20 Jan 2024

Postcards: DJ Kava McIntyre reports back from Berlin's musical melting pot

From Music 101, 4:00 pm on 20 January 2024
DJ Kava in 2007

DJ Kava: Postcards from Berlin Photo: supplied

On this episode of Postcards, Wellington expat Kava McIntyre reports back from the musical melting pot of Berlin.

"It often feels like living in a music festival," says Kava McIntyre, speaking to Music 101 about his home in Berlin. Based there with his family since 2011, he says he had an impression of "techno music in dark dungeons", but realised the city has "a lot of space, geographically, and also in the music". 

Berlin's Autumn leaves

Berlin's Autumn leaves Photo: Kava McIntyre

The Brandenburg Gate

Postcards from Berlin Photo: Andrew Williams

East Side Gallery artwork along remaining section of Berlin Wall

Postcards from Berlin Photo: Andrew Williams

Postcards from Berlin: Oye records, Prenzlauer Berg Berlin

Oye records, Prenzlauer Berg Berlin Photo: Kava McIntyre

DJ Kava performing at Fried Chicken Sound system at Wellington bar Sandwiches in the mid 2000's, alongside friends Brad Warrington aka Dj Stickyfingers, and Ddog

Postcards from Berlin with DJ Kava Photo: supplied

Kava's Postcards picks:

  • Vernon Maytone - 'Old Pan Sound (Dub version)'

  • Stella - 'Detends Toi'

  • Gaoulé Mizkd - 'A Ka Titine (Kay Suzuki Gwoka Dub)'

  • Àbáse - 'Salasiano'

  • Alex Kassian - 'Strings Of Eden'

  • Hans Hass - 'Welche Farbe hat der Wind (Marian Tone Rework)'

 

This is the third in our new series Postcards on Music 101.

You can listen to the second episode, where New Zealand based Japanese American musician Rachel Andie sits down with Maggie Tweedie and takes a tour through the historic streets of Philadelphia