Sat 18.10., 21:00 Das Kinn ^【GER】

Das Kinn, the project of Frankfurt-based artist Toben Piel, plunges listeners into a raw and visceral exploration of our time’s ruins with his debut LP, Ruinenkampf. This album is a full-throttle musical tour de force, fearlessly navigating the wreckage of the modern world.

Ruinenkampf transports its audience to the crossroads between DAF, Kosmische Kuriere, and the gritty Frankfurt Bahnhofsviertel. It’s an electronic armada led by kickbox phonetics—Toben Piel’s distinctive, staccato vocal delivery. Prepare for deafening beats and the unsettling sound of colliding bones. Yet, amidst this sonic demolition, warm synth lines played by cold hands emerge, while a lone saxophone contemplates the aftermath. It’s a solemn hymn to decline and demolition, a visceral sonic meditation on decay that bravely unearths a brutal beauty.

Inspired in part by Piel’s contemplative visits to cemeteries, his work, deeply influenced by the Neue Deutsche Welle and Kurt Weill, blends street-walking grime with a dramatic edge. Das Kinn pushes experimental electronica, industrial, and noise rock to their limits, creating an immersive, high-octane sonic assault. This isn’t about peace and idyll; it’s a direct, unflinching confrontation with the contradictions of a hyper-capitalistic world.