Club Josef, initiated by Daniel Meteo, is a weekly event (in the rear hall at MAO) that aims to reanimate cohesion and exchange among electronic music producers in Berlin. A passion for music and energizing social agitation overrides any commercial interests, and the low-key format assures an informal platform of the sort one rarely finds any more in Berlin’s larger clubs. For tonight, in cooperation with CTM, Meteo invited Berlin label Shitkatapult’s latest foundling, Judith Juillerat (from the French Jura region) to make her Berlin debut. A DJ-set by Gudrun Gut, one of the Grandes Dames in Berlin’s music scene, will open the evening. Beyond the usual bounds of Electronic or Indierock, Gut is a consummate maestro who effortlessly combines a broad atmospheric range and complex progressive oddities. Later, Josef resident Daniel Meteo and Philip Sherburne, author for The Wire, XLR8 and Earplug, will play together through till dawn: a perfect finale for a festival that, notwithstanding its international profile, has always seen itself as part of the Berlin club culture that shaped it.
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