SELECTED PRESS QUOTES
 
"A truly stunning festival."
(Electronic Beats Magazine, 2012)
 
"With a fine pedigree in nailing the zeitgeist (...) CTM.12 steps up with a walloping line-up across a cluster of unmissable nights."
(Louise Bradley / TimeOut Berlin, 2012)
 
"It is exactly this deep-thinking subversive approach, along with consistently progressive programming and curation, that has kept CTM festival on the map as one of the most highly regarded and essential landmarks on Berlin's musical calendar."
(Dont Panic, 2012)
 
"An awesome festival to celebrate new culture and music."
(Bisuafsmesser, 2012)
 
"Club transmediale is Berlin’s best Pop Festival, a concert programme of international renown, and a pretty unique venue for creative exchange between Pop and New Music, media arts and club culture."
(Jens Balzer / Berliner Zeitung, 2011)
 
"So once again, (CTM) is opening up a new frontier in music and moreover, given its cooperation with the transmediale festival, and numerous symposia and exhibitions, it keeps an eye on the intellectual überbau too."
(De:Bug, 2011)
 
"Club transmediale is probably one of the very few festivals to really deliver what it promises."
(Electronic Beats, 2011)
 
"The six-day event is virtually a window on the future of music."
(rbb Radio Fritz, 2011)

"For, at club transmediale, we get to see Berlin from its best side: cosmopolitan, open to experiments, self-assured, prepared to take risks – and, above all, damned interdisciplinary."
(Jens Rübsamen / Intro, 2011)
 
"The German capital is renowned for ist alternative club scene, so if you want a taste of the unusual, CTM's annual festival is just the ticket."
(Easy Jet Magazin, 2010)
 
"exciting and independent"
(Laut.de 2010)
 
"CTM Festival sets the tone in the fields of experimental and electronic music"
(Intro 2010)
 
"You’ll hear a great deal of music you’ve never heard before. Don’t be scared. The able-bodied folks who curate CTM Festival consistently do a remarkable job of finding top-shelf artists to help expand your musical vocabulary."
(Boston.com, 2010)
 
"At CTM Festival, avant-garde and mainstream, conceptual subtle sonic experimentation and club culture have long ceased to be mutally exclusive"
(Jens Balzer, Berliner Zeitung, 2010)
 
"Laboratory of the future"
(Thomas Winkler, Goethe Online, 2009)
 
"Summit of the Pop avantgarde"
(Thomas Lindemann, Die Welt, 2009)
 
"Berlin's best Pop festival: CTM celebrates its 10th anniversary."
(Jens Balzer, Berliner Zeitung, 2009)
 
"CTM Festival enjoys exceptional ranking among international festivals not only thanks to its excellent bookings but also because it reflects on the circumstances under which an exciting music and club scene emerges."
(Felix Denk, De:Bug, 2009)
 
"An international line-up that is nothing less than impressive."
(Berlin Poche, 2009)
 
"Unparalleled curiosity and unfailing taste make this Berlin's best music festival."
(Radio eins, 2009)
 
"Within days, the (CTM Festival) makers deliver a superlatively excellent programme... The first 'must see' event in 2009. So much electronic culture in such compact format is all too rare."
(De-Bug, 2009)
 
"Now in its tenth year, the festival is still mapping out the future sound of Pop."
(Andrea Puschmann, Berlin 030, 2009)
 
"For ten days, the Berlin festival gathers together everyone with anything worth saying, musically or intellectually, about modern Pop... Here's the place to find out whether and how the Pop avant-garde is changing."
(Thomas Lindemann, Die Welt, 2009)
 
"Berlin's best Pop festival"
(Jens Balzer, Berliner Zeitung, 2008)
 
"Probably the most innovative and most exciting festival of electronic music."
(Berliner Morgenpost, 2008)
 
"Traditionally the best festival in town."
(Kirsten Riesselmann, Die Tagezeitung, 2008)
 
"In the course of its nine-year career, CTM Festival has come to be one of the most important international festivals for all types of adventurous music "

(Spex, 2008)
 
"Arguably Germany's hippest and most exciting festival of media and music, a sure-fire bet for innovation and unusual categories of sound art."
(Berliner Morgenpost, 2008)
 
"Now in its ninth year, CTM Festival is Berlin's premier festival dedicated to electronic and experimental music."
(Resident Advisor, 2008)
 
"Those who prefer their music à la carte are advised to explore Berlin’s Club Transmediale."
(The Guardian, 2008)
 
"Berlin's club transmediale is one of our favourite events of the year."
(Earplug, 2007)

 
"Thanks to its earnest ambition, which encompasses the presentation of art, documentary films and progressive visuals, club transmediale has established itself firmly in recent years on the electronic music scene. The curators' resolve to leave no genre or national border uncrossed in their search for new musical territories, confers on it a special status on the German festival landscape."
(Norbert Krampf, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2007)
 
"club transmediale is the most exhilarating musical line-up in town: so diverse and yet conceptually so consistent, so bold in its selection of artists yet so broadly and wildly popular that no other festival in Berlin can hold a candle to it."
(Markus Wächter, Berliner Zeitung, 2006)