Janushoved – “I always wanted a feeling of anonymity” (interview)
July 2 2018, af passive/aggressive
Interview and all photos (Yuri & Internazionale, Soho Rezanejad, Raquin, Manon Lescaut 22.06.2018 @ Mayhem) by Cameron Pagett
“I always wanted it to have a feeling of anonymity.” Mikkel Valentin, founder and recording artist of Copenhagen electronic label Janushoved reflects. “I started making noise music when I was 16, I thought I had invented a completely new genre.” (laughs). Some years later and a total of ...
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Pinkman – Celebrating five years of distribution
Blog
June 24 2018, af sandra
Af Sandra S. Borch
Through the past five years the Rotterdam imprint Pinkman has established itself as one of the most consistent platforms for pushing and distributing retro-futuristic and driving electro grooves. This is marked with a compilation series called “Five Years of Tears”, and the first selection up features three usual suspects and one newcomer.
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Exploded View – The art of cool (live review)
Kritik
June 17 2018, af passive/aggressive
Review of Exploded View @ Loppen, 5.6.2018 by Ivna Franic.
Last week’s Exploded View concert at Loppen was one of those gigs you could have easily missed out on, be it because you weren’t aware it was happening or because the band’s name didn’t ring a bell in the first place. But perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
The band’s frontwoman Anika ...
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Click Festival – No breaks allowed (a live report)
May 30 2018, af passive/aggressive
Click Festival 2018, 19.5 @ Kulturværftet, Helsingør. Reportage by Ivna Franic. Photos by Cameron Pagett.
Upon arrival to Helsingør, little gives away that there is a cutting edge music and art festival going on in the city that weekend. On a warm Saturday afternoon the city feels more like a mecca for pensioners, tourist groups on their day trips and Swedes coming over to buy somewhat cheaper alcohol. Once you reach Kulturhavn Kronborg, things start to look a bit different albeit still quite tame. The crowd is slowly gathering for Click − a contemporary art, science and technology festival. Læs resten
U.S. Girls – Sororal Feelings (in Copenhagen)
May 18 2018, af passive/aggressive
U.S. Girls @ Hotel Cecil, May 6th 2018 – live review by Ivna Franic.
So apparently 2018 is the year I finally get to see some of my old underground heroes such as Félicia Atkinson, Circuit des Yeux and U.S. Girls live for the first time. About a decade since they’ve started out as experimental solo outings, some of them have gradually evolved into ...
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Moor Mother – Haunting the present with a DIY Time Machine
Feature
May 17 2018, af sandra
By Sandra S. Borch
The revolutionary thinking of Camae Ayewa also known as Moor Mother explores time travel while distorting history as she haunts the presents with her performances spanning from the incisive spoken word, punk attitude and free improvisation. Passive/Aggressive gives an introduction to her work, ahead of her appearance at the forthcoming edition of Click Festival in Elsinor and her return to ...
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Not Your World Music: Noise in South East Asia – Artist talk with Cedrik Fermont
May 5 2018, af passive/aggressive
Transcription by Simon Christensen and Javier Orozco.
Not Your World Music: Noise in South East Asia is a book by Cedrik Fermont and Dimitri della Faille about art, politics, identity, gender and global capitalism. From academic electronic music to do-it-yourself noise in Southeast Asia. Contemporary and past noise, electroacoustic, industrial, experimental music ...
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Passive/Aggressive – New nonprofit zine on activism in contemporary music
April 30 2018, af passive/aggressive
The seventh edition of the ZINE by Passive/Aggressive, which deals with the complex relation between music and politics, is released in April 2018 and distributed at production price.
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Rewire Festival – Crossing decades and genres with Laurie Anderson (and then going into the dark)
April 17 2018, af mikkelarre
Rewire Festival, The Hague, Netherlands, April 6-8 2018 – live report by Mette Slot Johnsen. Photo by Pieter Kers, Rewire.
In its 8th year Rewire Festival – The Hague’s festival for adventurous music – is adding a new concept to the already progressive programming. The Artist In Focus strand is the festival’s attempt to go further in-depth with two selected artists; ...
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