USU pres.: Water Damage + Nadja + Grimm | Neue Zukunft - 07.09.25

Drone Ensemble Water Damage for the first time in Berlin!

Unlimited Sonic Use presents:

Water Damage - US | 12XU

https://waterdamage12xu.bandcamp.com/

Genre: Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation

FFO: Swans, Sun(O))), Boredoms, Shit and Shine

There is something really special about music based on drones. Whether it’s the vocals of Pandit Pran Nath, the ARP 2500 of Eliane Radigue, or the nearly-blown amps of Sunn O))), by changing the listeners’s focus on details to one that favors flow, drones are uniquely capable of transporting our brains far far away. The music of Water Damage, the loudly droning Austin collective is a goddamn splendid example of how the process works. Using the motto, “Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation,” Water Damage create glowing fields of drones that pretty much suck you right in and boil you alive. They prefer if each of their sonic ideas takes up a whole reel of tape, and once they start they don’t look back. Everything proceeds towards an imaginary end point that is only achieved when the tape starts flapping.

The members are all vets of various projects – Spray Paint, Black Eyes, USA/Mexico, more eaze, Thor & Friends, Marriage, Swans, SUR, Astral Spirits Records, among others. Their approach to the form is less front-loaded than most of their peers, and the surface of their sound is sometimes ruffled by aural events of an un-drone-like nature. But the main gush is usually a blend of harmonic tones and textures pointing towards a goal that is just out of ear-shot, just over the next bluff, and perhaps forever just beyond our reach.

Nadja - CAN/Berlin | Broken Spine Productions

http://nadja.bandcamp.com

FFO: Aidan Baker, Hypnodrone Ensemble, Tavare

Genre: Hypnotic Ambient Droning

Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff, formed in Toronto in 2005, but currently based in Berlin, Germany. The duo makes music which has been described as ambient doom, dreamsludge, or metalgaze. Over their nearly two decade long career, Nadja has established a unique and signature sound which combines the atmospheric textures of shoegaze and ambient or electronic music with the heaviness, density, and volume of metal, noise, and industrial.

Grimm - GER

https://grimmmusic.bandcamp.com/

Genre: Aerobic Doom

FFO: Gnod, Chrome Hoof, Ufomammut

Solo artist Grimm from Leipzig plays a unique mix of synthwave, garage and doom, a genre-bending blend of distorted synthesizers, epic vocals and relentless drumming, a fucked-up Terminator soundtrack, an intense bath in bass, noise and fog with deeply personal lyrics that convey sadness and anger.