Passive/Aggressive

Korpsånd – Black metal-heresy should be praised! (interview)

November 22 2018, af passive/aggressive korpsaan

By Simon Christensen In February this year the American tape label Fallow Field sent out a double cassette tape with a collection of new Danish black metal under the name Korpsånd, “an introduction to new wave of raw DKBM”. Korpsånd (en: corpse+spirit) that connotates both a brotherhood and rising from the dead, is a term coined by Jesper Bagger Hviid, musician, sound engineer and ...

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Janushoved – “I always wanted a feeling of anonymity” (interview)

July 2 2018, af passive/aggressive IMG_2489 2

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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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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Mayhem – Alt er som før (interview)

Feature December 3 2017, af emilgrarup 22859943_10155838567564872_3794796989649498353_o

Af Emil Grarup Mayhem, en hjørnesten i den københavnske undergrund og et spillested med ét efterhånden veletableret internationalt renommé, er otte år efter sin grundlæggelse blevet overtaget af en ny flok ildsjæle. Johannes Lund, Maria Bertel, Tobias Kirstein og Sune TB Nielsen, som etablerede Mayhem i 2009, har valgt at give teten videre til tre, der hver især er særdeles aktive på den københavnske ...

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Gullo Gullo – Kakofonier af orden og kaos

Blog May 3 2017, af passive/aggressive 18156724_1762953394015900_9071261739838464083_o

Af Emil Grarup Anders Jørgen Mogensen (KLoAK, Nikolas, Alle med balloner), Jesper Bagger Hviid (Broder, Himmelschiff Excelsior, GOHV m.fl.), Anders M. Jørgensen (Værket, Slægt, KAMP) og Axel Green (Argot, KAMP) har dannet et nyt band. Bandet er blevet døbt Gullo Gullo – også en titel fra Mogensens seneste band, den elektroniske improgruppe Nikolas – og har indtil videre udsendt to numre: “Another Dead Astronaut” og ...

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Posh Isolation – 8 Years (mixtape)

Mixtape February 27 2017, af Alexander Julin damiendubrovnik

Af Alexander Julin – Photo by Jonas Bang. Posh Isolation behøver efterhånden ikke den store introduktion, specielt ikke indenlands. Det københavnske label fejrer i denne uge otte års fødselsdag; otte år med knap 200 udgivelser, der spænder over alt fra metal, lo-fi pop og punk til ambient, feltoptagelser, noise og orgelbaseret musik. P/A bringer i den anledning et mixtape kurateret af en af Posh ...

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Lacephase Festival – Bridging the gap in the microcosms of underground music

Feature February 21 2016, af passive/aggressive 34-jenny-graf

Lacephase is a new two-day festival at the brick-to-stone venue Mayhem in Copenhagen. The festival presents a deep blend of the underground music in a remix of sonics and performative acrobatics from artists based in Scandinavia and U.S. aimed to suck you even deeper in to the darkly seductive core of the underground scene. Af Sandra S. Borch – Foto: Ultra Eczema. The line-up packs ...

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