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Positive Transmitter & pojpoj present:Newmen (Record Release Show) with special guests @ Neue Zukunft, Berlin
15 November 2025
Doors: 19:00
Show: 20:00
Early Bird tickets: https://link.dice.fm/k3585bb8b56f
Frankfurt-based five-piece Newmen return to Berlin, bringing their hypnotic blend of floating synth-pop and grooving neo-kraut to Neue Zukunft. The occasion: their latest album Terminal Beach, a shimmering sonic loop inspired by a short story by science-fiction author J.G. Ballard.
On Terminal Beach, Newmen weave past and future into a musical Möbius strip, circling endlessly around the themes of dystopia and utopia. Early electronics, lush synth-pop textures, and motorik neo-kraut rhythms merge into a confident, stylish soundscape. The pulsating centerpiece, The Loop, opens like a long-lost Kraftwerk track with drifting synth melodies and vocoder vocals echoing algorithms and dreamlike nightmare chambers, before evolving into a melancholic man-machine mantra — “on (technical) repeat,” as one lyric puts it.
Lyrically and sonically, Newmen seem connected to both past and future at once, tackling topics from data overreach to the digital late-capitalist swirl of swiping, liking, and scrolling. Yet Terminal Beach is as much a commentary on our hyper-connected age as it is a soundtrack for drifting away — hypnotic, insightful, and irresistibly danceable.
Tracks like the kraut-bubbling Legato Linear wink at NEU!’s Hallogallo, beaming it onto the disco floor, while the clever and beautiful Echo System shifts perspectives from “I” to “you” in true Stereolab-inspired psychedelic pop fashion. The band delights in reconciling contrasts — Fleetwood Mac-meets-Can textures on Comfort Inn (nicknamed “Fleetwood Can”), or the groovy closing track Concrete Beach, which cheekily ends with the real-life hiss of their studio kettle.
Terminal Beach follows 2021’s Futur II, expanding Newmen’s retro-futurist vision into a final shore where paradise is absent and self-reflection takes center stage. It’s culture critique wrapped in glimmering, free-flowing sounds that make time feel irrelevant — and the future, hopeful again.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Neue Zukunft, Alt Stralau 68, Berlin Germany, Alt-Stralau 68, 10245 Berlin, Deutschland, Berlin, Germany
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