The Chop

The Chop is a free printed magazine/concert calendar which focuses on the live, independent music scene in Berlin.

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Summer mixtape

Some of the best cuts from bands on this summer’s calendar along with some suggested songs by our featured band Walls & Birds ($). Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists.

Walls & Birds — S2 (non-mastered track) * Luiz Conzaga — Vem Morena $ Bob Dylan — Tell Ol’ Bill $ Soft Grid — Corolla * Odd Couple — Haste Strom, Haste Licht * Of Montreal — Gronlandic Edit Ghost Thoughts — Aristophanes Oum Shatt — Madame O. (Black Friday) * Timber Timbre — Sincerely, Future Pollution
 Le Millipede — Die jährlichen Winde (1115 Remix) Only on Mixcloud

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Summer Edition

Our #17 is online — Jaugust with our calendar for both months With the unique Walls & Birds, the cooking with Albertine from Itaca, Fevvers by Jann Petersen + the usual Top of the Chop & Showroscope. Enjoy the sun (when it’s out)

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Some of the best cuts from bands on this month’s calendar along with some suggested songs by our featured band LeVent ($). Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists.

LeVent — Lisa * Goat — Run To Your Mama $ Perilymph — The Beast I $* Brian Jonestown Massacre — Open Minds Now Close $ Winter & Winter — Shiver * Clinic — The Second Line Hair & Beauty — I Know It's Not Funny * Andrea Belfi — Lead * Hobocombo — Witch Of Endior * Ellen Arkbro — Mountain of Air

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Neglected Essentials #15 - May 2017

Some of the best cuts from bands on this month’s calendar along with some suggested songs by our featured band Kala Brisella ($). Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists.

Kala Brisella — Endlich Krank * Kolossale Jugend — Bitterwald $ Yoga — Ian MacKaye (Live at Antje Øklesund) $* Swirlies  — In Harmony New Found Freedom $ Half Japanese — Attack Of The Giant Leeches Sorry — Tarifgebiet (Demo) AG Form — 218 * Ducks! — Giant World * Molly Nilsson — Not Today Satan * Xiu Xiu — Falling (Angelo Badalamenti Cover)

Get a listen at: mixcloud.com/TheChopBerlin/

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The Chop #14 & #15

For our April issue, we had the immense pleasure to have the hottest duo in the Berlin Italo-Disco scene: Itaca. One can also count on a cooking review of SXSW 2017, a review of the new record shop Rita Records and a short interview of Helen Fry for their freshly released debut EP.

May is somehow dedicated to the R.O.C.K. scene: an intellectual pig on the cover, Kala Brisella as featured band, a Q&A with Matse of Girlie and Immergut Festival and many more thrilling features.

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Neglected Essentials #14 - April 2017

Some of the best cuts from bands on this month’s calendar along with some suggested songs by our featured band Itaca ($). Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists.

Itaca — Mi Manchi * Tirrenian — Today $ WOW — Arriva arriva $ Matita — Matita $ Transport — Tanz um den Melkeimer * Helen Fry — Plasticine * Jom Comyn — Dream Deep Repetitor — Oper Jak Fake Laugh — Ice * Horse Lords — Bending the Lash

Get a listen at: mixcloud.com/TheChopBerlin/

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The Chop #13

Our March issue features DJ Dingo Susi, a cooking session with Jann from Girlie, a short essay about the second book released by Antje Øklesund (and even more cool things to read about). If you’re in Berlin you can get your copy at one of our Choppy spots listed under this link It is now also available online here via Issuu.com

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Neglected Essentials #13 - March 2017

Some of the best cuts from bands on this month’s calendar along with a track by our featured artist DJ Dingo Susi. Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists.

DJ Dingo Susi — Some Uh Storm * Future Islands — Like the Moon Paperhead — Do You Ever Think Of Me Slow Steve — Josephine III (Tschüss Oskar) * Nunofyrbeeswax — Pop Your Heart * Mary Ocher — Calories in my Body * Ringo Starwars — Dropdead * Methyl Ethel — Ubu

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It’s our birthday and we gonna celebrate on February 25th at Tennis Bar ! More info on our FB event.

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The Chop #12

February 2017

Our February issue is now online ! Happy February and happy birthday to The Chop ! One year ago we started this project and we're celebrating with a new full issue featuring Magic Island, Charley of Tetron & Slow Steve, Simon of Festsaal Kreuzberg & DISK Agency, Andreya of Gurr, Joe of Mother of the Unicorn and more. Get your copy at the usual places or read online here.

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Neglected Essentials #12 - February 2017 Some of the best cuts from bands on this month’s calendar along with some suggested songs by our featured artist Magic Island ($). Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists. Magic Island — Alchemy * First Hate — In My Dreams $ Tommy Cash — Leave Me Alone $ Cosmonauts — Party At Sunday Entertainment for the Braindead — One Moment * The Proper Ornaments — Who Thought Highest Sea — Hawaii * Tonstartssbandht — 5FT7 Hantrax — Double-Dealing $

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Neglected Essentials - A 2016 Retrospective

This is a selection of some greatest hits, B-sides & rarities from all our featured Berlin-based bands or artists for the year 2016.

Gurr — Walnuss (Pfeiffers Ballhaus Spezial) Dwarphs — Bird Reynolds Molde — Kazuyoshi Funaki Slow Steve — Alligator Mayhem Mother of the Unicorn — Sweeper Oracles — Gazing From Without Will Samson & Heimer — Your Golden Glow Levitations — Nightmare Girlie — Interregnum Pigeon — Skids Hush Moss — In Reims Soft Grid — Corolla Kulku — Strange

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The Chop #10

Our December issue is now available here for the printed version & there for the digital one. With featured band Kulku, Best Of 2016, Showroscope, Top of the Chop and even more more more.

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Neglected Essentials #10

Some of the best cuts from bands on this month’s calendar along with a track from our featured band Kulku. Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists.

Kulku — The Hungry Soul * Cocaine Piss — Sex Weirdos Kala Brisella — In Ordnung Bringen * Any Other — Cold House Anna Morley — Today the Heart * B/B/S — Navel Oil * Anenon — Petrol Black Cracker — Hesitant Tide, Back And 4th * Project Pablo — Dustman *

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Tis the season. To celebrate the final month of 2016, The Chop would like to invite its friends and readers to an evening of eating, drinking, and music. The "ball" will commence with a potluck in which guests are encouraged to bring a dish of their choice to be shared in a large banquet style feast.

Following the banquet, music and dancing will will take place until notable collective drunkenness is achieved and karaoke can commence.

FORMAL DRESS IS ENCOURAGED. ALL INFOS & RSVP HERE.

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Neglected Essentials for November 2016

Some of the best cuts from bands on this month’s calendar along with suggested songs by Soft Grid ($).

Tracks followed by the * symbol come from local bands or artists.

Soft Grid — Herzog On A Bus * Fith — Oya *$ Handjerks — Walking *$ Lianne Hall — Monsoon *$ Kate Tempest — Europe is Lost Tinariwen — Tenere Taqqim Tossam feat. Tunde Adebimpe & Kyp Malone Gurr — Walnuts * Rancune — Freiheit mein Arsch * Mother of the Unicorn — Buzz Extension * Autechre — Crystel

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Our October issue has been distributed to all choppy places in Berlin & is now available online here - with love from the Chop Team