EM GUIDE FEST: Music, resistance and the power of listening

Published May, 2025
by Easterndaze

EM GUIDE is a network of independent music magazines that focus on stories often found on the margins: in DIY venues, local experimental music scenes, community radio stations, listening rooms, art university studios and grassroots communities whose voices are all too frequently drowned out by the mainstream narratives.

EM GUIDE includes six magazines based in five European countries: MMN Mag (HU), 3/4 magazine (SK), Easterndaze (CZ), Kaput (DE), NOIES (DE) and Struma+Iodine (AT). With the support of the EU’s Creative Europe programme, we have been working together since the beginning of 2024, creating and exchanging articles, translating stories to our local languages and sharing skills and knowledge through workshops.

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PROGRAMME

EM GUIDE is celebrating its first print edition with an event in Vienna and a packed line-up
feat. Full info here.

POLY CHAIN (UA) live
Poly Chain is the artistic project of Sasha Zakrevska, a Ukrainian composer, DJ, curator, and graphic designer born in Kyiv. Zakrevska’s musical journey began early with piano lessons, and her fascination with synthesizers developed during her teenage years, leading to a deep exploration of electronic music. Her debut showcased a unique blend of ambient and electronic sounds and is heavily influenced by her experiences in both the Polish and Ukrainian electronic music scenes, as well as composing music for museum performances and choreographic pieces.

MARTYYNA (CZ) dj-set
Marina Svobodova aka Martyyna is a Prague born & based producer and DJ, also a co-founder of a legendary KSK club night in Prague. Martyyna’s DJ sets are hardly predictable and known for colourfully layered selections. Although her musical approach leans toward the realms of club experimental music and related genres, she doesn’t believe in defining any specific borders. The aim is to deliver emotional experiences through her sets. Her debut album “Written In The Scars” was released in 2024 on Mexican label Infinite Machine.

KIN TEAL (HU) premiere ‘circadian’ [EXILES] live
Kin Teal is a Budapest based producer and DJ, creating tactile bass music that’s influenced by nature. Kin Teal as a project is meant to play with contradictions – between natural and human-made, slow and fast, mellow and arasive. His music weaves in abstract melodies and experimental zones into club music, while keeping both bodies and brains active. The main aim of his project is to express the contrast and connection between nature and humanity through juxtaposing natural textures with machine-made ones, and this sensibility is ever so evident on ‘circadian’ (EXILES), his latest offering. The five-track EP is tightly packed with unformalized and unpredictable bass music – as per Kin Teal’s ars poetica, heavily digital sounds are carefully intertwined with natural elements.

ECE OZEL (TR) dj-set
When you come from a place where everything collides in the worst and the best way, confusion comes with a price – it’s either a bigger confusion or a huge relief. Istanbul based DJ Ece Özel’s approach towards selection, pullulates from this exact notion. Expect to be carried away with transitions between styles, tempo, rhythm and mood when she’s behind the decks. Whether it’s a mixtape or a dancefloor, Ece Özel’s mystifying, unpredictable and always fresh sounds blossom into distinctive, dark but somehow shiny journeys.

DANIEL KORDIK (SK) live
Daniel Kordik’s music making spans across three domains: electronic music, free improvisations and field recordings. Over the years, he’s been involved in several projects, including the hardware noise duo Jamka and his solo and collaboration ventures, which span across free improvisation, electronic music and field recording.

PEDRO RAMIREZ (CO/DE) live
Pedro A. Ramírez born in Bogotá, Colombia is a sound artist exploring the boundaries of perception through both analog circuitry and computational synthesis. His work investigates non-conventional sonic territories where digital precision meets analog unpredictability. Combining techniques from electroacoustic traditions with the raw energy of his post-hardcore roots, Pedro creates immersive sound experiences that push listeners to the extremes of auditory sensation.

GISCHT (AT) live
Ursula Winterauer, also known as Gischt, is an experimental composer, electronic music producer, curator, and labelhead of Ventil Records, based in Vienna. Her eclectic sonic landscapes offer nuanced interpretations of industrial, techno, and ambient genres, shaped through the use of bass guitar, synthesizers, and swirling clouds of electro-smog. In her work she deals with raw and brutal sounds in digital overdetermination and contrasts these with the clear and human nature of her own voice used as an instrument.

S.VERIN B2B SOULGLO (AT) dj-setSoulglo alias Philipp Haffner has been an integral part of the Austrian electronic music scene since the ’90s. Together with Constantin Zeileissen, he has been releasing music under the pseudonyms: Microthol, Buffered Multiple and Ha-ze Factory on labels such as Trust, Pomelo, or Universal.

S.verin has been active as a DJ and party-host in Vienna’s underground scene for over a decade. Digging deep into the rich history of electro, S.verin is blending retrofuturist classics with contemporary left-field styles and ghetto vibes. His selection is characterized by syncopated grooves and deep basslines, minimalist vocals and brainravey synth-textures.

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