24 hours electronic live acts: 23. August 16 pm - 24. August 16 pm at Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin.

Line Up so far (more tba): 3 Phase, Anton Waldt, Aschka, Autotune, Bozzwell, Chris Sonaxx, Dasha Rush, Eric D Clark, Ikuo, Jammin Unit, Kerosene, Khan, Mark Boombastik, Mia, Minipops, Nerk & Dirk Leyers, Odd, Onze, Patric Catani aka Candie Hank, Robotnik, Stefan Küchenmeister, Toktok vs Soffy O

KRAUTOK 2008

Roger Kerosene started his musical career in the late eighties in Frankfurt / Germany as a rock-drummer and turned to producing electronic music in the early nineties. In 1991 he released his first 12″ on Delirium records, which was followed by a series of solo releases as Kerosene (on Hard Hands UK, Force Inc, Mille Plateaux, Caipirinha u.s.) as well as projects like Ultrahigh (together with Jammin’ Unit on Sony Music, Force. Inc.), Cracked (together with Dr.Scissors on Superstition) or h.e.a.d. (together with Khan on Blue and Emi Harvest). With Jammin’ Unit he started the Pharma label in 1995, which released 30 catalogue numbers until 1999. As Zulutronic he did a remix for the Wu-Tang-Clan in 1998, later that year he moved to berlin. In 2000 kerosene produced the soundtrack for the expo-2000-exhibition of Daimler Chrysler. In 2001 he released his first tracks on Fumakilla (”Tulasonic” together with Adel Dior from Autotune, followed in 2003 by a new Utrahigh 12″). In 2004 he remixed tracks for Nine Inch Nails and Gwen Stefani. In summer 2006 he went on tour in greece with his live act “The Pressure”.In january 2008 Kerosene launched his new techhouse label “Athletikk” on which he has released two 12″s so far.

Kerosene: Like A Ghost

KRAUTOK 2008

Canadian electronic producer Aschka aka Debbie Lo made her first appearances in her adoptive country Belgium, where she played live at various locations and later held a residency at the local downtown hotspot Zebra. Now based in Berlin, her tracks have appeared on De’fchild and Firm, revealing a style which combines harmony and melodies with experimental sounds.

Aschka : Mirage

Krautok ist kontrollierter Wahnsinn. Ein Tag Non-Stop elektronische Live-Musik, zwischen Hippie-Jam und Techno oszillierend: Krautok-Musiker spielen nicht in Serie sondern im Cluster. Die Übergänge zwischen den einzelnen Live Acts morphen, Ein- oder Ausklinken ist prinzipiell immer möglich. Krautok reflektiert die repetitive, elektronische Musik der 70er Jahre, aber auch den Berlin-Sound der letzten Dekade.

24 hours electronic live-music in a traditional german Hippie - fashion. Krautok-acts don´t line up, they perform in clusters. Dropping in to the sound or fading away is always possible for the musicians, so there´s no cut between the live-acts and jammings.

Zehn 16-Kanal-Mischpulte und eine MIDI-Clock, die alle in den gleichen Takt bringt: Krautok bringt die Studios der Elektro-Tüftler und Techno-Diven auf die Bühne. Ungefilterter Sound, ohne Umweg über Labels, Vinyl und DJ. Krautok morpht zwischen Tanzmusik und Filterforschung. Elektrizität schmiert sich durch Klangerzeuger, Transistoren versohlen die Tanzfläche, Schweiß tropft auf Potentiometer. Die Uhr läuft - Aber wen kümmert´s?

Krautok gets them out of their studios and right into the club: Old techno-farts and electronic kids swinging together between four-to-the-floor and filter-science. Electricity sneeks through sound-devices, transistors beating up the dancefloor, sweat drops on potentiometers.

Zehn Jahre Krautok werden zelebriert: Am 23. August in der Maria am Ostbahnhof, der 24-Stunden-Live-Sound beginnt um 16 Uhr: Details

Celebrate ten years of Krautok: On the 23th of August at Maria am Ostbahnhof. The 24-hour-live-sound starts at noon: Details

DMX Krew shouting Kraut.

ODD with ghost in mind, Autotunes Adel smokes.

Housi smoking a knob, DMX Krew doing the Dopple-Effekt.

Housi showing some equipment.

Krautok 2007 is done, 24 hours live-acts, sweat and boomboomboom: Thx folks!

The Krautists and the Chefs are looking forward to the boombastic Krautok 2008.

Robotnik´s face doing Acid-Voodoo.

Housi squeezing buttons.

Soffy shouting on the table, Nerk doing beats.

Kowalski in machine-action-mode

Fabian Feyerabendt smoking and sweating.

Dasha Rush turnig minds.

KRAUTOK 2006, 2007, 2008

2001 Soffy Larsson Ocklind, born in Sweden, moved to Berlin and immediately recorded “Missy Queen´s Gonna Die” in cooperation with Toktok. Everyone went crazy and so did Soffy. After the fog lifted a couple of years later Soffy O. kept rubbing against pop. 2006 Soffy had her debut as a solo artist with the album “The Beauty Of It”, a mélange of funk, disco, R´n´B, 70s soul, rock´n´roll and 60s girl group sounds. This year, together with the musician Manne Svensson, she has founded the live project Soffy O. & And A Group Of Os and is currently recording her new album and some new tracks with Toktok.

Soffy O : Come With Me

KRAUTOK 2007

Pom Pom sind Gespenster: Keine Fotos, keine Track-Titel, aber alle halbe Stunde kommt eine EP, zuletzt “Pom Pom 30″. Pom Pom sind Irre. Jeder Track ein Hit, und alle völligst merkwürdig zusammengeklaubt aus verschiedensten Hitideen, merkwürdiger Drogensucht, dem Sehnen nach diesem völlig unwirklichen Sound der plötzlich aus der hintersten Ecke des Clubs auftaucht und so hartnäckig ist wie das Nikotin an den Wänden. Pom Pom sind irre Gespenster.

KRAUTOK 2007, 2008

Khan pays tribut to life’s ever-changing richness. Already known as the grand entrepreneur of electronic music able to add the ever so burlesque touch of true entertainment to all his projects, Khan now gives birth to Khan Of Finland and a new label called „I´m single“. At Krautok he is also going to perform together with Nerk & Dirk Leyers as well as taking part in the jam. Why should you be resting your head on just one style if there is so much more to discover?

Nerk & Dirk Leyers feat. Khan : Fear My Fire (Cheap Ladies feat. Mark Boombastik Remix)

KRAUTOK 2007

Adam Pearson is one of the non-electronic-acts at Krautok 2007: Pearson plays guitar. No kidding. How comes? One day Ex-Sisters of Mercy-Member Pearson dropped into Housemeister and after some musican-to-musican-Voodoo Pearson was invited.

KRAUTOK 2007, 2008

Ikuo comes from Kawasaki, Japan. He learned to play keyboard at the age of five and started to compose when he was ten. Amongst his various activities in Tokyo were making scores for advertising and Japanese dorama as well as collaborations with japanese DJs. In 2004 he moved his base to London, at the moment he is living in Berlin. In Tokyo he studied how to be an Otaku, in London he got his funkiness and in Berlin he learned Logic and Live.

KRAUTOK 2007

Vocalist Christina Wheeler sings in a variety of genres, but usually makes her own music in electronica land, twiddling knobs, buttons and sliders on machines. In the past, she’s had the pleasure of working and collaborating with a huge roster of artists, including David Byrne, Chaka Khan, Mocky, Jamie Lidell, Jan Jelinek, Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium) Vernon Reid, John Cale, Talvin Singh, Chris Whitley, Swayzak, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Born in Los Angeles, and a long time resident of New York City, she now resides in Berlin.

KRAUTOK 2007

Sadaaki Tamura from Japan and Sencer Seymen from Turkey met each other in the Berlin club scene in the year of 2004. Soon they started playing as a DJ unit in several clubs, and after a while in the year 2006, began creating their own electronic dance music as Red Audix. Although only playing together for a year now, they have already had over 40 gigs…

KRAUTOK 2007, 2008

More info about ONZE coming soon…

KRAUTOK 2007

When the “Secret University of Pop” was born in 2004, the two roomates Alex & Jörg where asked to contribute a song for a chill out/listening compilation called “A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die” by the Berlin/Hamburg label Krikl Krakl. Out Came “Paradise Fresh”. After playing several live-sets on electronic partys around Berlin, the need for some harder, floor-shaking material emerged. So recently S.U.O.P. is working in the twilight zone between abstract songs and tracks, offering both the minimal textures of the contemporary Berlin music idiom and sparse but maximal vocals with a soulful vibe. Since Alex left to concentrate on his studies, S.U.O.P. is carried on as a solo project.

KRAUTOK 2006 & 2007

Gina Vaporjieff D`Orio was born on 23rd of September 1976 in Berlin. The first gig she played in the age of 12, two days after the wall came down. After she quit playing with her first band the Lemonbabies in 1992 she joined Throw that Beat for recording their album Superstar and went on a worldwide tour with them in 1993/1994. In 1995 Gina D´Orio and Patric Catani aka Candie Hank founded EC8OR. In 1998 Gina D`Orio and Annika Line Trost founded Cobra Killer.

KRAUTOK 2007

Jeroen Verheij aka Secret Cinema started producing as Meng Syndicate in 1990. His first record Sonar System came out on the Hithouse label in Belgium (ARS). Jeroen has been playing live since 1993, but when Secret Cinema’s Volt! came out in 2000, it was the start of Jeroen’s new and restyled energetic live set. A more techno-orientated Secret Cinema only set, different from his former live-sets, which combined Grooveyard and Secret Cinema songs. Further he is busy co-producing. As his live set has never been the same twice, Jeroen continues his quest for a better performance every week.

KRAUTOK 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008

Robotnik appeared in the early 90ties, trashing Acid-Beats from Tempelhof on Berlin´s dancefloors for the mindstrong. Robotnik ran the label Parsec, and was an original Krautok-Artist back in ´95. In between Robtonik disappeared from the stage for nearly ten years. To everyones surprise Robotnik made a comeback trashing Acid-Beats at Krautok 2006.