As far as I’m concerned, most artists and fans of a given genre are fairly content with the name they have for the kind of music they are involved in. Punks are proud to be punks, pop-music lovers can hardly argue that their current pop-icons are making popular music,...
There is a new genre in town: punchier than your average Billboard Top whatever queen, and witchier than anything these days; it would be like a warehouse rave party if everyone cared to dance with each other while holding hands. Where did it come from, what does it sound like,...
Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical affect, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody. Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes are grounded in...
In today’s Romanian society, few topics have the power to polarize as much as Manele (the more commonly used plural for manea) music owned, produced, and played by the Roma societies spread for centuries throughout various geographic areas of the country.
"We provide examples of possible connections" – A conversation with the curator of the Porto Municipal Vinyl Archive
A talk with the representatives of Ankali & Planeta Za, underground gems of the Prague night life, inspired by a random visit to the venue.
The underground music scene in Budapest is alive with the rebellious energy of female artists challenging both the status quo and the lingering sexism of the industry.
Taking place in the rolling rural landscape of the Jizera Mountains of Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, Borderline Noise Festival is an experimental electronic music gathering happening at Atelier Wolimierz since 2017. The venue has been a fertile space for alternative life, art and culture through the past decade, and hosted...
An interview with Andrei Yemelianov, founder of Maqame Daxe, who not only shakes the dust off forgotten tapes and expands the possibilities for DJs and “retro groove” parties, but tells the stories of people and entire cultural phenomena who have had no voice for decades.
Vica Pacheco created a sonorous biosphere of instrument-machines inside of the Deutzer Brücke. Verena Hahn went inside and met the Brückenmusik artist for an interview.
Festivals, and especially clubs, are in a tricky situation in recent years, and 2024 is arguably the most challenging year after COVID and since the start of the war against Ukraine. Obvious reasons are inflation and less money in the pocket of festival goers/clubbers, less obvious ones include the...
On the state of Tbilisi's underground and club culture in a turbulent political ecosystem, as well as general threats to freedom and human rights in today's Georgia.
SSRI is a Łódź based experimental duo of Sandra Mikołajczyk and Igor Gadomski. At the brink of the emerging summer tropical heatwave, we spoke online about urban illness, the collaboration with Pointless Geometry, the preparation of the album, and Łódź’s thriving musical scene.
