Tickets für Alien Transistor Night at Schokoladen w/ SAROOS + SUN 05.11.25 in Berlin, Schokoladen

M:Soundtrack presents: Alien Transistor Night at Schokoladen w/ SAROOS + SUN

Alien Transistor Night at Schokoladen

If you were to receive signals from space—from distant stars and planets—with a broken portable radio, they might sound like the releases from the Alien Transistor label. Since its founding in 2003, the label has been searching for pop in places where no one else would expect to find it: in the shimmering psychedelic, sometimes jazzy sound of The Plastik Beatniks, the explosive music of o'summer vacation, cumbia-influenced dub reggae by The Alien Dub Orchestra, or the experimental electronica of Soft Violet (to name just a few).Many of the artists are connected in one way or another to the label's founders, brothers Markus and Micha Acher of The Notwist. The label releases music that fits Alien Transistor's open, genre-spanning concept—and that can even come from another galaxy.

Tonight, the label is happy to be at  Schokoladen with Saroos & SUN.

Saroos are firmly embedded in the cosmos of Alien Transistor: a trio that bridges instrumental hip-hop, ambient textures, and post-rock atmospheres. Sometimes playful, sometimes cerebral—always emotionally resonant. Their music manages to be both abstract and approachable, brainy yet effortlessly fluid. It’s the rare kind of sound that gets both hemispheres of the brain to nod in sync.

Florian Zimmer, Christoph Brandner, and Max Punktezahl—also known from bands like The Notwist, Driftmachine, and Lali Puna—released their sixth album, Turtle Roll, in June 2023 via Alien Transistor, The Notwist’s own label. This time, the focus was on collaboration: seven out of eleven tracks feature guest vocalists. While these voices will take a backseat in the live shows, their influence on the instrumentals remains palpable—subtle imprints that linger even when the lyrics are gone.

Video: https://youtu.be/2stitHF3U-k

SUN (duo Version feat. Marcus Rom of Oh no Noh)

“I was primarily concerned with atmospheres, with moods that move me—and hopefully others as well,” says Berlin-based drummer and songwriter Andi Haberl, aka SUN, about his solo debut album “I Can See Our House From Here,” which was released in the summer of 2024 on Notwist's own label Alien Transistor. While Haberl relies on a wide variety of acoustic layers and samples to create the desired moods, the multi-instrumentalist roughly locates the result, which has matured over many years, between the poles of “ Gold Panda/Four Tet, Steve Reich, Krautrock, and film soundtracks.”

In fact, the Berlin-based musician spent a good 15 years refining his solo recordings to find exactly the frequencies and sounds that really move him. “I want to take people on a journey. And it's definitely a personal journey, because when my parents separated and sold the house I grew up in, I really felt like the ground was being pulled out from under my feet. That's why I dedicated the album title and the track of the same name to our old house – so I could keep it in my memory forever.”

At Schokoladen SUN/Andi Haberl (drums/sampler) will bring the results of this long journey to the stage alongside with Markus Rom (Oh No Noh) on banjo and electronics(Oh No Noh). A long-time member of The Notwist and various other bands/projects (including Alien Ensemble, AMEO, jersey, Ditty, Bella Wakame), Andi Haberl has also collaborated with My Brightest Diamond, Owen Pallet, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. The new album “I Can See Our House From Here” is his first solo release as SUN.

Video: https://youtu.be/ZiLkYHUYefE