music magazine & concert calendar number twenty november 2017 free EDITORIAL Hey Chop Fam, I usually just use this space to bullshit a bit, make lame jokes, and encourage you to The Chop Team come check out our shows. But inspired by all of the brave people coming forward – this month, I would like to talk instead about something a little more serious and Amande Dagod close to our hearts. Joe Kelly Glu Ten Lulu La Certa The little bubble we occupy in Berlin can often seem like a bastion for likeminded, Nathan Ma leftwing altruists. But in reality the hierarchical nature of the music and arts scene Martin Dziallas makes it a great place for predatory people in positions of power to exploit those Maya-Roisin Slater with less social capital. Abuses of power come in all shapes and sizes, it’s not just Ringo Lukas lunatics in flasher trench coats groping girls late at night on the u-bahn. Letting mi- Ryan Rosell croaggressions in your community slide also sends a message to the worst people Sören Bill that it’s okay to be awful. It’s important to remember some pieces of shit wear quirky Yannis Trouinard glasses and play cool indie music. Keep your eyes peeled for these slimy fucks. – If you see something and it seems safe for you to do so, please say something. If The Chop Issue #20 you’re ever at a Chop show and you feel unsafe talk to the person at the door, we October 2017 have a zero creep policy and are not uncomfortable taking action. Auflage : 750 Stück Free That being said these issues involve a lot more than just exposing others, they also – require a certain amount of self reflection. For example, I’ve been shitty and misogy- www.thechop.de nistic a lot in my adult life. To all of the women I’ve ever been an asshole to, I’m so FB/IG : @thechopmag sorry. Words can’t really make amends for being an asshole, but you can try to be [email protected] less of one and take note of the oppressive systems your privilege encourages you – to play into. Let’s do that. Cover photo by Jule Rothe Stay weird, but don’t be a creep, IG: @hanebuechen – Ryan Submit your events to [email protected] P.S. Just realized this is the 20th Chop we’ve printed. Thanks for reading, double – thanks to anyone who has contributed, and inexpressible gratitude to those who You want to contribute ? work on The Chop with me every month. [email protected] The Chop ist ein kostenloses Community-Magazin mit monatlichem Konzert- kalender, das sich um die Berliner Alternativ-Live-Musikszene dreht. – The Chop is a free printed magazine/concert calendar which focuses on the live, independent music scene in Berlin. NEGLECTED ESSENTIALS Some of the best cuts from bands on this summer’s calendar wussup? along with some suggested songs by our featured band Richie we’ve got lots of shows Stetford ($). Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists. and stuff that we do, Catnapp — Slow * so keep reading or Defensa — No Me Digas (Imaabs Remix) $ Qeei — Prrosigo $ stop reading and look Debmaster — Ah Oui * at our internet shit. Dälek — Guaranteed Struggle Pigeon — Tiny * there was this big Torres — New Skin Roy Montgomery — Dear Future Loser empty space here and Tangerine Dream — Risky Business * we’re between graphic Pictorial Candy — Meteor Shower * designers so.... Get a listen at : mixcloud.com/TheChopBerlin 2 scratching the surface with Catnapp By Maya-Roisin Slater alking from the train station in Kreuzburg to find a quiet cafe where we can conduct W our interview Argentinian born Berlin based producer Amparo Battaglia better known by her moniker Catnapp and I get to talking about the weather. It’s a sublime fall day, cold enough for one jacket but not two and framed by a cloudless sky emitting brilliant blue. The air is thick and can- dy tinted. It’s our mutual feeling that a day like this is almost always nostalgia invoking. This nostalgia as it happens is more than just an abstract feeling for Battaglia. Later this day she has plans to go to the wedding of an old friend from back home. A friend who she met in highschool and had a crush on when she was thirteen, five years ahead of her at the time he walked the halls ordained with shiny jew- elry, orange trousers, and glistening gelled up hair. He asked her one day “Okay you want to know what elec- tronic music is?” and she said “Yes!” It was at this moment our young pro- ducer was introduced to the Chemi- cal Brothers, later through the same person hip hop groups like Cypress Hill. These artists played a huge part in influencing Catnapp to depart from her childhood experiences of more traditional music, and land where she exists now sitting at the cross section of pop, dance music, and hip hop. Operating in this space has become much easier and more fruitful since her move to Berlin a little over two years ago. In Argentina, at least when she was there, the same kind of mu- Lola by RossiPhoto sic was not being made. “There was some hip hop, like really classic na- tional hip hop in Spanish. But no one was doing breakbeat or what I wanted to do. So it was weird because I was not able to share lineups with any- one,” she explains. While those years coming up and not fitting the bill as a club act or a concert act were a lit- tle isolating Battaglia says the scene has grown exponentially since then. Now in the beginning stages of build- ing a label she’ll be releasing records Academy in Chile. “It was the last day Despite the recent release of this for some of these new players, and of RBMA and we had to give them beats, EP, Battaglia is taking no down- when she returns home to tour for we had to show them something. I was time. Working on developing and the first time since her move to Eu- still trying to find what genre I wanted to releasing two albums with her rope she’s excited to immerse her- make and I wasn’t feeling happy or ful- new label NAPP Records, re- self in the scene again and see the filled with anything I had done. I met this cording enough singles to last in new directions it’s being taken in. producer called AAAA and he was like releases until summer, and mak- you know I made this track you want to ing music videos to accompany This tour will be in light of her most re- put some vocals on it?” them. When I tell her this sounds cent EP, BACK, released at the begin- This track ended up being exactly the like a lot to have on your plate she ning of October. For Battaglia this EP phantom sound Battaglia had in her just laughs and explains that’s not marks a distinct change in her musi- head, and with added vocals spearhead- the half of it. But for now it’s back cal style as she finds a way to update ed the vibe of BACK. Inspired by the to the nostalgic day where leaves her sound from its core beginnings sound this collaboration bred she went collect in corners and old friends to where she feels it should develop. back to Berlin revitalized, drawing inspi- sign away a lifetime to each other. Much of this plodding towards some- ration from other aspects of her life like As months of tours and releases thing new took place last year while love and the city’s underground night- loom I would be remiss in the she was attending Red Bull Music life scene to complete the project. world of sacred journalistic clich- es not to say it seems we are sit- ting in the calm before the storm. Catnapp plays her first Chop Show at Tennis Bar on Friday November 10th, karaoke to follow. catnappmusic.com 3 NOVEMBER 2017 CALENDAR KEY * local band – # non live music event but music related (party / dj set) Bolded shows are Chop Chip Shows (discounted access for Chop Chip owners and free entry to The Chop’s events) – Venues addresses and public transportation listed on our website. Send your concert listings to [email protected] Monday / Montag Tuesday / Dienstag Wednesday / Mittwoch Thursday /Donnerstag Friday / Freitag Saturday / Samstag Sunday / Sonntag 01 02 03 04 The World + Nunofyrbees- 05 wax* — Schokoladen Hurray for the Riff Raff — PrivatClub Indoor Music & Tonstartssbandht + Drinks: Battle of the Aemong — Westgermany Rachel Glassberg Fourtrack On Stage Spe- Band with Various & the cial with The Burning Hell Artists + Helen Fry* Black Lips + Saba Lou — Disasters* — Culture + Construction & + Martha Rose* + Festsaal Kreuzberg Helmut — IE Container Destruction Pictorial Candi + — Marie Antoinette Tendre Biche* + The Lumes + Yoga* + Melt Mount Eerie — Silent Green Jerusalem In My Slow Steve* + Karo- Downer — IE Heart + Marker Starling + Nicho- lini* + Areamann* + Oiseaux-Tempête — las Krgovich — IE The Chop Squad* Clash Symbols #8 with Urban Spree + Africa by Toto + Yacht Communism + Imagi- Party Fears* + Raw by Mansions and Mil- nary French + Dream Nails Pepper + KOY — Bei lions — IE — Bei Ruth Ruth Glyders + Walls & Birds* — Westgermany 06 07 08 Kiezsalon with Sophia 09 10 11 12 Kennedy + Laraaji & Carlos Niño — Musikbrauerei We Make Waves Fourtrack On Stage Festival & Conference present with Lews- (Full listing online) berg + Sonndr — — Festsaal Kreuzberg Badbadnotgood + BeatGeeks + Schokoladen Carla dal Forno* + Angelic Honey Harper + Rex Orange County — Astra Sintesis — Berghain Kantine Seb* — Loophole No Music! Festival (Sandy) Alex G + Metz + Protomartyr (Full listing online) Tiny Vipers — Monarch World Brain* Catnapp* + Tops* + Jackson Macintosh — Bi Nuu Schwervon + — Haus der Kulturen der — Badehaus Karaoke — Urban Spree Schnick Schnack* Welt —Tennis Bar Sunday School Vol.