This month at Unkompress.
Wednesdays are community nights for deep dives: always a shared record selection experience.
Highlight: 06.05 — BYOV No genre, no barriers.
Bring anything. It always lands somewhere interesting.
Thursdays & Fridays stay loose.
Albums always spinning, drinks flowing, space to settle in.
Saturdays stretch from day to night.
Selectors & residents behind the decks.
Highlight: 16.05 — @avec_plaisir_records Plaisir (Resident)
Live recording for YouTube.
Watch their latest episode (link in bio).
Sundays slow it all down.
Full album listening.
No phones, no talking — just us and the record.
Good music. Unexpected connections.
📍Kreuzberg | Weds–Sun
Rare Asian records, found across a 6-week journey.
Avec Plaisir open their Unkompress residency with a Saturday session shaped by record shops, street markets, and roadside discoveries across Asia: from Japanese City Pop and Cantopop to Korean Funk, Mandarin Disco, Thai Reggae, and more.
A slow, organic selection built for our space and yours.
Daylight fading into evening.
Music first.
Now live on YouTube.
Link in bio.
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SAKANA WAVE 🌊
06.06.Saturday at @unkompress 16:00〜
Music, wine, and fish to kick off summer
Let’s get together on Saturday, June 6, to enjoy the ocean breeze and celebrate the start of summer
poster Design
@coeurd__
Thursday, May 21st from 20:00
We welcome Vicki Huang to Unkompress.
A Taiwanese-American musician, DJ, and vinyl storyteller exploring diasporic memory through archival Taiwanese folk music, downtempo, and electronic grooves. Founder of 鹽埕區長 Salt District Mayor — a living archive devoted to forgotten voices and field recordings from Taiwan.
An intimate evening of listening and unexpected connections.
BYOV shoutout
Our monthly Bring-Your-Own-Vinyl night brings together music lovers from all corners. First Wednesdays have no genre restrictions — bring whatever you want.
From Taiwanese psychedelic to Norwegian metal, Venezuelan cumbia to Japanese new wave… you brought the heat.
BYOV continues to be one of the most vibey nights of the month. Thanks for making it what it is.
Every other Wednesday, we deep dive into a particular genre, theme, era, or sound world… and you’re always welcome to bring a record if it fits the theme.
Upcoming Wednesdays:
13.05 — Dream House & Sunset Grooves
(fingers crossed for some sun)
20.05 — WRWTFWW & We Release Jazz selections
27.05 — NYC Downtown & Art Funk
What would you bring?
Wednesday May 20. Bring your own WRWTFWW Records @wrwtfww at Berlin’s coolest listening bar, Unkompress @unkompress , hosted by Teshi’s Fine Hour.
This is your chance to play/listen to your favourite releases from a renowned Swiss label. Worry not if you have no discs! Berlin’s nerdiest music nerd Teshi will play masterpieces including Hako Yamasaki, Interior, Ryo Fukui, Joe Hisaishi and many more.
Stop by for a drink, stay for good vibes.
Date: May 20
Time: 18:00 until closing
Free entrance.
About WRWTFWW:
WRWTFWW (We Release Whatever the fxxk We Want Records), is a genre-defying Swiss label specializing in reissues and beyond. It’s co-run by friends and founders Olivier Ducret, also the person behind Geneva’s Mental Groove Records, as well as producer and DJ Stéphane Armleder. The idea behind WRWTFWW is less about hoarding rarities,but rather selecting “albums from the past that we love and that are rarely accessible, and making them available to everyone again.
HupHub x Unkompress : 𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕡𝕤 — Spring Edition 🪡🎶
We’re back at @Unkompress on Sunday, 𝟭𝟳 𝗠𝗮𝘆 for another edition of 𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕡𝕤.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚: a shared space where the ears stay active while the hands stay busy. Bring whatever quiet handwork you’re currently into: knitting, crochet, drawing, or any repetitive, screen-free craft.
This session is a collaboration between Unkompress & HupHub, combining mindful making with an immersive analog listening experience. We’ll be listening to a vinyl selection curated by @Unkompress , exploring how sound can shape attention and rhythm.
For 2 hours, we step away from conversation and settle into a quieter kind of presence: tuning into sound, repetition, and the pace of making. 🐚
🤫 This is a quiet session. We invite everyone to help hold a calm, focused atmosphere throughout.
🗓 Sunday, 17 May 2026
🕑 2:00–4:00 pm
📍 @unkompress — Fichtestraße 23, 10967 Berlin
🍷 Please order at least 1 drink to support the bar
🪑 Limited seating — RSVP via the sliding-scale donation link (also in bio) :
/261235724671356
Walk-ins welcome if space allows.
Bring your handwork, or just come to listen. 🪡🎶
#listeningevent #knittingevent #fiberart_community #silentevents #whattodoinberlin #berlinlisteningsessions
Very grateful to be featured across multiple German publications this month.
From Der Spiegel to Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung and others - all covering the rise of listening bars and intentional music spaces.
Nice to see Unkompress included in that conversation.
Come listen.
A night at Unkompress where records, conversations, and deep musical roots meet.
Din Daa Daa opens her Unkompress residency with a set titled “Scottish Roots, German Influences.”
The session traces a personal and musical journey between where she’s from and where she is now — connecting her upbringing in Scotland with her life in Berlin through electronic and experimental sound.
Growing up surrounded by a family record collection that included artists like Can and other German pioneers, these sounds became part of her musical DNA long before she realised it.
The evening was also dedicated to Keith McIver (JD Twitch of @optimoespacio ), whose influence runs deeply through the selection. Several records played that night were first discovered through his DJ sets and releases connected to his labels.
“A Scottish project featuring Nina Hagen on vocals felt like the perfect example of Scottish roots meeting German influence.”
The full Deep Listening Session is now live on YouTube.
Link in bio.
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Any records or moments that stood out to you?
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A new start for NRFS: open encounters.
Each edition invites different artists to present their work and answer questions — hosted at Unkompress listening bar.
“I want to write music that reflects life.”
— Julius Windisch
Live at Morphine Raum drifts between rhythm and fragility, translating the pulse of early ’90s techno into the uncertainties of today.
For Julius Windisch and his quartet, immerweiter, music becomes a place of solace and longing — a mantra reminding us that despite everything, we move forward.
Recorded live in Berlin, the album echoes with energy, emotion, and hope.
LP PRESENTATION & ARTIST TALK
April 20, 2026
Doors: 18:30
Start: 20:00
Entrance: €5
Unkompress
Fichtestraße 23
10967 Berlin-Kreuzberg
Limited seating. Early arrival recommended.
Another stellar BYOV for the books…
From death metal to Japanese jazz and house, Taiwanese music to African boogie and obscure ’80s electronic music - our guests brought anything and everything… and it was a TON of fun.
This continues to be one of the highlights of the month. The quality and variety of music you guys bring surprises me every time.
Each Wednesday we deep dive into a particular genre, theme, or period, and you’re always welcome to bring a record. But the first Wednesday of the month is always BYOV, where there are no boundaries to what you can bring.
Here’s a round-up of what the community brought this time. Thanks to everyone who brought records - you know who you are.
Do you recognize any of these records?
Tell us in the comments which one you spotted 👀
And if you were there - what record did you bring?
APRIL AT UNKOMPRESS
Deep listening, vinyl hosts, and Sunday albums in full.
Wednesdays — Deep Dives & Community Nights Genre-focused listening sessions. Bring a record if it fits the theme.
Saturdays — Selectors & Musical Hosts Vinyl-led evenings with @sonarlovesvinyl , @denizoarslan , and @cosmic_pulses_dj this month.
* a special Record Store Day BYOV night — support our beloved Berlin record shops and then bring over the records you picked up that day for a listen on our sound system (@recordstoredaygsa )!
Sundays — Quiet Listening (20:00) Albums played start to finish. Boards of Canada · The Beatles · Sven Wunder
* @teshisfinehour returns with a talk on the history of ambient music with Florian Sievers.
You can also just drop by anytime for album listening, natural wine, plenty of 0% beverages, and slow Kreuzberg evenings.
Swipe for the full April schedule → Open Wed–Sun · Find us in Kreuzberg & on YouTube
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