In the organizer's words:

Admission: 19:00
unseated

Bringing The Full Energy of Club-Culture & Dance Party's Live on Stage. Listen To Diversity. The Analog Meets the Digital. The East Meets the West. A Melting Pot of Styles a Vibrant Spectacle Where the Acoustic Will Be Remixed with Electronica & Beats Live on Stage. Celebrating The Liberty of Performance with Balkan Pop, Global Bass, Diaspora Beats, Turkish Psychedelica and Electro. With his international megahit "Disko Partizani", Shantel became the audible face of a new music and dance culture worldwide. He was the first to give contemporary pop culture a cosmopolitan sound thanks to his multi-layered family roots. With Shantel, migration is audible and danceable. Musical gems from south-eastern Europe, Greece and the Middle East appear in a new, multi-layered context. Shantel sees his work as a musician as the creative processing of an ongoing discourse between theory and practice. The results, which can be heard, felt and danced to, are always a product of his very individual examination of music as a specific expression of the historical, cultural, social and political soundscape of a place. From the very beginning, his output as a DJ, producer and musician has been situated in the field of tension between tradition + modernity and analog + digital.

Shantel's method does not follow a linear understanding of music as something static, culturally and spatially limited. On the contrary: his own family history and the multi-layered musical socialization that came with it made it clear to him early on that music knows no boundaries. This basic idea of combining different musical styles is reflected in all of the artist's projects. Lissania Essay, the club he ran in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel in the 1980s, can be seen as Shantel's own musical expression of not reflecting the mainstream electronic music scene, but rather placing the complexity of new forms and techniques of making music in an overall global context. Lissiana offered the various urban communities a space that was integrative and diverse instead of a scene - as were all of Shantel's other projects, in which music and club culture always became a political practice.

In today's globalized world, in the urbanity in which we live, Shantel does not play and produce the one sound that supposedly originates from one community. Because in a complex world characterized by migration, digital exchange and a dynamic music scene that is constantly spitting out new creative products from seemingly incompatible musical backgrounds, there is no longer this one geographically pinned down, separate, homogeneous sound.

Organizer: Gastro-Event GmbH / GLORIA
Photo credit: guilty 76 Streetguerilla