M:Soundtrack presents: Alien Transistor Night w/ Bella Wakame (SAROOS ) + SUN

Name: M:Soundtrack presents: Alien Transistor Night w/ Bella Wakame (SAROOS ) + SUN
Start: 2025-11-05T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-05T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Schokoladen

Schedule

Wed Nov 05 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Schokoladen | Berlin, BE

M:Soundtrack presents: Alien Transistor Night at Schokoladen w/ Bella Wakame (Saroos++) + SUN
UPDATE: Due to a broken arm Saroos can’t perform, we wish a speedy recovery and are happy to tell that Bella Wakame (feat. Andi of SUN & Florian of Saroos) will play instead.
In 2026 we´ll try to reschedule the show with Saroos.
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 Bella Wakame (Saroos) & SUN.
BELLA WAKAME
Percussion instruments meet modular synthesizers – what sounds like monochrome soundscapes on paper turns out to be quite a surprise package on the debut album by Berlin duo Bella Wakame. Their debut single ‘Toutpartout PT2’, released in 2023, had a rather repetitive feel to it – a bubbling ripple that never quite revealed what was lurking beneath the surface. Their self-titled debut album (Umor-Rex 2025), on the other hand, is full of captivating melodies and wonderful electroacoustic textures that are repeatedly and carefree deconstructed. Andi Haberl, known as the drummer for The Notwist and most recently for his wonderfully warm, airy solo album as SUN, is responsible for the drums and sensory percussion. Florian Zimmer brings his knack for modular synthesizers to the grooving trio Saroos, among others. Together with Andreas Gerth, he creates expansive soundscapes as Driftmachine. Bella Wakame brings all these qualities together – and fuses them into something very unique. You can hear subtle influences from Neu!, Can and the Nippon project World Standard, but the way everything flows together is uniquely fresh. Pulsating, relaxed and powerful, small experimental soundscapes flash up, ultimately merging into swinging song structures.

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.
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