Thinking about the sacrifice in the name of music, it’s ever so hard to imagine a publisher, not being a musician at the same time, as a person willing to give it all away. Grzegorz Tyszkiewicz is heading Bocian Records, one of the strongholds of experimental sonorism these days… …actually, it’s Grzegorz who’s the stronghold itself.
Published July, 2013
Another mysterious project appeared on the roster of Budapest’s prolific synth label Farbwechsel. The latest addition to the imprint is called A i w A, a producer with hidden identity yet strong artistic concept.
Published July, 2013
LOMcast by Easterndaze on Mixcloud LOM is a Slovak experimental label, focusing on the avantgarde, electroacoustic, and adventurous. It started in 2011, when Jonas Gruska, LOM’s heart and soul, was studying at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands.
Published July, 2013
The period between 1967 and 1993 in the former Czechoslovakia was marked by ominous atmosphere that pervaded the society following the Prague Spring of 1968, manifested through the so-called Normalization. One of the tools of the regime was censorship of the media, thus, lot of creators either had to completely cease working in their chosen artistic field, or channel their creativity through allegories.
Published July, 2013
Střed Světa’s idiosyncratic opulent sound world has received a release on our affiliated Baba Vanga records earlier this year. The remixes by the likes of Basic House or S Olbricht followed in June.
Published June, 2013
Andrej Danóczi is a lone runner of the alternative scene in Trenčín, Slovakia. The spectrum of his activity is wide, he makes commercial music but also challenging experimental collages, often in lo-fi, amorphous areas.
Published June, 2013
Martin Mikolai, S Olbricht, is one of the staples of the burgeoning new Budapest electronic scene, which manages to thrive inspite or thanks to the alarming political and societal situation in this country, as the label head of the Farbwechsel imprint, that has been championing and releasing several noteworthy musicians since its inception a couple of years ago. Martin studies electronic music and media at the academy in southern Hungary in Pécs.
Published June, 2013
Our latest podcast is the weirdest stuff we are publishing, a totally manic melange of voices, recordings, samples, gabba, slam poetry, Slovak songs, electronics, and whatnot. In a way, reminescent of The Residents’ sonic mischief, Samčo delivers 34-minutes worth of material dug out from his own aural archive as well as his own label Varovec Produkšns.
Published June, 2013
Our friend Střed Světa released an eponymous debut album earlier this year on our little baby, the Baba Vanga label. The idiosyncratic producer, who prefers to work in his Bohemian seclusion, has recontextualized years of sonic activities into a remarkable journey that bubbles, floats, crackles and hypnotizes.
Published June, 2013
14-year old Hungarian producer Alley Catss, whose music and overall attitude towards the world seem to be centered around nothing, released his latest batch of sonic weirdness earlier this month. Withdwr is a collection of 8 beautifully crafted experimental lullabies that will soothe your ears and brain with their raw, unpolished softness.
Published May, 2013