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"When you're black, you're punk rock all the time!'
A place for BIPoC alternative culture in Berlin.

14/08/2025

We’re looking forward to the Decolonoize Jam Session next Saturday (23rd August)!
There are a very few spots left, if you’re interested you can find the sign up link in the bio. Those who’ve already signed up, please check your spam and send us a short confirmation.

About the event:
DECOLONOIZE Jam Session with Oyèmi & Conny
ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME!
Date: Sat, 23rd August 2025
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: K.O. Noize Space
Language: Spoken English and German
You will receive a confirmation email with the exact address – please check your spam!

Please note: This jam session is for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). We ask you to support us by respecting this boundary.

funded by Musicboard Berlin GmbH

30/07/2025

🖤 DECOLONOIZE 🖤 presents
nyco nemesis
album release concert
“SAME OLD; NEW WORLD”

Date: 27th August 2025
Doors: 7:30 PM
Screening: 8:00 PM
Location: Schokoladen .bln
Ackerstraße 169, 10115 Berlin
Free entry – Donations welcome!

The concert will open with Mu Wang’s short film “UNPOETIC POEMS”.
The film is in English and Chinese partially with English subtitles.

Language: Spoken English
Accessibility: A single stair at the entrance, but the venue is otherwise accessible without steps.

nyco nemesis is a versatile singer/songwriter, producer, sound engineer, and visual artist. Her music transcends genres, merging sticky pop with grunge, punk and rock influences. nyco’s sonic vision explores themes of identity and self-reflection. Through her captivating soundscapes, she invites listeners to embrace authenticity and empowerment, carving a unique space in the realm of music.

The debut album SAME OLD; NEW WORLD takes listeners on an emotional rollercoaster through the depths of her psyche. Fusing alt-pop with hyperpop, metal, nostalgic 90s pop, and cinematic soundscapes, the album defies categorization, each track a new sonic chapter tied together by her raw lyricism and layered, expressive vocals. Themes of self-doubt, trauma, and escapism pulse through the record with striking vulnerability. Entirely self-produced and self-engineered, nyco brought this body of work to life in one uninterrupted flow of creative clarity, making it not just a debut, but a declaration of identity.

Mu Wang (王牧) (she/her) is a film and theater director as well as a performer based in Berlin/Stuttgart. At the intersection of media, Mu focuses on identity and feminism with a poetry of darkness.

About the film: The feeling of belonging nowhere is not only personal but also political.
Art student Ming will be leaving the city soon. On a gloomy day before her departure, she runs into a dancer named Sandy. The two find a strong reflection in each other. Between fantasy and reality, they create poetry in their own languages.

funded by Musicboard Berlin GmbH

13/05/2025

Some impressions from our first DECOLONOIZE Jam Session of the year last Saturday ❤️‍🔥 Our next one will be at the end of July, so keep your eyes peeled 👀

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funded by Musicboard Berlin GmbH

04/04/2025

Our first show of the year this past Monday was incredible! Huge thanks to everyone who came out to .bln for the amazing kick-off with the Otis Mensah record release concert!

Congratulations on the release of their debut album “before the noise my cousin” and a big thank you to Otis Mensah + band for teaming up with us, as well as and .aziz for their fantastic opening performances.
🖤We had a blast!

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27/03/2025

We’re excited for Otis Mensah’s record release concert with Wooly Aziz!

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: 31st March 2025 • 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞: Schokoladen
𝐃𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐬: 7:00 PM • 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭: 8:00 PM

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 – 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞!

𝐎𝐭𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐡 is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, poet and musician exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and notions of home. Drawing from a rich lineage of Black musicality, Otis’ poetic-sonic practice pulls multidimensional sound and text from archival material and reflections on dreaming and nature.

Following their tenure as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, UK, Otis has performed alongside Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz. before the noise my cousin is the debut album from Otis, entirely produced by the intern following a longstanding Berlin-centred collaboration. Exploring notions of youth, its transience and malaise, ‘before the noise’ grapples for a deeper sense of kinship and home as it journeys artistic-tribulation and coming-of-age with dreamlike sonics and daring abstract-rap cadence.

Photo © Stephanie O’Connor

𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐳𝐢𝐳 .aziz is a solo, progressive soul project by Jannat Sohail from Lahore, Pakistan, also listed in the Alternative Power 100 Music List (2020) for Resilience and Adaptability. Best described as soulful and transcending borders with their atmospheric compositions and lyrical storytelling, Wooly Aziz is composing stories of love, war, and migration – particularly in their newly conceptualized record: Dreaming Diaspora. Aziz also delves into bass selections as her DJ alias AZIEZ, which began with the mentorship practice with Femme Bass Mafia in 2023.

Photo © Jessica Blair

27/02/2025

🖤 DECOLONOIZE 🖤 presents
Otis Mensah
record release concert with special guest

Date: 31st March 2025 • Venue: Schokoladen
Doors: 7:00 PM • Start: 8:00 PM

Free entry – Donations welcome!

Otis Mensah is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist whose work spans across fields of literature and sound, exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and notions of the Black church. Drawing inspiration from a rich lineage of sampling as an approach to their poetic-sonic practice, Otis derives musicality and multidimensional text from childhood, dreaming and nature.

Following their tenure as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, UK, Otis has had a diverse calibre of experience in contemporary art both as artist and curator; publishing their poetry collection Safe Metamorphosis with Prototype London, debuting at Glastonbury Music Festival, performing alongside the likes of Moor Mother, Benjamin Zephaniah and Little Simz and working with a range of galleries and festivals across Europe.

before the noise my cousin is the debut album from experimental musician & artist Otis Mensah entirely produced by the intern following a longstanding Berlin-centred collaboration. Exploring notions of youth, its transience and malaise, ‘before the noise’ grapples for a deeper sense of kinship and home as it journeys artistic-tribulation and coming-of-age with dreamlike sonics and daring abstract-rap cadence.

Photo © Stephanie O’Connor

23/12/2024

We‘ll be going on a little break from now on until February! No DMs or emails will be answered during that time.

21/12/2024

And that’s a wrap! Last show of the year and we went out with a bang! It was an honor to host the first official show of our all new favorite band 💜💜💜
Do not sleep on them! We are blown away!
Big thank you to all the amazing artists of last night ✨
Thank you all for showing up for this event! Thank you to for having us, to our lovely volunteers and we’re looking forward to seeing y‘all next year!

▪️We‘ll be going on a little break from now on until February! No DMs or emails will be answered during that time▪️

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04/12/2024

❤️‍🔥🗯 DECOLONOIZE 💭❤️‍🔥 presents Hugging
with opening act Respati and DJ sets by kjjabber SURY and Mumu

20.12.2024 at
Doors: 8:00 PM
Free entry — donations welcome!

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢 crafts sonic bridges between worlds, weaving together the haunting resonance of Javanese gamelan and algorithmic music composition. His sound palette is filled with stochastic rhythms, the metallic timbre of the gamelan, dense soundscapes, and a large cluster of drones. Whether on the immersive stage of a music theater production or sculpting interactive sound installations for the web, his music pulses with dialectics between tradition and innovation, creating works that resonate across cultural and temporal divides.
Photo: Eunice Maurice

𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 is a group of weirdos from different musical backgrounds doing heavy lifting music inspired by food, folklores, linguistic dialects and hugs. REAL HUGS ONLY.
Photo: Oyèmi Noize .jpg

𝐤𝐣𝐣𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐫 is the garbled moniker of Jin Jing, multimedia artist and co-founder of AN(8)X. Pervaded by syncopated rhythms, dimensional changes, visceral sounds and soul-gripping melodic elements, her selections are often toying with unfathomable feelings and tensions. Like an infernal machine devoted to surpassing limits and mutates with each newly unveiled musical landscape, kjjabber reinforces layers of perception and plays with short attention spans behind the decks, constantly hinting at the beginnings of an enchanting climax that never arrives, to keep the listener under control and better drown them at will.

𝐌𝐮𝐦𝐮 is a Jakarta-born, Berlin-based DJ and 1 of 3 Kretekklang co-founders, whose deep passion for industrial sounds and hard-hitting percussion has shaped his ever evolving love for music.

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