Technostilleben – Our new podcast format with our first guest Sacha Ketterlin

We’re happy to welcome our first guest to the fourth installment of Technostilleben, our new format, where we discuss topics all around music production and techno culture. Big thanks to live artist, producer and founder of Intumi records Sacha Ketterlin for granting us all insight into his musical roots, setup and workflow. You can check out this (and any other) episode of Technostilleben by clicking on the banner on the right-hand side of this page or by visiting us on Soundcloud.

 

 

Sonic Ground Podcast #007 – zweivonvier

After a longer summer break we are back with our seventh podcast featuring a collaboration of two Sonic Ground members that started playing together just recently. Usually part of Crouds and Anoserica, Jay Nagel and Arne Kappen fuse their respective styles to create a voyage of swelling, atmospheric tension and intricate sound design combined with groove-obsessed drums and truly seductive bass lines. As per usual, enjoy a full hour of improvised live techno.

Sonic Ground Podcast #006 – h1

With clubs and event promoters searching for alternative methods to combat the unprecedented calamity social isolation brings to the sector, we are happy to show that our podcast series remains unscathed. With #006 h1 showcases the inimitability of intricate modular sound generation all the while bursting through the limitations of his patch with self-developed hard- and software. h1 combines virulent lead movements with a myriad of bits and bytes from techno, EBM and other electronic styles to put his own taste to the Sonic Ground portfolio. Needless to say, the set is a fully improvised display of instrument building and performance and we highly recommend you check it out!

 

First Sonic Ground Workshop in 2020

Sonic Ground is proudly bringing back it’s workshop concept event.

On march 19 it’s time to unscrew the front panels and take a deeper look at the creation of electronic live music with Emme Moisés from Modular Field, who will be participating in an hour long “round-table” workshop from 8pm onwards, showcasing different parts of her live-set alongside resident artists from Sonic Ground. The event will be hosted at arkaoda in Berlin.

Second event series kick-off + Release party: GLUE

After our very successful first club night we are happy to present the start of our second event series.

GLUE will be our platform to invite selected DJs and provide a more classical club night approach. Nevertheless, h1 will set the stage for the night with his intricate full modular liveset and polish what’s already a sparkling line-up.

GLUE #1 at Fiese Remise will also celebrate the release premiere of Oblique‘s Sun EP, which is just about to drop on electrocaine.

 

Sonic Ground Podcast #005 – anoserica

The 5th instalment of our podcast series brings a psychedelic and groovy hour of techno from our resident duo @anoserica.

Smart acid lines, psychedelia infused driving rhythms and groovy modular bleep hooks are perfect examples of the sound behind the Sonic Ground artist duo, anoserica. To achieve their signature touch, the pair decided to play completely on hardware instruments without any prepared loops – just as they do in their club performances.

Sonic Ground Podcast #004 – crouds

For their Sonic Ground podcast, crouds have cooked up a one-hour improvised live set, feeding from the experience of their last three live performances played in and around Shanghai in November this year. This podcast also includes live-remixes of unreleased and about-to-be-released tracks, showcasing the duo’s artistic evolution during the last few months.

 

Artist Introduction – Crouds

Next up in our resident artist introduction series, we proudly present the Berlin-based live techno duo crouds. The project was founded by Andreas Schuller and Jay Nagel in 2017 based on their similar artistic idea of creating improvised performances of electronic club music. Before joining forces, both have been producing and performing live sets on their own. Andreas has been hosting events in his hometown Munich, including his latest and biggest one in early 2019, the Sonic Ground Festival for electronic live music. Jay’s background in experimental music composition enabled him to travel abroad multiple times as artist in residency, leading to an extended network and collaborations with local artists in Latin America and Asia.

When combining their experience on stage, crouds are presenting a wide spectrum of genres, ranging from house influenced slow-burners to psychedelic hard hitters with a recent interest in broken, layered percussion patterns. While always preserving the flow, the mood during a set can change drastically if the crowd is in sync – with unexpected turns willingly provoked.

During their performances, Andreas is working his modular system playing basslines and sequences, while Jay is responsible for polyphonic sounds and percussion grooves. They are driven by continuously refining their setup that underwent numerous iterations in the past few years.

 

In the last couple of years, the duo has performed in well-established locations such as Mensch Meier (Berlin), Harry Klein (Munich) and 44KW (Shanghai) but their affinity to play smaller venues to create an intimate atmosphere is as big as ever.

When it comes to production and sound-design they combine heavily processed field recordings, analogue synthesizers and hard-hitting drums resulting in their signature driving and psychedelic straight and broken techno.

Their debut album ‘Cabin Pressure’ will be released on Neuzeit later this month: a well-crafted fusion of melancholia and strong dance-floor oriented drum patterns.

Also make sure to check out crouds’ newest set, as they provide us with a great fourth installment of Sonic Ground’s Podcast!

 

 

Sonic Grounds first Club Event at Griessmühle Berlin!

2020 is rapidly approaching and we will start the year right off with our very first club event at Griessmühle.

BODEN will (you might have guessed it) revolve around live performed techno and will feature well established live veteran Redshape alongside many Sonic Ground artists. Get involved and join us at 15. January to celebrate Sonic Ground’s club kickoff!