Sound in the Garden 2026, Tag 2 // Space Afrika (DJ), Dopplereffekt (live)

From 12 – 16 August 2026, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie once again presents the open-air concert series Sound in the Garden, featuring ambitious live concerts specially customised to the venue and a multi-generational line-up crossing genre boundaries. After four nights of live concerts, Sunday will be dedicated to special sound installations created in honour of Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, who is presenting a site-specific fog sculpture in the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie.

Drawing from Afrofuturism as well as the cellular grooves of biology and physics, Dopplereffekt’s icy dystopian synth lines spin out a hypnotic high-concept universe of Blade Runner-esque ennui and energy. Elements of Detroit electro mutate into a calculated alien funk, strict drum machine patterns and uneasy synthesizer melodies.

It’s a universe perfectly in key with the rain-slick industrial textures and slow-shifting atmospheric collages of Manchester/Berlin-based duo Space Afrika. Unspooling a special site-specific DJ set, their soot-stained melodies are built from muffled urban field recordings; operating like audio documentarians, deep dub basslines trap the ghosts of the city within dense layers of reverb and industrial static: soundtracks for walking alone through a decaying concrete necropolis.