Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation with Lyndelle-Jayne Spruyt (L.J.Spruyt)
"You also couldn't afford to buy endless rolls of film, paper and chemicals–so the photos you took…
Nika Breithaupt – Interview
Nika Breithaupt aka Nika Son aka Nikae is one of the most active and sensitive artists in Hamburg. H…
"Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music" – Kraków Loves Adana
"I faced a lot of latent racism growing up, it was always a big deal where I come from, so I tried m…
Beste Aydin – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
Beste Aydin, better known under her artistic imprint Nene Hatun, is one of those blessed people with…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation
"The better you know yourself, the more fearless you can translate it into sound." – Dorit Chrysl…
Chinese music promoter Ni Bing is trying to give his home country a good name by posting food and landscape photos
"I personally think the government here controlled the situation in the end pretty well, but obvious…
Cindy Li – Tour Diary Asia
Within the last twelve months Toronto based dj and producer Cindy Li (which goes by the artist name …
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends – Käthe Kruse
"Difficult to answer. I am open and honest in a straightforward and direct way. That means I do not …
British DJ and producer Luke Slater creates his “Berghain Fifteen” mix from no less than 26 new tracks, constructed from the archive of his label Ostgut Ton
The 2nd of January 2020 is slowly coming to an end. But time doesn’t play a role any more anyway. …
Terr – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
"My mother says that the only thing that kept me calm when I was younger was music. She says that El…
Pedro Vian – Interview
"I need to find inspiration on what I’m seeing or feeling at the moment in order for me to start a…
Miruna Boruzescu – Interview
"This relief, please breathe in, now we start, you breathe out, in your mind so deep in there’s a…
Indian singer-songwriter Ditty on carbon-neutral touring and taking the positive side of the Corona-related pause
Indian singer-songwriter Ditty shares her thoughts on carbon-neutral touring and taking the positive…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends – PHEW
"After the 2011 earthquake and nuclear power plant accident, I was cautious and skeptical of singing…
Steve Blame – Interview
"Money and career are unimportant in the grand scheme of things. When you look after someone who is …
Gabi Delgado – Farewell to a shining star
"The ever young punk Gabi Delgado, he will forever have a special place in my heart. There are not m…
Indo-American EDM musician Madame Gandhi on her India connection, bad habits and her way of activism.
I want to make my feminism accessible. I've always led from a really positive place I've always want…
Arya Zappa – Interview
The world of Arya Zappa brings up many references. Of course one has to think of Grace Jones, but al…
Trans activist Doel Rakshit writes a personal piece on the current protests in India and why it’s worth fighting.
Trans activist Doel Rakshit writes – as the first of three articles conducted to kaput by guest e…
Daniele De Picciotto & Friends: Rachel Davis
"The last few years have been very difficult ones for the public’s health. At Prevention Institute…
Waclaw Zimpel – Interview
On the 31st of January 2020, Polish musician Waclaw Zimpel will release his new album “Massive Osc…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends: Candice Nembhard
"In my opinion, the rise of first person, op-eds has somewhat overshadowed the responsibility of neu…
TENTENKO – Interview
Tentenko just released a split lp with Kopy on Tal Records and will be for the first time on tour in…
Danielle De Picciotto & friends in conversation – Michaela Melián
"I do not really make anything up, the topics I'm interested in are lying around anyway, offering th…
Danielle De Picciotto and friends in conversation: Martina Bertoni
"At the moment the challenge for everybody is to learn the right vocabulary when we deal with creati…
U.K. election
As the U.K. goes to the polls for the third time in five years, in its first winter election for nea…
Henrietta Smith-Rolla / Afrodeutsche – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
This interview with Henrietta Smith-Rolla is part of the ongoing photo-project „Electric Lights - …
Battles
The New York experimental electronic band, which has been shrunken to a duo, takes the bull by the h…
"It's the End of the World As We Know It: About Extinction” – “Why Pop and the climate movement have so little to say to one another”
"The loss of significance for pop is not only due to the fact that there are new distribution channe…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Margarete Kreuzer
"That's why I love music, because it makes you feel things in a very straightforward way. When I hea…
Becca Stevens – Interview
There are certain struggles that women face in the music industry that men see much less of, and thi…
Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 – Interview with Lucia Udvardyova & Natalie Gravenor
Even though it's exactly 30 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and most Eastern European coun…
Ka Baird – Interview
"In order to deal with nerves I would often jump around a lot in order to deal with my performance a…
Loretta Fahrenholz – Interview alongside her series of videoclips for Kim Gordon
"I would say the real conditions are much more brutal than any kind of representation of them. In fi…
Aurora Halal – “Electric Lights - Women in Electronic Music”
This Brooklyn-based producer and video artist has established herself in the last few years as one o…
Floating Points
"I guess, you know, I managed to get the word apoptose and something scientific and something so ser…
Youth Culture Now Part 2
JULIA LORENZ has written a plea against generational clichés and the rampant mania to categorize ev…
Youth Culture Now Part 3
STEFAN HOCHGESAND deals with queerness, coming of age and outings in pop culture. Queer youth like L…
Youth Culture Now Part 1
"The debate about cultural appropriation suffers from its premise: It is based on the assumption tha…
Morrissey, gifted singer and songwriter, is down with the Pegida
The pain many fans feel about Morrissey's political development is deep-seated. We are giving two pe…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Raphaele Shirley
"It is a life-long quest to discover a satisfying way to represent the Universe..." – Raphaele S…
HTRK at Atonal Festival – Interview
"We’ve gone through a whole process of healing and accepting and that just comes out in what you c…
Felix Kubin & Matt Wand in conversations
This conversation happened on 8th of May 2019 in Hamburg. The next night Matt Wand gave an impressiv…
MELANIE JAME WOLF / SAVAGE AMUSEMENT: “TONIGHT”
"I started my performance career, because I really, really didn't want to do a normal job. Performin…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Sabin Aell
"I guess I am a surfer, riding “the wave”, always on the look out for the next magnificent one."…
on power and dominion, visibility and representation, and on intersectionality in pop music
In the third text of the series curated by Aida Baghernejad, she herself thinks out loud about power…
Annett Scheffel on„When I Get Home“ by Solange Knowles
Annett Scheffel is immersing herself deeply into "When I Get Home", Solange Knowles' new album. She …
The cultural struggle around female bodies in pop music: Songs about abortions
The second text of the series curated by Aida Baghernejad, Julia Lorenz searches for traces: Songs a…
Merrill Nisker – Interview
"Do not be fooled, there are many paths and many opinions and although I would love to believe we ar…
YPY – Interview with Koshiro Hino
"It’s often very hard mentally and physically for me during the production process, but once a pro…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Andrea Wünsche (Magnet Musik)
"As a booker, you have to create a strategy, a plan for your artist, have to travel a lot, get to kn…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation – Sonja Krohn (La petite Sonja)
"I want to survive as long as I can to raise our daughter properly. That’s my main plan momentaril…
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