Passive/Aggressive

Unearth – Curating club events with openness (interview & mix)

Mixtape June 18 2025, af Alexander Julin

Something has happened to the Copenhagen club scene in recent years. After several years in which the city gained significant international awareness for its melodic and fast-paced techno scene, more and more promoters have decided to cultivate other aesthetic expressions and ways of going out, rather than what was often associated with the high peak in local trance-infused techno.

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Intonal 2025 – Ten years of gutsy moves

April 22 2025, af Ivna Franic

This year's edition of Malmö's Intonal marks the festival's tenth anniversary. From its early days as a collaboration with Berlin's CTM and Krakow's famed Unsound festival, Intonal has grown into a thing completely of its own. Rather than trying to copy the successful but heavily international scene-driven formulas of other European festivals, it focused on cultivating a close relationship with the local audience – from the festival's intimate setting to the lineup, designed to both reflect the interests of the Malmö scene and showcase its talent. Some of the reasons for this are beautifully explained in the festival manifesto in the words of none other than the great Shania Twain.

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Xenia Xamanek – making reality reverberate with potential

Kritik March 18 2025, af Macon Holt

Xenia Xamanek – “Germinate [Imprint] Wilt [Stay]” (Scorpio Red Records, 2025) – review by Macon Holt Germinate [Imprint] Wilt [Stay] is the latest album from multidisciplinary, Honduran-Danish artist Xenia Xamanek. In a career that has developed from experimental electronica to dance music and sparse ballads, this record is a conceptual, if not stylistic, follow-up to 2021’s DELIRIO ...

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MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen – Gloomed-up Gala

Kritik March 5 2025

MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen – “Opening Night” (Awe, 2025) – review by Juliette Thouin. Pictures by MK Velsorf and Aase Nielsen. This February, the Danes MK Velsorf and Aase Nielsen released their first collaborative project Opening Night on American DJ and producer Laurel Halo’s label Awe. Velsorf, a composer, guitarist, and one third of TLF Trio, and ...

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Erik Klinga – Chasing the Light

Kritik February 14 2025, af Ivna Franic

Erik Klinga – Elusive Shimmer (Thanatosis Produktion, 2025) – Review by Ivna Franić Erik Klinga’s solo debut Elusive Shimmer finds the seasoned drummer in the warm embrace of modular synthesis, building on the analog synth foundation with field recordings, organ, and rhythm machine. The first in a trilogy of albums by the Malmö & Copenhagen-based musician ...

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MINU Festival 2024 – Expanding music between institutions and communities

Feature December 16 2024, af Macon Holt

Gianluca Elia & Lorenzo Colocci – LSWR. Photo: Tobias Nicolai. By Macon Holt MINU is an annual festival for what it terms “expanded music”. That is music that simultaneously rejects the necessity of the conventions of the “Western musical tradition” and the commitment to vanguardist or inscent progressivism of a label like Avant Grade while pursuing new ways of ...

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Organ Sound Art Festival – Investigating the Organ (interview)

Feature December 11 2024, af Ivna Franic

Photo: Jan Høgh Stricker Interview with Jan Høgh Stricker, curator of Organ Sound Art Festival, by Ivna Franić Having settled comfortably into its mid-December slot, the Organ Sound Art Festival has come to present Copenhagen’s experimental music heads’ favorite way to close out the concert and festival year. First started in 2016, the festival takes place at Nørrebro’s KoncertKirken, ...

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Bureau for Listening – Failed Attempts at Listening / Failure as a Strategy for Listening

November 21 2024

Photo: Bureau for Listening By Bureau for Listening Today, Passive/Aggressive shares a guest post by the Danish artist and research group Bureau for Listening, in which they consider which resources can be derived from failure when listening to others, ourselves and the world we inhabit. At Bureau for Listening, we would like to propose, practice and continue to reformulate failure ...

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