Conditional is a record label dedicated to forward-facing electronic and computer music, established in 2015 by Calum Gunn and based in Berlin, Germany. Releases are primarily disseminated on cassette tapes, but have included vinyl, CDs, lanyard, t-shirts, video games and posters.
Published October, 2019
https://www.mixcloud.
Published May, 2018
We have collaborated with Norient for several years now, exchanging articles and having been invited to their “Seismographic Sounds” exhibition which they curated at CTM Festival in Berlin. “The network for global and local sounds and media culture” has been digging around the world to source new sounds and, importantly, the context they were created in - preceding and spearheading the surging interest in global sonic cultures.
Published December, 2016
Meteorismo is a Prague-based label which explores a so-called invisible scene. It sources obscure recordings from various remote areas – both musical and geographical.
Published April, 2016
Erik Sikora lives and works in the Mecca of eastern Slovakia, Košice. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and in Slovakia is known as the one who can naturally, without artificial means, drugs or any other devices cause unbounded joy, delight, and release of endorphins, simply a process he calls “Tešba” (Joy).
Published March, 2015
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
“PL2UA compilation is an expression of solidarity and support of Polish musicians for people who suffer as a result of clashes in the Ukraine. By providing their music in digital form, the artists want to help those in need and those that require support.
Published February, 2014
Snezhana Bezus, apart from supplying this very page with insightful news and findings from the Sofia sonic underground, is also involved in the Sofia Beats club night. 1.
Published January, 2014
Once again, as the old year meets the new, we are looking back on the musical happenings. The first one is by Anek from the Cáry Mlhy blog from Prague who will offer his insights and highlights of 2013 on the Czech underground music scene.
Published January, 2014
1. What’s the highlight for you in the Macedonian music scene in 2012? More than 50 albums and many singles/EPs were released within the alternative/rock/punk/dance scene last year in Macedonia.
Published January, 2013
Remember Czechoslovakia ? The small country once part of the Communist Ost Block? The country that, after its Velvet Revolution and playwright-cum-president Václav Havel, broke apart into Czech Republic and Slovakia ? Well, now it’s united again. The events of January 18th and #OpMegaupload have spawned not only the first generation of the Czechoslovak Anonymous hivemind, that has DDOSed government agencies under the banner of #czsk ever since.
Published February, 2012
Some time ago, we have written about a documentary about Belgrade’s creative scene (check the article here). There is another movie about similar subject out there.
Published May, 2011
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
Napszyklat in the building where their current studio is located. The Poznaň music scene was probably the most interconnected and interesting from any Polish towns we had visited during our trip.
Published September, 2010
The symbol of the Warsaw Uprising, which we come across in form of a graffiti tag all over Warsaw Warsaw: its spacious streets and the central agglomeration of skyscrapers dominated by the famous Palace of Culture and Science from the first moments evoked a strong urban feeling contrasting with the the touristy “history museum” of Krakow. During WWII, 85% of the city was destroyed, the Jewish Ghetto with its 1943 Jewish uprising was laid to the ground in an act similar to the crude retaliation of the Hitler’s Army after the Warsaw uprising.
Published August, 2010
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
Check the wonderful cover-art for Makunouchi Bento’s upcoming record Swimé. Its out 8.
Published August, 2010
After spending some quality time - no pun intended - in Bucharest and meeting all the incredibly driven local culture operators, festival organizers, experimental music afficionados, label heads, producers, angry old men and plethora of stray dogs, we reluctantly had to bid farewell to this wonderfully deranged city and head to northwest to Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s major creative hub. Most of the contemporary Romanian visual artists are either based or spent a formative period of their lives in this Transylvanian hotspot, the fourth largest city in the country.
Published July, 2010
Leaving Bucharest by train to Cluj we had almost 10 hours to read through the project 100 TO WATCH that we briefly mentioned in a former post, and which included in its jury/creative team the journalist and dj Tom Wilson and designer Milos Jovanovic. Being the “directory of 100 most talented artists in Romania today” it was published in October 2009 and should be taken as a insider guide for everyone interested in young and contemporary Romanian arts scene.
Published July, 2010
Leizaboy is a DJ and producer from Timisoara. His first EP was out in July 2009 on High Definition and contains the track Alarm Serenade.
Published July, 2010
Whilst speaking to Victor Popescu aka Brazda lui Novac and Daniel Stanciu known as Minus, they both dropped the name Selfmademusic of Arad. Listen to this collaboration with Makounochi Bento, two guys whom we will hopefully meet in a few days in Timisoara: makunouchi bento - nukekubi (feat.
Published July, 2010