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, …
Beiträge von Thomas Venker
dekmantel festival report
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 …
EM GUIDE – Interview Christoph Benkeser / Marija Jociūtė
“Music is my playground” – an interview with Hyeji Nam
"When I was around 18, I became very sick. For a year, I barely couldn’t walk. That was a tough ph…
„The Week“ in conversation with Eliza Rose, Ellen Allien and Sugababes
Just feel that soft summer breeze … the sunrise moments … a kiss
Summer vacation means time to relax at the pool or park with books, or listen to albums and songs th…
Hot for the warm-up: Monheim Triennale 2024 - ‘The Prequel’
Monheim Triennale: “Each event becomes a little art happening”
It’s a dizzying array of musical encounters and the ultimate goal is that the experience of the Pr…
Sleep Well Melt!
Melt! A love affair in many chapters
After 25 years Melt! Festival is happening this weekend for the last time. Instead of many words, I…
Musik: Make Boys Cry / Pogendroblem (mit einer Unplugged-Premiere)
Talking Kaput #13: Beats und Verzweiflung. (Wie) kann Musik Einfluss auf Politik nehmen?
Thomas Venker and Linus Volkmann talk to their guests about spaces of possibility and utopias on bea…
Tina Funk – Interview by Stefan Juster / Photos by Clara Wildberger– EM GUIDE
The Final Transcript: Tina Frank
"Since the 1990ies Tina Frank has been collaborating with musicians like Chicks on Speed, Peter Rehb…
Interview by Valentina Várhelyi / EM GUIDE
Music without Agency – The struggles of acting in the alternative scene
"These stories about grassroots organisation, democratic values, and the fight against commercialisa…
EM GUIDE – Interview by Peter Bokor w/ Alex Radzishevsky
AudioTag: Challanging Shazam’s fingerprinting
It’s a multimillion-track database already. There are an estimated 90 to 100 million songs worldwi…
EM GUIDE – Interview with DiV4 by Zosia Hołubowska
Interview w/ DiV4 from the Polish trans-femme and non-binary collective DEKONSTRUKT
Influenced by the ephemerality of performance art and queer identity, oscillating between chaos and …
EM GUIDE – Interview by Zosia Hołubowska
Karolinda: “I think the Polish electronic music scene has a lot to offer”
With this feature Easterndaze is continuing their collaboration with the Oramics collective, focusin…
EM – GUIDE – Blaues Rauschen Festival – Interview
Noriko Tujiko/ 辻子紀子 “We could feel beautiful and peaceful, maybe.”
"My parents were very open minded I guess – at least they never interfered me by negativity." (No…
Interview with Keeley Forsyth / Rewire Festival 2024 / EM GUIDE
Keeley Forsyth “I’m not even interested in my own life and my own thoughts“
"I’m having this physical "conversation – I'm treating my physical body as another form of langu…
EM GUIDE – Interview by Stefan Juster
MANOS SAKLAS “LISTENING MOVED ME AND INFORMED MY WHOLE PERSPECTIVE ON ART AND AESTHETICS”
THE FINAL TRANSCRIPT IS AN INTERVIEW SERIES DELVING INTO THE NON-MUSICAL WORK OF INDIVIDUALS AND INS…
EM GUIDE – Interview
Charles Carey on the art of web radio making
Interview with Charles Carey, co-founder of Radio Cult, a streaming platform designed for online com…
EM GUIDE – Interview
Patricia Pietrafesa: Printed registers of subterranean culture in Argentina’s post-dictatorship
Pat Pietrafesa is a pioneer of the punk movement in Argentina. She edited the fanzine Resistencia. S…
New Music for the 1st of May
“Meet me before the party, I don’t want to walk in alone Maybe we can blow it off, go do something on our own”
New Music for the 1st of May . "Meet me before the party, I don’t want to walk in alone Maybe we…
INTERVIEW BY TRISTAN BATH w/ SSOLVE / EM GUIDE
“CONCEPTS OF CARE, CONVIVIALITY, AND EMBODIMENT”
ssolve is the result of a journey of artistic liberation. For the Vienna-based artist, the release o…
Interview with Lukasz Polowczyk / EM GUIDE
“It’s just wild that all of this exists, that we are here to experience it”
Lukasz Polowczyk is a Berlin-based sound artist, poet, and educator. His brand new video art piece "…
Interview by Peter Dolník w/ Colin Stetson & Stian Westerhus – EM GUIDE
“It feels almost profound to play live for people”
Two giants of avant-garde jazz and experimental music, saxophonist Colin Stetson and Norwegian guita…
AN EM GUIDE feature by Michael Papcun
Re-Enchanted Kingdoms – or the idiosyncratic topography of contemporary Slovak folk-music
"This reconstruction of occultures and their ethos, or experimental revival of original folklore mot…
Interview – EM GUIDE
HEAVY CALMNESS – AN INTERVIEW WITH KMRU
SOUND ARTIST KMRU AKA JOSEPH KAMARU TOOK THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH INSTALLATIONS,…
Telekom Electronic Beats Podcast The Week with Kelela
Kelela „If a white woman was doing the same exact thing that I’m doing, she would be probably ten times as big”
Sometimes it is not easy to listen to a conversation. But it is necessary. One hears clearly the str…
Feature – EM GUIDE
As loud as possible
In noise music, extreme volume is an effective means of involving listeners with their entire bodies…
Festival Announcement – Rewire – 4.-7.4.2024
Prädikat kaput: 11 Rewire 2024 performances not to be missed
Every April the spearheads of avant-garde and experimental electronic music gathers in The Hague for…
AN EM GUIDE feature by Michael Papcun
Don’t call me G, but rather next one
Slovakia is a small country with large regional disparities. This results in the experienced binary …
Interview with Dan Koplowitz from Friendly Fire Licensing
“It is to demonstrate who my lotalty is – I work with the artists”
Friendly Fire Licensing is a sync licensing company based in Los Angeles. They represent a wide cata…
Interview
Roisin Murphy: “You have to go out every night of the week”
Since the end of Moloko, Róisín Murphy has released solo albums with various producers (incl…
Interview
Wen Hui: „I always say: my daily life is my technique“
"My life is following the route of the whole country of China. When the political system changed, wh…
James Ellis Ford – Interview – Depeche Mode
James Ellis Ford: “If I am really lucky I get a bit in the zone where time disappears”
I catch up with James Ellis Ford in his cosy home attic studio in London. And even though he is in t…
Eugene Robinson
“A WALK ACROSS DIRTY WATER AND STRAIGHT INTO MURDERER'S ROW: A Memoir”
Question: Who is Eugene Robinson?
„Now I realize what’s more true than not is that there are a lot of people who deserve to die, …
Interview
Malcolm Mooney „I’m a working man, not a celebrity.“
"There's no guarantee in music making a living. It's not like the guy that's driving the train. It's…
Kaput-Mix-Series
Keikee “This is not a kaputt mix”
"For me, Acephale was a venue I could visit without hesitation. (...) as a DJ, it was a special plac…
Xmas special feature
Astrid & Alexander’s Winter Guide to Cosmopolitan Food and Drink in European Cities (LDN, PAR, BER edition)
A good pub should of course be authentically old and a bit broken. Ideally there should be no televi…
40 Years of Touch – Interview with Jon Wozencroft & Mike Harding
TOUCH: „We survived because there’s a lot of things that we chose not to do, which has worked out really well“
"As much as Jon and Mike value memories and shared history they are driven by their ongoing curiosit…
2023 – Annual review
“… I danced by violent times It was hard to live, live” – 2023, a year’s worth of 25 albums
Anohni and the Johnsons “My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross“ (Secretly Canadian) My Back …
Sanaz Sohrabi – Interview
Sanaz Sohrabi: “Seeing the archive as a form of visual optic and conceptual prism”
"I think ecofeminist science and technology studies's approach to the legacies of extraction is much…
Deep Talk NRW
“Deep Talk: IRWIN” – “Was ist Kunst, IRWIN?”
Kaput Mag presents a thoughtful exploration of the Slovenian artist collective IRWIN, founded in 198…
10 Records for your Advent Weekender
Homesick, Bubblegum and West End Girls
Weekender-Crew: Ciel, Eleh, Isabella, Oum Shatt, Wolfgang Voigt, Pyur, Sam Dunscomb, Pauline Anna St…
Interview
Merv Espina: “Access. Transformation. Emancipation.”
"I don’t really have a material or studio practice. I also don’t have storage space. These thing…
Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) – 17.-20.2.2024, Groningen
Eurosonic Noorderslag celebrates its 20 bday
Eurosonic Noorderslag (short ESNS) brings each year in January the live music industry from all over…
Astrid & Alexander – Interview
Astrid & Alexander – a mad and cinematic labour-of-love
"Their debut lp "[ romantic music plays loudly ]" is inspired by the unintended poetry that intrudes…
Interview with Bevin Kelley aka Blevin Blectum
Blevin Blectum – free and different, ever-shifting
"I appreciate the complete autonomy (outside of the day job) to do whatever I want with music" – …
Records of the Week
AGF „poemproducer” / Laurel Halo „Atlas“
AGF „poemproducer” AGF Producktion (Morr Distriibution) After years in which AGF mainly worked c…
Photo Gallery, courtesy of Udo Siegfriedt
Phill Niblock presenting “The movement of people working” in Berlin
The Movement of People Working by Phill Niblock is a huge cinematic-musical monument. For his 90th b…
Photo Gallery – Niclas Weber
The “Night of Surprise” in 11 pictures feat. Violent Magic Orchestra, 33 EMYBW ….
We are looking back on the latest edition of Cologne very own „Night by Surprise“ (which happene…
Making Time ∞ at Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia
Making Time ∞ – Looking back in Photos
Looking back at Making Time ∞ at Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia. Photos by Uv Lucas. …
A truly transcendental experience gonna happen in Philadelphia the upcoming weekend
Making Time w/ Dave P
Fellow transcendental artists share their first or most memorable Dave P moment with the world ahead…
Noelia Maffiold & Felix Nisblé in conversation about "Desvestirse (Nacht 84 Remix)" and beyond
Noelia Maffiold “Being away from my home country made me feel closer to the sounds and the music in Colombia”
Colombian musician Noelia Maffiold talks about her experiences studying in Europe, workings as an ar…
