Located in Berlin Friedrichshain with Berghain/ Panoramabar basically around the corner Cinthie, Meat and their team run the well-sorted and extremely well-curated record store Elevate.
Elevate’s Top10 | April 2025
ART:CAST #128 & INTERVIEW Johannes Albert
Having come a long way Johannes Albert found his music platform Frank Music a little bit more than ten years ago.
TOP100 of 2021
The year 2021 held a lot of surprises in store, not always positive ones, for everyone and a lot of those had an impact on the electronic music scene and the people, the artists involved.
DJ CHARTS Iron Curtis [Frank Music/ RAWAX]
For more than a decade Berlin-based Johannes Paluka, rather known under his artist moniker Iron Curtis, has been producing and releasing music with a deeper note.
EXCLUSIVE fourthlake ‘Weit (Iron Curtis & Johannes Albert L’Esperanza Remix)’ [Facetten]
Kiel producers Christoph and Christoph better known under their fourthlake moniker make their Facetten debut with their track Weit.
TOP50 of 2020
As 2020 comes to an end the Torture the Artist team sat down together to compile the end of the year chart that represents, of course, a personal preferences and what the site and its members musically stand for.
ART:CAST #88 by Panthera Krause
After his live performance for the Riotvan label at Annalinde last week Leipzig's in-demand artist Panthera Krause continues the musical hotness with his contribution to the art:cast series.
ART:CAST #87 & INTERVIEW Iron Curtis & Johannes Albert
Each of them could easily stand on their own – musically. But Iron Curtis and Johannes Albert decided to go back to the studio together and produce their second LP Moon II.
STAKES IS HIGH – a playlist by Torture the Artist for May 2020
Stakes is High is Torture the Artist’s monthly Spotify playlist with music appreciated, favored or causing some buzz in and around world wide dance floors – but basically at home at the moment.
DJ CHARTS Johannes Albert [Frank Music]
Frank Music curator Johannes Albert has created a music platform that goes beyond his own productions as it also features artists from his musical orbit.
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