Music

I consider myself a very open-minded person when it comes to music. I like music that grooves, music that screams, music that calms. I like stuff that you listen to sitting in a relaxed environment, I like stuff that makes you want to smash everything around you.

Whether an artist is inactive or active, alive or dead, making music in the 1970s or the 2020s, that doesn't really matter to me in the grand scheme of things. I put an emphasis on trying to support contemporary artists though: after all, they are the ones that I can watch grow and evolve in real time. I hate snobbery, especially the kind that judges art by the year it was released.

On this page, I'll try to collect some of my favourite artists, albums and document as many live shows that I've been to as possible. The way to my heart is through music you're passionate about. If you have something that you think I might like, tell me about it!

How I collect music

I'm in the process of building a digital music library for me and my close friends and family, with the eventual goal of saying goodbye to Spotify and other streaming services. I'm using Navidrome as a music server and Lidarr as an audio collection manager. I'm piecing together my collection from the following sources:

• Other people's CD collections
• My Bandcamp collection
• CDs from my local library
• The SoulSeek network
• Public torrents

Bands / Musicians I've seen live

Favourites / most memorable marked with a ⭐

• Aerial Salad (Berlin 2026)
• Bachratten (Karlsruhe 2024)
• Bad Assumption (Berlin 2026)
• Benny Greb Brass Band (Karlsruhe 2024)
• Chapa.didgeridoo (Tokyo 2026 ⭐)
• DARTZ (Karlsruhe 2024, 2025 ⭐)
• Dead Pioneers (Berlin 2026)
• Destroy Boys (Berlin 2026)
• Die Spitz (Berlin 2026)
• Faber (Berlin 2017)
• Farewell Spit (Karlsruhe 2025)
• Frank Turner (Berlin 2018? I think?)
• Goblyns (Bristol 2025)
• Goldmann (Karlsruhe 2025)
• HANABIE. (Frankfurt 2025)
• Indecent Behavior (Karlsruhe 2025)
• Kaine dot Co (Tokyo 2026)
• Lady Lazarus (Berlin 2026)
• Lifespark (Karlsruhe 2025)
• MDC (Karlsruhe 2024)
• Mannequin Pussy (Berlin 2025 ⭐)
• Marathon (Berlin 2026)
• Masataka Nakano's Naoya Matsuoka Tribute Band (Tokyo 2026 ⭐)
• Nicole Johänntgen (Karlsruhe 2026)
• PUP (Berlin 2018)
• Philipp Poisel (Berlin 2017)
• Prinz Pi (Berlin 2017)
• Private Function (Karlsruhe 2023, 2024 ⭐)
• SPRINTS (Berlin 2026)
• SUN (Frankfurt 2025)
• Samara Joy (Karlsruhe 2025 ⭐)
• Shortstraw (Berlin 2025)
• Soulcafé (Karlsruhe 2022, 2024)
• TORO (Tokyo 2026)
• Team Scheisse (Freiburg 2023 ⭐, Karlsruhe 2024, Stuttgart 2024)
• Terrorfett (Karlsruhe 2025)
• Thaladela (Glasgow 2025)
• The Grapevine (Glasgow 2025)
• The Kruds (Bristol 2025)
• Thundercat (Berlin 2026)
• Trans-Siberian Express (Bristol 2025 ⭐)
• Tropical Death (Tokyo 2026)
• VARRISPEEDS (Tokyo 2026)
• Von Wegen Lisbeth (Berlin 2017)
• Zotos Kompania (Berlin 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
• listentojules (Karlsruhe 2024)
• marigold (Glasgow 2025)
• meep (Glasgow 2025)
• アノダイズヘッド (Tokyo 2026)

This list is very incomplete because I unfortunately don't remember every artist for every show I've been to over the years. This is especially true for support bands, but also events where the specific band was not the main reason why I went there (e.g. bars/pubs with live music, street festivals, etc.).

Favourite Artists

This isn't necessarily an "...of all time" list – tastes change over the years – but these are artists that I have been listening to a lot over the last 5 years or so. In no particular order.

Artist	Genre	Favourite Album
KNOWER	Electronic, Jazz, Pop	KNOWER FOREVER
Mannequin Pussy	Alternative Rock, Punk	I Got Heaven
The Beatles	Pop, Rock	A Hard Day's Night
Gil Scott-Heron	Soul	Pieces of a Man
Destroy Boys	Punk, Alternative Rock	Open Mouth, Open Heart
Bad Religion	Punk	Suffer
Martina DaSilva	Jazz, Bossa Nova	Bim Bom
Seu Jorge	Brazilian Pop	Musica para Churrasco, Vol. 1
Masayoshi Takanaka	City Pop	SEYCHELLES
The Clash	Punk	London Calling
Team Scheisse	Punk	042124192799
Die Spitz	Punk, Alternative Rock	Something to Consume
Babe Haven	Punk, Hardcore	Nuisance
Private Function	Punk	Whose Line Is It Anyway?
VIAL	Punk	LOUDMOUTH
Dead Kennedys	Punk, Hardcore	Plastic Surgery Disasters/In God We Trust, Inc.
Hüsker Dü	Punk, Hardcore	Zen Arcade
John Coltrane	Jazz	My Favorite Things
Emmet Cohen	Jazz	Basically all of "Live At Emmet's Place" on YouTube
Amy Winehouse	Pop, Soul	Back To Black
Grateful Dead	Psychedelic Rock	Blues for Allah
Marvin Gaye	Soul	What's Going On
Thundercat	Funk, Jazz, Pop	Drunk
Jaco Pastorius	Jazz, Funk	Word Of Mouth Revisited
Vulfpeck	Funk	Hill Climber
Curtis Mayfield	Soul	People Never Give Up
Slime	Punk	Alle Gegen Alle
insaneintherainmusic	Jazz (Video Game Covers)	Year 6
Noname	Hip Hop	Sundial
Human People	Punk	Butterflies Drink Turtle Tears
THICK	Punk	Happy Now
Taeko Onuki	City Pop	MIGNONNE

Fuck Off AI Music

I don't care what you personally do with "AI" (though I do consider you a twat if you think you're creating art with it), but leave the rest of us out of it. In other words, fuck off.