M for Montreal
Karneef: „The script is written, the set is half-built, and I get to weave everything together exactly as I hear it”
Every November, M for Montreal turns the city into a vibrant hub of discovery — a showcase where t…
M for Montreal
Unsound Osaka 2025
„We’ve produced seven festivals this year. It’s not great for one’s mental or physical health — but at least life isn’t boring.“
"The result was less an imported festival than a temporary rewiring of the city’s circuits — a w…
Festival
Le Guess Who? 2025: The Full Map of the Unknown
"This year’s curators — Amirtha Kidambi, Asher Gamedze, Edna Martinez, gyrofield, Lonnie Holley,…
Unsound Festival Osaka 2025
Unsound Osaka
Unsound has always thrived on dislocation. This first September weekend, Osaka becomes the latest no…
Transcript of a conversation between Keith McIvor of Optimo and Andrew Thomson in early 2024. Optimo forever!
Keith McIvor: “it’s always been very political and you just chose to ignore that side of it”
"... go nightclubbing is it's an escape from the whatever terrible things are going on in the world.…
Festival report: Monheim Triennale 2025
Monheim Triennale 2025: Captured by art, place and possibility
Walk anywhere around Monheim the town, and you spot festival posters that declare “Monheim Trienna…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – ROBERT SCHWARZ
ROBERT SCHWARZ: “INSECTS ARE FASCINATING AND UNDERAPPRECIATED”
"Often field recordings are associated with exotic and spectacular places. For this project, I mostl…
The Cologne Affair: Nicky Siano
Nicky Siano: “Unfortunately, DJing has become a dying art form
"e. You look at someone, you get a smile—that’s what you should get. It should be inviting and f…
Papiripar Festival / Interview with Luke Fowler & Ryoko Akama
Ryoko Akama: “Capitalism destroys coordination and I am not sure how we can re-coordinate ourselves into a system that works”
At this year’s Papiripar Festival in Hamburg, Fowler and Akama will join forces for a special coll…
EM GUIDE — Blaues Rauschen Festival / 17.5.- 7.6.2025
Portrait XO: „My favorite way of working is taking speculations of new technologies and turning them into tangible things like art and music, then having interesting conversations about them with people.“
"I personally don't want to see a future where artists are out of jobs because no one decides to hir…
Rewire 2025 Festivals Report
Rewire 2025: “It’s hard to figure out what the highlights were, but I’m gonna give it a try”
This was my second time visiting the festival and it’s already turning into one of my favorite pla…
Rewire – Festival
Rewire 2025 – 10 Performances not to be missed
Rewire Festival 2025 arrives with its signature blend of boundary-erasing sound and cerebral stimula…
Outsiders – Insomnia Festival
Outsiders: A Personal Reflection on Identity, Ritual, and togetherness.
Set under the Aries full moon on the 17th of October 2024, the event Outsiders opened the Insomnia F…
Philadelphia, The Pub, Sa. 26.10.24
Making Time PURE HALLOWEEN™
Kaputs favorite Philly photographer Uv Lucas was so kind to capture for us the capturable: the trans…
EM GUIDE — Interview with Le Motel, conducted at Meakusma 2024
Le Motel „It’s very important for me at least to be always out of my comfort zone“
Le Motel, a true world traveller in the name of music, who´s discography shows great enthusiasm for…
EM GUIDE — NOIES – Text: Verena Hahn
Vica Pacheco “I’m trying to create natural synthetic landscapes”
Vica Pacheco created a sonorous biosphere of instrument-machines inside of the Deutzer Brücke. Vere…
Making Time Festival 2024
Time keep slipping – for relaxing times, make it Making Time time
Honestly, when I literally crawled out of the mud from the site in 2023, I wouldn't have put any sto…
Festival
Making Time 2024 in 16 pictures
Making Time 2024 was simply the best festival experience ever ever. All those lucky folks who made i…
Signals2Noise
“Don’t be afraid of the mic, enjoy the anonymity of the sonic, and join your local community radio”
"Signals2Noise is a major gathering of independent community radios held in Berlin. S2N focuses on t…
EM GUIDE / Easterndaze / Festivalreport by Hayden Potter
Borderline Noise Festival — Experimental Art Between Philosophers and Circus Performers
Hayden Potter's festival diary about the last-ever Borderline Noise Festival and the echoes of its v…
EM Guide – Questionaire
EM GUIDE SPECIAL: QUESTIONNAIRE ON TIME & MONEY
WHEN YOU TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR WORK, YOU RARELY GET THE IMPRESSION THAT THEY LACK IDEAS. …
dekmantel festival report
Dekmantel 2024 w/ Dj Sprinkles, Steffi, Aurora Halal, Lena Willikens, Mozhgan Shariat…
I may have been called out for my unconventional table sharing style of coffee drinking (see below, …
EM GUIDE – Interview Christoph Benkeser / Marija Jociūtė
“Music is my playground” – an interview with Hyeji Nam
"When I was around 18, I became very sick. For a year, I barely couldn’t walk. That was a tough ph…
Sleep Well Melt!
Melt! A love affair in many chapters
After 25 years Melt! Festival is happening this weekend for the last time. Instead of many words, I…
Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music – tamiX
„Pure enjoyment“ w/ tamiX aka Nan Tang
"The audience's behavior on the dance floor after hearing electronic music is human instinct I suppo…
EM – GUIDE – Blaues Rauschen Festival – Interview
Noriko Tujiko/ 辻子紀子 “We could feel beautiful and peaceful, maybe.”
"My parents were very open minded I guess – at least they never interfered me by negativity." (No…
Cabinet of Kaput
Philipp Joy Reinhardt „Hold your shit together (Chardin‘s cat)“
Cabinet No. 71 Philipp Joy Reinhardt „Hold your shit together (Chardin‘s cat)“…
Cabinet of Kaput
Ernst Markus Stein “What is the family?”
Cabinet of Kaput No. 69 Ernst Markus Stein "What is the family?" …
Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music – Akua
Akua “I’d like to see more respect for the origins of techno and more younger techno audiences familiarizing themselves with its history”
"I consider the act of creation to be a very feminine process in itself. For myself though, I feel l…
Cabinet of Kaput
Sarah Szczesny „The gown will have to do all sorts of crazy wonderful things, you know, so it doesn’t restrict me“
Cabinet Nr. 67 Sarah Szczesny „The gown will have to do all sorts of crazy wonderful things, you…
3 DAYS OF MUSIC DEDICATED TO PETER BRÖTZMANN London Café OTO, 8.2.10.2.2024
Peter Brötzmann “Full of love and respect”
"A memorial dedicated to a man that meant so much to so many. Hamish Dunbar, the artistic director o…
Cabinet of Kaput
Céline Keller “Who Is Afraid of Degrowth?”
Cabinet of Kaput No. 66 Céline Keller "Who Is Afraid of Degrowth?"…
Cabinet of Kaput
Katrin Fuchsloch “Why must I be a teenager in love?”
Cabinet of Kaput No. 65 Katrin Fuchsloch "Why must I be a teenager in love?"…
Cabinet of Kaput
Ruy Krygier “Freud Conche avec Parrots”
Cabinet of Kaput No. 64 Ruy Krygier "Freud Conche avec Parrots" …
Deep Talk NRW
“Deep Talk: IRWIN” – “Was ist Kunst, IRWIN?”
Kaput Mag presents a thoughtful exploration of the Slovenian artist collective IRWIN, founded in 198…
Cabinet of Kaput
Alex Müller “Sonntagskind Phantastico”
Cabinet of Kaput No. 63 Alex Müller "Sonntagskind Phantastico"…
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Ani Schulze “If it fit’s – it flies”
Cabinet of Kaput Nr. 62 Ani Schulze If it fit’s - it flies…
Interview with Bevin Kelley aka Blevin Blectum
Blevin Blectum – free and different, ever-shifting
"I appreciate the complete autonomy (outside of the day job) to do whatever I want with music" – …
Cabinet of Kaput No. 61
Lutz Braun “demon land” / “Rote” / “cloak”
Cabinet of Kaput Nr.61 Lutz Braun "demon land" "Rote" "cloak"…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation: Katja Ruge
Katja Ruge: “Every project I do is exciting for me, otherwise I wouldn’t do it”
"I can't really pinpoint it, but my dad put me up with a friend in the photo lab in Hamburg because …
Making Time ∞ at Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia
Making Time ∞ – Looking back in Photos
Looking back at Making Time ∞ at Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia. Photos by Uv Lucas. …
Cabinet of Kaput
Rosa Sarholz “Dirty Laundry”
Cabinet of Kaput No. 60 Rosa Sarholz "Dirty Laundry" 2021 180 x 18 cm…
„Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music“
IMOGEN: “I love things to be raw and emotive”
"Whenever I write music I always listen to it on the road, I think you get a much better idea of the…
A truly transcendental experience gonna happen in Philadelphia the upcoming weekend
Making Time w/ Dave P
Fellow transcendental artists share their first or most memorable Dave P moment with the world ahead…
Noelia Maffiold & Felix Nisblé in conversation about "Desvestirse (Nacht 84 Remix)" and beyond
Noelia Maffiold “Being away from my home country made me feel closer to the sounds and the music in Colombia”
Colombian musician Noelia Maffiold talks about her experiences studying in Europe, workings as an ar…
Le Guess Who? 2023 – an endless list of common faves and upcoming artists,
The summer ends and fall knocks with all its power on our doors and souls – and thankfully Utre…
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 …
Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music – Paula Tape
Paula Tape: “I remember a lot of moments with my parents and their friends dancing to salsa and disco music”
"I like to find something real, that can freak me out, that can give me goosebumps, that can makes m…
Festival Report
Towards a juster music world: Roskilde and the Human Stain
Is something rotten in Denmark? Not at Roskilde: the Danish festival legend lights the way in terms …
