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Easterndaze x Berlin in videos

The 3rd edition of our Berlin encounters brought together collectives, thinkers, ideas and people from avantgarde digital sonics of Conditional vs Serious Serious, to manele vs Brazilian performance courtesy of Paradaiz and Voodoohop to art to techno/electro/acid from Forbidden Planet and Mechta, to talks about the relevance of notions of East and West nowadays, the precariousness of cultural endeavours and necessity to be active and try to change existing societies in the face of adversity (rising rightwing, nationalism, xenophobia, lack of resources, etc). Here are some of the moments.

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The Magicians of Paradaiz has a new installment out at the link in the description! In this installment, The Radical Choice, Avery struggles to deal with his anger, and important issue for someone who sometimes sets fire to the targets of his rage. #quotes #poems #poetry #poemsofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #poet #poemsofig #poem #poetscommunity #poetrycommunity #poetssociety #poetsofinsta #author #authors #authorsofinstagram #authorsofinsta #poetslife https://www.instagram.com/p/CFaM35VAp8a/?igshid=1jsao9br9scsb

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EL SECRETO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD, por @paradaizs http://ift.tt/2tyZnS3

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EL SECRETO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD, por @paradaizs

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Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 presents Bucharest's Paradaiz

PARADAIZ TAPE MAȘINA is a DJ duo based in Bucharest that exclusively plays original hand-picked muzică de petrecere and early Manele cassettes. Manele is a musical genre from the Balkans, also described as contemporary Romani wedding music. Its linguistic origin dates back to the Ottoman Emipire and has been evolved in the 80’s and 90’s with bands replacing instruments with electric guitars and syntesizers to absorb influences from pop and oriental to folk and electronic music.

Producer and DJ Matteo Islandezu fell in love with Manele in his early teens and loves to bring forgotten vibes of past times, mending classic sounds and mentality with modern techniques in an attempt to bring something new. Joined by his sister Lena, the shy choir singer with a thuggish attitude, this duo shows promise and they’ll give their all on stage.

As a collective acting in the area of peripheral subcultures in Romania, PARADAIZ accesses the music produced by them as exploration and support of inter-cultural exchanges as engines of preserving cultural diversity and bridging what is considered minority and majority, peripheral and central. "It’s bizarre to think it was easier for Florin Salam, the new king of the genre, to appear on BBC Radio 1 than to be on any mainstream radio or TV station in Romania. There is an active resistance and stigma applied to this music that cannot be dissociated from racism in Romanian society against Romani people," said Paul Breazu, one of Paradaiz co-founders in an interview. 

Hear their new Cashmere Radio mix below: 

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Easterndaze x Berlin 2019

THIRD EDITION OF FESTIVAL CONTINUES TO PAIR ELECTRONIC MUSIC COLLECTIVES OF EASTERN EUROPE + BERLIN TO CELEBRATE DIY ARTS & COMMUNAL ETHOS 

28-30 November 2019 Various venues in Berlin Tickets for each event can be purchased directly at the door. The Easterndaze x Berlin festival once again invites artists, actors and activists from the electronic music scene of Eastern Europe to Berlin, pairing them with locally-based labels/collectives for live performances, DJ sets and talks. Established in 2010, the blog Easterndaze (easterndaze.net) has explored and mapped local DIY scenes operating in Eastern and Central Europe. Founders Lucia Udvardyova and Peter Gonda travelled across the region to record interviews and collect perspectives on how contemporary artists and independent music-related initiatives operate in the region and its socio-political context. The initial result was a series of audio documentaries which then expanded to: a label (Baba Vanga); a networking initiative; radio shows (Resonance FM, Czech Radio, Berlin’s Cashmere Radio); and finally, events around the region, as well as the festival’s first two editions in Berlin (2016, 2018). As the fascination with and discourse around contemporary Eastern European culture gradually enters the mainstream, Easterndaze remains one of the pillars of these investigations nearly a decade strong. PROGRAM EASTERNDAZE × BERLIN 2019: DIY MUSIC TOPOGRAPHIES CONCERTS Thursday 28/11 - Conditional (Berlin) x Serious Serious (Tallinn) Venue: ACUD - Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin-Mitte Line up:

Steph Horak & Renick Bell (live) Jennifer Walton (live) Daniel Katinsky (live) Ratkiller (live) Benzokai (live) Kisling (live) Friday 29/11 - Voodoohop (Berlin/Sao Paulo) x Paradaiz (Bucharest) Venue: Arkaoda - Karl-Marx-Platz 16-18, 12043 Berlin- Neukölln Line up: Paradaiz Tape Mașina (DJ) Tina Scarlatina (live) Matteo Islandezu feat Lena (live) *secret guest* Urubu Marinka (dj set) Caroline Barrueco (visual installation) Saturday 30/11 - Forbidden Planet (Berlin/Montreal) x Мechta (Minsk) Venue: +4 Bar/Tresor - Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin Line up: Mono Junk (live) Mas569 (live) Yanling (DJ) Elena Sizova (DJ) Morgotika (DJ) SDS (DJ) TALKS Saturday 30/11 Venue: ZÖNOTÉKA – Hobrechtstrasse 54., 12047 Berlin-Neukölln // Kajet Journal presents: “SUBCULTURAL PERIPHERIES: RE-MAPPING THE EAST” // D’EST presents: Videoteka with music-related video art by female and non-binary artists Partners: Cashmere Radio, KAJET Journal, D'EST, Exberliner, Crack Magazine, Kaput Magazine and Berlin Art Link. Curated by Lucia Udvardyova, produced by Natalie Gravenor, graphic design by Marijn Degenaar. Funded by Musicboard Berlin, supported by Estonian Embassy in Berlin RA event: https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1331242

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Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 presents KAJET Journal panel talk & D'EST videoteka

On Saturday the accompanying talk curated by Kajet Journal is held at the exhibition and space of ZÖNOTÉKA in Neukölln, and takes up central topics on the theme “Subcultural Peripheries: Remapping the East”. Event takes place on Saturday from 4pm, Facebook event here. 

The cultural spaces of Europe have continued to be divided even long after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Despite the benefits of globalisation, increased mobility, and widespread access to technology and foreign cultures, Eastern Europe is still seen as lagging behind and non-progressive.

Within this circuit of transactions, there is a sharp contrast between what happens intellectually, artistically, and culturally in Eastern Europe and how these ideas are disseminated within a Western sphere of action. Regardless of this, Eastern Europe has blossoming local scenes that manage to translate their marginal condition into artistic practices, and this topography of pain into powerful pockets of creativity.

This talk seeks to explore what happens beyond the core and the normative centre. By tackling the existing master narratives, can an emphasis placed on marginality and periphery give way to the possibility to create a community of struggle across borders? How can subcultural forms of artistic expression create a framework of transnational (Eastern European) solidarity? With panelists:

Alexander Pehlemann - journalist, curator, organizer. Since 1993 he is editor and publisher of Zonic Magazine, an holds a special interest in Eastern European subcultures. He is the DJ-selector for Al-Haca Sound System, and writes for regional and national music magazines. He also produces the Zonic Radio Show. He's curated numerous exhibitions and compilations focused on Eastern European underground culture. 

Artjom Astrov (musician, multimedia artist and founder of the Serious Serious collective). 

Ira Merzlichin (member of the Paradaiz collective, an organization whose main goals are the exploration, mediation and support of inter-cultural exchanges as engines of preserving cultural diversity and creating tolerance between what is considered minority and majority, peripheral and central.

Anita Jóri - a research associate at Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin). Her research and publications focus on electronic (dance) music cultures and their diversity and gender issues. She’s just finished editing two upcoming volumes at Springer Publishing: Music & Empowerment and The “New“ Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Cultures. Since 2018 Anita is also a chairperson of the German Association for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM). She’s part of the curatorial team of CTM Festival's discourse program

At the same venue a selection of related video art curated by the D’EST will be on view. D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former ‘East’ and ‘West’ is a project initiated by Ulrike Gerhardt with DISTRICT Berlin.  D'EST is a Berlin- based online audiovisual platform that reflects the post-socialist transformation along post- geographic, horizontal, and feminist focus topics.  

The event is on donation base - all proceeds will be donated to GSBTB - Open Music School *

Dominik Wojciechowski in the second issue of Kajet Journal, project: Svijet