Speaking as a super soldier sent back in time to change the future by altering past events, I can say that teleport technology is not something to be trifled with. In the right hands, such as those which sent me here to the year 2011 to change how the Earth’s future pans out, teleportation gives humankind the marvelous ability to master our own destinies and undo what should not have been done. How mysterious is this! In the wrong hands, however, let’s just put it that if you were able to know what could go wrong, you wouldn’t want to, it’s just that devastating. Mysteriouser! The deeply complicated moral and scientific implications of teleportation are the kinds of things you have to concern yourself with when you’re a super-soldier sent back from the future to change the future by altering past events. It’s a cross we have to bear.
That being said, the people of Little Big Agency along with Berlin’s amazing Leisure System Crew, as part of the Krake Festival, have decided to disregard all of these matters and meddle with forces that they may not have any hope of containing. Teleport is a night assembled of fresh sounds from bands, each pushing some kind of envelope creatively.
Hosted at Festsaal in Kreuzberg, long held as a refuge for time travelling super-soliders (especially ones sent back to change the future by altering past events), the lineup is massive and definitely something you’re going to be into if you’re into artistically interesting and creatively challenging music.
Here’s the lineup…
The Field: A product of the rythmically adept mind of Axel Willner and on the night supported by a three piece band, they’ll be tranforming their psychedelic techno sound into a trance rock space opera live for one special set.
Three Trapped Tigers (pictured): Long favourites in-amongst the post-rock fan community, British kids Three Trapped Tigers manage to fuse prog-rock with furiously schizophrenic and complex duelling Nintendo-style synths and textural electronica. They’re more than just a clever name.
Emika (Ninja Tune): Coming from the worlds of classical composition and piano, Emika brings a fresh voice to experimental electronica with articulate vocals winding throughout dark textures, her releases on Ninja Tune are definitely worth picking up.
Rudi Zyglado: A warrior in the battle for intelligent pop, what he produces is an amalgamation of pop song writing with a contemporary electronic rewiring, heavily influenced by the likes of Frank Zappa as much as John Carpenter, Eastern European Classical music and even contemporary US indie.
DJ Scotch Egg (Shigeru Isihara): …is claimed to have “never completed Tetris as a child. So now he wreaks his vengeance upon the world, armed with a Gameboy and a megaphone”. One of Japan’s noisiest exports, if anyone is going to be best equipped to wreak this special type of vengeance, then it’s going to be him. Honestly.
While teleportation technology is in your time not yet perfected, the evidence of failed experimentation is all around you if you look, we in the future do applaude the efforts of the Krake Festival and Little Big Agency to further this science and the potential of humankind as a whole. We also really like the bands.
You might ask why it is that a super-soldier sent back to change the future by altering past events is recommending a concert in Kreuzberg. You might claim that during my voyage to your time I’m not actually doing anything of any worth and that I haven’t changed anything in the future. My response is of course to ask “haven’t I?”.
