EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Text: Lucia Udvardyova
Music Biennale Zagreb: A Diary
Lucia Udvardyova attended Music Biennale Zagreb (MBZ). Photos: Music Biennale Zagreb…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Text: Lucia Udvardyova
Photogallery
Big Ears Festival 2025
Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, will remain an exceptional event in the international mus…
Videopremiere: „Quand le grenier aura pris feu“
Anadol & Marie Klock – an unfortunate encounter between pigeons and various people
We are more than happy to present the brand-new video for the single "Quand le grenier aura pris feu…
Georg Boskamp is remembering the artist formerly (and later again) known as Prince.
0(+> Sign O’ The Times – “Honestly, I don’t really believe in the concept of luck”
Minneapolis/Minnesota, mid-November 1996. This was arguably the most challenging period of Prince’…
EM GUIDE — Interview with Ozan Tekin about "Mornings for Sale / Satılık Sabahlar: No.2"
“In Istanbul, the seamless cycle of night and day unfolds almost unnoticed”
"For me, the effect of the blue hour has always been more profound than that of a sunset. It’s a m…
CTM Festival 2025
10 CTM shows not to be missed this week
In 2025, the CTM Festival will once again be one big awesome overload: an endless stream of panels, …
Video "Down Comes the Goose" by LILLEVAN
Tarwater “Down Comes the Goose”
The comeback of Tarwater was one of the positive surprises of the music year 2024. After a ten yea…
2024 – Das Jahr in Insolvenz & Pop
“There is nothing to say, it would all sound banal” – 2024 mit Cristina Marx
"They were all simply very, very nice festivals/events and therefore many concert highlights."…
2024 – Das Jahr in Insolvenz & Pop
Exiting large group performances & most painterly paintings: 2024 as seen and heard by Markus Müller
"Two celebrations of Peter Brötzmann’s incredible influence and lasting aura. Both very different…
„Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music“
“Excitement, passion or relief” with Marie Davidson
"I’m too self-aware to witness the whole evolution process of my own identity. I have to wake up a…
Video premiere of the remix by Berlin based producer KMRU for Belgian artist Youniss
KMRU x Youniss: „Walad“
We are very happy to present you today the remix by KMRU to the track „Walad“ together with the …
Fotogalerie by Rainer Holz
Fred Frith 75 Birthday Festival
Last night, the British multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Fred Frith performed in three…
Stagediving
“I am transforming, I am vibrating!” Nick Cave live in Germany
With all the twilight of the gods surrounding Nick Cave's current live concerts in Germany, is there…
Interview
Wolfgang Pérez : “I try to make my music so mercilessly honest that you can find out something about it and heal yourself”
"On the one hand, this change of language simply came about because I was involved a lot with Spanis…
Videointerview
Are you possessed, Kopy?
Interview with live sequences with Japanese artist Kopy aka Yuko Kureyama. Conducted at Salon des A…
Interview – Durchlüften 2024 by Humboldt Forum
Vincent Moon: “A weird research on space and time – and how to bend them”
"No contracts, I entirely believe in the free flow, the confidence in terms of, well, I'm not going …
„The Week“ in conversation with Eliza Rose, Ellen Allien and Sugababes
Just feel that soft summer breeze … the sunrise moments … a kiss
Summer vacation means time to relax at the pool or park with books, or listen to albums and songs th…
Hot for the warm-up: Monheim Triennale 2024 - ‘The Prequel’
Monheim Triennale: “Each event becomes a little art happening”
It’s a dizzying array of musical encounters and the ultimate goal is that the experience of the Pr…
Musik: Make Boys Cry / Pogendroblem (mit einer Unplugged-Premiere)
Talking Kaput #13: Beats und Verzweiflung. (Wie) kann Musik Einfluss auf Politik nehmen?
Thomas Venker and Linus Volkmann talk to their guests about spaces of possibility and utopias on bea…
EM GUIDE – Interview
Charles Carey on the art of web radio making
Interview with Charles Carey, co-founder of Radio Cult, a streaming platform designed for online com…
Interview with Lukasz Polowczyk / EM GUIDE
“It’s just wild that all of this exists, that we are here to experience it”
Lukasz Polowczyk is a Berlin-based sound artist, poet, and educator. His brand new video art piece "…
Telekom Electronic Beats Podcast The Week with Kelela
Kelela „If a white woman was doing the same exact thing that I’m doing, she would be probably ten times as big”
Sometimes it is not easy to listen to a conversation. But it is necessary. One hears clearly the str…
Interview
CocoRosie: „Guided by an inner force“
"We don't listen to much new music or music at all." CocoRosie in conversation with kaput. …
Festival Announcement – Rewire – 4.-7.4.2024
Prädikat kaput: 11 Rewire 2024 performances not to be missed
Every April the spearheads of avant-garde and experimental electronic music gathers in The Hague for…
Eugene Robinson
“A WALK ACROSS DIRTY WATER AND STRAIGHT INTO MURDERER'S ROW: A Memoir”
Question: Who is Eugene Robinson?
„Now I realize what’s more true than not is that there are a lot of people who deserve to die, …
Kaput-Mix-Series
Keikee “This is not a kaputt mix”
"For me, Acephale was a venue I could visit without hesitation. (...) as a DJ, it was a special plac…
Xmas special feature
Astrid & Alexander’s Winter Guide to Cosmopolitan Food and Drink in European Cities (LDN, PAR, BER edition)
A good pub should of course be authentically old and a bit broken. Ideally there should be no televi…
2023 – Annual review
“… I danced by violent times It was hard to live, live” – 2023, a year’s worth of 25 albums
Anohni and the Johnsons “My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross“ (Secretly Canadian) My Back …
Sanaz Sohrabi – Interview
Sanaz Sohrabi: “Seeing the archive as a form of visual optic and conceptual prism”
"I think ecofeminist science and technology studies's approach to the legacies of extraction is much…
10 Records for your Advent Weekender
Homesick, Bubblegum and West End Girls
Weekender-Crew: Ciel, Eleh, Isabella, Oum Shatt, Wolfgang Voigt, Pyur, Sam Dunscomb, Pauline Anna St…
Interview
Merv Espina: “Access. Transformation. Emancipation.”
"I don’t really have a material or studio practice. I also don’t have storage space. These thing…
Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) – 17.-20.2.2024, Groningen
Eurosonic Noorderslag celebrates its 20 bday
Eurosonic Noorderslag (short ESNS) brings each year in January the live music industry from all over…
Photo Gallery, courtesy of Udo Siegfriedt
Phill Niblock presenting “The movement of people working” in Berlin
The Movement of People Working by Phill Niblock is a huge cinematic-musical monument. For his 90th b…
Photo Gallery – Niclas Weber
The “Night of Surprise” in 11 pictures feat. Violent Magic Orchestra, 33 EMYBW ….
We are looking back on the latest edition of Cologne very own „Night by Surprise“ (which happene…
Photo Gallery, Cologne, Philharmonie, 16.9.23
Jeff Mills »Tomorrow comes the Harvest«
»Tomorrow comes the Harvest«, performed by Jeff Mills & Prabhu Edouard & Jean-Philippe Dary in Col…
Berlin Atonal 2023 – Festival – Pre-Report
Berlin Atonal 2023: Do not miss these 10 performances
Kaput tried the untryable and selected ten performances of Berlin Atonal 2023 you should not miss …
Summer Sonic 2023, Tokyo
PARK LIFE W/ BLUR, WET LEG, CORNELIUS & SHYGIRL
"... You have to imagine the audience in Japan as extremely attentive in general. It is almost dead …
Uckermark Festival 2023
Close to the people with a subtext
"We don't have a cultural mandate. It is voluntary" The festival takes place every two years and ta…
Honma Museum of Art (本間美術館, Honma Bijutsukan) – Site Visit
Honma Museum of Art
The Honma Museum of Art, situated in Sakata, Japan, was the first privately-owned art museum in Japa…
Osorezan Bodaiji Temple – Site Visit
The doorway to the underworld: Osorezan Bodaiji Temple
The Osorezan Bodaiji Temple Osorezan (translated as "Fear Mountain"), situated on Mount Osore, is a…
モエレ沼公園 / Moerenuma Park in Sapporo
モエレ沼公園 / Moerenuma Park by Noguchi Isamu
Moerenuma Park (Japanese モエレ沼公園), located in the Higashi-ku district of Sapporo, the ca…
Ainu culture – Kotan Ainu Museum – Umeko Ando
A visit at the Teshikaga Town Kussharo Kotan Ainu Museum
Five years ago we featured on kaput an interview by Andi Otto with the musician Oki Kano that origin…
Video Clip Premier, Sexy Lazer, "Mid Life Crisis"
Sexy Lazer: “When a personal spiritual crisis hits, you feel it. It’s confusing, wavy, sad and bad.”
Kaput met the Icelandic Pop Music eccentric in Cologne at the performance of Hasan Poppu. It was not…
Behind the scenes of "Abashiri Prison"aka"Abashiri Bangaichi" aka "A Man from Abashiri Prison"
When in Abashiri … go to Prison
With his 1965 movie "Abashiri Prison" director Teruo Ishii kickstarted in 1965 an extensive series o…
King Ludwig
Above the rooftops of Cologne w/ TOM TOM CLUB, BODY/HEAD, SCOUT NIBLETT…
For two years, 2013 and 2014, the King Ludwig concert series brought some of the best shows ever in …
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Photogallery Nick Zinner
Nick Zinner: “It´s just cool to documentate all those kids”
With "1001 Images" Nick Zinner captures beautifully the relationship of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with the…
Malcolm Mooney – Interview
Malcolm Mooney: „How does one improvise from the moment?“
Malcolm Mooney, first ever singer of the band Can, comes finally back to Cologne after 37 years. Moo…
"My favorite song" by Ramesh Srivastava
“This is How We Walk on the Moon” by Arthur Russell
"... The song was “This is How We Walk on the Moon,” and hearing it prompted me to further resea…
Terre Thaemlitz – Photogallery – Exhibition, Lüneburg, Halle für Kunst
Terre Thaemlitz “Reframed Positions”
Reframed Positions is the first multi-venue retrospective by artist, producer, writer, educator, aud…
Elena Colombi / Osàre Editions
Elena Colombi: “The patriarchy fucked things up”
"I love seeing the crowd and responding to it. For me it’s important to form a real dialogue, I wo…
Hasan Poppu "Hasan Poppu" (JUBG / Kaput / Beachcoma Recordings)
Hasan Poppu: Ekusutashī at JUBG
On 6th of May the Cologne based, Japan inspired drone art techno duo Hasan Poppu – consisting of J…
Notes from Below at ACUD
Sounding out and listening in
Notes from Below is a three-pronged project bringing together the works of artists and musicians who…
