Coming of age, past 27, approaching 30 and still not a non-smoker: The Eschschloraque turns 28! 28 years of unbridled creativity and alternative club culture in the Eschschloraque, 28 years of rümschrümpen: This is the stubborn dynamic to draw into a spell of music, performance art and togetherness and to bravely maintain artistic freedom!
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Even at the end of their twenties, the artists' club has its very own sense of time: The energy wafting through the inner semi-darkness is the living echo of an anarchic time in the nineties and a radical will to art that counters the here and now of gentrification and commercialization with free, unconventional art and music and makes it present in an artistic space for experimentation and development.
In the Eschschloraque, a consciousness of time is immediately suspended when everyday life dissolves in a psychedelic-fluorescent maelstrom, breaks in the energetic red-blue of the spotlights and the ghostly green-grey of the walls, evaporates in the deep purple on stage or in the steel-organic blue-grey of the bar.
It is hardly more fitting that this year's Rümschrümp birthday special is equally spellbound: as the "wild witch of the colorful arts," YAGAMA occupies the space with visuals that catch us on a direct path to consciousness. Her art is "a kind of shamanic work that can effect a change in consciousness and transformation".
Musically, legendary soundscapes by residents VELA, EL EDUCADOR & SHEILA CHIPPERFIELD will hardly let us go. With a high addiction factor, VELA's sets have long gone down in history - "kickass bass lines, forward driving beats, and ... her remarkable use of 'brake-downs layering'" describe a DJ craft that has been pulling us along ever since, "begging for more"!
EL EDUCADOR stands for a sound that breaks with limited conventions: opposed to an entrenched genre, his sets with a boundary-breaking musical spectrum are a protest against the mainstream in DJ culture. Here his style as a musician with an unmistakable signature inscribes itself as radical, at the same time minimalist and sequential.
SHEILA CHIPPERFIELD is notorious for her DJ sets that are infectious with party spirit! The internationally experienced and renowned DJ and musician, for example as a former bassist with Elastica, brings her many years of experience in the club and music scene.
