Passive/Aggressive

Første årgang af Knife Fest byder på vildt line-up (interview)

Blog August 18 2015, af passive/aggressive KNIFE

Af Simon Christensen I slutningen af august byder KNIFE Magazine på første udgave af den nye to-dages KNIFE Fest med et imponerende line-up. Det består fortrinvis af bands fra den unge scene omkring Mayhem såsom Reverie, Sejr, Slægt og Lower, soloprojekterne Tradework, Argot, Soho Rezanejad, Mischa Pavlovski og Puce Mary, nye ting samt aarhusianske kræfter som Ærkenbrand og Narcosatanicos. Festivalen kommer i øvrigt midt ...

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Travelling off the grid with Epic Vinyls from Brazil (interview)

Feature August 17 2015, af passive/aggressive epicvinyl

Interview by Simon Christensen – photo by Samy Khabthani. In collaboration with Danish artist and dj Rasmus Schack, Passive/Aggressive is proud to present a very special mixtape by Epic Vinyls from Brazil. This mix is a 100% vinyl 25-track blend of native indian music, experimental 1970’s sound, capoeira songs and afro-brazilian ritual music and chanting. Listen to the PAB-1 Mixtape from Epic Vinyls from ...

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Epic Vinyls from Brazil – PAB-1 (mixtape)

Blog Mixtape August 15 2015, af passive/aggressive Mix_PA_EVFB_Pics6

Mixtape and liner notes by Rasmus Schack / Epic Vinyls from Brazil. When you live in Brazil as a foreigner, you come to a certain point where you have to ask yourself; what happened to the native population? And where are they? And as a DJ/researcher you wonder if there exists an influence on the Brazilian music. My first meeting with native Brazilians was in ...

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Selvhenter – Heavy weather and the devil in the detail (The London Interview)

Feature June 29 2015, af passive/aggressive selvhenter_2

Interview by Mette Slot Johnsen from the London-branch of Passive/Aggressive It starts raining round about the time when Selvhenter have finally crossed London Bridge. Big, heavy, audible drops. In a city dazed by impending downpours, a sonic weather system is descending on Dalston and Cafe Oto. Most people wouldn’t know it, but those who do, are in for a treat that evening. I’ll admit it: ...

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Sammenstøbninger af musik og lyd – Andreas Høegh og Argot udsender nyt på Blodrøde Floder

Blog June 27 2015, af mikkelarre AH

Af Alexander Julin På sin debutudgivelse, “Between Every Day”, kombinerer Andreas Høegh en særdeles musikalsk ambiens med rå lyd. Uanset om melodierne hurtigt passerer forbi i enkelte strøg, eller de følger lytteren til ende i stykket, indebærer en klar genkendelighed. Jeg vil med andre ord påstå, at alle vil føle sig hjemme i Høeghs musik, såfremt de har den mindste kendskab til ambient eller, ...

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Jacob Kirkegaard – Sound-in-itself as a political statement (interview)

Feature June 8 2015, af mikkelarre recordingStigma_TakashiArai

Interview by Jockel Liess and Mette Slot Johnsen – photo: Katinka Fogh Vindelev, Takashi Arai and Jacob Kirkegaard Jacob Kirkegaard has just come back from a last visit to his first major solo exhibition at Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, “Earside Out”. An exhibition which displayed Kirkegaard’s work as a sound artist, although his body of work spreads into field recordings, film sound, photography ...

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Nattefrost – Mytologiske electro-tidsrejser gennem to årtier

Feature June 6 2015, af mikkelarre nattefrost-interview

Tekst og foto: Jacob Pertou I efteråret kan Bjørn Jeppesen fejre 20 års jubilæum med sit musikalske hjertebarn, Nattefrost. Passive/Aggressive har mødt ham i hjemmestudiet på Østerbro til en samtale om de mange studiealbums fra de 20 år og hans fremtidige planer. Nattefrost laver melodisk, synthesizer-præget electromusik. Det er klangverdener, man kan fordybe sig i. Helt tilbage fra vikingetiden og op til futuriske science fiction-scenarier. ...

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Jim O’Rourke – Et soloalbum i optimus modus operandi

Feature May 28 2015, af passive/aggressive dc362ph01

Af Jakob Skøtt, El Paraiso Records – Photo by Kahimi Karie. Medmindre du har boet under en sten de sidste 20 år, har du nok hørt navnet Jim O’Rourke. Manden, der gav postrocken sin akustiske klang, gav Sonic Youth sin anden ungdom og satte ild i Fire!, er tilbage under eget navn med albummet “Simple Songs”. Hans musikalske CV er åndssvagt konsistent; selv ...

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