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(Credits: Far Out \/ lara Johanna Michel)<\/p>\n
Thu 16 April 2026 9:23, UK <\/p>\n
In the rich and storied heritage of Berlin<\/a>\u2019s post-punk and electronic constellations, it takes serious gumption and some punching above one\u2019s weight to enter the old Prussian city\u2019s alternative underground and manage to stick out from the leather-clad crowd.<\/p>\n In a surge that rivals any of its Neue Deutsche Welle explosion over 40 years earlier, the cohort of electronic punks operating in 2020s Berlin\u2019s vibrant subterranean found an unlikely force in G\u00fcner K\u00fcnier. It was a surprise even to herself. Despite playing guitar in bands as early as 13, a U-turn to a master\u2019s level path in economics and engineering, followed by related work, was suddenly upended by the arts\u2019 beckoning to Germany\u2019s famous capital.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t plan it,\u201d K\u00fcnier recalls to Far Out on her distinct path to alternative music. \u201cI was not like, \u2018OK, I\u2019m going to do post punk or synth wave or anything. \u201cI just did what I do and what I like, and this is what came out.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018What came out\u2019 is a beguiling brew of synthpunk<\/a> skulk and cavernous club thump, all draped in a colourful wry smirk. 2022\u2019s debut A\u015fk dwelled in chillier pools of lo-fi minimalism, but K\u00fcnier\u2019s taste for brawny drum machines and meaty basslines found a more fitting foil for last year\u2019s follow-up Yaramaz, expanding her unmistakable crackle of impish rebelliousness for an album that swung its electro fists with gleeful clout. Turkish for \u201clittle know-it-all\u201d, K\u00fcnier\u2019s birth in Izmir sowed fruitful creative seeds for later artistic paths she\u2019d follow.<\/p>\n \u201cI stayed there until I was three years old, and then my parents came to Germany, but I was still in Turkish communities,\u201d K\u00fcnier reflects on her heritage. \u201cIt took a while until I got out of this. So I got the whole time this influence.\u201d <\/p>\n Early exposure to old Turkish rock and pop records would then point the way to punk, completely at odds with her community. \u201cI didn\u2019t feel I belonged. So I pushed it away for a long time for my identity and for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Such an intuition for what\u2019s beyond the horizon would eventually compel K\u00fcnier on the long road to Berlin\u2019s electronic fringes. Having abandoned her engineering ambitions, an immersion in the punk scene and playing in bands triggered the confidence to begin working with synths and programming. Given further support from fellow Berlin synthpunker Cosey Mueller from Das Das and Glaas along the way, her two albums have sharpened their electronic garage attack to a new single, \u2018Kes\u2019, brimming with a gleaming pugnaciousness.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, it\u2019s like this empowering thing that is going on,\u201d K\u00fcnier reflects on \u2018Kes\u2019 and the upcoming album\u2019s creative direction. <\/p>\n \u201cLike my everyday fight that I have to fight, that I live this life the way I do. Not like family or personal, but more in a society or community way.\u201d<\/p>\n G\u00fcner K\u00fcnier<\/p>\n An eye on the outside tumult affecting us all zaps and fires off of \u2018Kes\u2019 punch-drunk fever. Buoyed with a Crash Bandicoot donk beat, twangy guitar licks, and industrial blasts of hissing seethe<\/a>, K\u00fcnier takes aim at the choking neoliberal world with the aid of director Magnus Krueger\u2019s hectic green screen video, featuring both K\u00fcnier and Mueller avoiding lightning strikes and explosions, working up a sweat in the hyper-productive grindset hellscape that\u2019s contemporary Berlin as much as the Western world.<\/p>\n The road may have been long and unexpected, but from \u2018Kes\u2019 electrical fire in its belly, it sounds like K\u00fcnier\u2019s just getting started. \u201cI\u2019m committing myself so much to these decisions I made, how to live my life and also to art and music, and I don\u2019t feel insecure about it anymore,\u201d she asserts on the album\u2019s next chapter. <\/p>\n \u201cI feel a strength in it\u2026I feel more confident in the way I do music now because I know what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Introducing](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Introducing-Guner-Kunier-Berlins-synthpunk-pugilist-doing-things-her-way-Far-Out-Magazine-01-819x102.jpeg\")
<\/a>(Credits: Far Out \/ lara Johanna Michel)<\/p>\n
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