Geneva / Berlin
DJ, Record Collector & Music Curator w/ wide tastes across the sound spectrum 🌏 Running @ecoutesauvert Events + guest mix series: www.soundcloud.com/ecoutesauvert/sets/music-for-indoors
Bookings & Promos: cobeia@gmx.net
BERLIN
✨ 21 - 04 Sameheads w/ Vani Vachi
✨ 27 - 04 EAV @ Loophole
✨ 25 - 05 EAV @ Loophole
Cobeia has always been a sound enthusiast. Keen to explore an array of styles, he digs up gems that hold a sincere musical quality to him.
Music w/ instruments, synths, drum machines & a warm analog sound in a computer world. :)
Cosmic * Italo * Wave * Acid * Disco * Edits
w/ a pinch of Afro & Oriental spices.
On other occasions, Cobeia plays from his large collection spawning across a variety of genres:
Jazz * funk * boogie * African * reggae/dub * bass * rock * post-punk * ambient * experimental...
✨ DJing ✨
IN BERLIN played at Schrippe Hawaïi, Homopatik, about blank, Sameheads, Rummelsbucht, Jonny Knüppel, Zw/Heiners, OTB, Griessmühle, Loophole, ACUD, Mensch Meier, Trickster, Antje Oeklesund, 8mm, Paloma, Freudenreich, Bar 25 & more... In 2019 djed in Koh Pahngan Thailand & The Observatory in Vietnam.
Cobeia's part of Wet Delights cosmic crew doing 12 hours underground Parties w/ Rune Lindbæk, Albion, Hysteric, Chris Korda, soFA...
IN SWITZERLAND, he played legendary Geneva underground spaces (Duplex, Walden, Cave12, Pachinko, Falaises…); Festivals (Fête de la Musique, Electron...), Clubs (Motel Campo, Zoo, 360° LGBTQ+ party) and around the country: Zukunft, Le Bourg, Dachstock, Fri-Son, QKC, Case à Choc ...
✨ SHORT BIO ✨
Since his teens, Cobeia's been an avid listener collecting music mostly on Vinyl as well as CDs, Digital, MDs & Tapes. Growing up in a multicultural family & environment in Geneva, he lived in London from 96 to 99 before regular stays in Berlin in the 00's. Since 2001 he's been a DJ, a cultural actor and promoter. Among other journeys, he traveled extensively throughout Eastern Europe, North & East Africa and Southeast Asia, further expanding his music appreciation.
✨ PROMOTING CONCERTS & PARTIES ✨
Since 2001 Cobeia has organized many electro-acoustic, folk-rock, experimental, electronic music events... before focusing on his main project:
✨ ECOUTES AU VERT (Est. 2006) ✨ www.facebook.com/ecoutesauvert
EAV started as an outdoor summer series with great music in parks & by lakes/riversides + indoor parties. Nowadays events with concerts & DJs take also place throughout the year.
2009 - 2015, EAV put up parties at Motel Campo club with top-tier international & local guests.
Events also took place in Berlin since 2015 at Urban Spree, Klunkerkranich, Sameheads, Internet Explorer, gART.n, Zenner, Loophole, Heiners...
Among many, Cobeia booked these great artists:
LIVE ACTS: Shackleton, Legowelt, Black Meteoric Star, Emperor Machine, OVAL, Mapstation, Lucky Dragons, Tevo Howard, Jan Jelinek & Masayoshi Fujita, Lichens/Robert Lowe, The Pyramids, Fendika, Orchestra of Spheres, Julia Holter, Lucrecia Dalt, BKO Quintet, Les Filles d'illighadad, Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek, Mdou Moctar, Hailu Mergia, Imperial Tiger Orchestra, Nahawa Doumbia, ROB, Cyril Cyril, Hyperculte, ...
DJs: I-F, Prins Thomas, Helena Hauff, Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area), Analog Africa, ATA, Solar, Beautiful Swimmers, Awesome Tapes from Africa...
✨ PAST ✨
2001 - 06: Cobeia ran with a collective the wonderful alternative art space "DUPLEX" in Geneva, where he booked electronic & folk rock live acts: SO (Oval), Hermann Düne, Juile Doiron, Goodiepal, Planningtorock... & djs of various genres.
During the 2010s, he also did the "JUKEBOX" parties and concerts in many venues like Motel Campo. Among others he booked: Andrew Weatherall, Mr. Ties (Homopatik), Boris (Berghain), Tevo Howard, Kode9, Dj/Rupture, The Bug, Shadetek, Volcano the Bear, Colleen, Co La, Glass Candy, Desire, Chromatics...
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