Feature
Fairouz Hasan “How can a film about Palestine have an ending?“
Hasan’s works are an attempt at holding something that is under the constant threat of vanishing: …
Feature
Guests: Gudrun Gut, Laureen Kornemann, Christin Nichols, Anton Teichmann – Moderation: Thomas Venker, Linus Volkmann
Insolvency & Pop – A Roundtable Discussion “The Social Fabric of Culture is Disintegrating”
For our first print issue, we posed this question to four very different figures from the pop music …
Column
WE BETTER TALK THIS OVER #14: „SOLAR POWER“ VON LORDE (2021)
To understand “Solar Power”, you first have to grasp the aesthetic of its predecessor “Melodra…
Mark Fell, 2026
Macaroni synthesis revisited… on the life, work and philosophy of Yasunao Tone (1935-2025).
" ... Tone rejected any singular reading of his work. It was as if he saw our thoughts and theories …
Feature
Kapa Tult – A Sense of inner conflict
The young band Kapa Tult have mastered the art of lyrically capturing their generation’s lived rea…
Long Read
A Song Ain’t No Bridge Anymore – On Cultural Boycotts and the BDS Campaign
What role can culture play in mending rifts, what can it do to create solidarity across nationalitie…
Following in the footsteps of “Musiki” in Kadıköy
Ahmet Sinan Hatipoğlu: “Demos are always better, because there is no “mathematics” in a demo, only feeling.”
A conversation about the reinvention of Turkish New Age, the spiritual force of Jethro Tull, and the…
Kapute Szene - Conversations I: Stephan Mathieu
Stephan Mathieu: “Cutting hair, playing drums, computers, Early music, mastering. Ultimately, it all fits together and defines me as a person. Keep learning every day; slow growth is good growth.”
His mastering work is internationally known and covers a broad range of genres, with clients includi…
Interview
Chris Ryan Williams: “I’m a relatively introverted person. Leaving my house to get on the bus or the train and just “being” there is a shared experience that I don’t take for granted.”
The screen flickers, and for a fleeting moment, the transatlantic distance between Cologne and New Y…
Interview
Amelia Holt: “Are you interested in being part of something special, or are you here for the money?”
I catch up with the New York-based DJ, promoter, and agency head Amelia Holt. Between the snow-duste…
“Heavy Waters” at CTM 2026
Zeynep Schilling: “I can’t imagine making art only for art’s sake. I’ve always been political, starting in high school.”
“Heavy Waters” is not a metaphor in search of gravity; it is gravity. It asks what it means to m…
A conversation with Chloé Zhao by Daniel Kothenschulte
Chloé Zhao: “To me, love is not about happiness (…), love is about transformation”
"I don't think you can love with an open heart without the capacity of handling the pain from being …
Interview – Jason Williamson on “The Demise of Planet X”
Sleaford Mods: “It’s very rare that I’m on a positive streak”
Jason Williamson reflects once again on political exhaustion, masculinity, consumerism, and ageing w…
Interview
Sera Kalo “Vulnerability and surprise. That’s what I’m looking for. Always.“
On February 23 at HAU1, the Caribbean–US American singer and composer presents her latest album, …
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.…
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…
