Intruder Alert is a crew based in Warsaw. Navigating in the murky waters of “post-club” music, referencing rave (with projects such as “Sentimental Rave”), acid, techno, “global” ambient and various mutations of DAW-driven bass music.
Published December, 2017
Two noteworthy compilations have popped up in the space of a month showcasing the best of Polish underground/bedroom electronics. Although it’s slightly ridiculous to group musicians according to their passport - there’s no such thing as the Sound of Poland, or the Sound of Hungary, these two compilations are a vigorous example of the thriving state of this tiny, but increasingly exciting scene.
Published June, 2017
Pawlacz Perski is a Warsaw-based label that embodies the sprawling cassette underground by releasing genre-less music, a luxury allowed by running a tape label without having to worry about flogging products and targeting audiences. Their latest - 37th! - release comes courtesy of the inanely titled Computer Says No project by Jakub Pokorski.
Published November, 2016
Czaszka is a relatively new addition to the sprawling tape scene. Established by Polish expats Michal Fundowicz and Karolina Pietrzyk and Oliver Spieker living in Edinburgh and Berlin respectively, Czaska is hard to categorise in terms of sonics - and better so.
Published September, 2016
My friendship with Justyna Banaszczyk (aka FOQL) has begun thanks to Darek Pietraszewski (who runs the label Pointless Geometry with Kaśka Królikowska) who introduced me to her music. It had resonated with me very much and as a result she played at one of „za duszno” parties (which I organize together with Piotr Tkacz).
Published August, 2016
Mazut is a new duo that emerged from the thriving Polish underground music scene. Centred around the wonderful (and prolific) imprint BDTA, Mazut (waste oil in English) is an experimental platform for venting rage with doses of tranquility.
Published April, 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
Bartosz Zaskórski is a Polish illustrator and occasional musician. According to his own words, he likes to draw “ trash-like things the most”.
Published July, 2015
Visionaries & Vagabonds is a long album. Over one hour long, which is really ambitious considering that many artists are not able to show consistent results over such a length.
Published March, 2015
The deep, bassy echo chamber emits sound into uncanny and slightly disquieting stillness, cloaked in serene atmospherics, designed to lull its listener into a state of bromazepam trance. Aleksandra Grünholz is a Warsaw-based musician and graphic designer, whose project We Will Fail, has slowly carved its mark onto the post/dance scene of Poland and beyond.
Published December, 2014
“I work with artists for freedom of work and creation, it is important. I value the spirit of collective creation, searching for joy of free energy.
Published November, 2014
There is a science surrounding modular synthesizers, attracting modern alchemysts of sound, eager to tweak something worthwhile out of the cold steel, dreaming of wires. The Warsaw-based producer Mirt has been making music in various formations for 15 years.
Published August, 2014
As Muslimgauze’s magnum opus gets re-released and re-listened by a new generation of listeners, and his numerous epigons emerge and disappear, the merging of Oriental tropes in Western electronic music doesn’t seem to cease to interest up-and-coming producers in occidental bedrooms. Many question the earnestness of the ventures of the likes of Vatican Shadow, but this discussion, we rather skip here.
Published July, 2014
A never-ending bipolar fight between the Good and the Evil, on a personal level, on a historical and society level, on all levels. There are days, which are dark, clouds hovering low, it’s hard to breathe.
Published June, 2014
The split between two of Poland’s leading electronicians appears on a slightly lesser renowned, but nonetheless noteworthy imprint - compared the Sangoplasmo or Mik Musik - called simply BDTA after its owner Michal Biedota. Paweł Kulczyński, better known under his nom de plume Wilhelm Bras, has mastered his modular synth, tweaking and twisting them to get an undiluted analogue extract building and adding new sounds and layers, usually ending in a technoid rhythmachinism.
Published May, 2014
Lubomir Grzelak is a staple of the new Polish underground scene, running one of the first cassette experimental-electronics labels in Central/Eastern Europe Sangoplasmo (you can listen to our Radio Wave interview with the man here), which with its thirty releases has cemented its position as one of the leading hallmarks of strange sonics in this region. Lubomir, based in Warsaw, apart from running the label, is also a producer and DJ in his own right.
Published May, 2014
Wojciech Kucharczyk is one doyens of Polish electronic music scene, as well as visual artist and a graphic designer. Operating his Mik Musik sonic empire since 1994 (!), Kucharczyk is a tireless evangelist, championing new artists (recently, notably including modular wizard Wilhelm Bras or the idiosyncratic Czarny Latawiec), and his zeal has been reinforced two years ago, when he resurrected the Polish imprint to present an exciting new sound of the Polish underground.
Published April, 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
Very tribal. Those two words resonated through my head as I put on the latest RSS B0YS release and rhythms started to emanate in my room.
Published February, 2014
Some time ago Mik.Musik.
Published December, 2013
Every week on Wednesday Czech Radio’s Wave station, we try to present a project, label, in a short interview format. Our show Východiska (you can check the archive of the show here) aims to map the latest happenings on the independent music scene in Central and Eastern Europe.
Published December, 2013
The main idea of ’Eastern European Immigrant Dances in America’ was to mix music from so-called “east” (or better - “non-western music”) with electronic music, especially club music. The first part is longer, and much broader from geographical point of view - from Caucasus through Warsaw and Moldova to Detroit and Atlantis (this island of Plato).
Published November, 2013
‘Lincoln Sea’ is an almost 40-minutes multilayered composition, divided in two parts to fit the vinyl format. It’s a second Robert Piotrowicz solo album this year, coming after enthusiastically received ‘When Snakeboy is Dying’.
Published October, 2013
Sultan Hagavik is a Polish duo which manipulates tapes and tape players, “no digital signal processing, all the way analog”. Their plunderphonics is deconstructive, mashing, mangling, disassembling the source material, in this case old Polish records and whatnot, but remaining sensitive to its source, caressing it after all the taunting.
Published October, 2013
The Exterritory compilation series strives to present the best up-and-coming music from Central Europe - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, aka the V4. It is the third installment of the annual sonic list, focusing mostly on electronics and new forms of the aural underground.
Published September, 2013
Lutto Lento is a lone ranger, making uncompromising decisions when it comes both to publishing and making music. Living in Wroclaw, Poland for some time now, he decided to move to Warsaw to change his life forever.
Published August, 2013
Dwutysięczny, a Polish quartet shrouded in mystery, is releasing its first album before the end of August via Sangoplasmo Records. I asked one of the members, for the time being identified as RD, if that enigmatic aura surrounding the quartet was created consciously from the beginning: “Yes, but it was the result of our awareness that people tend to take hints from the names of involved musicians before even listening to the music.
Published August, 2013
Lutto Lento Another Polish project belongs to the boss of the idiosyncratic Sangoplasmo label, the tape imprint that has carved its niche over the few years of its existence with quirky, outthere sounds by local as well as international artists, including Ensemble Economique or Decimus. Lubomir, Sangoplasmo’s heart and soul, also produces music, under the guise Lutto Lento.
Published August, 2013
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
RSS Boys linger in secret, though they recently appeared on the Wire Tapper CD, their identity or whereabouts remain cloaked in a veil of mystery, aside from the fact that they release their prolific output /their latest album proper appeared in March/ on the acclaimed Mik Musik! and are part of their Secret Editions, alongside artists like Pawel Pesel /whose great release Ekscentryzm was released last year/ or Mangrove Mangrave whose release is equally pleasing the adventurous ear. All of them share a certain kind of sonic aesthetics taking its cues from slow, mangled techno and psychedelic atmospherics.
Published April, 2013
Polish theory of relativity by Easterndaze on Mixcloud A special podcast prepared by Jacek Plewicki from the great music magazine Glissando. Here, he highlights some personal highlights, unreleased material as well as forthcoming gems, picks and special tracks sourced from the vaults of contemporary Polish sonic underground.
Published April, 2013
RSS Boys, the enigmatic project emerged last year as part of Mik Musik’s Secret Editions series. Their quirky techno has already caught our ears with their debut release, and recently, their track appeared on a Wire Tapper CD.
Published March, 2013
Mik Musik has revamped itself last year with a slew of releases, mysteriously titled, and following in a gritty, psychedelic danceable vein. Mostly part of its super secret anonymous edition, acts like RSS Boys, Mangrove Mangrave or PAWEL PESEL, have pursued a wonky, exploratory techno direction, without utilising many of the usual genre tropes.
Published February, 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
Piotr Kurek, not least since his acclaimed release on the Foxy Digitalis imprint, has been steadily releasing quality work, either solo /under his own name or the Pietnastka moniker/ or as a collaboration /Suaves Figures with Sylvia Monnier/, primarily for the brilliant Polish tape label Sangoplasmo. Check out his latest video for his new solo release Edena by the Canadian collective Moduli TV /who work for the likes of Indian Jewelry, Motion Sickness of Time Travel, etc/, Kurek’s visual collaborateurs since the memorable Heat vid they did for his eponymous release.
Published January, 2013
Do artists who live in one geographical area have more in common than those across borders but with stylistic affinities, especially at times when anything confined to the national level seems obsolete? This is the question we also have asked numerous times during our travels. Two compilations are trying to prove that there is still place to highlight local productions, especially if there are certain parallels in their sonic output and a shared physical interaction and context.
Published December, 2012
It’s hard to imagine a better initial encounter with a band than a half secret gig taking place on a beach late early summer’s night. At that time (21th May 2012, around midnight) Ch-ch-ching’s music created the sonic backdrop to an event focused on constructing Chinese lanterns and sending them to the sky.
Published October, 2012
Today we would like to introduce a few Polish underground artists who are underrated or even unknown in their own country, but definitely worth the attention. They play experimental music and stay out of mainstream.
Published September, 2012
New label alert. Plunderphonics is a new digital imprint established this year by the 18-year old Krystian Stebnicki.
Published September, 2012
Mik Musik - Dark Late Summer Mix by Easterndaze on Mixcloud What is the genealogy of Mik Musik?The usual - nobody wanted to release our music, so we did it ourselves. It was the early nineties.
Published September, 2012
If you need a summer soundtrack, here is one. Bangeliz, the new Vangeliz, has a brand new mixtape out on Mik Musik.
Published August, 2012
“One day in more than less unspecified circumstances we decided to play on mc players and it lasts until now.” In a succint, yet appropriate description in the Biography section on their Facebook profile, the Polish duo explains their raison d'etre.
Published August, 2012
BNNT is a project of Konrad Smolenski, one of the masterminds behind the Pink Punk collective, a loose association of like-minded musicians and artists active across Poland. An affable and enthusiastic musician and artist, whom we met on a scorching summer day in Warsaw, maintains the collective´s free-floating connections and ethos.
Published July, 2012
The bandcamp profile of this release (if you understand Polish that is) reveals lot of praise and statements about originality of the two personas hidden behind the stylish band name. That elicits even more curiosity as the visual side of W DONT BLV N HYP (including song names and quite hairy cover) suggests some post-witch house territory.
Published July, 2012
Piotr Kurek is one of the most fascinating emitters of ear-pleasing compositions that we have come across. The Warsaw-based musician recontextualizes his aural inspirations ranging from tropicalia, US psychedelia or Polish jazz into singular results.
Published June, 2012
Jakub Adamec is an artist and member of the bacchanalian Silesian band I Love 69 Popgeju and his solo album bears the stamp of his main musical occupation. An opulent, cacophonic sonic puzzle made of manipulated soundtracks originally created for his videos.
Published June, 2012
A slow, mellow start commences a journey into a magical place, a sonic equivalent of a blissed out day, where things are familliar, and mellifluous but still mind-altering and trippy. Innercity Ensemble is a project of several Polish musicians - including our friend Radek Dziubek from the Grobbing Thristle project - and their latest EP released by Milieu L'Acéphale as a free download, is a result of a three-day improvisational session at the Mozg club in Bydgoszcz in August 2011 and serves as a taster of an LP that should be released in autumn 2012.
Published June, 2012
When travelling through Poland in the autumn of 2010, we came across the musicians Michal Hoppe known under his post-rock moniker No One Wished to Settle Hereafter and Filip Szalaszek known as Fight!Suzan (whose track Youth Jugend was included on our first compilation) in the polish Tricity. Thanks to them we also discovered Enchanted Hunters and listened to a couple of tracks released on their Myspace.
Published June, 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
Lasariage emerged from the sprawling Polish witch house scene, championed under the umbrella of the Witch House Poland group and Cowshed Records. With the transformations of the witch house scene, the producers were forced to readjust their sonic formula and spread it in other musical territories, or - as has been often the case - face a creative cul-de-sac.
Published June, 2012
Volkova Sisters are not only the characters from William Gibson’s cyberpunk novel Pattern Recognition, but also a Hungarian DIY band making dark waves with their second record Hope EP released a few days ago. The Hope EP’s five tracks are accompanied by a remix package from electronic producers some of whom you might be familiar with from this very blog.
Published May, 2012
The dreamy Polish collective/label Please Feed My Records has geared up their sonic powers and prepared a special podcast for us featuring its roster, including rosinski, Monosylabikk, ODDAGE or CH-CH-CHING. Aside from original tracks, there are also edits and various refashionings.
Published May, 2012
Whimsical, fairy-tale soundtracking, delving into nonexistent past. Piotr Kurek’s Heat is out on Foxy Digitalis.
Published April, 2012
Krzystof Zimmermann’s latest release Waiting for an Answer is packed with field recordings mainly from his current residence, Gothenborg, Sweden, but you can also hear some sounds from Taiwan. Released on the Few Quiet People imprint, it follows in the tradition of this label which is focused on sonic experiments and more abstract sound collages.
Published April, 2012
Wojtek Rusin aka Katapulto lives in Bristol and creates synth-based songs (engendered from his previous exotic, excentric sonic guise). We loved his Animalia tape (on Sangoplasmo) and there’s more to come courtesy of Katapulto vs Easterndaze but more on that later:) Wojtek also makes the visual accompaniment to his music.
Published March, 2012
A new compilation by Strefa Szarej, a label and a cultural organisation run out of Cieszyn in Poland near the Czech border tries to reflect the music production of the country’s neighbouring countries - Czech Republic and Slovakia (and even Hungary). Genre-wise, the focus is of course on the fringes of the music production of the respective countries (otherwise we wouldn’t be writing about it:), but it varies from weirdo electronic (notably miss Dolly Rambo, Hungary’s foremost art bruteish pop star) through post-dance through psychedelic and mellow at the end with Fuka Lata, Sangoplasmo’s Lutto Lento and their epic 17-minute track, Grobbing Thristle and their haunting ode, I Love 69 Popgeju, Moduretik, Stroon, Piča z Hoven, IP (Identity Problem) or Dead Janitor.
Published March, 2012
Please Feed My Records is a collective of musicians, bedroom producers and DJs based in a sleepy town of Zielena Gora in Poland. In spite - or perhaps also because of - the soporific, bucolic surroundings, PFMR has gravitated towards the hazy sonic spectrum encompassing hypnagogia, synth-driven territories, glofi, shoegaze, cut up yearning R'n'B vocals, post/dance beats et al.
Published March, 2012
HOV is an audiovisual project from Wroclaw. An audiovisual collaboration between sonician Piotr Matkowski and visualist Jaga Slowinska, HOV take a “bricoleur” approach in their AV creations digging out samples from various ephemera and visual debris scattered all around the web coated in hazy, glofi music and to hypnagogic effect.
Published March, 2012
The high priestess of sonic melancholia Lee DVD and Mito Day have delivered their “romantic space songs” on a new record fittingly entitled Saturn Melancholia. Last year, the duo appeared on the Krakow-based label Audiotong with an EP Other Sides.
Published February, 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
Poland has been no novice to witch-influenced tunes (courtesy of Cowshed Records), but lately there have been projects appearing on the scene that even though utilising some of the aesthetics of the once popular microgenre, create their own sonic language. Lasariage is a project of Jakub Wojciechowski who was also featured on Cowshed’s compilation Side Effects last year.
Published February, 2012
Compilations have increasingly become a medium of choice for many labels these days, a quick and easy way how to put up loads of tracks by loads of producers without a need to release separate EPs (we’ve been part of the game too we admit with a new comp coming out in next couple of weeks:). But eventually the more good music gets exposed, the better.
Published February, 2012
The mysterious Sopot based producer caught our attention a few month ago (read the article here), and since then he has kept in touch with the wide world via a steady stream of videos and tracks. His latest endeavour is a remix of Husband’s Lovesong accompanied by an old anime video.
Published January, 2012
Jakub Nox Ambroziak is a prolific producer with several releases under his belt. His latest offering, released on the label Seventeen Bricks, is called Dark Side of the Sun and consists of dark samples, synths and tells a story about the dark side of the most brightest planets, the hole in the sun and strange noises.
Published January, 2012
Two noteworthy albums of twisted, fucked-up, spaced out beats have come out in Poland this week. Each approaching beats in their own way - the first more twisted and stretched, the second more straightforward but still somehow eerie way.
Published January, 2012
∆K†I◯N †4 - MIX†∆PE from Mateusz Ezra Altman on Vimeo. The Polish witchhouse scene is obviously on the rise.
Published December, 2011
If we were not from this region, we would also probably throw in together Ela Orleans, a Polish lofi chanteuse informed by post-punk and Maria Minerva, the Eurotrash and dance music inspired Estonian producer with a penchant for retro as in “Eastern European lofi girls making it in West” (as has been recently inadvertently done by one NFOP writer). Ela has been inspired by the rich Polish musical heritage (she’s lucky she comes form a country whose music scene actually and arguably thrived during communism) even though, as she says in an interview with NFOP: “I could rarely express any enthusiasm for Polish bands then (and even more so now).
Published December, 2011
Our new collaborateur, the mysterious Andrej K., has penned his first article for us, a review of Concrete Cut’s latest offering.
Published November, 2011
It interesting how this geographical sonic mapping works. Now it seems to be focused on Poland somehow - at least in the last three articles that is:) The case in point today is the ‘new’ record by Poznan based psychedelic wyrd freaks Grobbing Thristle whom we also had on our compilation which you can still download for free here.
Published November, 2011
Somehow I’m becoming prejudiced against projects with too many “ungooglable” symbols in their names, but let’s forgive the fledgling producer in this instance. Hailing from Gdansk in northern Poland, ∑B❍L▲ ▲P∑ creates music on stolen laptop.
Published November, 2011
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
[gallery] Better late than never, some pictures from our Easterndaze curated night at the Moonride Festival in Košice. Photos by Zdenek Spotz.
Published November, 2011
Czech project Sky to Speak consists of Matej Kotoucek, in charge of the music, and Ondrej Synacek, who takes care of the visuals. They create their almost sentimental sound from sampling old and obscure videotapes and artists’ records and visuals.
Published November, 2011
Published November, 2011
Another of our monthly new music series of mixes/podcasts this time also inspired by our September journey to the Balkans. Featuring techno, bass, dub step, garage, ambient or noise, this is a sonic travel through diverse rhythmic territories.
Published November, 2011
One of our radio outputs apart from ocasional shows for Habitat.fm and even more sporadic production-in-the-making for Resonance FM is the weekly feature Vychodiska at the czech Radio Wave.
Published October, 2011
A live rendition of Waterfal a track by our friends Fuka Lata from Warsaw, as recorded at our Easterndaze meets Uši a Vítr gig at the Boro Club in Brno, Czech Republic on 6 October 2011.
Published October, 2011
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Published October, 2011
The Polish label Concrete Cut gears up and brings us Deam’s Square Love EP. The producer Michał Lewicki lives just outside of Warsaw and after “years of making music at home” releases his dancy 6-track debut EP.
Published September, 2011
The Polish label Audiotong with all its various activities has been intent on fostering the local scene and exposing it to the world. Through compilations of Polish musicians (prepared for the Wire magazine) or individual releases, Audiotong has proven that contemporary Polish seen is definitely worth keeping an eye on.
Published September, 2011
Jakub Nox Ambroziak’s new single from the upcoming release (due out soon).(Source: https://player.
Published July, 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
mesmerizing little ambiance from poland’s synnc
Published June, 2011
The Polish project Fuka Lata, which we’ve written about a number of times on our blog, explores psychedelic sonic regions and drone-ridden territories. Fuka Lata is LeeDVD on vocals, electronics and bass and Mito Eszter on guitar.
Published June, 2011
VERTINSKY PROJECT from Jakub Lech on Vimeo. Identity Problem (IP) is a collective of Polish artists based in Wroclaw who work with theatre, music and video.
Published May, 2011
(Napszyklat’s studio in GalleriaON) When we visited Poznan, the guys from the electronic hip-hop project Napszyklat were just in the midst of recording a new LP. It’s already mastered and very soon to be out on Ampersand Records.
Published April, 2011
Polish visual collective Pussykrew, who are currently based in the UK and already playing shows for the likes of Darkstar, etc, delivers a somehow creepy - reminescing of David Lynch’s Inland Empire perhaps or is it just the rabbit? :) - slowmo video for Thomasz Bednarczyk’s from the Few Quiet People label. (Source: https://player.
Published April, 2011
Producer Piotr Dabrowski is one of the most talented producers from the burgeoning Polish bass/dubstep/future garage scene. His music is decidedly deep and warm with killer bass enveloping his tunes.
Published April, 2011
Fledgling musician Jakub Nox Ambroziak from Slupsk in Poland and his music video done by Kamil Macejko. The video is for Ambroziak´s track Proton Decay taken from his new EP Atom.
Published March, 2011
The second LP of Niwea - a project of two enigmatic figures of Polish music & art scenes, Wojciech Bakowski (recently won “The best multimedia artist of 2010” by the influential Politika magazine) and Dawid Szczesny, is to be released on Qulturap on 18th of April. We look forward for hearing their harsh but poetic take on something they themselves call coldwave hip-hop.
Published March, 2011
Few Quiet People is a label from Poland. Despite it’s unassuming name, it has a grande plan: “To drive the repetitive sounds into the direction of pop.
Published February, 2011
Wojciech Morawski is a culture scientist and musician interested in subtle drone/ glitch/ minimal music. Polyrythms unroll matter-of-factly, crackling enveloping the minimalistic yet somehow intricate sonic sculptures.
Published February, 2011
We met Gosia during our August trip to Warsaw. We have written about her musical endeavours a few times on this very blog, too - be it about her LeeDVD project, the more recent Fuka Lata psychedelic experimentations and her new label D2.
Published January, 2011
Polish experimentalist and sample-fiend Dawid Szczesny, also part of Niwea project, live at Easterndaze Night in Tabacka Kulturfabrik in Kosice, Slovakia. Recorded on 27 November 2010.
Published December, 2010
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
Our project will culminate with the compilation which is gonna be out vv soon on the Polish label Audiotong featuring some of our favourite tracks by musicians we met on our East European journey. In the meantime, get lost in Slovak artist Jarmila Mitrikova’s psychedelic cover.
Published December, 2010
Few weeks ago we featured the psychedelic excursion into sonic netherworld by the new Polish outfit Fuka Lata. Its visual accompaniment has seen the light and is as haunting and uncanny as the sonics itself with its slow-mo plastic fantastic Blair Witch-like atmosphere.
Published November, 2010
The Polish filmmaker duo of Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski have created several visually stunning works for several mainly Polish music projects. Their approach to the peculiar stylistic form of the music video is conceptual.
Published October, 2010
You might remember our haphazard recollections of our audio exploration of upcoming talent from our northern neighbours (ie Poland). One of the few girls we’ve talked to was Brenda “LeeDVD”, a former theatre actress turned musician.
Published October, 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
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
The Warsaw’s bass oriented Concrete Cut label has a pretty impressive roster and a HUGE production planned for the end of the 2010. Listen to the amazing “Widow” from Krakow based duo SENTEL.
Published September, 2010
Our last day in Gdansk was quite eventful due to a meeting two local musicians - who are as similar as they are different. Michal Hoppe is a 24-year-old musician and biotechnology student.
Published September, 2010
Gdansk is a city imbued with a strange vibe for an Eastern European city. It doesn’t possess any of the typical “Ostblok” architecture in the centre, rather it’s a typical “Hansa stadt” in the vein of German or Dutch city ports.
Published August, 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
Krakow counts as one of the most picturesque cities in the country and also - consequently - a sort of a tourist trap, a living Central European “museum” full of stunning architecture. As is often the case in aesthetically pleasing exteriors, we were struggling to find good musicians here, who maybe thrive in their uglier counterparts.
Published August, 2010