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…
Beiträge von Thomas Venker
EM GUIDE — Easterndaze – Freddie Hudson
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.…
Videopremiere: „Quand le grenier aura pris feu“
Anadol & Marie Klock – an unfortunate encounter between pigeons and various people
We are more than happy to present the brand-new video for the single "Quand le grenier aura pris feu…
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 — Kolumne Gefühle und Gedanken zu einer Welt, deren Umriss mir nicht mehr gefällt
IT HAS PLAYED OUT – OR: THE TRUMPIZATION OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING
Spring 2025 doesn't make it easy to believe that things will be better this year and in the coming y…
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 …
Record of the Week
Konrad Sprenger „Set“ (Black Truffle)
Konrad Sprenger „Set“ (Black Truffle) Konrad Sprenger’s „Set“ opens with a paradox. The ti…
EM GUIDE — Interview with Ozan Tekin about "Mornings for Sale / Satılık Sabahlar: No.2"
“In Istanbul, the seamless cycle of night and day unfolds almost unnoticed”
"For me, the effect of the blue hour has always been more profound than that of a sunset. It’s a m…
CTM Festival 2025
10 CTM shows not to be missed this week
In 2025, the CTM Festival will once again be one big awesome overload: an endless stream of panels, …
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…
Video "Down Comes the Goose" by LILLEVAN
Tarwater “Down Comes the Goose”
The comeback of Tarwater was one of the positive surprises of the music year 2024. After a ten yea…
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 …
2024 – Das Jahr in Insolvenz & Pop
“There is nothing to say, it would all sound banal” – 2024 mit Cristina Marx
"They were all simply very, very nice festivals/events and therefore many concert highlights."…
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…
Interview – EM GUIDE
Anadol & Marie Klock “Like a ray of sunshine”
"There is no magic, just hard work. I remember every single note I played and if Gözen tries to ste…
US-Election 2024
Inflation, housing crises, multiple jobs …
Inflation, housing crises, multiple jobs ... and unfortunately no Democrats who have managed to give…
EM GUIDE – Interview by Thomas Venker
No Land & Luke Stewart „„For me this moment in time is about cultivating a deeper listening to one another”
In September, I had the opportunity to meet No Land and Luke Stewart in Luke’s temporary residency…
Lamin Fofana – Interview, New York, Central Park, September 2024 – EM GUIDE
Lamin Fofana „Black music, black noise is not something that can be captured and put in categories“
Jonathan Forsythe and I meet Lamin Fofana on a beautiful September day on the corner of Central Park…
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…
Video premiere of the remix by Berlin based producer KMRU for Belgian artist Youniss
KMRU x Youniss: „Walad“
We are very happy to present you today the remix by KMRU to the track „Walad“ together with the …
Record of the Week
Charli XCX “Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat”
Charli XCX’s remix album is like a hazy fever dream you wake up from at 3 AM, clutching at the fra…
New York Special – Interview – EM GUIDE
Justin Strauss “Dance music is a different animal than it was when I started out”
"„Anyone who's been in this business for as many years as I have, there's going to be ups and down…
Interview
Isaac Zavale: „I want people to know about where I’m from, what shapes me, what got me to make this kind of work. So the world can understand what it is about.“
"When I reflect about myself, sometimes I wonder how I would be if I had to grow up in Mozambique …
Fotogalerie by Rainer Holz
Fred Frith 75 Birthday Festival
Last night, the British multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Fred Frith performed in three…
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…
EM GUIDE – Easterndaze / Text: Alessandro Pilo
Shaking Up the Boy’s Club: A Rising Wave of Female Artists Carving Their Space in Budapest’s Underground Music Scene
The underground music scene in Budapest is buzzing with a fresh wave of female artists. Club program…
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…
Interview
Farida Amadou “The music shows the turmoil inside me”
Belgian-Nigerien bassist Farida Amadou has been finding and reinventing the electric bass again and …
Interview
Marina Otero “Fuck me, love me and kill me is the idea of romantic love”
"I dream of continuing to do what I do and that with each work I can discover something new. That th…
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 / 3/4 / Text and Translation by Dominika Moravčíková
Listening to Other Realities: Elia Moretti on sound art, the Carpathians and dissidence
Elia Moretti is a composer, performer, and music researcher based in Prague who also has strong conn…
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 / 3/4 / INTERVIEW: JÁN SOLČÁNI, PHOTOS: ZOLTÁN CZAKÓ
WITH MAPPA ON THE FLUID BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FICTIONAL AND REAL SOUND WORLDS
JÁN SOLČÁNI MET THE SLOVAKIAN MAPPA LABEL RUNNER JAKUB JUHÁS AND TALKED WITH HIM ABOUT PERIPHERI…
EM Guide – Author: Gábor Erlich
Underground Culture Under Threat I. — Georgia’s illiberal turn and resistance movement
The illiberal frenzy has hit Georgia hard. Thus, I thought it would be interesting to sketch out som…
EM Guide – Andrei Yemelianov in conversation with Bulat Khalilov for 3/4.sk
Maqame Daxe: Sounds of pop, jazz and rock from the Soviet Caucasus
"Andrei Yemelianov opened up to Bulat Khalilov about why in the North Caucasus personal connections …
EM Guide – 3/4.sk – Author: Matej Žofčín
The Digicore scene in Slovakia — How to make music and build community
"The Slovak digicore scene has rarely been unified; even today, it still needs to be more cohesive. …
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, …
Videointerview
Are you possessed, Kopy?
Interview with live sequences with Japanese artist Kopy aka Yuko Kureyama. Conducted at Salon des A…
Interview – Durchlüften 2024 by Humboldt Forum
Vincent Moon: “A weird research on space and time – and how to bend them”
"No contracts, I entirely believe in the free flow, the confidence in terms of, well, I'm not going …
