Armantas Gečiauskas, aka Arma Agharta, can now be regarded as a person without whom the Lithuanian experimental scene wouldn’t be as rich as it is. Arma carved his own small, crazy, unpredictable and always-exciting universe with his array of activities, which include performing, label curation, event organising and frequent globe-trotting tours spanning across all continents.
Published April, 2025
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 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