Berlin Music Week complete with Swiss Business Mixer and m4music Night (3 – 7 September)

SWISS BUSINESS MIXER „ZÜRICH TRIFFT BERLIN“

Not content with organising a simple “business mixer” event, Swiss MusicExport together with City of Zurich Kultur will be presenting a whole “Swiss afternoon” on September 4th at this year’s Berlin Music Week, complete with panel discussions, showcase performances and – of course! – Raclette.

Switzerland might be a small country, but it is still an important market for European artists in general and German artists in particular. With its great number of festivals and extensive network of live venues, Switzerland’s live scene offers an extremely attractive palette of possibilities. Our panels will present the diverse survival strategies adopted by the various players in the Swiss market. They will focus especially on the question how European artists can profit from these special circumstances.

In the first panel “Switzerland – Land of Festivals”, Swiss festival bookers will present their programming strategies and give an inside view of their respective events. In a second panel, “Meet the Zurich Club Scene”, club promoters from Zurich will be discussing the importance of the music scene for Zurich and the interaction with their Berlin partners.

After the two panels, there will be live sets by the unique, Crammed-signed OY – the duo of Joy Frempong and Lleluja-Ha – and the young band Wolfman (both will also be performing at the m4music night at Postbahnhof). As has become a great and popular tradition, a proper Swiss cheese Raclette will also be served, together with the appropriate libations.

Applicants via Swiss Music Export will receive a special discount for the festival ticket! For more information and to receive the Promotional Code please contact jaska@swiss-music-export.com.

PROGRAM
Thursday, 4 September 2014 – Postbahnhof (Cabuwazi-Zelt)
14.00h     “Switzerland – Land of Festivals”
Switzerland has the highest number of festivals per capita in the world. A presentation with background information about some of the most important Swiss festivals.
Guests:
Daniel Fontana (Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival)
Christof Huber (Open Air St. Gallen)
Marion Meier (Zürich Openair)
Philipp Schnyder & Raphael Rogenmoser (m4music Festival Zürich)

15.15h      “Meet the Zurich Club Scene”
Bookers and business insiders discuss the ins and outs of the Zurich club scene with Ueli Häfliger, FluxFM
Guests:
Santosh Aerthott (Mainland Music/m4music Festival Zürich)
Alex Dallas (Zukunft/Kauz/Exil)
Artur Schock (Audiolith)
Alfonso Siegrist (Mascotte/Plaza/Kinski)
Ueli Häfliger (Musikchef Flux FM)

16.15h      Reception with Swiss Cheese Raclette
16.45h      OY
17.45h      Wolfman

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m4music @ Postbahnhof
Thursday, 4 September 2014

m4music, the Swiss Festival and Conference, is hosting a stage at Postbahnhof. Artists performing are OY, Anna Aaron, Wolfman, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, and a spectacular SURPRISE ACT with roots both in Berlin and Switzerland.

OY, now signed to Belgian label Crammed, are creating their very own style of global storytelling. Anna Aaron is presenting her second album „Neuro“, released in March on Sophie Hunger’s label Two Gentlemen. Helsinki’s Jaakko Eino Kalevi has released his very first songs on labels like Domino (UK) and Beats in Space (USA). The evening opens with Wolfman and their atmospheric blend of Electronics, Pop, and Blues. MTDF (Saalschutz/Audiolith) will round off the night with a DJ Set.

21.00h      Wolfman
21.50h       Jaakko Eino Kalevi
22.40h      Anna Aaron
23.40h      Surprise Act
00.30h      OY
01.30h      MTDF (DJ Set)

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Basel-based artist collective/band We Invented Paris will be performing as part of the Berlin Music Week’s First We Take Berlin festival at the Lido on September 4th. The performance time is yet to be confirmed.

Link Berlin Music Week
Link Swiss Business Mixer – Zürich trifft Berlin
Link Panel „Switzerland – Land of Festival“
Link Panel „Meet the Zurich Club Scene“
M4Music at Postbahnhof
Link First We Take Berlin Festival
Link City of Zurich Kultur
Link m4music
Link Wolfman
Link Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Link Anna Aaron
Link OY
Link MTDF