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"When you're black, you're punk rock all the time!'
A place for BIPoC alternative culture in Berlin.

13/05/2025

Some impressions from our first DECOLONOIZE Jam Session of the year last Saturday ❤️‍🔥 Our next one will be at the end of July, so keep your eyes peeled 👀

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funded by Musicboard Berlin GmbH

04/04/2025

Our first show of the year this past Monday was incredible! Huge thanks to everyone who came out to .bln for the amazing kick-off with the Otis Mensah record release concert!

Congratulations on the release of their debut album “before the noise my cousin” and a big thank you to Otis Mensah + band for teaming up with us, as well as and .aziz for their fantastic opening performances.
🖤We had a blast!

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27/03/2025

We’re excited for Otis Mensah’s record release concert with Wooly Aziz!

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 31st March 2025 • 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞: Schokoladen
𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬: 7:00 PM • 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭: 8:00 PM

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 – 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞!

𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐡 is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, poet and musician exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and notions of home. Drawing from a rich lineage of Black musicality, Otis’ poetic-sonic practice pulls multidimensional sound and text from archival material and reflections on dreaming and nature.

Following their tenure as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, UK, Otis has performed alongside Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz. before the noise my cousin is the debut album from Otis, entirely produced by the intern following a longstanding Berlin-centred collaboration. Exploring notions of youth, its transience and malaise, ‘before the noise’ grapples for a deeper sense of kinship and home as it journeys artistic-tribulation and coming-of-age with dreamlike sonics and daring abstract-rap cadence.

Photo © Stephanie O’Connor

𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐳𝐢𝐳 .aziz is a solo, progressive soul project by Jannat Sohail from Lahore, Pakistan, also listed in the Alternative Power 100 Music List (2020) for Resilience and Adaptability. Best described as soulful and transcending borders with their atmospheric compositions and lyrical storytelling, Wooly Aziz is composing stories of love, war, and migration – particularly in their newly conceptualized record: Dreaming Diaspora. Aziz also delves into bass selections as her DJ alias AZIEZ, which began with the mentorship practice with Femme Bass Mafia in 2023.

Photo © Jessica Blair

27/02/2025

🖤 DECOLONOIZE 🖤 presents
Otis Mensah
record release concert with special guest

Date: 31st March 2025 • Venue: Schokoladen
Doors: 7:00 PM • Start: 8:00 PM

Free entry – Donations welcome!

Otis Mensah is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans across fields of literature and sound, exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and notions of the Black church. Drawing inspiration from a rich lineage of sampling as an approach to their poetic-sonic practice, Otis derives musicality and multidimensional text from childhood, dreaming and nature.

Following their tenure as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, UK, Otis has had a diverse calibre of experience in contemporary art both as artist and curator; publishing their poetry collection Safe Metamorphosis with Prototype London, debuting at Glastonbury Music Festival, performing alongside the likes of Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz and working with a range of galleries and festivals across Europe.

before the noise my cousin is the debut album from experimental musician & artist Otis Mensah entirely produced by the intern following a longstanding Berlin-centred collaboration. Exploring notions of youth, its transience and malaise, ‘before the noise’ grapples for a deeper sense of kinship and home as it journeys artistic-tribulation and coming-of-age with dreamlike sonics and daring abstract-rap cadence.

Photo © Stephanie O’Connor

23/12/2024

We‘ll be going on a little break from now on until February! No DMs or emails will be answered during that time.

21/12/2024

And that’s a wrap! Last show of the year and we went out with a bang! It was an honor to host the first official show of our all new favorite band 💜💜💜
Do not sleep on them! We are blown away!
Big thank you to all the amazing artists of last night ✨
Thank you all for showing up for this event! Thank you to for having us, to our lovely volunteers and we’re looking forward to seeing y‘all next year!

▪️We‘ll be going on a little break from now on until February! No DMs or emails will be answered during that time▪️

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04/12/2024

❤️‍🔥🗯 DECOLONOIZE 💭❤️‍🔥 presents Hugging
with opening act Respati and DJ sets by kjjabber SURY and Mumu

20.12.2024 at
Doors: 8:00 PM
Free entry — donations welcome!

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢 crafts sonic bridges between worlds, weaving together the haunting resonance of Javanese gamelan and algorithmic music composition. His sound palette is filled with stochastic rhythms, the metallic timbre of the gamelan, dense soundscapes, and a large cluster of drones. Whether on the immersive stage of a music theater production or sculpting interactive sound installations for the web, his music pulses with dialectics between tradition and innovation, creating works that resonate across cultural and temporal divides.
Photo: Eunice Maurice

𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 is a group of weirdos from different musical backgrounds doing heavy lifting music inspired by food, folklores, linguistic dialects and hugs. REAL HUGS ONLY.
Photo: Oyèmi Noize .jpg

𝐤𝐣𝐣𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐫 is the garbled moniker of Jin Jing, multimedia artist and co-founder of AN(8)X. Pervaded by syncopated rhythms, dimensional changes, visceral sounds and soul-gripping melodic elements, her selections are often toying with unfathomable feelings and tensions. Like an infernal machine devoted to surpassing limits and mutates with each newly unveiled musical landscape, kjjabber reinforces layers of perception and plays with short attention spans behind the decks, constantly hinting at the beginnings of an enchanting climax that never arrives, to keep the listener under control and better drown them at will.

𝐌𝐮𝐦𝐮 is a Jakarta-born, Berlin-based DJ and 1 of 3 Kretekklang co-founders, whose deep passion for industrial sounds and hard-hitting percussion has shaped his ever evolving love for music.

28/11/2024

What a night ✨
Big shout out to for killing it last night at .bln ⚡️ also only love for our amazing poets sharing their moving words with us: and collective member .space 🖤

Thank you all for coming out, listening to the words of everyone, engaging, being present!

See you all at our last show of the year with the amazing making their debut at on dec 20th!

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22/11/2024

Thanks to your support at the Sounds of Solidarity fundraiser event we were able to collect 813 Euros!
We rounded up the amount and donated 450 Euros to Operation Olive Branch and 450 Euros to eSIMs in Gaza (Connecting Humanity).
Thank you once again! 🍉

19/11/2024

🤍 DECOLONOIZE PRESENTS 🤍 MERANGKAK - presentation by Moyann Ayu Larasati .unbathe

In Bahasa Indonesia, merangkak means to crawl. In this context, it embodies the state of being in-between, a transitional process - as one learns to walk or is no longer able to.
We face uncertainty on a daily basis, but how is the uncertainty caused by authoritative power affecting us as humans? Is the system we live in coming from a place of humanity?
This presentation will show drafts and works of Moyann Larasati, capturing feelings of uncertainty, detachment and hope.

About the artist:
Indonesian-based interdisciplinary artist Moyann Ayu Larasati, or Mojan Larasati, has been honing her skills for music and visual art. Moyann has been producing music since 2014 and initiated a fuzzy post-punk band, Bananach. They also dig into illustration and explore many mediums for their visual works, from paper to canvas to even skin as a tattoo. As an artist, Moyann’s works are mostly focused on sociopolitics and humanitarian issues; their works "define complex emotions, the dark side of humanity, and sensitivity, as well as a political statement," they said.

When:
Opening 13.12.2024
19:00 - 23:00
14.12.2024
16:00 - 21:00

Where:
R100 project space

Funded by the Berliner Senat

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