for Keith McIvor
On friendship and transience – between Fuji, Unsound and Making Time
It is 12 September 2025 and I am dancing. It is not just sweat running down my forehead and elsewher…
Beiträge mit dem Stichwort "Festival"
for Keith McIvor
Unsound Festival Osaka 2025
Unsound Osaka
Unsound has always thrived on dislocation. This first September weekend, Osaka becomes the latest no…
Interview – Enjoy Jazz Festival
Adrian Younge: Jazz Is Dead
"It’s a hard line between white and black people. It's strange to me because it’s just classism,…
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…
Berlin Atonal 2023 – Festival – Pre-Report
Berlin Atonal 2023: Do not miss these 10 performances
Kaput tried the untryable and selected ten performances of Berlin Atonal 2023 you should not miss …
Berlin Atonal 2023 – Festival Announcement
Eleven days in the Kraftwerk: Berlin Atonal 2023
Between September 7th and 17th Berlin Atonal presents "a wider and more comprehensive selection of …
Unsound 2022 Festival
Unsound 2022: Divided in-between worlds, merged space-time continuums and the absence of any executive authority
...just as one is currently renegotiating and repositioning for oneself many other things from one's…
Meakusma Festival 2022 – Photo Gallery
Happily touched in Eupen
The system Meakusma, if you want to describe this festival as such, it is an inviting, idiosyncratic…
Terraforma Festival 2022
Train to Trancentral Terraforma
“This is a climate crisis, this is a climate crisis, decolonise the climate crisis. I only see whi…
Primavera Sound 2022
E´s & Wizz in Barcelona – back to Primavera Sound Lalaland
even if you missed 3/4 of what you had on the longlist, the shortlist you experienced should provide…
FUNKT sound art radio – Interview mit Georg Dietzler
“HOW CAN WE MAKE THE COLOGNE ELECTRONIC AND SOUND ART SCENES HEARD WITHOUT LIVE CONCERTS?“
"Cologne's artists lack a "Berlin" self-image – look at what this city has to offer. In Cologne a …
Easterndaze x Berlin 2021 – Interview with Lucia Udvardyova & Natalie Gravenor
“Our modus operandi remains non-hierarchical and non-institutionalized”
"The artists had to entirely re-think their contributions and define different spaces for audience i…
Unsound Festival 2020 – Interview Gosia Płysa
Gosia Płysa (Unsound): “I am certain that this difficult year will result in lots of great new art and music”
"I have to admit, it has been hard to focus on work and going on with planned announcements and acti…
Sónar Festival 2020 – Enric Palau – Interview
Sonar 2020 / “During the lockdown, music really has shone a light through the darkness”
"It’s not only live music that’s been affected but the entire way we produce and consume culture…
Clubs and festivals in times of Corona / Covid-19
Club der Ewigkeiten – The Dusk Camp
The dusk camp festival, created by the four LA subcultural activists Jennifer Erickson (Jeniluv), M…
Easterndaze x Berlin 2019 – Interview with Lucia Udvardyova & Natalie Gravenor
Berlin has a bizarre relationship to its “Eastern” neighbors
Even though it's exactly 30 years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and most Eastern European coun…
Popkultur 2019 – Photo gallery by Christoph Voy
From Awa Khiwe to Schorsch Kamerun – Popkultur Festival in 19 images
Popkultur 2019 – Photo gallery by Christoph Voy.…
HTRK at Atonal Festival – Interview
HTRK: It’s not as sad anymore because we’re not as sad
"We’ve gone through a whole process of healing and accepting and that just comes out in what you c…
Eurosonic Noorderslag & European Talent Exchange Programme / An interview with Ruud Berends
Ask me again after the event ;-)
Each January the European festival and media circus travels to the Dutch city of Groningen to experi…
MUTEK Japan 2017
Continue the adventure
We not only want to show the most cutting edge shows and bring international talent to Japan, but al…
Pop-Kultur 2017
With the eyes of Christoph Voy
The Berlin based Pop-Kultur festival in 17 pictures. …
Pop-Kultur-Festival 2017 – The loved ones of the festival team
21 LOVED SONGS & PERFORMANCES
Once again Berlins Pop-Kultur-Festival (happening between the 23th and 25th of August at Kulturbraue…
Oligarkh – Summer Mix for Pop-Kultur Festival
“To be artist is already a political statement.”
Modern Russia is quite an interesting object for artists to explore. – Oligarkh deliver not only a…
Resonate Festival 2017
AGF, Phill Niblock, Yves Tumor and bleeding ears
Again and again it’s a surprising experience to fly in for a gathering like Resonate festival, wit…
Moscoman
„I am searching for the rollercoaster drop feeling that make my lungs explode.“
If one mentions sad it is not far from the word depression – Chen Moscovici’s reaction to the wo…
Off-Kultur 2016 in 19 pictures
From Magic Island to Helmut
It all started with a stupid idea in a backstage room in Groningen – and it ended after three wild…
Pop-Kultur 2016 in 23 pictures
From Selda Bağcan to Imarhan
The second edition of Pop-Kultur festival is over – and we feel very dizzy from all those impress…
Off-Kultur
“Neukölln is about community and supporting each other, from local businesses to art practice.”
Always simply complaining about things, well anyone can do that. But to get involved is the high art…
CTM Festival / Club Transmediale 2016
„Fuck Ambient. Northern Technology. Dark Electronica. Obsessive Techno. Militant House. Noise Pop.”
Between the 29.01. and 07.02. the 17th edition of CTM Festival / Club Transmediale, festival "for Ad…
Eurosonic Noorderslag
Fresh Blood
Groningen, January 2016. Again the bookers, bands and fans of pop music made it to the dutch northea…
Week-End #5
1 Question for: Move D, Ariel Pink, Albert Oehlen, Billy Childish, The Notwist ….
Weekend-Festival, the Cologne-based festival run by Jan Lankisch and Jörg Waschat, is already hitti…
Graw Böckler reporting from CTM Siberia
Let´s talk about Novosibirsk!
The Cologne-Berlin based artist-duo Graw Böckler spend the last week at CTM festival in the siberia…
Jennifer Cardini
Burning Man
French producer and dj Jennifer Cardini send us some of her private photos of Burning Man and shares…
Thomas Venker
No Crowd Surfing in the Crowd-Heavy Areas Please
It may sound unlikely viewed from today’s pop landscape, but in the year 1988 everybody wanted to …
Øya Festival 2015
96 hours in 7 minutes – The Festival Movie
Alex Mayor and Thomas did spend 96 hours in Oslo for the Øya Festival - see and what they saw in th…
Berlin Atonal
“A good sense of place and good acts.”
Kaput interviews the three curators of Berlin Atonal: Laurens von Oswald, Paulo Reachi and Harry Gla…
Øya Festival 2015
Park life (and the living is easy)
There are hundreds of festivals in Europe at this point and your humble correspondents attend a fair…
Thomas Venker
Flashback to Miles, Melt! and Peter the Ogre
Earlier today I was sitting on a park bench in Cologne and drinking a coffee, reflecting as one does…
Open Source Festival 2015
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhytmn Force, Laurel Halo, Tolouse Low Trax….
The Open Source Festival in 16 pictures. …
Thomas Venker
“That’s not for me anymore”,
Well, it’s a few days since I returned from Primavera Festival 2015, and as always after such an i…
Primavera Sound 15
Sleaford Mods, Battles, Earth, Anthony and the Johnsons
"My memories are a little blurry as things usually happen so late at night."…
Jimi Tenor & Tenors of Kalma
Live at the Golden Pudel Club
On the May 16th, Jimi Tenor played a show with Tenors of Kalma, his current live band with Kalle Kal…
Primavera Sound 2015
Oysters, Feedback and Soccer
As Indiana Jones memorably put it, “it’s not the years, it’s the mileage” - Pablo Soler talk…
Spot Festival 2015
Cancer, Soleima & Kenton Slash Demon
"It is a privilege to play a setting where the people in the crowd have an interest, desire and hung…
Thomas Venker
Festival to go
A few days ago, the wonderfully sarcastic Trevor Jackson, reported from his booking at Sónar Copenh…
SXSW 2015
What to see at SouthBySouthWest this year
Daniel Seligman, Abel Suárez and Paul Tao open up their little black books... …
Week-End Festival
From Cologne with… love
Kate Tempest, ESG, Von Spar... Don´t be a loser, watch our Week-End resume. …
A Day in the Desert
The Music provides the Journey
“A Day in the Desert” is not your normal festival experience. Within the beautiful scenery of Jo…
CTM Festival / Club Transmediale
Losing the concept of time and space…
Starting the year with a trip to Berlin to attend the CTM Festival is a good tradition . …
