Sound in the Garden 2026, Day 2 (Dopplereffekt, Space Afrika)
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
This night happened — Thu 13 Aug · 6:30pm → 10pm
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Who was billed2 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
All 1 pairing on this bill had shared a bill before.
- Space Afrika and Dopplereffekt — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Wed 12 Aug 2026.
Good to know
- “Doors: 6.30 pm”
Soundscapes in the Garden
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Thursday, 13. August 2026
Space Afrika (DJ Set)
Dopplereffekt (Live)
In August 2026, Berlins Neue Nationalgalerie once again presents the open-air concert series Soundscapes in the Garden, featuring ambi-tious live concerts specially customised to this venue, featuring a highly diverse line-up of renowned musicians from various genres. After five nights of live concerts, Sunday will be dedicated to special sound installations created in honour of the Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, who is presenting a site-specific fog sculpture in the sculp-ture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie.
Drawing from Afrofuturism as well as the cellular grooves of biology and physics, Dopplereffekt’s icy dystopian synth lines spin out a hypnotic high-concept universe of Blade Runneresque ennui and energy. The blueprints of Detroit electro mutate into a calculated alien funk, sterile drum machine patterns and uneasy synthesizer melodies mapping out computerized futures.
It’s a universe perfectly in key with the rain-slick industrial textures and slow-shifting atmospheric collages of Manchester duo Space Afrika. Unspooling a special DJ set, their soot-stained melodies are built from muffled urban field recordings; operating like audio documentarians, deep dub basslines trap the ghosts of the city within dense layers of reverb and industrial static: soundtracks for walking alone through decaying concrete necropoli.
the rest of the promoter’s listing — 1 more paragraph
Doors: 6.30 pm
from the promoter’s listing on Resident Advisor
Who they are
“With their slow-stepping, spacious urban dubscapes, Space Afrika harness ambient, Detroit techno and shades of early nineties Sheffield with a fresh and open approach to composition — this is dub techno stripped-down, sealed in a time capsule and sent back from the near future.”
their own biography
the whole biography
With their slow-stepping, spacious urban dubscapes, Space Afrika harness ambient, Detroit techno and shades of early nineties Sheffield with a fresh and open approach to composition — this is dub techno stripped-down, sealed in a time capsule and sent back from the near future. Driving, echo-laden deep beats form the bed for a heavily subaquatic sound palette with undercurrents of cybernetic dread. Friends for almost 2 decades, the two Joshuas formed Space Afrika after years of listening to music together, sequestered by harsh Northern winters. Heavily inspired by the industrial architecture of Northwest England and notions of travel, their sonic framework evokes images of rust and disintegrating concrete, and sensations of movement and redemption — exuding a distorted analogue soul offering escape into their overcast skies. Closely associated with Brighton/London label, Where to Now?, who slink along a vintage axis of post-punk, On-U Sound, minimal and no wave influences, Space Afrika's diverse and creative radio shows (notably their residencies on NTS and Reform Radio) also display a breadth of curiosities in experimental and avant-garde music, old and new.Their RA profile lists Where To Now?, Dais Records and Sferic.Recently at Neue Nationalgalerie, Haus der Visionäre, MONOM · often with Nardus Williams, Hildur Guðnadóttir, upsammy, none of them here that night
- Their RA profile lists International DeeJay Gigolo Records, Rephlex, Clone Classic Cuts, Solar One Music and 1 more.
Recently at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berghain, Tresor / Globus · often with Max Watts, DJ Stingray 313, Valentina Magaletti, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- Gigi Masin1 with Dopplereffekt and 1 with Space Afrika
- Hildur Guðnadóttir1 with Dopplereffekt and 1 with Space Afrika
- Michael Rother1 with Dopplereffekt and 1 with Space Afrika
- Slauson Malone 11 with Dopplereffekt and 1 with Space Afrika
- upsammy1 with Dopplereffekt and 1 with Space Afrika
- Valentina Magaletti1 with Dopplereffekt and 1 with Space Afrika
- DJ Stingray 3132 with Dopplereffekt
- Max Watts2 with Dopplereffekt
The room
Neue Nationalgalerie — 21 events and 37 distinct artists since Aug 2025.
Who put it on
CTM Festival — 47 events and 195 artists since Aug 2025.
FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie e.V. — 20 events and 37 artists since Aug 2025.
Also that night
- RSO: WALL2WALL CLUB FESTIVAL 2026RSO.BERLIN — also tagged techno, with house too.
- DIFFUSE REALITY [13 Years Anniversary]://about blank — also tagged techno.
- FREENETICA CREW at ÆDEN with Tarkno - 7CIRCLE - Caniche - MythonÆDEN — also tagged techno.
how these 3 are connected
- RSO: WALL2WALL CLUB FESTIVAL 2026 — RA tags both listings techno — and that one also house.
- DIFFUSE REALITY [13 Years Anniversary] — RA tags both listings techno.
- FREENETICA CREW at ÆDEN with Tarkno - 7CIRCLE - Caniche - Mython — RA tags both listings techno.