Longtime Brighton resident Cristian Vogel is one of a bunch of British producers to have shaped the scene in Berlin for years. A true veteran. He’s released music on Mille Plateaux and Tresor Records and always focused – at times more, at times less – on the dancefloor. His four-year trilogy, which encompasses the albums »The Inertials«, »Polyphonic Beings«, and most recently »The Assistenz«, came out on the Berlin label Shitkatapult. The album is named after a graveyard in Copenhagen, but Vogel’s earliest work is much more concerned with spaces of possibility than with death – they offer deconstructed club music that is sometimes ghostly, sometimes extremely physical.
About »SKM 60«
Even if your own memory might initially recall it otherwise, 1997 was a good year for pop music. After all, three labels were founded that still help to define the sound of contemporary pop: Shitkatapult, Karaoke Kalk, and Monika Enterprise. They released and still release albums by T.Raumschmiere and Apparat, Bill Wells and Hauschka, Barbara Morgenstern and Gudrun Gut. Put briefly, they specialise in visionary sounds, clever lyrics (when there are lyrics at all), and yes indeed – hits. All three labels survived the radical industry changes of the early 00s and remain relevant in both pop and electronic music. At »Pop-Kultur«, these Berlin indies celebrate twenty years of label work in a programme focus entitled »SKM60«. The focus consists of concerts, DJ sets, and talks.