KUF *live

In the organizer's words:

With keyboards, double bass and drums, the Berlin trio produces a sound that is at once warm, attractive and exciting, but also completely alien. The rhythm section is peppered with references to dirty funk and pumping R&B, but the grooves clearly belong to the modern era: club-centric, breathtakingly interactive and, in the best places, dissected by breaks.

What makes KUF so special: they build their music around vocals, but there's not a singer to be seen anywhere. All vocal elements are based on self-recorded samples, which keyboardist Tom Schneider plays in real time like an instrument and bends with virtuosity as if it were the most natural thing in the world. You could almost think it was the first time that the full potential of a sampler was exploited by hand on stage. Without mechanical synchronization, bassist Valentin Link and drummer Hendrik Havekost move the disembodied voices into a hyper-integrated unit of raw soul, extremely catchy songs without actual lyrics and improvised outbursts. All of this comes in the uncouth aesthetic of MPC-based cut-up techno.



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