Sonar 2019 – The 11 most kaput moments of this years Sonar festival
Sonar 2019: From Afrodeutsche till HAAi
It is about time to kick of the 26th edition of Sonar Festival in Barcelona. Kaput had a close look …
Beiträge von Thomas Venker
Sonar 2019 – The 11 most kaput moments of this years Sonar festival
Merrill Nisker – Interview
Peaches: „To be quite honest, a lot of my ideas evolve around the vagina and my intersectional feminist perspective“
"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
YPY: “No comment. Everybody has one secret at least.”
"It’s often very hard mentally and physically for me during the production process, but once a pro…
Köln ist kaput XIII – Photogalerie
Köln ist kaput feat. Swan Meat, Jens-Uwe Beyer, Sarah San, Dj Brom
Die Schäl Sick von Köln fühlt sich langsam aber sicher wie die neue Heimat von Köln ist kaput an…
Record of the Week
THOM YORKE ”ANIMA” (XL RECORDINGS)
"Anima" is Thom Yorke's third solo album after "The Eraser" from 2006 (his homage to Scott Walker) a…
Köln ist Kaput 11 – Video
Angelica Summer, Bum Khun Cha Youth, Minjung Cho
Video-Recap of Köln ist kaput 11. …
Tentenko "Parade" – video, directed by Tentendo, edited by Dino Oon
Tentenko “Parade”
Kaput is proudly presenting the brand new video by Japanese artist Tentenko (edited by Dino Oon) fo…
A Day With Lena Willikens at Nuits Sonores – Video Editorial
A day with Willikens & Ivkovic, Donato Dozzy. Batu, Nika Son, Tolouse Low Trax, Mutant Beat Dance, Marie Davidson, Oko Dj, Phillip Jondon, Elena Colombi and I-F.
On 1st of June 2019 Lena Willikens curated the day programming of Lyon based Nuits Sonores festival.…
Nuits Sonores / A Day With Lena Willikens – Photogallery
Nuits Sonores in 23 pictures
Lyons Nuits Sonores is a hell of an experiences. Definitely more shows and set as anyone can take. B…
Lena Willikens – Essential Mix BBC1 Radio
Lena Willikens: From “Hello” to “Screaming Colors”
Friday night Kaput favorite Lena Willikens gave her Essential Mix debut on BBC1 Radio. Starting with…
Holly Herndon – Interview
Holly Herndon: “I make music for active listening and I love that as an art form“
Holly Herndon in conversation about Artificial Intelligence, sleep rhythms, Church, nonhierarchica…
Carla Bley – Interview
Carla Bley: “I sometimes feel I should wear a sign on stage saying “She Wrote The Music.”
"I began learning music before I was able to walk, and I was surrounded by music at home from as ear…
Danielle de Picciotto „Et Arripuerit“ – Videoclip-Premiere
Danielle de Picciotto: “It is very difficult for me to separate my art from my everyday life”
"I am an interdisciplinary artist and always move between sound, color or language. If I neglect one…
SUGAI KEN on reworking Kohei Amadas "Shinshunfu"
muzyōkan – the sense of the vanity of life
"I was impressed that Kōhei was trying to fuse Western and Eastern elements in his music in mid 195…
Zauber der Moderne at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart – Interview w/ Fatima Hellber & MIchael Paukner
Zauber der Moderne: “Works that contain and propose their own world”
From 3rd til 5th of May the Zauber der Moderne-Festival is about to happen at Künstlerhaus Stuttgar…
Daso Franke – "Daso" Releaseparty
#dasoforever – “Every second full of burning passion”
On April 2nd of last year our friend Daso Franke died much too soon. During the months prior to his …
John Niven on the Michael Jackson documentary "Leaving Neverland"
John Niven: “Personally, I fear it will be a long time before any of Jackson’s music is played in our house.”
"Obviously, every individual has to decide these questions for themselves. You suspect that after th…
Electronic Music Home + female:pressure electronic concert (by Elisa Metz)
Zoë Mc Pherson + Allesandra Leone = “String Figures”
Zoë McPherson and Alessandra Leone will present their transmedia work "STRING FIGURES". Before the …
Cologne Sessions & Strange Sounds from Beyond – 23.3.2019
Lulu: “Working in the music industry has made me conscious of my (in-)capabilities”
"Strange Sounds From Beyond is a festival and music platform that seeks its inspiration in boundary-…
Kate NV – Videofeature
Kate NV “A Journey Into Sounds”
Kate Shilonosova in conversation with Thomas Venker for Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop. …
Cindy Li – Tour Diary Asia
Ciel “Hao! Feeling the year of the pig in a big way”
Within the last twelve months Toronto based dj and producer Cindy Li (which goes by the artist name …
Record of the Week
Colin Self „Siblings“ (RVNG Intl.)
"If this voice leaves you cold, you have long ago sold your humanity to the shadow beings." – Tho…
Martin Howse & Bernd Schurer – Interview
“Quite dark, on the borders of precise experiment and collapsing edifice”
Martin Howse and Bernd Schurer are up to challenge our coordinate systems in some way and another. …
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 …
Survey – Birgit Heuzeroth, Phil Tortoroli, Vivien Mierzkalla, Anika Väth, Philipp Maiburg, Vladimir Ivkovic, Markus Naegele, Severin Most, Maurice Summen, Oli Isaacs, James Friedmann
What to expect from music journalism in 2019 and the years to come?
Music journalism is not a thing happening in a isolated, theoretical vacuum, it is most of all an in…
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…
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…
a musical segment by Traxx
“Assorted Dance, Groove n more 4 Kaput“
"Assorted Dance, Groove n more 4 Kaput“ a musical segment by Traxx…
Omar Contri – Interview
Shinoby: “It’s not a strategy, for an DIY artist like me it’s a question of surviving. “
Verona based producer Omar Contri is about to release three 12-inches back to back, each coming in w…
MAZEUM Festival – Interview with Yuko Asanuma
“We all felt like we can create something bigger and impactful by joining forces”
"It gives a sense of mystery yet welcomeness for viewing or involvement." … Yuko Asanuma in conve…
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…
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…
Evans/Dahl/Pride „Pulverize the Sound“
“Music such as this is trying to show a different and deeper way human beings can interact and co-exist.”
"The more I study, the more I find pathways through many kinds of music that help me develop my own …
Record of the Week: „Working Class Woman“ by Marie Davidson
Marie Davidson: “The quality of your creative output does not depend on what is between your legs.”
"I don't want to be a niche artist, I'm not and never have been part of a cool clique, a gang, why w…
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 …
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.…
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…
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…
Record of the Week
Helena Hauff “Qualm”
"And since Hauff does not allow for a dramatic pause, the urgency never decreases, you almost dissol…
Chee Shimzu on his label 17853
“I am waiting for chances to appear. I am not in a hurry.“
Chee Shimzu, dj, producer, label owner, record seller, compilation curator and author leads us throu…
Discwoman – Videointerview
Challenge the norms
Thomas Venker met Emma Burgess-Olson (aka UMFANG), Christine Tran and Frankie Decaiza Hutchinson at …
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…
c/o pop & Dutch Impact
Deutsch-Holländische Freundschaft
Besides international country specials on Southamerican and Eastasien bands the c/o pop has a long …
The Transcendence Orchestra
A journey into the unknown
Asked what to expect from their upcoming performance at Meakusma festival, both Anthony Child and Da…
Köln ist Kaput 8 – Video-feature
Sonae & Gora Sou at Gold+Beton
On the 31st of March the 8th installment of Köln ist Kaput happened at Gold+Beton with awesome liv…
Köln ist Kaput VIII – Photogallery
A night with Sonae and Gora Sou
Köln ist Kaput – the night in pictures. …
10 stirring Sónar moments for 2018
THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON SÓNAR
When does the Sónar week start? And when does it really end? A difficult question indeed, consideri…
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 …
Track by Track: the 29 songs from Efdemin´s new mix-album "Naïf" auf Curle Recordings
From Autolyse to Margaret Dygas and Efdemin
Kaput columnist in meditation Phillip Sollmann (aka Efdemin) just released "Naïf", a tender and eng…
Köln ist Kaput VII – Video-Feature
Sue Lewig, Sarah San & Friday Dunard
The latest in our series of Köln ist Kaput video-documentaries on the Cologne music scene. …
