Essay by Macon Holt Before he was the head of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and before he was an economic advisor to French president François Mitterrand, Jacques Attali wrote a strange book that was hugely influential within peculiar circles—“Noise: The Political Economy of Music (Bruits: essai sur l’economie politique de la musique)”. The book appeared in French in the late 1970s amid ...

By Ivna Franic The periodic excitement over locally specific music scenes appears to be alive and well, having successfully survived the beginning of the Internet age and the still rising tendency of geographically displaced scenes. It would be a stretch to say that the functioning of local scenes has not at all changed, but despite the fact that the ability to publish music releases and build up an international fanbase have become easier, reliance on the immediate environment ...

Chris Shields in an American artist and musician based in Copenhagen. In recent years he has been working on visual arts with a CNC carver as well as in the music project Vid Edda (Sensorisk Verden). Since pursuing a scientific career as a tech operator for glacial research in Greenland, he has been compiling a series of mixtapes as well, and we are proud to present a new fall mixtape by Chris Shields – made for Passive/Aggressive. Læs resten

Loraine James ”For You and I” (Hyperdub, 2019) – anmeldelse af Emil GrarupI løbet af det seneste par år virker den elektroniske scenes politiske dimension til at være blevet mere udtalt; musikken er simpelthen blevet mere engageret. Selvom eksempelvis Drexciyas undervandsmytologier i 90’erne kunne kandidere som et lignende projekt – konstruktionen af et narrativ, der kan kommunikere eller genforhandle en form for minoritetserfaring – forekommer det mig, at denne ...

Interview by Macon Holt  The small Copenhagen music platform, Anyines, was founded in 2017 by long-time members of the Danish electronic (is there any other kind) music scene, Villads Klint (Minais B) and Aske Zidore (An Gella). Based out of the administrative building for a former maintenance facility for the Danish State train company DSB, the locations of their studio has the same atmosphere as the grizzly ...

Af Simon Tornby

Jay Chattaway (1946, Pennsylvania) står bag musikken til nogle af de mest hårdkogte action- og horrorfilm i 80’erne.

Chattaway kom fra en baggrund som komponist i militæret, og senere som producer af filmmusik, hvor han bl.a. arbejdede sammen med Gato Barbieri (kendt fra bl.a. Last Tango in Paris). Da tilbuddet om at lave musik til William Lustigs Maniac kom i 1980, slog han til.

Lustigs suveræne ’Son of Sam’- og Psycho-inspirerede slasherfilm Maniac har alt, hvad der skal til for at skabe det perfekte soundtrack: Fløjte, synthesizer og båndløs bas. Temamelodien giver mig stadig gåsehud, hver gang jeg hører den, og Joe Spinells arrede og svedige ansigt følger som regel med på den indre nethinde. Lustig var en kæmpe Morricone-fan, og i arbejdet med filmen bad han Chattaway om at tage udgangspunkt i, hvordan Morricone arbejder med filmmusik.

Efter Maniac, fortsatte Lustig og Chattaway det frugtbare samarbejde i 1982 med Vigilante: En brutal selvtægts-bandefilm, med en bandeleder, der er sejere end de fleste (Fred Williamson). Soundtracket er desværre ikke blevet genudgivet, da masterbåndet er gået tabt, men titelmelodien er med i playlisten, og den udfordrer temaet til The Warriors i at være bedste bandetema nogensinde. Læs resten

Essay af Oliver Laumann, redigeret af Nils Bloch Oliver Laumann er trommeslager og har været medlem af den aktitivistiske musikgruppe GP&PLS. De seneste år har bandet opereret i grænselandet mellem aktivisme og musik ved at benytte musikkens finansielle, kulturelle og sociale strukturer som et middel til at støtte og involvere flygtninge i og udenfor Europa. Læs også Passive/Aggressives interview med GP&PLS fra Serbien. Nedenstående essay er oprindeligt udgivet i Victor ...

Johan Carøe ”zenmetal” (No Technique, 2019) – review by Wieland Rambke There is something hypnotic about the sound of sound on warped tape: When the recording begins to warble, and both speed and pitch start stumbling, a sort of micro-tuning of time is taking place. The medium itself is loosening up, it is letting go. The press text for “zenmetal”, Johan Carøe’s debut EP out on Copenhagen-based label ...

Kali Malone Percy x Knife Fest, October 24th at Mayhem, Copenhagen – live report by Ivna Franić, photo by Jakub Jezný A few days before Halloween Percy Records and Knife Magazine joined forces with Alice for a night potentially dark and full of terrors, with a heavy bill featuring Puce Mary, Drew McDowall, Kali Malone and Manisdron. (The second part of their mini festival was set to take place ...