When a festival begins on January 28, you can hardly still call it the actual begin of the music year but in terms of the CTM.10 (club transmediale) it feels exactly like this. For eleven days – it will end on February 7 – and the eleventh time the festival will take place in Berlin, once again together with the transmediale.10 of course, which starts on February 3 though.

Equipped with the new theme “OVERLAP – Sound & Other Media” CTM.10 is going to explore and discuss the limits, risks and opportunities of interference and mergence of music, arts, media and economics with an again remarkable and diverse line-up. Center of this year’s edition will be the newly opened club WMF near Alexanderplatz. As usual collaboration will be a big part of this event, too, so – among others – the festivals  “Anästhesie der Gefühle” (CONTEXT Festival # 7) and A MAZE. Interact (festival for the Convergence of Games, Art and Music) will interfere with the CTM.10.

That guarantees a great number of highlights. For example Italians Do It Better! will appear with Desire, Glass Candy – playing probably new songs(!) – and Mike Simonetti at WMF on January 29, while on the same night and at the same club The-Knife-collaborators Planningtorock and Mount Sims will meet a Hot Chip DJ Team with Felix Martin and Al Doyle. On January 31 Geert-Jan Hobijn / Staalplaat Soundsystem, Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio will invite everyone to their performance Yokomo-Pro, including 30 cars in the roundabout around the world famous Siegessäule.

The next day will see the mysterious Apparatjik (by now we already know that it’s Coldplay-bassist Guy Berryham, A-ha-keyboarder Magne Furuholmen, songwriter/producer Martin Terefe and Mew’s Jonas Bjerre) playing their first ever live show at WMF. Beneath these events UK electro heroes like Four Tet, Brackles, Joker, Scuba and Sinden will appear all over the festival, as well as Holy Fuck, Drop the Lime, Ryoji Ikeda, Schlachthof Bronx, OM, The Modern Deep Left Quartet with numerous famous guests and many more. Jacob Kirkegaard, Keiji Haino and Charlemange Palestine will even perform twice during the festival days, while Dan Deacon will play an exclusive European gig.

And of course the Berghain is involved, too. Here a festival-closing ‘Dutch night’ featuring Joris Voorn and Edwin Oosterwal will be celebrated, while at the same time over at HKW Auditorium visitors can enjoy music and art from China.

All in all not less than 20 events and club nights will take place on eleven days at eight different locations. The festival will be complemented by a huge daytime programme at .HBC, where the CTM Festival Café and – from February 5 to 6 – the Creative Independents Network Market will be located as well.

We to recommend a compilation presented by De:Bug and zero” for the festival including 13 representative tracks and a trailer for Richie Hawtin‘s tour documentary ‘Making Contakt‘. You can download it until February 7 for free here. The whole movie will be premiered on February 3 at Kino Babylon as part of the CTM.10.

Get your festival passes and tickets from here now and have a look on the complete day-by-day nighttime program below:

28.1. CTM Opening Night @ HAU2. part of the CONTEXT #7 Festival
Jacob Kirkegaard (DK) “Sabulation”, Transforma (DE) “Operators”, Hiroaki Umeda (JP) “Adapting for Distorsion”

29.1. CTM Opening Night Reprise @ HAU2. part of the CONTEXT #7 Festival
Jacob Kirkegaard (DK) “Sabulation”, Transforma (DE) “Operators”, Hiroaki Umeda (JP) “Adapting for Distortion”

29.1. CTM Opening Night Reprise @ WMF
Floor 1: Planningtorock (UK/DE), Felix Martin & Al Doyle (Hot Chip, Dj Set, UK), Jackson (DJ Set, FR), Mount Sims (US)
Floor 2: Glass Candy (US), Desire (US), Mike Simonetti (US), Noot (CA/DE), DJ TV DiSKO (CA/NZ)
Lounge: Andy Blake (UK)

30.1. CTM @ WMF
Floor1 in collaboration with Man Recordings & Melt Booking: Sinden (UK), Drop the Lime (US), Daniel Haaksman (DE), Ku Bo & Joyce Muniz (AT), Schlachthof Bronx (DE), DJ Manaia (PT), VJ Sniper (IL/DE)
Floor 2 in collaboration with Surefire: Brackles (UK), Falty DL (US), Paul Spymania (UK), Loops Haunt (UK), Rustie (UK)
Lounge: Dubco (UK)

31.1. CTM @ Großer Stern / Siegessäule
Yokomono-Pro (Staalplaat Soundsystem, Ilpo Väisänen, Mika Vainio)

31.1. CTM @ WMF
Floor 1: Keiji Haino (JP), Ecstatic Sunshine (US), Jason Urick (US), Field Agent Slow Learner (DE)
Floor 2: Groupshow (DE) playing to Warhol’s “Empire”

1.2. CTM @ WMF
Floor 1: Keiji Haino / Ilpo Väisänen / Mika Vainio (JP / FI), Micheal Wertmüller (CH), Guido Möbius (DE), Shenggy (CN)
Floor 2: Apparatjik (INT)
Lounge: I.C.A.S. DJ Team (INT)

2.2. CTM @ WMF
Floor 1 in cllaboration with A MAZE.-Interact Festival: The Horrible Plans of Flex Busterman (Patric Catani, DE), STU (CH) & Raquel Meyers (ES), Wiij Timski (NL), Geis&BaBa (DE), Notic Nastic (DK), DJ Christian Candid (AT), DJ Rippe (AT)
Lounge: Computadora (ES)

2.2. transmediale.10 opening gala concert@ HKW Tiergarten Carillon
Charlemagne Palestine (US)

3.2. CTM @ WMF
Floor 1: OM (US), Habsyll (FR), Hildur Gudnadottir (IS)
Lounge: Markus Detmer (DE)

3.2. HKW Auditorium in collaboration with transmediale
Ryoji Ikeda (JP) “test pattern [live set]“, Thomas Köner & Jürgen Reble (DE) “Materia Obscura”

3.2. CTM @ Kino Babylon in collaboration with m-nus
Making CONTAKT (The Documentary) (film)

4.2. CTM @ WMF
Floor 1: Holy Fuck (CA), Oni Ayhun (SE), Etienne Jaumet (FR), Dan Friel (US)
Floor 2 – STEIM: Alex Nowitz (DE), dj sniff (JP), Justin Bennett (NL), Tok Tek (NL)
Lounge: Andy Votel (UK)

4.2 CTM @ HKW Auditorium in collaboration with transmediale
artificiel (CA/QC) “POWEr”

5.2. CTM @WMF
Floor 1: Four Tet (UK), Dan Deacon (US), Kelpe (UK), Funckarma (NL), Serengeti & Band (US), VJ Transforma (DE)
Floor 2 – in collaboration with Hotflush: Joker (UK), 2562 (NL), Scuba (UK), Mount Kimbie (UK)
Lounge: The Wire Sound System (UK), Superclub DJ Team (DE)

5.2 CTM @ Französischer Dom in collaboration with transmediale
Charlemagne Palestine (US)

6.2. CTM @WMF
Floor 1: The Modern Deep Left Quartet & Guests (INT) feat. Cobblestone Jazz, The Mole, Deadbeat, Tikiman, VJ Gabriel Coutu-Dumont (CA)
Floor 2 in collaboration with Raster-Noton and transmediale: Atom TM (DE), Aoki Takamasa (JP), Senking (DE), Grischa Lichtenberger (DE), Ulf Eriksson (SE)
Lounge: Last.fm DJ Team (UK)

7.2. CTM @ HKW Auditorium in collaboration with transmediale
eARTS Shanghai Showcase, FM3_Zhang (CN), Xu Wenkai (AKA Aaaijiao, CN), Feng Mengbo (CN), Ben Huang (CN)

7.2. CTM After Party @ Berghain/Panorama Bar in collaboration with Extrema Music & Green
Joris Voorn (NL), Edwin Oosterwal (NL), Pitto (NL), Rejected ft Joris Voorn & Edwin Oosterwal (NL), Deetron (CH)

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