dné live from Easterndaze Night @ A4

foto: Ivana Vereski A live recording from dné’s gig at our first night on 18 November 2010. Check back for more live sets, which we’ve been diligently recording at our three shows.

Published November, 2010

NEXT Festival 2010

Bratislava’s “advanced music” festival NEXT is starting in a couple of days. The 11th edition of NEXT is going to present artists such as FM Einheit, The Thing, Tarek Atoui, Mira Calix and others.

Published November, 2010

The joy of Polyjoy

The Slovak ad hoc collective of seasoned musicians Polyjoy, about whom we wrote in our extensive article on Bratislava’s underground music scene, is (finally) outing their tracks.

Published November, 2010

Budapest’s Sleeping Machine

There’s two ways how to deal with pre-Xmas late November depression. We don’t mean to boost the pharmaceutical industry, so no tips for cute little pills here, just some musical medicaments.

Published November, 2010

[gallery] The party’s over, the gigs are finished but only till 27 November when we head to the east. Bratislava was fun, Casi Cada Minuto’s ethereal soundscapes, Glad to Get Away’s DNA-like guitar contortions, Dné’s gentle melodies and Vladimir Lenhart’s Alles Gute tapes that made us dance dance dance.

Published November, 2010

Easterndaze heads east (on 27 November 2010)

Published November, 2010

Poland’s Pussykrew

Few weeks ago we featured the psychedelic excursion into sonic netherworld by the new Polish outfit Fuka Lata. Its visual accompaniment has seen the light and is as haunting and uncanny as the sonics itself with its slow-mo plastic fantastic Blair Witch-like atmosphere.

Published November, 2010

Between sound and vision: Interview with Romanian artist and musician Hipdiebattery

Anca Stirbacu is a young Romanian visual artist whose music project was born out of the need to complement her visual works with audio. Though experimenting with currently fashionable genres like witch house, she is planning to further expand her music project, so we are curious to see her future artistic development.

Published November, 2010

Noize Konspiracy vol. 12

The Slovak underground-noise freaksistance Psychoindustrial have released another one of their compilation series Noize Konspiracy..

Published November, 2010

Stroon – Ruine Noire EP (Ruine Noire, 2010)

Bratislava’s sonic underground is a fertile place giving birth to exciting upcoming electronics projects. stroon is a multi-faceted musician, with many ties to projects ranging from collective improvisators (Frutti di Mare, Musica Falsa et Ficta) up to the beat-based future-funk collaboration Polyjoy/Femoxema.

Published October, 2010