POOLcast

POOLcast 072 - GNILYF Our seventh season, like the last one, is opened by GNILYF. As every year, his mixtape is a dialogue with himself, his imagination and its manifestations in the form of creativity. What connects idea, work, artist and audience, and how can fantasy be made most immediately tangible ? In order to get to the core of the question, it is advisable not only to judge the work of an...

POOLcast 071 - SUFER We close our 6th season with SUFER, originally from Colombia and now living in Montreal. Besides his DJ and graphic design career, SUFER deals with the ethereal, dystopian and artificial nature of sound. POOLcast is the perfect playground for that. We here at POOLcast have been obsessed from the beginning with the idea that every artist explores new areas of creative developme...

POOLcast 070 - IMT Our September issue for this year is from IMT - Infinite Monkey Theorem. The live improvisation duo consisting of Marcus Block aka ANN and Sebastian Mehl aka GNILYF / Waldboot. They create images, moods and feelings that take you completely out of the world in just a few minutes. Acoustically induced escapism. From simple tone sequences and short musical communication between th...

POOLcast 069 - PLO This month we present you again one of our favorite projects - PLO. ANN, Demas, Dr. Nojoke and GNILYf got together again in the POOL Studio for an improvised computer groovebox modular sampler jazz session thingy. The constantly changing composition of musicians, instruments and technology makes each session a musical event in its own way. The individual participating musicians...

POOLcast 068 - Salvador Hören Our next summer edition of the year comes once again from Colombia, to be exact from Medellin. Suitable for balmy summer nights, 'Salvador Hören' has provided us with a live set that unfolds and deforms as hypnotically as clouds announcing a thunderstorm. Listening creates the sensation of looking up at a sky peppered with clouds that stretch nuanced across the horizo...

POOLcast 067 - 0l0m Our June edition for the year 2021 comes from Ilya aka 0l0m from Moscow. He has set up some CDJ and provided us with a wonderfully diverse mixtape, varied and stirring, just the right thing for the starting summer. We are very happy that we see more and more new DJs who try to unite diverse music to a complete work and thus create something uniquely new. The aim is not to serve...

POOLcast 066 - Massud Matin For our sixty-sixth edition of POOLcast we have a submission from Massud Matin for you. Matin has sent us a mix with which he leaves his comfort zone and ventures into new realms of electronic music for the first time. As we have discussed many times before, POOLcast is a platform to expand the prevailing comfort zones. This is true for all three parties involved, the a...

POOLcast 065 - Collab Special - Demas + The Artist Formerly Known As From Karaoke To Stardom For our 65th issue we have another collaboration. Demas and The Artist Formerly Known As From Karaoke To Stardom have once again put their modular synthesizers together and provided us with their recording for you. It's always amazing what the combination of two artists and their instruments can produce in...

POOLcast 064 - ANN The March edition of our POOLcast series is provided by ANN. One of the founders and integral part of The POOL Berlin, as well as curator of POOLcast. ANN has been exploring the different layers of electronic music for about 20 years now. A period of time in which you constantly search, find and comprehend yourself anew between different genres, styles, media and times. POOLcast...

POOLcast 063 - Syntax Erika Our second POOLcast of the year comes from Syntax Erika, who lives between Mexico and Barcelona. For over 7 years she has been studying and working on projects in the contemporary electronic music and media landscape. Syntax Erika belongs to the latest generation of artists who do not limit their creative work to the boundaries of one medium. Those who understand art as...

POOLcast 062 - Demiurge For our first POOLcast in 2021 we have another highlight from our own POOL Roster for you. POOLcast 062 by Demiurge is a modular exploration that goes from ambient to drone to techno. Demiurge is a project by Thomas Bäz, dedicated to the worlds of controllable voltages and modular sound design. Worlds that are often hard to put into words or images, but only become tangible...

POOLcast 061 - PLO For our last POOLcast episode in 2020 we have another very special piece for you. We have spared no expense and effort to present you an improvised and live session of PLO. Our new POOL studio allowed us to have a meeting of four PLO musicians in late summer under strict hygienic measures and since it is difficult especially for PLO to appear in the given times, we are even more...

POOLcast 060 - gnilyf This monthly issue of POOLcast marks our 5th anniversary. Five years ago we started to present you music from us, our musician friends and musical discoveries every month. With this episode we end our 5th season and half a decade of POOLcast. For this occasion gnilyf has provided us again with one of his self-made mixtapes, which, fitting to the expiring decade, seems to serv...

POOLcast 059 - Collab Special - rand ( Jan Gerdes & Dr. Nojoke ) For October we have another Collaboration Special for you. This time we present 'rand', the project of the duo Jan Gerdes and Frank Bogdanowitz aka Dr. Nojoke. During the lockdown Jan and Bogdan met for improvisational sessions, Jan on piano, electronics and effects and Dr. Nojoke on electronics and effects. Together they are explori...

POOLcast 058 - Collab Special - Infinite Monkey Theorem For our September issue we have another Collaboration Special. Infinite Monkey Theorem is the collaboration of the two POOLcast curators and POOL founding members Marcus Block and Sebastian Mehl, aka ANN and Waldboot aka gnilyf. Both have been musically connected for more than 10 years, but just at the beginning of 2019 they decided to make m...

POOLcast 057 - Demas The POOLcast in August comes from Demas, founder of Klangscheiben and POOL co-founder. Known for his error funk techno and dub love, he has turned the record boxes upside down for POOLcast and made us a set that fits into the POOLcast series without any effort and gives clear hints about his musical background. This raises the following question: Is there such a thing as a fix...

POOLcast 056 - Franco Bellavita For the start into the second half of the year we invited Franco Bellavita to record a POOLcast for you. Franco has dedicated himself to the world of creativity for years and moves between visual and sonorous media. Looking at Franco's work, be it his early musical works under the moniker Pachyderme on 31337 records or sleep is commercial, or the works he created wi...

POOLcast 055 - Fønø With this episode of our POOLcast series we present you another facet of our longtime companion Fønø. As a platform dedicated to artistic freedom, we believe that it is important to support and accompany artists in their artistic development. With this certainty Fønø has sent us one of his latest works. A piece with his own live compositions, collaborations and songs by other a...

POOLcast 054 - Viktor Udvari For our POOLcast in May we have a contribution from Viktor Udvari for you. Viktor comes from Hungary and has been making music since 2012, like many at that time, in his bedroom, inspired by live music, avant-garde jazz, tribal, minimalistic and organic vibes of various Berlin, Russian, Japanese and North and South American artists. A spectrum that testifies to his imp...

POOLcast 053 - Cadih For this issue of POOLcast we invited Cadih, who provides us with a set of her musical discoveries that could hardly be more appropriate for the time between winter and spring. The time when winter is behind us and spring is just around the corner. A time that leads us into a kind of in-between world. A world between the end and the beginning, a world that makes us reflect on...

POOLcast 052 - Yu Kawabata Our third edition this year gives us once again the opportunity to introduce you to our extended circle of friends. Yu Kawabata is a DJ with Japanese roots, she started her career in the clubs of Osaka, and then, as her career progressed, she played all the famous locations and events in Russia with her driving techno sets. POOLcast listeners know that our podcast series...

POOLcast 051 - Video Special - From Berlin with Love - Alicia Hush, Flori b2b Ana+one More than 5 years ago we organized one of our first big events together with "Mischwerktanzen" and "Licht Aus!" under the name "The POOL Berlin". "From Berlin with Love" was the result of the effort to finally present our vision to the public. Back then POOLcast was just an idea for the far future and now we look...

POOLcast 050 - Video Special - From Berlin with Love - Demas b2b ANN, Marlene Magnoli, Dr. Nojoke More than 5 years ago we organized one of our first big events together with "Mischwerktanzen" and "Licht Aus!" under the name "The POOL Berlin". "From Berlin with Love" was the result of the effort to finally present our vision to the public. Back then POOLcast was just an idea for the far future and...

POOLcast 049 - GNILYF The year is coming to an end and the first big milestone is just around the corner, a good time to give you a little insight and outlook on POOLcast and POOLtracks. In the last four years, in which we have brought the two POOL projects step by step to the public, we have got to know artists from all five inhabited continents, accompanied them and offered a platform for their...

POOLcast 048 - Dr. Nojoke versus Anomali Live at Waha Festival 2019 It's November, which means it's been four years since we started releasing new mixtapes, live-sets, dj-sets, collages and everything in between every month. With this POOLcast edition we're finishing our current season and, like every year, we're getting a fresh look. Musically we stay in familiar spheres. For this year's annivers...