Passive/Aggressive

Mens vi venter på Apokalypsen – Refleksioner over musikkens år i 2022

Blog January 16 2023

Af Andreas Korsgaard Rasmussen Jeg er ikke typen, der bogfører min lytning. Alligevel ved jeg, at 2022 i overvældende grad har været præget af jamaicansk musik fra rundt regnet 1970-1980, eller mere præcist: reggae. The Abyssinnians, Burning Spear, Lee Scratch Perry, The Congos, Culture, Yabby You, Wailing Souls, Hugh Mundell, Count Ossie, King Tubby, Scientist, Horace Andy, Ras Michael – og så videre. Reggaens facisnationskraft lader til at ...

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Pia Raug – Ekspedition til de uudforskede pletter på musikhistoriens landkort

Most read October 9 2019, af nilsbloch

Introduktion af Anders Jørgen Mogensen. Pia Raug står for mig som en af de mest fremsynede og radikale sangskrivere i landet. Hun er bedst kendt for sangen ”Jeg vil male dagen blå”. Faktisk er den sang så velkendt, at man kan diskutere om det overhovedet stadig er Ria Raugs sang og ikke bare folkets og dets kollektive bevidsthed. Denne påstand understøttes af, at sangen ...

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Vanity Productions – Crime and Punishment

Kritik June 14 2019, af nilsbloch

Vanity Productions “Only the Stars Come Out at Night” (Posh Isolation, 2019) – review by Cameron Pagett It’s early in the month of June 2018. It has been a warm day and the sun has only set from view when I sit down at the crude outdoor tables that dot the rough asphalt lining to the entrance to Mayhem where a group of about 120 people ...

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ZONE Collective — Getting into the ZONE with Compilation Vol. 2

Kritik March 22 2019, af Macon Holt

V/A: ZONE Compilation Vol.2 (ZONE Collective). Review by Ivna Franić. The Copenhagen-based ZONE Collective is back with their second compilation, featuring another refreshing collection of tracks by underground acts mostly hailing from Denmark and the UK. Although the majority of the acts here expectedly operates between different styles of electronic and noise music—while also sharing an affinity for intriguing sound design—the new ...

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Extremely Rotten – Copenhagen is an all year round death metal-fest (interview)

March 21 2019, af passive/aggressive

Interview by Klaus Q Hedegaard This Saturday Extremely Rotten Productions hosts a death metal summit at the Mayhem venue in Copenhagen, with a lineup of some of the most vile and forceful danish bands ruling the death metal underground right now. A second infestation will take place at Pumpehuset in May! Full info below the interview. Founder of Extremely Rotten Productions, David “Torturdød” Mikkelsen, is also a founding member ...

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Perfect Aesthetics showcase – ambient synth romanticism at Mayhem

February 13 2019, af Macon Holt

Preview by Ivna Franić This Thursday at Mayhem, Moral Defeat presents a showcase from the Russian label, Perfect Aesthetics, featuring performances by Burning Pyre, Måla, Marble Bust and Ato Vari, with DJ support from Yuri. An evening of ambient synth romanticism to accidentally, or perhaps not, take place on Valentine’s day.

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Graham Lambkin, Vilde Tuv & Paisajes – En virkelig god aften i sin sammensathed

December 17 2018, af passive/aggressive

An evening w Graham Lambkin, Vilde Tuv & Paisajes at Mayhem. 29. november 2018 – Reportage af Claus Haxholm, foto af Yuko Zama www.erstwhilerecords.com Aftenen startede med Paisajes, der betyder landskaber – og navnet både som klang og betydning passer ganske godt til en ret retrospektiv form for ambient musik – akustiske pianoer, der bliver afspillet over skyer og tåger af støj og mere harmoniske flader. ...

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