen unterschiedlichen Genres und klingt dabei immer neu und originell. Eine eingängige, handgemachte und liebevoll ausgearbeitete Popmusik, beheimatet irgendwo zwischen Kraut-Rock, Neue Deutsche Welle, French-Pop und Jazz. Für ihre Duo-Tour haben Sängerin Meryem Kiliç und Gitarrist Dirk Häfner ihre Songs auf das Wesentliche heruntergebrochen. Melodie, Harmonie und Text stehen so ganz unverhüllt im Vordergrund. Eine Einladung an die Hörer*innen, voll und ganz in die Songs einzutauchen und sich von ihnen mitnehmen zu lassen. Zum Beispiel in den Sommerurlaub (St.Tropez), nach Paris auf die Champs-Élysées (Sommerwind), an verlassene Strände (Offseason Tristesse), hinein in tiefe Gefühlswelten (Weit fort) oder hinaus in die Weiten des Weltraums (Astronaut).
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmDtDbtJijw

https://youtu.be/LI9MDlL1lM8?feature=shared

M:Soundtrack prsts : Messtizaje - Heavy Perreo (BLN)+ ELDANI - Live Poetry (BLN)

03.04.2025

A night of Heavy Perreo and live Poetry from and with Messtizaje, a multi-genre Berlin Based band of South American origin and ELDANI a Chilean/German poet, musician and content creator bringing the latin spirit to Schokoladen with both artists offering  us messages of differeent perspectives and resistance against all the "isims" that we are all encountering on a daily basis in the world and here at home.

Messtizaje is a project created by the Berlin based Argentinian Cuculic brothers , mixing multiple musical genres such as Cumbia, Trap, Hip Hop, Metal and House, creating "Heavy Perreo" parties and fun and lots of dancing but full of messages. They have collaborated with artists  from the Argentinian music scene like Las Manos de Filippi, Macario, and Biscarrita among others”

ELDANI is a Chilean-German artist who works in the fields of poetry, music and content creation.

As a content creator, ELDANI also brings us a proposal to fight against the German extreme right through social networks with videos that seek to unframe their reactionary narratives and expose their contradictions to inform, above all, our migrant community.  https://www.instagram.com/eldaninsta/

Today his poetry gained notoriety on social networks thanks to the series “Berlin poetry”, which addresses various Berlin themes, from “winter” to political issues, accompanied by his characteristic way of narrating and the jazz music that accompanies his works.”

Radio hobo

https://www.instagram.com/radiohobo/

twintoe records & little league shows prsnt:

GELBART / experimental computer pop, bln
gelbart.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/gelbart.gelbart

live at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. tickets at the doors and in pre-sale --> https://vvk.link/3n7kzqo 

»on 4.4.25, my new album LIQUIDS & FLESH is coming out on vinyl and digital. It's my first LP in 9 years. Eight new tracks with electronics, acoustic instruments, and computer vocals. Can't wait to play it for you.

The release show will be a double concert by myself: two different shows in one evening.«

aftershow DJs tba!

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Ever since landing in Berlin’s electronic scene in 2005, Gelbart has become one of the city’s best-kept secrets. Gelbart’s concerts are a one-man tour de force—a DIY extravaganza that blends bizarre electropop with surreal visuals, seamlessly synchronized to create an immersive, multidimensional experience. Gelbart is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, composer, filmmaker, and author. His lifelong devotion to innovation has so far resulted in more than 20 LPs and EPs (on Joyful Noise, Gagarin Records, and Lo Recordings among others), compositions for live ensembles, numerous award-winning works of vegetable and/or bunny animation, and a sci-fi novel.

A dive into Gelbart’s body of work uncovers a bizarre yet wholly consistent world—an absurdist mirror-universe of sound and imagery that fuses the high-brow with the low, and the accessible with the complex. To sidestep the clichéd knob-tweaking of electronica and infuse his shows with band-like energy, Gelbart has developed a signature performance method. He combines synthesizers with guitar, bass clarinet, vocoder, and a self-built blipping machine—often juggling them all at once.

Gelbart’s music has been a fixture on WFMU, while his animations graced festivals from London to Japan, and his sci-fi film Vermin was screened at the US Library of Congress. In recent years, Gelbart composed a large-scale, 70-minute work commissioned for a live ensemble at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (set for release as a double LP in late 2025), as well as a long-form piece for string quartet and electronic voice, performed in both Casa del Lago, Mexico and Berghain. Gelbart’s upcoming solo LP, Liquids and Flesh, will be released on Egglike Records in April 2025.

Das habe ich mir mal von OX # 170 entliehen. Fand die Bescheibung sehr passend:

LOCAL SUPPORT stehen für modernen Hardcore, auch wenn im Begleitschreiben vollmundig behauptet wird, in der Essenz wäre es so, als hätten „NEGATIVE APPROACH und MINOR THREAT in Berlin-Neukölln eine Allstar-Band gegründet“. Mein Fazit nach zehn Songs und zwanzig Minuten: es ist ein Hardcore-Volley-Arschtritt par excellence.

LOCAL SUPPORT stand for modern hardcore, even if the cover letter full-bodiedly claims that in essence it is as if "NEGATIVE APPROACH and MINOR THREAT had founded an all-star band in Berlin-Neukölln". My conclusion after ten songs and twenty minutes: it's a hardcore volley ass kick par excellence.

Müde: Dunkler Punk, der irgendwie FLIEHENDE STÜRME mit einem guten Hauch von Rachut-Gesang vereint, ohne dass es wie eine typische Rachut-Band klingt. Vielversprechend dicker Sound der Berliner, der sich die Zeit und die Luft nimmt, um Spannungsbögen aufzubauen und einzureißen.

Dark punk that somehow combines FLIEHENDE STÜRME with a good touch of Rachut vocals, without it sounding like a typical Rachut band. Promisingly thick sound of the Berliners, who takes the time and the air to build up and tear down arcs of suspense.

Bialla: Wer schießt auf Ralf Bialla und warum lässt Ralf Bialla auf sich schießen?
Who shoots Ralf Bialla and why does Ralf Bialla let himself be shot?

Aftershow DJ's: Reni:Tenz und Rudy Reefer (PunkRock, Alternativ, Indie)