Reportage and photographs by Cameron Pagett The room of Pumpehuset’s main stage is empty. Empty but for two zany lighting technicians playing DJ to a pair of blinking strobes. On the main stage, there is a metal bar holding a tapestry of thin, vertical, clear plastic panels, which hold a keyboard in a tiny enclosure surrounded by LED lamps quaintly behind them. Directly to the right ...

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 ...

Kelela “Take Me Apart” (Warp, 2017) / Kelela, live at Pumpehuset – review by Ivna Franic. Photo by Anna M. Kanabas. Los Angeles-based Kelela’s 2013 mixtape Cut 4 Me was not only an introduction to a new, powerful voice of contemporary r&b: it was also a demonstration of an original approach to the genre’s sometimes not-overtly-exciting musical backdrop. As much as Cut 4 Me was ...