Sonar 2019 – The 11 most kaput moments of this years Sonar festival
Sonar 2019: From Afrodeutsche till HAAi
It is about time to kick of the 26th edition of Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Kaput had a close look …
Sonar 2019 – The 11 most kaput moments of this years Sonar festival
Köln ist kaput XIII – Photogalerie
Köln ist kaput feat. Swan Meat, Jens-Uwe Beyer, Sarah San, Dj Brom
Die Schäl Sick von Köln fühlt sich langsam aber sicher wie die neue Heimat von Köln ist kaput an…
Köln ist Kaput 11 – Video
Angelica Summer, Bum Khun Cha Youth, Minjung Cho
Video-Recap of Köln ist kaput 11. …
Tentenko "Parade" – video, directed by Tentendo, edited by Dino Oon
Tentenko “Parade”
Kaput is proudly presenting the brand new video by Japanese artist Tentenko (edited by Dino Oon) fo…
Lena Willikens – Essential Mix BBC1 Radio
Lena Willikens: From “Hello” to “Screaming Colors”
Friday night Kaput favorite Lena Willikens gave her Essential Mix debut on BBC1 Radio. Starting with…
SUGAI KEN on reworking Kohei Amadas "Shinshunfu"
muzyōkan – the sense of the vanity of life
"I was impressed that Kōhei was trying to fuse Western and Eastern elements in his music in mid 195…
Electronic Music Home + female:pressure electronic concert (by Elisa Metz)
Zoë Mc Pherson + Allesandra Leone = “String Figures”
Zoë McPherson and Alessandra Leone will present their transmedia work "STRING FIGURES". Before the …
Kate NV – Videofeature
Kate NV “A Journey Into Sounds”
Kate Shilonosova in conversation with Thomas Venker for Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop. …
Martin Howse & Bernd Schurer – Interview
“Quite dark, on the borders of precise experiment and collapsing edifice”
Martin Howse and Bernd Schurer are up to challenge our coordinate systems in some way and another. …
Survey – Birgit Heuzeroth, Phil Tortoroli, Vivien Mierzkalla, Anika Väth, Philipp Maiburg, Vladimir Ivkovic, Markus Naegele, Severin Most, Maurice Summen, Oli Isaacs, James Friedmann
What to expect from music journalism in 2019 and the years to come?
Music journalism is not a thing happening in a isolated, theoretical vacuum, it is most of all an in…
a musical segment by Traxx
“Assorted Dance, Groove n more 4 Kaput“
"Assorted Dance, Groove n more 4 Kaput“ a musical segment by Traxx…
Omar Contri – Interview
Shinoby: “It’s not a strategy, for an DIY artist like me it’s a question of surviving. “
Verona based producer Omar Contri is about to release three 12-inches back to back, each coming in w…
Meet me at: Gold & Beton
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 – 10
For the 10th edition of Köln ist kaput we booked the geilste rap dude of Cologne, Veedel Kaztro …
Evans/Dahl/Pride „Pulverize the Sound“
“Music such as this is trying to show a different and deeper way human beings can interact and co-exist.”
"The more I study, the more I find pathways through many kinds of music that help me develop my own …
Chee Shimzu on his label 17853
“I am waiting for chances to appear. I am not in a hurry.“
Chee Shimzu, dj, producer, label owner, record seller, compilation curator and author leads us throu…
Pop-Kultur Festival 2018 in 24 Pictures
From Vivien Goldman to Die Mausis
The Pop-Kultur-Festival in 24 pictures by Christoph Voy. …
Discwoman – Videointerview
Challenge the norms
Thomas Venker met Emma Burgess-Olson (aka UMFANG), Christine Tran and Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson at …
c/o pop & Dutch Impact
Deutsch-Holländische Freundschaft
Besides international country specials on Southamerican and Eastasien bands the c/o pop has a long …
Köln ist Kaput 8 – Video-feature
Sonae & Gora Sou at Gold+Beton
On the 31st of March the 8th installment of Köln ist Kaput happened at Gold+Beton with awesome liv…
10 stirring Sónar moments for 2018
THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON SÓNAR
When does the Sónar week start? And when does it really end? A difficult question indeed, consideri…
Track by Track: the 29 songs from Efdemin´s new mix-album "Naïf" auf Curle Recordings
From Autolyse to Margaret Dygas and Efdemin
Kaput columnist in meditation Phillip Sollmann (aka Efdemin) just released "Naïf", a tender and eng…
Köln ist Kaput VII – Video-Feature
Sue Lewig, Sarah San & Friday Dunard
The latest in our series of Köln ist Kaput video-documentaries on the Cologne music scene. …
Fishbach – Videointerview
Fishbach “I allow myself everything”
Florence Fishbach – Cologne Kaput-Talk. …
Kaput Mix 001 – DJ Brom
Kaput Mix: DJ Brom – Kein Nichts!
"Recording 4-hour mixes is nothing I do in everyday life, although I am someone who likes to play lo…
Köln ist kaput 7 – Photogallery
♫ Sue Lèwig, Sarah San & Friday Dunard ♫
Last night I dreamt That somebody kaput me No hope, no harm But it was not just another false …
... going record shopping at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles
Halo Antwoord, Krule Melvins, Elijah Duran
We at Kaput dig Amoebas "What's In My Bag?" videos. Why? Simply follow the gang of Laurel Halo, Die …
CTM 2018
Angst and love über Berlin
Another bodily challenging and highly inspiring CTM festival is over. It was again a week of many i…
Tired Eyes Kingdom – Talking "Edge"
“When we are in the room doing our thing nothing really manage to enter this circle.”
Elif Dikec, Isabelle Pabst, Yotam Schleuniger and Felix Nisblé are most of all a gang, one you rare…
Eurosonic Noorderslag & European Talent Exchange Programme / An interview with Ruud Berends
Ask me again after the event ;-)
Each January the European festival and media circus travels to the Dutch city of Groningen to experi…
Koxette celebrate the „21st Century Decay“
Baumusik for China
Until recently Caroline Kox and Antonio de Luca were best known for their avant-garde outfit Coloris…
How we spend 14 hours in Marfa, Texas in 33 pictures
Stranded in Marfa
Paranoia is never a good mate. And an accidentally locked in the trunk car key mos def a terrible id…
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
“I just follow what brings me joy.”
After her highly praised albums „Euclid“ and „Ears“, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith now calls „The …
LCD Soundsystem
Intimate and loud in Berlin
When I first heard about an exclusive LCD Soundsystem show at Funkhaus in Berlin, it all made sense …
120 hours (and 37 photos) in Beijing
From the Great Wall to NEU CHINA and Level 7
I had the pleasure to visit Beijing for five days on invitation of Goethe-Institut and NEU CHINA to …
Princess Nokia makes you understand what Jennifer Lopez was talking about one upon a time ago
In search of feminist reality
Our author Merve Namli was a 14-year-old living in Istanbul when Jennifer Lopez’s single “Jenny …
Matt Werth – Video-Interview
THE “PEACEFUL PROTESTS” OF RVNG INTL.
Thomas Venker met Matt Werth during the 2017 edition of Moogfest in Durham for a conversation about …
Suzanne Ciani – video interview
“My music is supposed to offer a place of relaxation.”
Thomas Venker and John Noi met Suzanne Ciani for a conversation about the creative and economic aspe…
Köln ist Kaput – Video series
Gianni Brezzo
"I think it’s about a bigger identity then just my own actually." Gianni Brezzo about his album "…
Köln ist Kaput – Video series
Die Bäume
Kaput sneaked into the studio of the visual artists / musicians Die Bäume. A rare insight view behi…
Köln ist Kaput – Video series
Lauter Bäumen
"Of course no one cares about me" – Insights in the sad reality of Cologne based band Lauter Bäum…
Köln ist Kaput – Video series
Echo Ho
A video journey into the electronic sound cosmos of Cologne based Echo Ho. …
Köln ist Kaput – Video series
Sans Gene
Kaput makes a visit at the Autonomes Zentrum Cologne to hang ten with Sans Gene. …
Köln ist Kaput 5
Qui Basat
The Cologne based supergroup was part of the 5th installment of our "Köln ist Kaput" series. …
Köln ist kaput
Golf
The Cologne based band Golf was part of the 5th installment of our "Köln ist Kaput" series.…
Jlin “Black Origami” (Planet Mu)
The 36th chambers of #jlintruth
Only two more weeks to go till the long awaited second album of Jerrilynn Patton aka Jlin will final…
Mikko Joensuu – a song in fifteen images
From a “House Of Fire” to “Amen 3”
In the beginning there was "Amen 1"; but it did not take too long until Mikko Joensuu gave us "Amen …
Gianni Brezzo “Me Deixa” – Videoclip-Premiere
“I just wanted to make a record that doesn’t overstrain you at breakfast table.”
"We wanted to make a cheap and effective promotional clip for the record." – Kaput is happy to deb…
Marie Davidson
Week-End Mixtape #6
The tracks on this podcast, which Marie Davidson recorded exclusively for our friends of Week-End Fe…
Records of the holy Week(s)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani … Rune Bagge & Schaake
At the end of the year, one does not only realize what moments and artifacts sticked most with him, …
A tour through Detroit with Carl Craig
“Recharge with soul”
"I see these buildings every day. For me they represent the history of Detroit, the history of a pla…
Thomas Venker – Song charts
23 songs for 2016
Coming up with a chart of 20 songs to catch a year in music, what a gruesome mission it is. And so I…
