for Keith McIvor
On friendship and transience – between Fuji, Unsound and Making Time
It is 12 September 2025 and I am dancing. It is not just sweat running down my forehead and elsewher…
for Keith McIvor
EM GUIDE — Kolumne Gefühle und Gedanken zu einer Welt, deren Umriss mir nicht mehr gefällt
IT HAS PLAYED OUT – OR: THE TRUMPIZATION OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING
Spring 2025 doesn't make it easy to believe that things will be better this year and in the coming y…
US-Election 2024
Inflation, housing crises, multiple jobs …
Inflation, housing crises, multiple jobs ... and unfortunately no Democrats who have managed to give…
New Music for the 1st of May
“Meet me before the party, I don’t want to walk in alone Maybe we can blow it off, go do something on our own”
New Music for the 1st of May . "Meet me before the party, I don’t want to walk in alone Maybe we…
A kind of "family sleep
How little I know – forever in the children’s room
Whenever I talk to friends about their and my youth, I have the feeling that everyone else remembers…
Photo Gallery Sonic Morgue w/ Chandra Shukla, Sunroof and faust
Chandra Shukla & Sunroof & faust
On 13th of April Chandra Shukla, Sunroof (Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones) and faust (Zappi Diermaier, …
A visit to Brazil after the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Peace and Love in Brazil
Days after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's victory the announcement of the "Lula-Palloza" was set for…
2022 – the year as heard and seen by the team behind kaput
Vittoria de Franchis is looking back on 2022
Wild Terrier Orchestra, Yevgenia Beloruset, Rebecca Salvadori, Nicola Ratti, "Chorsus", Biosphere, M…
Quo Vadis Pop Teaching? - A journalistic survey among teachers - Prof. Jono Podmore
Prof. Jono Podmore: „Working at a Musikhochschule is a little like working at a museum“
Not affected by the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz - and yet exposed to similar frustration and pre…
The Caustic Window / March 2022
The Caustic Window – We are all Spotifucked…
We are all Spotifucked... There are mornings when you hear the driving mid-winter Berlin rain hit…
METHODE RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER Eine Retrospektive
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “I ask you to take note….”
Whether one can really read the "method" out of this, we will now come to that. For all the other na…
Pablo Castoldi – Column – Part II, created in Brazil and Argentina
Pablo Castoldi is in peace with everything
We always knew this was going to happen at some point. I remember thinking about the future watching…
Jessika Jürgens-Cardini, 20.08.1980 – 08.01.2021
For Jessi
One of my my favorite songs as a teenager was „Life´s what you make it“ by Talk Talk. Back then…
Kaput's London editor Alexander Mayor remembers the light in dark places
We are the words that move
Somehow, bright empty streets are a good place to remember dark places. “Oh hey! We in!” Door…
The Majority as a Sect X
“25 YEARS OF NEOLIBERALISM MADE SURE THAT THE SOCIETAL MISFORTUNE HAS TURNED INTO A COMPLETELY ABSTRACT FACTOR.”
The demands of the Bundestag election campaign are dropping by the hour, there is no hope for the »…
Labor Day Summary
The (first) 120 days of 2017
“Time keeps slipping, keeps slipping Time, time keeps slipping Time, time keeps slipping Time, …
The Majority as a Sect VII
»REPUBLIC IS NOT A LOT, SOCIALISM IS THE GOAL!«
The series »The Majority as a Sect« will run until September and the author made a bet with himsel…
CTM Festival 2017, the world and a boy with a walkman
AN INFINITE EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY
Last night, after a day full of discussions with my students at the Institute for Popular Music, I h…
The majority as a sect III
Movement, Subordination, Allegiance / Side note: Trump as a sect leader
The parliamentary elections for the Bundestag will be one year from now. The political coordinate sy…
Die Mehrheit als Sekte / The Majority as a sect
JUST SOME FLAG BEARERS – WHY THE RISE OF THE AFD DOES NOT PORTENT A RENAISSANCE OF CONSERVATISM
The parliamentary elections for the Bundestag will be one year from now. The political coordinate sy…
Thomas Venker
„DON’T CALL US REFUGEES!“
You can’t be further away from Germany. I’m standing on a little hill in the northwest of the is…
Thomas Venker
ROCKET ROCKET USA
Back in the days summer meant that the newspapers blew up the most boring stories to make them their…
Denise Oemcke
Where the fuck is the album? Waiting for Frank Ocean!
Our author Denise Oemcke is waiting for the man! There is not much that I hate as much as waiting…
Lena Willikens @ Beats in Space
Happy 5th of July
School free for summer for the Kaput column. Instead of slowly coming words you get a Beats in Spac…
Andreas Gehm
Forever in Acid
About half a year ago a friend and I were discussing Andreas Gehm, the Cologne based techno producer…
Kaput & Attic Magazine & Outernational Days Bucharest
Dreaming in the Discotheque
The beauty of music is that one is not only able to enjoy it alone, but that it’s so powerful in b…
Kaput Magazine's new art section
Cabinet of Kaput
Introducing: Cabinet of Kaput Kaput Magazine's new art section With weekly contributions by inter…
Thomas Venker
The bar is closed!
Getting a quick Gin and Tonic at the office bar and then watching the next World Cup quarter finals …
Thomas Venker
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band (with Antony Hegarty) “I’m Going Away Smiling”
"I'm going away smiling, thinking of our life. How we were good for each other, how we knew. When…
Thomas Venker
FROM DAY TO NIGHT TO DAY TO…
Sometimes it’s quite strange how the incidents in our lives flow between the days. How the last th…
Thomas Venker
I make a journey to Italy and take these 11 songs with me
All ways lead to Rome – and mine tomorrow. What better reason do I have to drop a playlist of ita…
Thomas Venker
The eyes of evil
A few days ago I was sitting opposite a guy in a weirdly empty room in a clinic within a forest outs…
Thomas Venker
… is in fragments
Somedays words just misbehave. That idea that felt so urgent and relevant during the first coffee en…
Linus Volkmann
“R.I.P., LOSER“ – A PIETY 2.0-GUIDELINE
When someone died in the past, ground was poached up and their body got buried in a hole. A rather m…
Thomas Venker
Let us talk about the future
Arriving in Paris turns out not be as awkward as I’d anticipated. Yes, the military are reviewing …
Thomas Venker
Milch “Europa”
Who stands outside the garden´s fence Please be welcome and bye bye Thought the ghost that I …
Thomas Venker
Aproved by the artist
So back in April this year, I happened to receive an email from the editor of a well known German mu…
Thomas Venker
Caressing Klimaretter, Performing Arts and Groove Magazine
To Berlin, and in a neat side effect of our somewhat compact accommodation I floated into the editor…
Thomas Venker
Tolerated Ignorance
The Chicago based producer and musician Steve Albini is a man notorious for what could be termed “…
Die Goldenen Zitronen
“If I Were A Sneaker”
For the first time we post a videoclip as our weekly column. Listen carefully to the lyrics and yo…
Thomas Venker
No Crowd Surfing in the Crowd-Heavy Areas Please
It may sound unlikely viewed from today’s pop landscape, but in the year 1988 everybody wanted to …
Thomas Venker
Mixed Timeline Feelings
And now, to keep up with the world of all the things, let’s see what Facebook reckons I really oug…
Thomas Venker
Flashback to Miles, Melt! and Peter the Ogre
Earlier today I was sitting on a park bench in Cologne and drinking a coffee, reflecting as one does…
Thomas Venker
How many days do we have left to live?
The Greeks have voted, and it was a resounding “No”. “No” to the arrogance of the Troika and…
Thomas Venker
In praise of collective action
Instead of this column’s usual anti-stance, I decided to write today in favor of something: welcom…
Thomas Venker
“That’s not for me anymore”,
Well, it’s a few days since I returned from Primavera Festival 2015, and as always after such an i…
Thomas Venker
In praise of no parachutes on this flight.
“I think artistically it has been a blessing that I never had a back-up plan. No day job to take i…
Thomas Venker
Has a few problems with sponsored content
Today’s column is brought to you by, the word „sponsored“. Ouch. Well, you’re probably well…
Thomas Venker
But I don’t want to be in the Boiler Room!
Nothing is as boring as the over-obvious enemy, the predictably normal nemesis... you try to reserve…
Linus Volkmann / Tanita Sanft
Why do people actually hate the nerds of OK Go that much?
Once upon a time...in a time, when even I still thought that I was certainly going to become a fan o…
Thomas Venker
Be my artist
A few days ago, an author friend of mine – who can’t quite make a living solely from his brillia…
Thomas Venker
Festival to go
A few days ago, the wonderfully sarcastic Trevor Jackson, reported from his booking at Sónar Copenh…
