The film Desire Will Set You Free paints a picture of contemporary underground Berlin. It’s based on a true story: Ezra, an American writer of Palestinian and Israeli parentage living in Berlin, spends his days clubbing, taking drugs, having pseudo-philosophical conversations and wanting to be more punk, whilst wishing he wrote more. Most of his time is spent with his privileged dark, but witty friend Catharine, who has an unsettling fetish for Nazi paraphernalia. As the two of them look for their next excitement fix, they end up in one of Berlin’s famous gay hustler bars. Almost on a dare Ezra meets Sasha, a Russian immigrant working as an escort. Ezra pulls Sasha on a journey through Berlin’s underground and queer scenes…

Of course there is a soundtrack wich was inspired by trash music films from the 70s and 80s. There Blood Orange plays a Malaria! song, Peaches did a cover of Claire Waldoff the great lesbian cabaret singer from the 1920s, and also you can find songs by Molly Nilsson, Rollin Hunt, Anni Rossi, Nina Hagen, The Prostitutes, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

and more. Furthermore Einstuerzende Neubauten and Blixa Bargeld appear in the movie too.

The soundtrack album will be released soon by Moniker Records (US)

Bandcamp     iTunes

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American director Yoni Leyser‘s previous film, a documentary about W.S.Burroughs, also with many musicians like Sonic Youth, Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson, Jello Biafra or Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

After Kraftwerk’s Autobahn here is the „Interstate” by The Pen Test

LP on Moniker Records (US)

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Heavy trip-hop-like music by Canadian band, Dralms

debut 7″ on Fulltime Hobby (UK) and Fat Possum Records (US) and digital single

ONO – Avant/Gospel/Punk/Industrial since 1980 in Chicago. But this is just the 4th excellent album. It’s mixed by Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, George Clinton, Miles Davies and Chuck D.

‘Diegesis’ on Moniker Records

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Living Alone in a Peep Show with Ghetto Ghouls in Texas

self-titled album with perfect low-fidelity garage punk sound by Monofonus Press

Lazy from Kansas City. Punk. No more but no less, and there are some really good songs:

from Obsession LP by Moniker

ps: Surprising, during the listening to one of their songs, the Iron Maiden comes to my mind. Riddle.

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Yves/Son/Ace is the lo-fi synth project of  punk rock drummer Matthew Ford (Intelligence, Factums, Love Tan, Evening Meetings):

from Dead Life LP by Clandestine

In the beginning „I had a little tiny room with like a bed and a karaoke stereo next to it, and a little like keyboard I had since I was ten or something, and I started just trying to record with it.” (…) He spent several years recording his debut album, The Phoney. It makes a big senstaion in North-America. Experimental pop by Rollin Hunt

His backing band is the current incarnation of the Brian Jonestown Massacre minus Anton Newcombe. You can find 2 free songs here.

Easy little psych glam garage rock on the second Burnt Ones album

 by Burger Records