Terence Fixmer – Interview
Terence Fixmer: „I saw the start of Techno!“
"Personally I don’t understand djs who are playing ten times or more per month. I don’t see the …
Terence Fixmer – Interview
Jessica Pratt – Interview
Jessica Pratt: “It came out of me with a bang”
"Quiet Signs" is, of course, not a loud, flashy album – rather a gentle revolution, a timeless, cr…
Borderlands Trio – Interview with Stephan Crump
Borderlands Trio: “A lifetime of preparation for that moment”
Borderlands Trio is the formation of Stephan Crump (bass), Kris Davis (piano) and Eric Mc Pherson (d…
Melvin Oliphant III / Mutant Beat Dance – Interview
Making a mutant
"Nothing was never wasted or thrown out because I wouldn´t allow us to come together with no result…
Tasho Nicolopulos - Kaput Talk
Its Own Infinite Flower: “I feel music should be an adventure to create & also to listen to”
"Following the deaths of friends, the dissolution of friendships and intense heartbreak, making musi…
Danielle De Picciotto & Friends in conversation - Ziska Riemann
Ziska Riemann: “Art has the ability to confuse one’s point of view”
"I still live the same bohemian life as twenty years ago. Since I have no permanent job, no family, …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Marie Čtveráčková
Marie Čtveráčková: “It still surprises me how women are treated”
For the latest installment of Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation DdP met up with Prague…
Loraine James – Interview
“female:pressure is awesome because it recognises us, and we do exist. There are a lot of us!”
"I think in the past year and a half I’ve become more confident in who I am as a person, and my id…
An interview with James Stinson by Andrew Duke (from December 2001)
Drexciya: „Why not give it a try again and see what will happen?“
The music of James Stinson and Gerald Donald is equal parts electro, techno, and funk. Murky and mys…
Helena Hauff
Helena Hauff: “Why I am actually doing this?”
"The sun is slowly creeping up from behind floor and the people on the dance floor are now going com…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Linnea Hellström
Linnea Hellström: “The main reason to be strong is to protect those who are weaker”
"Veganism is more than what we eat, buy, wear, support or boycott. It´s a whole way of thinking, fe…
Lena Platonos – Interview – DICE conference and festival
Lena Platonos: “I listen to music 24 hours a day.”
"I advise them to fight for their rights and hope for a more optimistic future." – Lena Platonos …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Barbara Morgenstern: “Goose bumps are always great”
"Language is very important to me, I work a lot with meanings between the lines, ambiguity, puns and…
Andi Otto in conversation with Oki Kano, collaborator of the late Umeko Ando
The magic music of Umeko Ando
Interview by Andi Otto with Oki Kano, collaborator of the late Umeko Ando.…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation – Natasja Alers
Natasja Alers: “Art is a way for me to express frustration, sadness, passion or obsession and a certain urgency”
"I can't imagine my life without creating something, whatever it is. Art for me is the only answer a…
The Brooklyn-based booking agency Discwoman is working on a long overdue paradigm shift in the still male-dominated DJ business
Discwoman: “Questioning the circumstances”
"It is a bit too much. To be honest, we would be delighted if there were more agencies like ours. We…
Fenster - JJ Weihl in conversation
“What if life was just a joke?”
After the withdrawal of producing "The Room" comes return, so it’s time to say knock knock: Who’…
Peter Brötzmann & Oxbow
It’s not the twelve bar, it’s the person behind!
On Sunday the 20th of May Peter Brötzmann played together with Dan Adams, Greg Davis, Eugene Robins…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Amy Kaps: “Honest expression is the most potent”
"I would really like to get out of the no or low budget concept" – Amy Kaps in conversation with …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Jo Quail: If you’re a freelance musician and a parent you need to be incredibly well organized”
"Inspiration takes all forms for all people, whether it’s a gentle meditation as you do the shoppi…
Fischerspooner Interview with Casey Spooner
Casey Spooner: “Now I’m addicted to museum shows. I want one every year.”
"Now I'm addicted to museum shows. I want one every year." – NAK director Maurice Funken in conve…
Silvia Jiménez Alvarez aka Jasss in conversation
JASSS: “Those things exist in me and bother me.”
Spain born artist Silvia Jiménez Alvarez already set some significant marks in the world of dark el…
The Transcendence Orchestra
A journey into the unknown
Asked what to expect from their upcoming performance at Meakusma festival, both Anthony Child and Da…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Tessa Hughes Freeland: “Overload creates a confusion of meaning – I love that”
Tessa Hughes Freeland is a british born experimental filmmaker who moved to NYC in the late 70ies. S…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Kirsty Allison: “Life’s too short to fuck around”
"Good poetry brings people together, and there’s nothing like instigating that." – Danielle de …
DJ Koze on panic disorders and severe depressive episodes
DJ Koze “The Job is tough”
"The fact that you are still alive after years of having all of these allegedly death-bringing sympt…
Mouse on Mars
Prioritize the people
It’s about time for me to confess something. At some point during the 2000s, I distanced myself a …
Magnea
Social pop anthropologist
In the first place, Maral Salmassi just wanted to produce the record by the Icelandic dance pop duo …
Tom Simmert: "Dance Music Across the Atlantic"
Robert Johnson Theory 56
"What I want to share today are some considerations on electronic dance music in Africa, which has b…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Vibeke Jensen: “I insist on and seek to integrate all aspects of life rather than separating life from art”
"–isms are not important to me, while the reality of us living on Earth together and the critical …
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Dana Gingras: “Dancing really saved my life, as it was a way to manage all the energy and self-destructive tendencies I had”
"Dance and live performance fundamentally explores and embraces the condition of risk. Through emplo…
Midori Takada
“Music is about life and death.”
“Some people say that my music was very emotional. In the 70s and 80s, I tried to suppress my fee…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Marta Collica: “I see myself as the mountain Etna”
"Describing her as a queen is perfect and especially in these troubled times our confused world need…
"The Invisible Hands" – Interview with Director Marina Gioti
“One of the last true punks” – Alan Bishop and the Invisible Hands
Kaput talked to Marina Gioti about "The Invisible Hands", the documentation she produced together w…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Laura Kikauka: “Rediscovering the art of slowing down”
Laura Kikauka is almost impossible to describe because she seems most understandable when you experi…
Marco Donnarumma: „Corpus Nil: Eingeweide“
“It’s about understanding that we humans are not any more important than any other creature on the planet”
A lot has been written lately about the end of the artist as we know her/him. The legend is on the s…
FILTER Detroit – Kerstin Niemand on 12645 Moran Street, Detroit
“Detroit is an open city”
The direct contact with local artists revealed that the metropolis, which until now has only been kn…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
“Stories about humans and plants” – The work and life of Olga Volchkova
For the fourth installment of her series "Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation", Danielle…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Claudia Skoda: “Fashion has never been as cheap and inflationary as today and at the same time absurdly expensive.”
When I moved from NYC to Berlin in the mid eighties I was able to experience the last strides of an …
Simon Reynolds in conversation with Christina Mohr
“The illusory belief that fame will give you immortality”
Born in London, established in New York and currently living in Los Angeles, Simon Reynolds is a man…
Mozhgan Shariat
„The idea was to play weird, soundtracky monster music“
San Francisco based Mozhgan Shariat is alongside Solar and Jason Greer the co-host of the super well…
Bogomir Doringer – "I Dance Alone"
“I am interested in catching the ghosts of the dance-floor.”
The Serbian artist Bogomir Doringer films for his ongoing project “I Dance Alone“ dance-floors …
Richie Dagger’s Crime
“I’m super shy”
I’m still learning how to become a stage personality. I’m super shy, I get so much anxiety perfo…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Laura Ortman – “I was shy as fuck as a kid but always causing rumbles”
"The dreamy tunes of Laura Ortman mixed raw violin sounds, electronic samples, a small megaphone and…
Jan Schulte
WONKY DRUMMING WITH
Anything goes for Jan Schulte, who has learned this trade at the Salon des Amateurs. He releases his…
Danielle de Picciotto & Friends in Conversation
Jarboe
First part of our new interview series, hosted by Danielle de Picciotto. This time former Swans memb…
Rashad Becker & Ena
Friendly Neighbours
While Rashad Becker is best known for being a luminary in the field of mastering, but he is also an …
Detlef Weinrich aka Tolouse Low Trax
“The world still makes sense in the morning, at night everything crumbles.”
Detlef Weinrich has been making music under his current imprint Tolouse Low Trax since 2010. His won…
Mark Fell – Syn/Cussion-Festival
“To me that would be a waste of a life spending your life making money.”
From the fifth to the seventh of May the Syn/Cussion-Festival will take place at Berlin’s Radialsy…
Jerrilynn Patton aka Jlin
“It feels great to not have a dayjob anymore”
Jlin shakes her head to the question if she had been under pressure as a result of people's expectat…
