Golden Disko Ship & Jasmina Mas - City Splits 1 Berlin

* City Splits is a new series presented by Monika Enterprise. Whereas Monika’s Women No Cry series, currently on its 3rd acclaimed volume, is designed to unite artists divided geographically, City Splits will instead focus on one city and present two of the most exciting new musicians from that scene.

* Having recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of reunification and the fall of the Wall, Berlin was a logical choice for the 1st instalment of City Splits: #1 presents two interesting female musician-producers who live and work in the German capital.

* What Golden Diskó Ship and Jasmina Maschina have in common, other than the fact that they tour as a double-bill each not only supporting but playing on stage with the other, is their standing in the berlin scene. Despite their very different musical styles they both have strong followings certainly in their home towns and, looking at their relentless tour- schedule, presumably from further a field too.

* Golden Diskó Ship aka Theresa Stroetges started playing songs live on her laptop since the moment she first arrived in berlin in 2007 and at the same time commenced 3 years of touring, hand made CDs, and music video production to accompany the live shows. The 27 year old sound sculptress has quickly become renowned for her imaginative blend of fragile balladry, novel use of found objects, crunchy distortion, quirky visuals and squealing bits that suggest horrific drum machine abuse. Firmly rooted in the DIY tradition, Golden Diskó Ship has to date had a number of self-releases, the Bumblebee Behind A Tree EP (2007) & Lonesome Cowboy/Christmas Tree EP (2008).

* Jasmine Guffond aka Jasmina Maschina is a celebrated Australian electronic musician who relocated to Berlin from Sydney in 2003 with her band MINIT (sigma editions). Over the last 10 years Jasmine has been recording and performing with Minit, exhibiting sound installations, developing works of varied scope based on the use of processed acoustic, electronic, and found sound sources. Equally interested in song, composition and free, improvised music, as Jasmina Maschina she began recording songs in her myriad of Berlin homes producing her debut solo album, 'The Demolitions Series' which was released on Staubgold in 2008.

* TRACKLIST: 01. A Cats Year / Golden Diskó Ship 03:36 02. 19th Floor Eishockey / Golden Diskó Ship 03:32 03. You Blurry Dream / Golden Diskó Ship 04:43 04. Chewing Young Hedge Hogs / Golden Diskó Ship 05:10 05. I’m Not / Golden Diskó Ship 02:506. Wake/Sleep / Golden Diskó Ship 04:17 + CD / DL ONLY 07. Insane Adventure Poem / Golden Diskó Ship 04:20 08. Holding Onto Day / Jasmina Maschina 06:29 09. Love You More And More / Jasmina Maschina 02:10 10. City Fever / Jasmina Maschina 03:48 11. Ausland (Slow Walker Version) / Jasmina Maschina 05:54 12. You Come & Go As You Please / Jasmina Maschina 04:13 + CD / DL ONLY 13. Joyrider / Jasmina Maschina 03:02 Total time: 54:40

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