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Music Life: 'I forgot to hit record' with Ellen Allien, Afrodeutsche, Catnapp and Mentrix

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'I forgot to hit record' with Afrodeutsche and Ellen Allien

22/08/2020 GMT

'I forgot to hit record' with Ellen Allien, Afrodeutsche, Catnapp and Mentrix

BBC World Service - Music Life, 'I forgot to hit record' with Ellen Allien, Afrodeutsche, Catnapp and Mentrix

How the sounds of history make their way into music

Afrodeutsche chats to Berlin-based electronic artists Ellen Allien, Catnapp and Mentrix about topics including how the sounds of history make their way into their music.

This week, we’re celebrating artists that have close ties with the German city of Berlin. 

Ellen Allien is a globally renowned DJ, electronic musician, producer and label boss based in Berlin. Her label, B-Pitch Control, has shaped the sound of the city over the last decade, and she’s constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s achievable with music and a dancefloor. Catnapp is an experiemental, self-taught electronic music artist and sound engineer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who moved to Berlin in 2015. She recently appeared in the Netflix series Unorthodox, and in the future she wants to score music for sci-fi films. Mentrix is a Berlin-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer from Tehran, Iran. Her music blends her experiences of eastern and western culture, and she brings together electronic sounds with traditional Sufi instrumentation. And our host this week is Afrodeutsche, a Russian/British/Ghanaian composer, DJ, producer, and remix artist who’s performed and worked with the likes of Aphex Twin and former Music Life guest Marie Davidson.
 
They’ll be discussing how the sounds of history make their way into their music, feeling the pressure to create, and the importance of finding inspiration.

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