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Anti-music: the Czech and Slovak Bandzone scene

The internet made it possible for every user to distribute his or hers music in quite a democratic way, while the development of mobile phones, computers and all of those cross-overs made it possible for everyone to make his or hers own musical recording - even if it’s recorded with poor microphones on a cellphone by someone who doesn’t know shit about music. Take these two things together, and what you have is a sort of minor music revolution.

Published November, 2013

Oyaarss – the epic surfeit

The grandiosity of club music created on the axis of HD sonic gloss and compression-on-the-master become a criterion itself. It may seem rather awkward to mention it here, but there’s a great lesson to be learned from the opening sequence of Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers.

Published November, 2013

Nava Spatiala’s – noisenautics Vol​.​4

The Romanian project Nava Spatiala, whose Miron Ghiu has done a fantastic remix for fellow Romanians Somnoroase Pasarele whose album ABECD appeared our Baba Vanga label, are one of the proselytizers of dark techno and its industrial, offbeat guises championed by Downwards’ Samuel Kerridge or Blackest Ever Black. They hover between the eerie, paranoid territory of narcoleptic soundscapes, industrial and meandering atmospherics.

Published November, 2013

Daniel Kordík’s Syria

Field recordings have been used and abused in music and sonic art forever, but it’s the method of processing and juxtaposition, which causes the effect. Syria is by default a rewarding sonic source for any zealous field recorder, buzzing with sounds and boasting with an enviable musical history.

Published October, 2013

.soundscapes – Tides of Voltage

“soundscapes is a pair of waveform explorers who like to experiment with compositions, arrangements, sequences and non-sequences..

Published October, 2013

Robert Piotrowicz’ – Lincoln Sea

‘Lincoln Sea’ is an almost 40-minutes multilayered composition, divided in two parts to fit the vinyl format. It’s a second Robert Piotrowicz solo album this year, coming after enthusiastically received ‘When Snakeboy is Dying’.

Published October, 2013

Sultan Hagavik – Pasja: cała ta chujowa piosenka aktorska EP

Sultan Hagavik is a Polish duo which manipulates tapes and tape players, “no digital signal processing, all the way analog”. Their plunderphonics is deconstructive, mashing, mangling, disassembling the source material, in this case old Polish records and whatnot, but remaining sensitive to its source, caressing it after all the taunting.

Published October, 2013

Podcast – 12z’s live sessions

12z sessionz Podcast by Easterndaze on Mixcloud The 12z sessionz started as a weekly rehearsal in 2012 for practicing purposes on free electroacoustic improvisation in a Budapest flat. As the project developed, 12z members started to invite friends to join the weekly improvisations, to get inspirations from very different styles and record the jamming.

Published October, 2013

Imre Kiss – Midnight Wave /Farbwechsel, 2013/

Farbwechsel has become a staple and a nurturing umbrella for several up-and-coming Hungarian producers, acting as a catalyst for the diverse and noteworthy Budapest electronic scene of the last two years with Martin Mikolai at its helm, who produces music under his moniker S Olbricht. The Opal Tapes artist has also created a specific sound - hazy, dance-oriented and nostalgic, which have also been translated on the output of his own imprint.

Published October, 2013

Somnoroase Păsărele – ABECD – pataphysics technoulipo

Somnoroase Păsărele, named after a famous eponymous poem by a Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu, is a duo from is a duo from Romania, based between the coastal city of Constanta and the capital Bucharest. Gili Mocanu is an established painter and together with Elena Album, also a visual artist, they have started a musical endeavor, quirky and tactical, organic yet otherwordly, witty and utterly serious at the same time.

Published September, 2013

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