25 from 2000-2025
Masterful pop song structures: Junior Boys “So This Is Goodbye”
Mario Lasar feels slowed down by “So This Is Goodbye” by the Junior Boys.…
25 from 2000-2025
Interview
Elia Einhorn: “I thought I’d fried my brain forever—music saved me”
""The American music industry is absolutely fucked for artists right now. Streaming pays almost noth…
Kaput Revisited – Interview / Reportage
Akufen “I butcher Sound”
Marc Leclair (Akufen) has taken minimal music to a new level with radio samples in the style of Cada…
Chakeiya Camille Richmond – Interview
KeiyaA: “Black healing music coming from Black pain, that’s the tradition that I still follow” Interview with Chakeiya Camille Richmond
"Do I always have to be the fat Black feminist that's educating y'all on stuff? It's yes and no. Yes…
S.H. Fernando Jr. (alias SKIZ) & Julian Brimmers im Kaput Interview
“The biggest thing about MF DOOM is that he was authentic in a very fake world.
MF DOOM is one of the most enigmatic and brilliant figures in hip-hop – an extraordinary rapper fu…
Interview
Daniel Avery “The older I get, the more I realize that the exciting thing about an artist’s journey is the journey”
"I feel that everyone on the record played an equal part. It has my name on the cover, but I'm just …
Monheim Triennale – Interview
Tyshawn Sorey “I’ve got this!”
Tyshawn Sorey is one of those rare artists who collapses the usual partitions between worlds: contem…
Interview – Enjoy Jazz Festival
Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead
"It’s a hard line between white and black people. It's strange to me because it’s just classism,…
EM GUIDE — STRUMA+IODINE – INTERVIEW
Lorenzo Senni: ”I´m not scared of what I desire”
"Everything we do matters. I speak about my work — so about myself — every second of my life. On…
Feature
Lynchian Lovesongs and Rock Romanticism: Bambara
The music and live shows of "Bambara are deeply, fervently Romantic — in the same way as the core …
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview
HANNAH TODT AKA AUTOR: “FLUTES CAN BE VERY PUNK”
HANNAH TODT IS A VIENNA-BORN, BRUSSELS-BASED ARTIST AND MUSICIAN WHOSE INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE SP…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze
Jugoslavija Wave: New compilations revisiting the ex-Yu post-punk and new wave legacy
If I had a single ticket for the time machine that could take me to any historical or prehistoric pe…
Interview GAJEK – Struma+Iodine – TEXT: MARA NEVER, PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIPPE GERLACH
Gajek “There are many tricks for white male artists to be kind of absent from our work, absent as people”
"World history playing out in the daily lives of people, geopolitical conflicts and siblings not tal…
Interview – DURCHLÜFTEN – 2025 – EM GUIDE
Etran de L’Aïr “To us, the desert is freedom. It is our home”
"We have no worries there. We're at ease, we're at home, we do what we want, work on our music. We'r…
Record of the Week meets Hospital Trauma
Pulp in the hospital
In the 47th year of the band's existence, Pulp landed their first number one hit in the United Kingd…
EM GUIDE — Interview
Lifeguard: “We wanted to make a punk record that sounds like you accidentally dubbed it onto a tape of noise music”
Kaput author Lennart Brauwers spoke to frontman Kai Slater about the band's fantastic Matador debut …
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview
RROSE: “THE PULSE IS THE ANCHOR. EVERYTHING ELSE IS FLUID”
ACROSS A DISCOGRAPHY THAT RESISTS EASY CATEGORIZATION, RROSE HAS LONG PURSUED A SINGULAR AESTHETIC. …
Interview
Heiner Goebbels: Signature / No Signature Papers
“Complexity, polyphony, brokenness,” is Heiner Goebbels' answer to the question of what music mu…
EM GUIDE – 34.sk – Verena Hahn
Forsberg, Mede & Nareswari: The Pain of not sharing a Language
WHEN ADELA MEDE, MARTA FORSBERG AND NINDYA NARESWARI MET UP FOR THIS INTERVIEW IN LATE JANUARY 2025,…
EM GUIDE – caroline – Interview
Jasper Llewellyn (caroline) “It’s like less pensive and contemplative. In a way, it feels more hectic”
In an interview with Kaput author Lennart Brauwers, leading band member/multitalent Jasper Llewellyn…
EM GUIDE – Monheim Triennale – Interview
Oren Ambarchi: “I’m definitely interested in exploring things slowly and taking my time with the exploration“
"I do remember always being told that “music is just a hobby” and “you need to find something …
EM GUIDE – Interview – Blaues Rauschen Festival
Jessica Ekomane “Music has this capacity to make you feel the whole possible and impossible spectrum of your emotions […] and I want to appeal to all of it, all at once”
Jessica Ekomane’s sound doesn’t merely fill a space – it redefines it. The Berlin-based compos…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze – Text: Dragos Rusu
Bucharest’s Post-Pandemic Experimental Music Scene
In summary, while Bucharest’s experimental music scene faces significant post-pandemic challenges,…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – STURMHERTA
STURMHERTA: “AUTECHRE IS STILL ONE OF MY FAVOURITES”
The music is meant to be experienced as a live set on a powerful sound system—you have to “feel…
EM GUIDE – Interview with Boshra Alsaadi
Boshra Alsaadi aka SAADI: “The reality is awful“
"The age old struggle…there’s obviously a lot of hardship in the arts. It's also hard for subver…
EM GUIDE – Interview – 34.sk – Bulat Khalilov
Daniyal Ahmed: “I would never use words like “oriental” since this is not the way we look at ourselves”
Daniyal Ahmed is a musician, ethnomusicologist, music enthusiast and founder of the honiunhoni label…
EM GUIDE — Interview w/ Erfana Barbad – Easterndaze – Lucia Udvardyov / Zsuzsi Boross
Erfana Barbad: “Change can only happen if everyone unites.”
"providing a safe and comfortable space for open-minded and marginalised people" – Lucia Udvardyo…
EM GUIDE — Interview with Eiko Ishibashi
Eiko Ishibashi: “I don’t believe that music can solve anything. But I can’t ignore the world when I’m making music.”
The music of Eiko Ishibashi has been with me for years—ghosting between reality zones, ducking gen…
Questionnaire „Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music“ w/ Nadia Struiwigh
Nadia Struiwigh: “I’ve always imagined myself as a sort of fairy creature, and for a long time, I felt like I had to hide that part.”
“I think the biggest thing I’ve learned is that I am often my biggest block. Not the world, not …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends: Gudrun Gut
Gudrun Gut
Gudrun Gut needs no introduction. She is a legendary musical pioneer of the 80s, a producer, …
EM GUIDE – Interview with Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs and Kramer
Squanderers “Inspiration is for amateurs”
Kramer: "I see the trio as a single entity, like a multi-celled organism that behaves in the manner …
Interview with Bryan Crow, Festival Director of Big Ears
Orchestrating the Beautiful Chaos of Big Ears
Kaput exploring the organic curation, unique collaborations, and community spirit behind Big Ears Fe…
EM GUIDE – Interview
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD ARE BACK: “You just gotta let it happen”
"We love making music that is accessible and catchy, but we like to layer our music with different l…
EM GUIDE — Easterndaze – Freddie Hudson
ESTROGUN: Unapologetically c*nt in the face of the complex socio-political maelstrom
In the first of a series of articles exploring the cultural and social diversity of Prague and Czech…
EM GUIDE — মM. - Struma+Iodine
RUHAIL QAISAR: “I GREW UP AMONGST RUINS OF ANCIENT PALACES, MONASTERIES, AND CREMATION MOUNDS”
UNSAFE+SOUNDS CO-CURATOR মM. in conversation with the India based artist Ruhail Qaisar.…
EM GUIDE –Interview with Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki and Omagbitse Omagbemi about “Glitch Witch”
“We live on this planet, we can do what we want” – “Glitch Witch”: Breaking Spells, Shifting Identities, and the Art of Collaborative Movement
“GLITCH WITCH” – a haunted trip through scorched memories and flickering futures. Meg Stuart, …
EM GUIDE – Interview – Lubomyr Melnyk on love, time, dreams and the art of Continuous Music
„The true purpose of great music, I believe, is not to simply entertain people. It’s to help the soul and mind grow within the individual.“
"Well, I feel like I’m a ballet dancer, but on the piano. The keyboard is my floor, and my hands a…
EM GUIDE — School’s Out with Shahzad Ismaily and His Daughter, Anika Loa Ismaily Quilter
Shahzad Ismaily: „I was sticking my face deep into the music“
"Let´s start the game. I wanna taste this Smoothie and guess what´s in it?" A day in Brooklyn wit…
EM GUIDE — Easterndaze – Timon Láska interviews Martina Svobodová
Self-discovery w/ Martina Svobodová aka Martyyna
"I’ve been thinking about what a scar actually is. It’s a memory of something that happened to y…
EM GUIDE — 3/4.sk – Kika Echeverría – Essay
The voices that wait – the archive of Chile al día
In this essay, Kika Echeverría explores her encounter with the archive of «Chile al día», a broa…
EM GUIDE — Easterndaze – Freddie Hudson – Gin&Platonic label feature
Gin&Platonic: “We try not to lock ourselves into just one sonic identity”
"Hand in hand with self-releasing and self-promoting becoming easier for the artists, the amount of …
EM GUIDE – Interview
Ellen Arkbro “I love making sound in a room and having people there to experience it”
The Swedish composer, musician and sound artist Ellen Arkbro is known for her very precise productio…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Dorothy Carter “Why would you want to own all of this stuff? Doesn´t it burden you?”
Thomas Venker, the publisher of Kaput Magazin, invited me to do a series of interviews with i…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Einmalig und unendlich wertvoll: Betty Stürmer
"Es gab allerdings eine Künstlerin, die das akademische Potential dieser Zeit und die Vermischung v…
EM GUIDE — 3/4 – Feature by Bulat Khalilov
Stefan Schneider, TAL: “Young people keep having new ideas about what they want to listen to and how they create new sounds”
"I like limitations (with respect to myself and also my equipment) and I never wanted to be able to …
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Feature by SAMUEL OBERNOSTERER,
ICEBOY VIOLET: “IT’S DEMARCATING WHAT FITS INTO A SPECIFIC IDEA OF RAP”
"My music is just rap music. I don’t feel like my music is that weird, honestly, but then, I do li…
EM GUIDE — Easterndaze — Feature by Dragoș Rusu
Reflections on the Past and the Present of Manele Music in Romania
In today’s Romanian society, few topics have the power to polarize as much as Manele (the more com…
Ece Özel – Interview – EM GUIDE
Ece Özel „I don’t like to be in the center of attention“
Even before I first arrived in Istanbul, I had already heard a lot about Ece Özel from friends and …
Interview – Anatolian pop and folk music… for a world on the threshold of a new era
Melike Şahin: “In my concerts it is not important how you think or who you vote for”
While “Merhem” was an album about healing, on the follow-up album “AKKOR”, Melike Şahin ref…
EM GUIDE – MMN Mag – Bori
“Local lineup has been the alpha and omega of most of the events recently”
Jonáš Verešpej and Nicolas Atcheson (of Prague night-life-insitutions Ankali & Planeta Za) in co…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – BIANCA LUDEWIG
JULIA JUST. JETZT. KLANGQUANTEN FÜR DIE POST-DEMOKRATIE
"Musik spielte in meiner frühen Sozialisation keine wirkliche Rolle. Aber seit ich Teenager bin hö…
EM GUIDE – Struma+Iodine – Interview: Daphne Xanthopoulou, Photography: Ronja Kappl
Zosia Hołubowska: “Healing is communal; it occurs in collectivity”
"I am a migrant, and I’m very proud of it, especially in the context of Austria and after the rece…
