Gavrilov Princip’s hometaping experiments
Our shadows will be roaming through Vienna,wandering through the courts, frightening the lords. (Princip’s prison cell inscription immortalized in a Belgrade graffiti) On 28.
Published July, 2014
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Author: Easterndaze
Bűkko Tapes: Eastern European electronic alternative for your tapedeck
Brno, the second city of Czech Republic, has seen a gradual upsurge in underground sonic activities, aided by its ample student populace - both at the art and technical universities - resulting in a very interesting mix where art and technology come to each other’s service. The crew behind the DIY Arduino-based instrument Standuino is based there, now busy with the increasingly successful Bastl Instruments, who, coincidentally, also lent its support to the latest Brno electronic export - the label Bukko Tapes.
Published June, 2014
The Good x The Evil, Fresh Now x Fresh Forever
A never-ending bipolar fight between the Good and the Evil, on a personal level, on a historical and society level, on all levels. There are days, which are dark, clouds hovering low, it’s hard to breathe.
Published June, 2014
An interview with sound artist Svetlana Maraš
Establishing experimental and improvised music in Belgrade is a challenge: there are just a few funding opportunities, a conservative music education and a missing infrastructure. But musicians as the sound artist and composer Svetlana Maraš are moving back to Belgrade after years abroad and build up a new scene – with enthusiasm, good ideas and international collaborations.
Published June, 2014
After floods comes Potop
The effect of music is various, to entertain, provide an escape from everyday mundanity, incite, excite, sedate, inspire or bore. Then there is music that evokes certain moods and vibes, that hovers somewhere between reality and dream, between conscious states and the subliminal.
Published June, 2014
The trippy world of Triple Sun
Just before I started to listen to Triple Sun’s latest album on the recently launched Forum Absurdum imprint, related to the Bratislava-based DIY club Fuga (one of the best industrial venues in the city), I’d heard the new Plastikman album. Triple Sun - Overture by Triple Sun For some reason, it seemed as if these two were distant relatives of the lysergic lineage.
Published June, 2014
Samčo, brat dážďoviek – magazín TÍNEJDŽ
Samčo, brat dážďoviek is a rare beast. As one of the very few ones in the electronic scene around here, he doesn’t shy away from the context.
Published June, 2014
Zombies, corporations and disturbing truths
“This is the story of apocalyptic times for Bog in ancestral lands of his country. Bog lives in Romania, Bucharest, a young girl half-naked and wild.
Published May, 2014
Paweł Kulczyński / Czarny Latawiec – Split
The split between two of Poland’s leading electronicians appears on a slightly lesser renowned, but nonetheless noteworthy imprint - compared the Sangoplasmo or Mik Musik - called simply BDTA after its owner Michal Biedota. Paweł Kulczyński, better known under his nom de plume Wilhelm Bras, has mastered his modular synth, tweaking and twisting them to get an undiluted analogue extract building and adding new sounds and layers, usually ending in a technoid rhythmachinism.
Published May, 2014
Check Czech – a new compilation of up-and-coming electronics from Prague and beyond
What is a sound of a country? House, techno, folk, trap, rap, hip hop or jazz? Of course, such simplistic generalisations are superfluous, though it is still interesting to hear what a certain group of musicians from a certain geographical context might produce, influenced - either consciously or subliminally - by the surroundings (or is this plain determinism)? Of course, we are not talking about Eurovision type of national/istic trite, but genuine music created at a certain time, in a certain place. The new compilation entitled simply and boldly as !CZECH2, presents the up-and-coming producers based in the Czech Republic (there is also a Mexican and an American artist both based in Prague included).
Published May, 2014