Cultivating tenderness through listening with Warm Winters Ltd.

Bratislava-based label Warm Winters Ltd. strives to weave a tender musical tapestry.

Published March, 2024

Výklenkové Rezonancie: The modern sound of Petržalka

“A BMW is waiting for me in front of the house, calm down…” “I don’t give a fuck about the world, or you…”  “I took half a crystal last night, and today a whole spiral” Existential drone courtesy of Výklenkové Reznancie is the perfect backdrop to the brutalist socialist realist legacy - one of the largest concrete block estates in Central Europe called Petržalka. Its mildly post-apocalyptic look typical for Eastern European socialist housing is somehow made more forlorn and dystopian in Bratislava.

Published July, 2015

Jonáš Gruska: From creating to listening, from PCB to walks

In the past, we’ve written about Gruska on Easterndaze in connection with his project Binmatu, his label LOM or the festival ZVŮK. This interview focuses exclusively on Gruska’s active work and thinking about field recordings.

Published April, 2015

The trippy world of Triple Sun

Just before I started to listen to Triple Sun’s latest album on the recently launched Forum Absurdum imprint, related to the Bratislava-based DIY club Fuga (one of the best industrial venues in the city), I’d heard the new Plastikman album. Triple Sun - Overture by Triple Sun For some reason, it seemed as if these two were distant relatives of the lysergic lineage.

Published June, 2014

Blank Stare into Bratislava’s new underground scene

A documentation of a scene that is fluid, happening, developing into various directions and styles. Blank Stare is a new audiovisual project that aims to document the fledgling Bratislava underground scene (you can read more about the city’s electronic scene in our features here, and here and here).

Published March, 2014

2013 in Slovak music by Samčo, brat dážďoviek

Samčo, brat dážďoviek is a Slovak musician and an enigma, with an affinity for subversion of national identities and all sorts of ideology recontextualisations. He is also an expert in obscure music, check out his article about the Czech and Slovak Bandzone scene here.

Published January, 2014

.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

VooDooMan – the sonic sorcerer from Bratislava

The Slovak sonic sorcerer VooDooMan, based in Bratislava, one of the firm personas of the local noise/audio scene, revels in hypnotic aural fissures, disorienting journeys through mangled synapses, created in his own custom-built software. His prolific output counts numerous tracks, from 3 second to 80 minutes long, an endless stream of aural conscioussness.

Published March, 2013

Stratasoul – Hip Hop from Heaven

Listening to the Slovak producer Stratasoul is like a hot air balloon ride – floating and sinking into a magic aural stratosphere, bumping into a chunk of beats here, catching on a string of clinks and clanks there…so easy and carefree. “I remember feeling fascinated when I first heared a sampled amen loop on an Atari ST computer,a gift from granddad.

Published January, 2013

Stroon, Mrkva/Bolka, Poo – Bratislava sonics’ new releases

Night-time Bratislava - Kamenné Námestie We’ve already given praise to Bratislava’s electronic scene in the past and the truth is, the good things are still going on. Be sure to check this triple combo of excellent releases from Slovakia’s capital Bratislava.

Published December, 2012

Casi Cada Minuto – In White Rooms /Exitab, 2012/

Slavo Herman has been part of the Bratislava scene for a while, most of the time involved in activities of the collective Noize Konspiracy, an ever changing group of individuals in love with extreme and alternative forms of music. But Slavo’s stuff has always been different, unravelling the more deep, abstract and softer side of the musical region which contrasted with the brutal and lo-fi noise experiments of projects like Gule Tvojho Fotra or Žebrota, and also keeping himself more distanced from the social activities of the core group.

Published October, 2012

Subspecies – Subspecies (selfreleased, 2012)

Bratislava-based visual artist Boris Vitázek aka Stix is a well known VJ working mostly with the post-dubstep producer Stroon. Stix is also the main force behind the techno nights Trashold in the now legendary venue Subclub.

Published July, 2012

2011 in Slovak music by Filip Drábek and BWO

Another of our yearly recaps this time with not one but two perspectives on the Slovak music scene. First Filip Drábek from the Exitab label, one of the most active imprints in Slovakia in terms of independent music at the moment and second one is a collective answer from the BWO collective, purveyors of urban dance music in the country.

Published January, 2012

Poo – Kappa-Opioid Gain (single, 2011)

Massive blocks of sound, eroded by entropy into weird fractal pictures of mankind’s downfall / empty cities ovegrown by nature / random flashes of violence slowly enter the sonic ecosystem inhabited by frequencies that flow down on tilted walls of noise. Ibogain kappagrams.

Published September, 2011

Biotrick = Biomat & 3ck

Slovak dj/turnablist duo Biomat (member of the Bratislava’s BWO collective) and 3ck (godfather of the first .sk turntablism compilation Audio Graffiti) have just released their “100% scratch” Biotrick EP.

Published July, 2011

Stroon / Stratasoul – Molotov Heart Coctail / Lowitzer (selfreleased, 2011)

Molotov Heart Cocktail / Lowitzer EP is a militant sonic manifesto by Bratislava’s upcoming synth-fi gang, whose main protagonists are Stratasoul (Dalibor Hriadeľ) and Stroon (Dalibor Kocian). Stratasoul, a long-time DJ and producer (check out his collab with Slovakia’s raper Bene) is also one of the promoters behind the Bratislava’s acclaimed MOOV club nights.

Published July, 2011

Listening Lectures w/ Avoided & Marin

Bratislava’s underground electronic scene prepares a special gig for Monday: listeninglectures: visual by marin Avoided: Hangover Pop by uchylord ₩│╬₵├┤₴╟╢│╒╥Ɇʁ - You Came To My Party Depressed As A Shadow by uchylord Nihil Buldozer: Igor mortis by uchylord More on this Monday dementia (in Slovak) @ Radost music club, Bratislava, 11th of July » Read More

Published July, 2011

Billy Barman ft. Tomas Hafner – ORBIT

Bratislava’s indie-rockers Billy Barman have teamed up with the local enfant-terrible Hafner in their new track. Freaky video.

Published May, 2011

Various Artists – Zvukolom (LOM, 2011)

The idea for the new label LOM dedicated to “unknown or forgotten experimental artists ..

Published March, 2011

Casi Cada Minuto live at Easterndaze Night @ A4 Bratislava

foto: Ivana Vereski Another live recording made during the Easterndaze Night in Bratislava on 18 November 2010.

Published December, 2010

Vladimir Lenhart and his Tape Music live from Easterndaze Night

foto: Ivana Vereski Another of our recordings from the Easterndaze nights.

Published December, 2010

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

[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

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

Easterndaze Night @ A4 in Bratislava soon!

First of the three nights presenting the most interesting musicians we came across during our travels will unleash soon in Bratislava! On Thursday, 18 November 2010, our handpicked guests will play you some nice songs, or massacre them:) The Slovak electronic scene will be represented by the drone-ambient project CASI CADA MINUTO, opening the show up with his cinematic melange of drony tape manipulation. Czech songwriter DNÉ follows in a similar sonic territory as Teen Daze’s Two Bicycles, performing a dreamy and intimate drone-folk set spiced-up with his definition of “chillwave”.

Published October, 2010

inside bratislava’s sonics

RBNX performing live on Listening Lectures in Radost. Bratislava is an epitome of the historical ruptures that shook the Central and Eastern European region over the course of the last century.

Published August, 2010

Slovakia´s first ever Gay Pride hampered by neonazis

On Saturday, after talking to the affable DJ and producer Baltazar from the local house and techno label Leporelo, we headed to the Gay Pride (dubbed Dúhový Pride or the Rainbow Pride in Slovakia). Our hopes were high after the buzz we felt the previous night during the interview with Romana Schlesinger.

Published July, 2010

Bratislava/Pozsony/Prešpork/Pressburg

We arrived to Bratislava on the eve of the first Slovak Gay Pride and headed to the Slovak Drama Institute, where the organizers of the pride were screening a documentary about the Stonewall Riots. There we talked to the worn-out Romana Schlesinger, who’s one of the event’s organizers and a leading queer activist in town.

Published July, 2010