The striking backdrop of a 17^th century palace combined with impeccable Rajasthani hospitality, the freshest underground sounds from India and abroad, and the perfect blend of heritage arts mixed with contemporary culture: Magnetic Fields – a brand new music and arts festival – promises an exciting new festival experience. …

Just a week before his headlining performance at Magnetic Fields, Berlin bass stalwart Robot Koch is leading a 4 day production workshop as part of Border Movement’s regional SoundLab project. He is hosting this alongside Indian composer TL Mazumdar at the Unwind Center in Chennai’s with a group of upcoming local producers. …

Thanks to Red Bull Music Academy, Modeselektor are set to play DJ sets in Mumbai and Delhi this week.

To mark the occasion, BM asked Perera Elsewhere (Jahcoozi) and visual artist Hugo Holger Schneider to interview Modeselektor.

We were expecting something off the wall, but this is next level Dada.  Check it out for yourselves.

Sometimes & Elsewhere present: #1 Modeselektor from BorderMovement on Vimeo.

An Interview Project by Hugologie and Perera Elsewhere featuring Modeselektor ’s Sebastian Szary and Gernot ‘the spherical Kugel’ Bronsert …

Funk Forum/ Barefoot Café/ Colombo/ 22 November 2013

Capturing (the spirit of) live music is tricky: The more you get sucked into the allure of a night, the trickier it becomes, your judgement clouded by intimate conversations with strangers, neonlight fuzz, residual smoke… broads in batik. What essentially should be the task of an observer, becomes one of an accomplice, as the mind begins to wander along a slightly slanted axis of reality. But even at the best of times, memory is a flux. Ultimately, you want to tie objectivity to a tree, and bask in the real aura of the night. …

“Life has to hit you hard, and then you have a lot to say” and Irshad Azeez has plenty. Sri Lankan born and raised rapper – Irshad Azeez, or Jibberish as his stage name goes, is now based out of the UAE where he’s pursuing a brighter future for live music in the region. …

Grischa Lichtenberger was born in Bielefeld 1983. In 2009 he released his debut EP ~treibgut ununbium on German label Raster-Noton. ~treibgut- a system of references to the river Rhein – operated as a motto for varied expressions: installations, videos, music, painting and drawings. Beginning in 2006, while moving to Düsseldorf, Lichtenberger decided to rethink the artistic process from scratch – its ethical legitimization and it’s epistemological backgrounds – all in regard to the concreteness of the biographical situation in its landscape and history. Since 2008 Grischa Lichtenberger lives in Berlin. …

Electronic Music and DIY culture from Karachi to Dhaka

Worldtronics
The House of World Cultures, Berlin.
29.11.2013

It was in August 2012. Ruskin Island close to Colombo, Sri Lanka that SoundCamp came to life : An range musicians and producers from Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Germany were invited to spend12 intense days and nights making tracks, building and experimenting with hardware, jamming, hanging out and sharing ideas and inspiration. …

Border Movement & IndiEarth are proud to host SoundLab, scheduled from the 5th – 8th December 2013, in Chennai.

All music artists are encouraged to submit their entries for a chance to take part in this collaborative SoundLab workshop on Digital Music Production and Production Skills.

Conducted by Electro mentors Robot Koch and T.L Mazumdar from Germany, the 4-day workshop will explore areas from composition and production to mixing and live performance.

SoundLab – the 4-day workshop will take place on 5th, 6th & 7th December at The Goethe Institute and 8th December at The Park Hotel, Chennai during the IndiEarth XChange 2013 event. …

Remixing is a delicate art. Whilst some of the most scintillating remixes in dance music has resulted from the subtlest of realigning, the slow deconstruction of some our favourite tracks has left equally memorable scars within our psyche.

Yet creativity and the dancefloor don’t always see eye to eye. With that best-of-both-worlds outlook in mind, here’s a brief look at the better remixes to come out of Sri Lanka in the recent the past: …

Ignorance breeds racism and ethnocentrism. And India happens to be home to some of the most racist and ethnocentric people in the world (current Prime Ministerial candidate included). How then can the majority not hate rap? They hate almost everybody African anyway. Some Goan minister just equated Nigerians to cancer. And down here, we’ve got a fucked up, chronic disease of ignoring our own flaws. Along with some other countries dearly in need of a revolution, India should ideally be a hotbed of provocative lyricism, 808s, and loud-as-fuck guitars, but like Ritwik Deshpande points out at the end of his piece, nobody really gives a fuck. …