Paul Kalkbrenner

Prepare for a massive wave of happiness, excitement, special programs, the best sound and ARTIST(s), prodigious fireworks, beautiful weather, unprecedented installations and visuals, the best sunset spots, 100+ sport and fun activities and most importantly feel the freedom and meet people from all around the world and spread the positive vibes! Definitely the best day(s) of the year! ONE DAY PASS will give you the access to the festival site on Thursday, 13 August, until you leave the space (SINGLE ENTRANCE). Paul Kalkbrenner at GEM Fest Berlin’s Paul Kalkbrenner is a unique international talent. In fact, with seven studio albums ahe is one of techno’s biggest superstars. He trusts in his remarkable talent as a producer and live-act. No added artificial flashiness needed. Paul Kalkbrenner’s demanding compositions are full of energy. They exist to take listeners away from the everyday, from the weekly grind, into rapture – into art, ecstasy, absurdity friendship, hope and love.He can rave with the best of them, raise his arms to full dance floor delirium, but his head will never spin right off. His first tracks were released on Ellen Allien’s newly founded Bpitch Control label in 1999. In contrast to the darker, monotone sounds that characterized techno at the time, Paul’s music was more melodic and enriched with a warm dubby feel.In 2004 Berlin-based film director self-confessed Kalkbrenner fan, Hannes Stoehr, got in touch with Paul. He planned to make a movie about an electronic musician in Berlin’s techno scene around 2000 and wanted Paul to produce the movie’s soundtrack. As the script for the film developed, Hannes suggested Paul might be perfect in the starring role. Berlin Calling became a surprise hit, and a German cult movie in his own right. It kept drawing audiences all around Europe and staying on the big screen at Berlin’s Central Kino for several years. The soundtrack went platinum and the single, “Sky and Sand”, featuring his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner’s voice, spent over 121 weeks in the German singles charts — a German record. After releasing on independent labels for 15 years (10 years at Bpitch Control and 5 years on his own label), Paul decided to take the next step and signed a long-term deal with Sony Music International/Columbia in March 2015. Enthused by this new chapter in his career and incited by the pressure a deal like this is usually accompanied by, Paul went back to his studio to finish his seventh studio album and create a new live show. Aptly titled “7″, the album will be released through Columbia Records in August 2015 and it sees Paul work with vocals for the first time since his chart topping and record breaking single “Sky and Sand”. Musically as uncompromising as all of his previous work, “7″ marks the beginning of the next chapter in Paul Kalkbrenner’s astonishing career.