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The Empire Line – The Oslo report

April 8 2018, af passive/aggressive IMG_0816

Reportage from The Empire Line, Varg, Croatian Amor, Vanity Productions at Blå, Oslo, 22.03.2018. Text and images by Cameron Pagett. There is a river which runs through the heart of Oslo. Beginning in the mountains and trickling its way down from the Artic sea on the northern tip of our continent, past fjords and craggy peaks which carve the stocking shaped country’s landscape into ...

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MaerzMusik – Deconstructed and recomposed (a live report)

April 4 2018, af sandra Berliner Festspiele | MaerzMusik 2018  Deproduction | Thaemlitz & zeitkratzer, Mark Fell  "Deproduction" von Terre Thaemlitz live mit zeitkratzer 19.03.2018

From minimalistic set up to extraordinary executing on the stages. This year’s edition of the annual festival MaerzMusik in Berlin was a hydra of different kinds of political critique of modern culture through contemporary music and sound. Sandra S. Borch highlights a carefully selected set ...

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Yves Tumor – Perfectly unpredictable (live report)

April 2 2018, af passive/aggressive Yves Tumor Mayhem 10

Yves Tumor, Khalil, Scandinavian Star and Soho Rezanejad hosted by Lowlife Scum and Knife Magazine at Mayhem 23.3.2018. Review and all photos by Cameron Pagett. “Don’t fuck with my shield! Don’t fuck with my shield! …” It’s the fourth and final set on a crowded Mayhem night and the headliner Yves Tumor has broken or rather, ripped his way through his plastic cage which ...

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Rashad Becker & Croatian Amor – Into a surreal spacial continuum (live report)

Feature Most read March 5 2018, af passive/aggressive IMG_0346

Live report from Rashad Becker and Croatian Amor, Proton, 16.02.2018 – Words and images by Cameron Pagett. It’s super windy, my face is nearly numb and I am pedaling as hard as I can through another cold Copenhagen winter night. Normally my breathing wouldn’t be so hard, my effort not so severe and the numerous frigid tears falling from my eyes so many, but I am ...

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CTM Festival 2018 – Entanglements, attractions and contradictions

February 20 2018, af sandra Ralph Larmann

Reportage from CTM 2018 – Turmoil 26.1. – 4.2 in Berlin by Sandra S. Borch, Photos: Ralph Larmann, Udo Siegfriedt, Camille Blake og Isla Kriss “The world is in turmoil” declares the CTM Festival for Adventurous Music and Art in the programme. The festival has long been notorious for its critical voice in music culture finding grounds within the turbulent political climate we are ...

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DJ LAKUTI – Heart, sincerity and compassion (interview)

February 7 2018, af sandra Lakuti3

By Sandra S. Borch To even begin to describe her place in music, it must be noted that Berlin-based DJ Lakuti aka Lerato Khathi from the Johannesburg-township Soweto has been around long enough to have experienced the first wave of house records. She cried on the dance floor, when she heard Fingers Inc’s house anthem “Can You Feel It” for the first time. She ...

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