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TRADE w/ Jam City + Lechuga Zafiro &c @ OHM, Nov 2

1 November 2016

The last TRADE event of 2016 is kicking off at Berlin’s OHM on November 2.

Having celebrated one-year anniversary with a party in September, the mostly mid-week club night is now closing out the year with a live performance from Jam City, who released his second album Dream a Garden on UK label Night Slugs in March last year. Also performing will be Montevideo-based producer Lechuga Zafiro, of SALVI∆T∑K and Mexico City’s NAAFI,  accompanied by  Jackie Poloni, Niclas and Simon Kaiser and more.

Founded in 2015, TRADE Berlin brings together performers, DJs and other music creatives to “stimulate encounter, eye-contact and shoulder-and-other-body-parts-rubbing.”

See the FB event page for details.**

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Discwoman x Creamcake workshop + after-party, Aug 13

5 August 2016

New York­-based collective Discwoman and Berlin-based event organisers Creamcake have organised a DJing workshop and after-party at Berlin’s OHM on August 13.

In keeping with the transatlantic project’s mission statement —”collaborating to empower women and LGBT in electronic music” —the free event includes an intensive two-hour workshop to learn how to use CDJ 2000. No experience in music production is required, participants need only register at hi@creamcake.de and bring a USB key with their favourite music.

The workshop, running 7pm to 9pm on the Saturday will be followed by a live DJ set and after party, also at OHM, featuring DJ Haram, Bearcat, HDZiúr and Yanling.

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Keiska, Powerpoint EP release, Jul 29

29 July 2016

Keiska has dropped his debut EP Powerpoint via Berlin event-organisers and label Creamcake/3hd on July 29.

Inspired by the likes of Araabmuzik, Lorenzo Senni and Evian Christ, the record emerges from a difficult period for the Finnish producer, turning to the synth-heavy breakdowns of euro dance as a way to release. Devoid of any implied ironic distance, Keiska’s is a response to the nihilistic “post-industrial” sound of the electronic music of the day, offering instead tracks like ‘LIFE’, an ongoing vocal and a looping of synth sweeps that Keiska himself describes as “excessively melodic and colorful”.

The EP —which includes tracks titled ‘Powerpoint 1′,’Powerpoint 2’ and ‘Entrance’ —launches at Berlin’s OHM venue with supports from the likes of Ana Caprix, 333 BoyzBlue Stork (aka Nicolas Humbert) and Creamcake DJ Larry.

The Powerpoint EP follows lead-single ‘Powerpoint 1‘, dropped on July 8, and pre-empts a string of releases and events by Berliners Creamcake in the lead up to the second edition of their 3hd Festival programme, this year running October 11 to 15.

Listen to the Powerpoint EP in full below.**

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3hd Festival, Dec 2 – 5 new announcement

9 November 2015

The 3hd Festival has announced more participants in their inaugural events programme under the theme of ‘The Labor of Sound in a World of Debt’, running at various Berlin locations from December 2 to 5.

Launched by the event series Creamcake and curated by Daniela Seitz and Anja Weigl, the festival is devoted to artists, performers, musicians, academics, and journalists who examine “the labor of sound” and question both its cultural causes and its social consequences.

Among the many new events recently announced are Parisian composer Oklou and Berlin composer Soda Plains at OHM Gallery on December 3, Berlin artist duo Aurora Sander and London-based cellist Oliver Coates at HAU on December 4, and London producer Nkisi and Berlin producer DJ Paypal at Südblock on December 5.

See the 3hd festival for details. **

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3hd Festival, Dec 2 – 5

21 September 2015

Event organisers Creamcake are presenting a new “hybrid project”, 3hd Festival under the theme of The Labor of Sound in a World of Debt and running offline across Berlin’s Vierte Welt, HAU 2, OHM Gallery and Südblock from December 2 to 5.

The project has emerged in response to the contemporary moment, where art practice and mediation is becoming increasingly hybridised, while aiming to provide access and open creative processes through a comprehensive complementary online programme, including essays, exclusive tracks and interviews.

In recognising these aesthetic transformations, the event is set to include a line-up of innovators and newcomers working in this new realm of art and music-making across a “label – magazine – festival” format. The programme is yet to be announced but will no doubt be impeccable given past Creamcake events that have hosted the likes of Future Brown, 18+ and Felicita to name just a few.

Graphic and web designer Jon Lucas will also be working alongside producer Tokyo Hands in developing the online component of the project.

See 3hd Festival website for details.**

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Creamcake presents @ OHM Gallery, Aug 8

6 August 2015

Berlin’s Creamcake party is returning this month with a handful of music acts at OHM Gallery on Saturday, August 8.

The monthly Berlin cultural event series takes over the Köpenickerstr. gallery with live performances from New York-based K-pop and rap act Yen Tech and Berlin-based act Mind:Body:Fitness, as well as music from Munich-based DJ and producer Mechatok, London/Brixton-based producer Kamixlo, and Creamcake-founder Larry.

The last couple of parties included the 14th marathon on Kreuzberg CSD 2015 with Boo Hoo and Queerblock at Südblock, also featuring Mechatok, as well as Ziur and 333 Boyz among others, and May’s Creamcake with DJ Paypal and Dinamarca

See the FB event page for details. **

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