B2B Barcelona <> Berlín

Live electronic music and mixed media exchange between Barcelona and Berlin

What is B2B?
The B2B project 'B2B Barcelona <> Berlin' first emerged in 2008. It was conceived both as a platform for music groups and artists working with new technologies to show their work, and as a means for two multidisciplinary art venues, Piatto Forte in Berlin and Antic Teatre in Barcelona to realise and produce various projects.

Support is given to artists of all ages: they may be emerging and unknown, or have long-running careers, but they share a difficulty in finding outlets for their work on existing, conventional music circuits and festivals. Each artist develops his or her own line in research on sounds, programmes, video creation, and so on, working outside commercial and established parameters. We select live acts and DJ sets in experimental music, dance, Electro, Electro-punk and visual arts in order to give these artists visibility and establish a regular exchange between the two cities.

Why Berlin?
Because Berlin is happening. At the moment, Berlin is the most dynamic and lively city with regard to all art sectors. Artists in Berlin have a wealth of possibilities for realising and exhibiting their work that is way above what is available in any other European city. Also, Berlin is still economically accessible to artists of all social backgrounds. The city is full of all-night venues, galleries, clubs, shops, creation spaces, theatres, festivals, concert halls, bars, etc., with local legislation adapted to make all these activities possible.

The material result of this project is the international electronic music and mixed media exchange featuring artists from Berlin and Barcelona, which will run for the second time in Berlin (thanks to the support of the Institute of Culture (ICUB), the Institut Ramon Llull, and the Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya), and the sitxth consecutive year this November in Barcelona as Antic Goes Electric Vol. VI. The B2B project is supported in Berlin by Piatto Forte, a platform for happenings, performances and live acts. It is managed by DJ Baroxmix, Michele d'Alessio, musician and well-known DJ at many European clubs, and committed backer of anti-conventional electronic music.

B2B Barcelona to Berlín (8 de novembre, 2013).
B2B Berlín to Barcelona - Antic Goes Electric Vol.VI.(23 de novembre, 2013).

Més Informació B2B Berlin <> Barcelona:

B2B - Barcelona <> Berlin (2012):
B2B - Barcelona to Berlin (2012) →
Antic Goes Electric Vol 5 →



B2B - Barcelona <> Berlin (2011):
Antic Goes Electric Vol 4 →




Festival B2B - Barcelona <> Berlin (2010):
Antic Goes Electric Vol 3 →




Festival B2B - Barcelona <> Berlin (2009):
Antic Goes Electric Vol 2 →

Reactable

Reactable emerged from the idea of making music with a PC without just using keyboard and mouse. The result is a tactile table on which the performer creates sound, placing objects on the surface, manipulating and interconnecting them – a new way of making, understanding and experiencing music.

By using a single instrument to perform an entire concert, a particularly intimate connection is forged. Carles has been travelling with only his table for some time, learning, teaching, creating a language; no two concerts are the same… Carles vs Reactable.

Carles López aka Carlazz

Barcelona-born musician, producer and DJ Carlazz has performed in over 40 countries at all kinds of events including clubs and festivals: Sónar (Barcelona, New York), Sziget Festival-(Budapest), Ars Electronica (Linz), Microwave Festival (Hong Kong), Big Day Out (Sydney), Red Bull Academy (Oporto), Ushuaia Beach Club (Ibiza) and at the MTV Awards / EMA Europe 2011 (Belfast). He has composed music for Alejandro González Iñarritu (Babel, Amores Perros), Sol Picó Cía de Danza, Marcel.li Antúnez and Sergi Faustino.

He is part of Reactable Systems, working on the development of Reactable and, as its main musician, performing on the instrument all over the world.

Behind the XTRNGR pseudonym hides Barcelona local Kenny Perez.

His music mixes different styles of experimental electronica ranging from IDM to the new trends of bass music; complex and experimental but always with large doses of emotion.
Since starting out in 2010, he has published with several netlabels and independent record labels worldwide, including Cold Tear Records, Outlier Recordings or Fwonk to name a few.

In 2012 he released Together in Discontinu Records, which received rave reviews from the specialised press and took him to renowned festivals such as Mutek and Sónar.

He is currently preparing a new album, which will be presented at the end of this year.

Albert Salinas

Known on stage as Wooky, erupted onto the Barcelona electronica scene in 2010 with the release of The Ark. This EP was the first referent of Lapsus Records, his own label, in which Wooky showed a unique ability to mix organic sounds with avant-garde melodies; an imaginative, fresh and decidedly pop rethinking of the bases of intelligent electronica of the early 90s.

Having whet the appetites of the specialised music press and critics, he was seen on the stages of major national and international festivals such as Sonar or L.E.V., as well as taking part in the ´Red Bull Music Studio – Small Format' residencies.

Videocratz

Is the alter ego of Miki Arregui when he engages in live visual sessions as Vj or when he collaborates with other musical artistes, for instance Máquina de Turing in the past or Wooky and Filastine in the present.

Videocratz has a particular interest in creating visual material that, among other things, plays with the manipulation of time, space and physical movement, using photographic animation techniques such as timelapse-hyperlapse or classic animation both stop-motion and camera-based.

Landscapes, portraits, details, macros….

Another aspect of the sessions is the play with feedback using both software and hardware, which allows clips to be deconstructed and accentuates the synchronous wealth of movement, changes or displacements and so supports the creation of endless semi-random visuals, aesthetically similar to glitches, that give the mainly figurative content an abstract feel.

As to content, Videocratz's sessions stand out for their indirect, suggested critique; the message, the counterposition of concepts, humour or visual poetry; an observation of the world that surrounds us; among other things, offering certain aspects of 'reality' filtered through the optic senses, one's own eyes. All this frequently mixed at a rhythm in time to the music, resulting in the creation of entire visionscapes or in unrestrained, even epileptic mixes.

Enfant Terrible of the electronic music underground scene, Electrosexual is much more than a producer, a machine hacker or clubber. He is a passionate and unexpected artist that likes to mix styles, identities and genres, keeping intact the spirit and power of the dancefloor but transposed into a personal world.

His recenty remixed Noblesse Oblige, Desireless, Steve Morell, Aminus & Aniaetleprogrammeur and his new single, Devolution featuring guest vocals by Transformer di Roboter is available now.

A variety of influences assimilated are reflected in the eclectic DJ sets, which include disco, downtempo, lounge music funky electro beats, re edits and Italian disco. Together with Marek Barath he started DUPLIKAT RECORDS (2003).

A year later he opened a record store named Piatto Forte, which became a sort of melting pot for local musicians and newcomers in Berlin offering live performances inside the shop, creating a platform for different artists and extending the network with the aim to promote and improve underground and experimental music. It wasn't by chance that years later he became involved with a theatre from Barcelona called Antic Teatre and since 2007 he's been organising a Festival linking the 2 Cities better known as B2B.

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DJ Steve Morell will present some of his works as remixer, dj, producer.

Steve Morell, remixer, DJ, producer and musician, founder of record label "Pale Music Int." and German underground festival "Berlin Insane".

As founding member of the DJ & remix duo "The Scandals' with Emma Eclectic, he worked on Remixes & Collaborations for artists like: Miss Yetti, Bruder & Kronsädta feat. Nina Hagen, Eric D. Clark, Ascii Disko, Punx Soundcheck feat. Marc Almond, Pink Grease, Neonman, Beroshima, Lola Angst, Atomizer, Junesex, The Nihilists, Boy George, Trafalgar, Schwefelgelb, DJ Donna Summer and DJ Wool.

As an international DJ Steve Morell plays at Clubs and festivals all over the world and has himself produced remixes of : Mona Mur & En Esch, Gods of Blitz, The Vanishing, Martha & The Muffins, Shed, The Antiquark, The Stylists, Narcotic Fields, The Prostitutes & Warren Suicide, and is currently working on remixes for Nikaya (Germany), Hanin Elias (Germany), and Sister Chain & Brother John (Israel/Ireland).

Morell is currently focusing on the work for his new Solo Album "The Life and Death of Jimmy Pheres and his Rise from the Underworld". The full Album is going to be released in October 2012 and includes a huge spectrum of guest musicians like N.U.Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten), Andi Sexgang, Valerie Renay & Sebastian Lee Philipp (Noblesse Oblige), Hank J. Manchini (Kill the Dandies!), Martin Craft (Jarvis Cocker Band), Nackt (Warren Suicide), Kevin Mooney (Adam & The Ants) etc.

The second single, "Lady Pheres" came out as a duet with Monica Pokorna in May 2012. It has been quoted as "the most beautiful melody of 2012" and compared with duets like Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where the wild roses grow; Blixa Bargeld & Meret Becker - Stella Maris; and Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin .

For Autumn 2012, a dance orientated 12" single is on schedule, "Floating over the abyss of an unknown wasteland / Get it up" featuring vocals from Monica Pokorná and Valerie Renay.

DJ Steve Morell is focussing more on Nu-Disco & Electro mixed up with New Wave.

Lady Pheres →