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Sean McCann – “My pieces could be performed and interpreted by anyone interested. There is no exclusivity” (interview)

Most read April 3 2019, af mikkelarre

Interview by Peter Jørgensen Following the output and inherent growth of composer Sean McCann has been a joyous ride for me for the past couple of years. His personal and fresh approach to composing and combining sound worlds has made for some of the past years’ most interesting releases. With the added bonus of being refreshingly ignorant of “the latest trend”. Besides his output as a composer, ...

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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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Deaf Center – Towards a more spacious melancholy

March 19 2019, af mikkelarre

Interview by Mathias Ruthner Though having existed for more than 15 years, the forthcoming album, “Low Distance”, is only Deaf Center’s third full-length release. Since the Norwegian duo released their first EP, “Neon City”, their output has been somewhat sparse due to the geographical distance between its two members and their wide range of other collaborative and solo outputs. Since the start of their ...

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Body2Body – Quenching Aarhus’ thirst for hard music (interview)

Blog March 13 2019, af mikkelarre

DJ Lag Body2Body, March 16th & 22nd @ TAPE, Aarhus – live preview by Ivna Franic Aarhus is in for two pretty sickening events this month – headlined by Lee Gamble and DJ Lag, respectively, and organized by Body2Body, a local club night promoting genre-bending music, pairing cutting edge international acts with leading local talent, and putting a focus on the visuals. Body2Body has so far put ...

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Infinite Waves – Dokumentation af den bølgende ambiens i lokalmiljøet (interview)

December 13 2018, af alexanderjulin 46831375_1956828891066219_7199777308918415360_n

Af Alexander Julin Selskabet Infinite Waves har længe været en fremtrædende figur indenfor den danske eksperimentelle musik med et mangefold af båndudgivelser såvel som enkelte LP’er over de seneste år. Specielt de seneste års udgivelser har haft et stilistisk slægtsskab, idet de på forskellig vis har arbejdet inden for og undersøgt ambient-musikkens potentialer. En bølgende og ofte æterisk fornemmelse, der meget generelt kan siges at gøre sig gældende for ambientgenren som sådan, går igen på størstedelen ...

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Courtesy – Adding nuance to the Copenhagen techno sound (interview)

November 30 2018, af passive/aggressive Courtesy-4-Please credit Kasia Zacharko

Interview and reportage by Cameron Pagett. Additional photos by Kasia Zacharko. A liberal array of red and blue light columns course across a very crowded floor. The beginning hours of morning have fallen over the city and again I am perched at the lighting desk in Volume KBH. Another year, another chapter in diy-organiser Fast Forward’s history unfolds in a smokey ...

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Freedom To Spend – “Right now is the best time to be a fan of strange and forgotten music”

November 26 2018, af alexanderjulin FTS-FreedomToSpend-Flag-Logo

Interview by Alexander Julin Freedom To Spend started in 2017 as a sub-label to RVNG (Visible Cloaks, Oliver Coates, etc). While several other people contribute to the label, some of the primary forces behind are Matt Werth from RVNG as well as Jed Bindeman and Pete Swanson (who, on a note, also produced some phenomenal solo records in 2010-2013 and was a ...

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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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Sortlegeme – Soundtracket til et sted, der ikke findes (interview & mix)

Mixtape October 20 2018, af alexanderjulin

Af Alexander Julin Jeppe Dalsgaard Andersen har foruden droneprojektet Outer Nothingness i særdeleshed gjort sig bemærket med soloprojektet Sortlegeme i de senere år. Mens der i 2016 og starten af 2017 udkom Sortlegeme-udgivelser på både Moral Defeat, Memory No. 36 Recordings og srt, Dalsgaards eget label, er det nu lidt over halvandet år siden, at projektet sidst udgav noget, i form af båndet “Permanence”, der udkom i kølvandet ...

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