It was a small musical revolution when Brian Eno began to work on a sound in the mid-seventies, which he described in a conversation with the Time once described as “a kind of landscape”. We’re talking about the ambient that the Brit created after his departure from the art rock band Roxy Music invented and christened it as such in the title of the album “Ambient 1: Music For Airports”.
Today, these deeply relaxing sounds have long since found their way into the wellness world, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they are lost in commercial activity. The best example: the Russian DJ and producer’s new album, which is definitely worth listening to and is largely beatless Dasha Rush with the telling title “Contemplating”. If you don’t at least get rid of the tension in your neck after these nine airy and delicately shimmering ambient tracks, your only option is the dance floor of the Blitz Club, which Dasha Rush will be playing as a much more energetic DJ on April 6th.
There will once again be a premiere to celebrate in the Rote Sonne, because “Garry Klein #queerconcerts” is where the concert counterpart to the queer club series “Garry Klein” starts, which continues after the end of Harry Klein in the Rote Sonne. It starts on April 10th Maurice Conrad someone who previously appeared as a climate protection activist and Green Party politician, and now occupies an astonishingly exceptional position in hip-hop as an openly gay rapper. The proud way in which Conrad stands up for his sexuality in tracks like “Men’s Sex” or “Homosexual”, the way in which he battle-raps to seek confrontation with the machists in hip-hop, all of this is quite unique and definitely worth supporting.
The golden years of minimal techno may have been around for a while, but this futuristic style of techno, popularized by luminaries like Brit Richie Hawtin, still has the same magic. With the Polish-born DJ Magdawho released on Hawtin’s label “M_nus” for many years, will now be playing the most famous minimal techno specialist at the Blitz Club on April 12th – the honorary title “Queen of Minimal”.
So while the Queen of Minimal is asking for an audience in Blitz, she’s coming along on April 17th Luis Ake the self-proclaimed “Horse Trance Ambassador” in import-export. As such, Ake rides on the one hand the newly emerging comeback wave of the cheaply produced trance sound of the early 1990s, but at the same time he also delves deeply into the irony-dripping pop bliss 2.0 that soulmates like Alexander Marcus paved the way for. His lovey-dovey songs are sure to be escapist fun live, judging from his new EP “Horse Trance: Melodies of Freedom”.
And while we’re on the subject of trance, let me finish with you DJ Sunburn recommended someone who not only fits well into the Red Sun by name, but will also prove there on April 26th that the return of trance can be celebrated without horses and hits. His recently released debut EP “Came For The Fun Stayed For The Sun” may be a trance homage from the retro box – but you will reach the state of this genre faster with him than on any wild one Ride towards hit heaven.