Squarepusher - A special Berlin night
On November 26th Squarepusher will be presenting his latest masterpiece “Just A Souvenir” at the Berliner Volksbuehne.
To offer a foretaste of the 10th anniversary edition of the Festival forthcoming in January 2009, club transmediale proudly presents what after a break of many years is to be the first and, moreover, the only concert given in Germany by the pioneer of Electronica, Squarepusher, who will present his new masterpiece Just A Souvenir on 26th November 2008 in the Volksbühne theatre Berlin. Accompanied by a drummer and an elaborate video show, Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher will transform the theatre’s main stage into a seething dance-floor, with a spectacular concert concept.
Media-shy, 33 year-old Jenkinson undisputedly ranks among the last decade’s most influential electronic musicians, one who succeeded with each of his no less than 11 albums to re-invent himself and to lure his listeners into visionary future worlds with exciting, innovative music.
Squarepusher has come to stand, above all, for feverish, highly complex beat sequences, the fluid high-velocity transformations of which distend the extreme limits of acoustic abstraction; yet also for the unreal beauty of futuristic, incessantly distorting sounds and mutating melodies woven to musical structures that make our usual perception of constant time seem obsolete.
Squarepusher’s new album Just a Souvenir is in Jenkinson’s own words the attempt to capture an hallucinatory-visionary experience at a rock concert and to honour its absurdly futuristic fantastical qualities: a souvenir of the future, therefore, from one of the decade’s most far-sighted musicians. It will be released on Warp on October 27th.
Support comes from Norwegian Noise-Rockers and Berliners-by-choice MoHa! who released their explosive 3rd album, One-way Ticket to Candyland in September on Rune Grammofon. Anders Hana on guitar and keyboards and Morten S. Olson on drums unite carefree nonchalance with mathematical precision, thereby sparking a maelstrom of sharp-edged sound splinters, weighty guitar riffs, shivering noise and high-velocity beats.
CLUB TRANSMEDIALE UND VOLKSBÜHNE PRÄSENTIEREN: SQUAREPUSHER, Support: MoHa! und DJ - 26. November 2008, 21:00 - Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin - Tickets: 20 € / 16€ (Reduced) - at Eventim and Volksbühne - Ticket-Hotline: ++49 (0)30 240 65 777
