Cultivating tenderness through listening with Warm Winters Ltd.
Bratislava-based label Warm Winters Ltd. strives to weave a tender musical tapestry.
Published March, 2024
Bratislava-based label Warm Winters Ltd. strives to weave a tender musical tapestry.
Published March, 2024
Bratislava’s music scene is vital. There are several noteworthy producers, projects, clubs and lately also labels.
Published April, 2017
Genot Centre is one of the latest additions to the thriving tape label scene. As has become typical for this medium and its milieu, their output is eclecitc, ranging from drone to footwork.
Published June, 2016
Out of the bona fide hyperactive Polish sonic underground, BDTA is the wonderfully odd standout - releasing anything from Bulgarian field recordings to a number of idiosyncratic records by the likes of Fischerle, Wsie or Bartek Kujawski. Uncompromising and weird (not in a premeditated way) is their ethos.
Published November, 2015
Farbwechsel’s inaugural vinyl release aims high. This compilation contains 4 tracks, 2 of them Farbwechsel’s core (Route8/S Olbricht) alongside their likeminded fellows.
Published February, 2015
With its almost 60 releases spanning over a period of five years over a continuum of formats physical and digital, the Slovak label Exitab has become an influential platform for local producers of mostly accessible, beat-oriented electronica. With its sublabel Proto Sites it ventures into more abstract and dreamy, synthy territories as manifest on its first release.
Published October, 2014
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
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
Last Foundation is a relatively new imprint curated by Gábor Lázár, operating from the burgeoning Budapest electronic music scene. Though you wouldn’t even know it, since their roster includes stars of the international noise and experimental scene including Ekoplekz or Russell Haswell, which they release on tapes, usually as split releases with their local affiliated producers.
Published May, 2013
Two new videos have arrived via the reliably ace Mik Musik contingent, for their brilliant Secret Editions series. One of my last year’s favourites, Mangrove Mangrave, and RSS Boys - who are releasing an album at the end of February, steeped in some woozy technoid outerspace, menacing, claustrophobic, but utterly grooving.
Published January, 2013
The newly established Budapest-based label Farbwechsel champions the more plaintive house territories, verging on Chicago, Detroit and acid. Their first release, by label boss and multi-facetted musician operating under the moniker S Olbricht in this case, is out now.
Published November, 2012
New label alert. Plunderphonics is a new digital imprint established this year by the 18-year old Krystian Stebnicki.
Published September, 2012
Following their lofi electronics spring installment, featuring the likes of Ensemble Economique or Decimus, this time the Polish label returns with a summer selection that features artists from their home turf, as well as the cultish K Salvatore aka Jason Meagher and Pat Murano. Sound-wise it follows in a more experimental, avantgardish vein.
Published June, 2012
The great Polish label Sangoplasmo is one the most interesting imprints to emerge from this region over the past few years, having released the likes of Aranos but also several oddly beautiful albums by the likes of Lutto Lento or Katapulto. It’s 2012 release schedule starts off with a bang - with no less than 4 tapes.
Published February, 2012
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
The ever brilliant Polish label Sangoplasmo focuses on the outthere spectrum of electronic music, mostly drone and ambient and wyrd electronica, but its recent releases demonstrate a direction into more rhythm-based genres such as “techno” and percussion. Although in their guise, its more the weird, grainy, cosmic kind.
Published November, 2011
We have been in touch with Dana Dramowicz from the burgeoning Polish dubstep/bass label Concrete Cut almost from the label’s inception. Purveyors of electronic sounds oscillating around the 130-140bpm mark, Concrete Cut has released almost ten records in less than a year.
Published July, 2011
The brand new imprint alice mange son coeur is a truly modern label. It operates from Prague and is run by the young Sara Cross who A&R’d the label roster from her bedroom via Last.
Published June, 2011
Planet Svetlana - proudly based in Belgrade - is back with a storming free release, a reworking of her third release Diablo Riddim by Piece of Shh… The remixing duties have been handed to Slovenian, UK-based producer Nightwave (aka 8bitch), Hungarian honchos Headshotboyz and Bunny on Acid. Get the bass-heavy release here.
Published March, 2011
D2 is a new label from Poland launched by Gosia Neumann, whom we met in Warsaw in summer and whose music projects are Lee DVD and recently, the psychedelic Fuka Lata.
Published December, 2010
Teielte - Darkvoices [official video] from U Know Me Records on Vimeo. Dana from Warszaw’s Concrete Cut label has brought to our attention a new Polish label “open for new beats and fresh sound” U Know Me Records.
Published September, 2010
After spending half a day searching for a free place in local hostels we met with Mihaela Vasile who’s one of the promoters behind the seminal Romanian advanced electronica festival Rokolectiv. We talked about the local music scene, Romania, politics and corruption, about Bucharest being a really hostile city, about taxidrivers listening to minimal music or about legaly sold fake MDMA and the rise of the local drug scene.
Published July, 2010