Adam the World is a rapper and alternative R'n'B artist from Kremnica in Slovakia, currently living in Prague. His explosively diverse, syncretic work is characterized by elements of neosoul and alternative R'n'B.
Published April, 2025
This essay explores my encounter with the archive of Chile al día, a broadcast transmitted from Radio Berlin International in the GDR between 1973 and 1990, during the same period as Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile. I visited the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv in Babelsberg, where this archive resides, six times between 28 August and 18 October 2024. Those visits involved me with it on different levels, whereas my listening practice was affected as I opened myself up to an aesthetic of resonance.
Published February, 2025
Ever since it exploded into public consciousness, the punk subculture has been subject to a discourse that questions its legitimacy, its credibility, and sometimes even its existence. Beyond stylistic limits and posers, the subculture is simultaneously facing expectations of creating a utopia while being dismissed as noisy but powerless infantilism.
Published January, 2025
Esteban de la Torre is a musician and cross-disciplinary media and sound artist. Deriving from his background in visual arts, animation and sound design, his work spans from large scale art installations through multichannel spatial sound spaces and audio-visual performances, to soft circuitry for embedded electronics on experimental interfaces.
Published December, 2024
A round-up of what is likely the last relevant electronic music-wise relevant rural town in Hungary. We spoke to Balázs Kovács, Roland Nagy and Tamás Hámori about the Electronic Music Media Arts BA/BSc course, new music experiments, club music, venues and organiser forces.
Published December, 2024
It’s quite cold in Istanbul now, reports Ece Özel at the start of our Zoom call. It’s 12 degrees, but that’s just the beginning, the real winter is yet to come, including snow.
Published December, 2024
An overview of the Farbwechsel label, looking back at its story so far and mapping out what’s coming up next.Farbwechsel was founded in 2012, injecting a new burst of colour to the Hungarian electronic music scene with their signature blend of ominous downtempo, the crackle of sizzling cassette tapes, gritty ambient textures, and introspective house releases.
Published December, 2024
A talk with the representatives of Ankali & Planeta Za, underground gems of the Prague night life, inspired by a random visit to the venue by Bori for MMN Magazine.
Published November, 2024
Zosia Hołubowska’s music comes alive with multilayered mythical environments, emotive landscapes, fairytale-ish characters, and mystical concepts engraved in plots profound and unique in their conception and execution, well-rooted in time while defiantly spiraling towards the unknown.
Published November, 2024
Taking the example of a recently launched large-scale EU cooperation project of 10 festivals to understand how they’re paving the way of the future of electronic live music.
Published October, 2024