Bitchin Bajas / Das Ende der Liebe

Positive Transmitter & Crunch Tapes present: Bitchin Bajas (US, Drag City) & Das Ende Der Liebe live at Arkaoda 19 April Last pre-sale tickets: DICE: https://link.dice.fm/Cb56a836418f [https://link.dice.fm/Cb56a836418f] At Berlin’s Arkaoda, two distinct approaches to psychedelic and experimental sound meet — Chicago’s masters of cosmic groove, Bitchin Bajas, and Germany’s alchemists of time and sound, Das Ende Der Liebe. The latest work from the revered trio — Cooper Crain, Rob Frye, and Daniel Quinlivan — marks their first full-length since 2022’s Bajascillators. Written largely while on tour and captured at Chicago’s Electrical Audio, Inland See unfolds across four expansive compositions that function as a unified sonic voyage: elemental in form, fluid in motion, and wholly transportive. The lead single, “Skylarking,” paired with a visualizer by frequent collaborator Nick Ciontea, offers an early window into the album’s glowing inner world. True to the Bitchin Bajas ethos, Inland See is driven by exploration — music as a process of uncovering, where rhythm and texture merge into a hypnotic, hovering balance. On “Skylarking,” interlocking patterns and global tonalities rise and recede, drifting between ecstatic pulse and meditative drift. It’s a cosmic dance rooted deep in the earth — a piece that, like the album itself, evokes a sensation of weightlessness, of drifting buoyantly through sound. Bandcamp: https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/inland-see [https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/inland-see] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitchinbajas/ [https://www.instagram.com/bitchinbajas/] Special guest: Das Ende Der Liebe (Berlin) Das Ende Der Liebe work in a different register, but with a similar attention to time and space. Their music stretches and folds rhythm, electronics and live instrumentation into dense, immersive structures. Since SCHNEE* (named one of Groove Magazine’s top releases of 2022) and their new album Persist (winner of the German Record Critics’ Award for Experimental & Electronic), the band — now joined by su dance110 — has pushed further into a sound that draws as much from dark ambient and industrial as it does from psychedelic groove and early electronic music. This show brings together two artists who approach repetition, texture and movement from opposite angles, meeting somewhere in between: slow motion, deep sound, and a room full of shifting air. Bandcamp: https://dasendederliebe.bandcamp.com/ [https://dasendederliebe.bandcamp.com/]