Krake Festival

The ticket prices for Krake Festival will be:

4 Day Ticket: 30€
Wednesday: 8€
Friday: 13€
Saturday: 13€
Sunday: 10€
Sat+Sun: 20€

for detailed payment informations, please write to infokrake-festival.de


Krake Festival takes place in two different locations. BERGHAIN KANTINE and SUICIDE CIRCUS.


KRAKE is a Berlin based festival for challenging electronic music. KILLEKILL and SALON DU KATZ have joined forces to bring this festival to life. KRAKE is about dancing, freaking and listening. About darkness, joy and surprise. A challenge for all your senses.

Numerous groundbreaking artists could be assigned. Amongst those are IDM legends Plaid, techno avantgardist Cristian Vogel, electro futurist Radioactive Man and breakbeat nerd Bogdan Raczynski to name but a few. Please see the artists section for the full line up and infos on the artists.

The festival takes place in two different locations:
The opening event on wednesday takes place at BERGHAIN KANTINE, a small and intimate venue, part of the legendary club Berghain. The rest of the festival takes place at SUICIDE CIRCUS, a midsize club with an indoor and an outdoor floor in the heart of Friedrichshain, center of Berlin’s nightlife

On Wednesday, August 11th,
This night KRAKE opens up the festival with a RASTER-NOTON label showcase at Berghain Kantine. RASTER-NOTON is a label run by ALVA NOTO and FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER and has a worldwide reputation for the outstanding releases and live shows of its artists.FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER co-runner of the label stands out as a producer with his strictly minimalistic approach to electronic music. His audio-visual live shows are intense and hypnotizing. GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER is a younger artists of the label but in no way less astonishing. He has developped his very own style of rhythmisizing noise.
Both artists will present exclusive audio-visual performances for KRAKE.


On Friday, August 13th,
This will be the first night at Suicide Circus and focusses on experiments in dance music indoor while presenting some of the freshest artists in house music outside under the stars.
The indoor club floor is being headlined by IDM legends PLAID who will present an exclusive dj-performance. Second headliner of the night is breakbeat nerd BOGDAN RACZYNSKI who gained worldwide reputation in the 90s with his uncategorizable freaky productions. The night is being opened up by a new audio/video live performance by TRANSFORMA, a video collective known for their work for APPARAT. THey will also be responsible for the visuals for the rest of the night.
VOLTEK, resident of the legendary Leisure System parties at Berghain, is the dj to host the indoor floor.

The outside area features several highly estimated deep house and dub techno artists. One of them is youngster and rising star of the house scene SVEN WEISEMANN whose productions on labels such as Mojuba, a.r.t.less and Styrax belong to the most sought after recently and whose mixing skills have been shared on renowned podcast series such as those of Resident Advisor or Fact Magazine.
The mysterious project ORACY that gained much public attention with only a few releases so far will be playing house and deep techno next to Sven. Opening the floor will be the sympathetic dub techno duo FREUND DER FAMILIE running a fine label under the same name.

There will be japanese barbecue and other food available on the outside area.

Saturday and Sunday, August 14th and 15th,
SATURDAY and SUNDAY will be an endless journey into the diversity of electronic music.
SATURDAY night techno artists such as HANNO HINKELBEIN and DJ FLUSH will perform indoor next to legendary CRISTIAN VOGEL, who will present a special audio/visual live performance for the first time. Another special guest is electro mastermind RADIOACTIVE MAN who will play one of his very rare live sets. He also brought his buddy ELECTRO ELVIS to open up the floor with one of his massive dj sets.
On the outside floor outstanding artists such as KARSTEN PFLUM, BJØRN SVIN, ADAM WEISHAUPT, ZIGGy, ROBERT CHUDOBA and PLASTER will present their spectacular live shows and dj sets of IDM, dubstep, electronica and ambient. Video talent LASAL will give lights to this feast of intelligent dance music.

SUNDAY morning the indoor floor will be closed and the outside area will be home to a beautiful outdoor rave featuring live performances by techno überhelden DER DRITTE RAUM, IDM monster KETTEL and a rare live performance of the house trio NARCOTIC SYNTAX. DJ JAMES DEAN BROWN will make everybody freak out with his special blend of house and techno.
There will be japanese barbecue and other food available on the outside area and nobody will be left behind on this trip down to the fascinating depths of where the KRAKE lives.

Accompanying the music there will be the work of diverse visual and performing artists.
All daytime there will be a japanese barbecue and other food available.