Collage by N.E.Girl The following is an excerpt from our newly released Festskrift IV. A collection of reflections around the phenomenon of RHYTHM – written, illustrated and recorded by musicians, graphic designers, DJ’s and multidisciplinary artists. N.E.Girl is a UK bass DJ blending styles from different underground scenes. She is also one third of the Copenhagen based label Solumn Records and a resident at Co-Select – ...

Reportage af Alexander Julin Mortensen, foto af Brian Kure Kontorbygningen Neroport slår mig som et pragteksemplar på nymoderne og fremmedgørende arkitektur. Ligesom Fields på den anden side af gaden ligner bygningen mest af alt et hjem for ting eller transaktioner snarere end et sted, hvor mennesker hører til. Derfor overrasker det mig også, at det netop er her, jeg ender, da jeg d. 21. maj skal ...

Dette er et uddrag fra vores nyligt udgivne Festskrift IV. En samling refleksioner over fænomenet RYTME – skrevet, illustreret og indspillet af musikere, grafiske designere, DJs og interdisciplinære kunstnere. Lisbeth Diers er en dansk percussionist/trommeslager og komponist. Hun har været aktiv siden slutningen af 1980’erne og medvirket på over 90 udgivelser.

Photo: Alik The following is an excerpt from our newly released Festskrift IV. A collection of reflections around the phenomenon of RHYTHM – written, illustrated and recorded by musicians, graphic designers, DJ’s and multidisciplinary artists. Petra Skibsted is a Copenhagen- and Berlin-based techno artist who releases and performs under the moniker Peachlyfe. Their contribution to Festskrift IV consist of both the written component presented here and an auditive part ...

Screenshot from the live stream. Clockwise from top left: Xanadune, Update Jammer, Lil Data. 2021, One Take Records This conversation took place as a live stream on Youtube, on the 19th February 2021. It is the first edition of a series of conversations brought to you by One Take Records and presented in collaboration with Passive/Aggressive. Edited by Greta Eacott. Lil Data [Jack Armitage] is a ...

Today Passive/Aggressive is releasing the fourth edition of our Festskrift-series – a line of publications aiming to give artists and cultural actors a chance to unfold their thoughts and visions about a given topic and by the same token attempts to provoke such reflection. Festskrift IV is a collection of reflections around the phenomenon of RHYTHM – written, illustrated and recorded by musicians, graphic designers, DJ’s and ...

Szymon Gąsiorek By Simon Christensen The two Copenhagen-based Polish jazz/impro-players Kamil Piotrowicz and Szymon Gąsiorek present the first edition of the international Idealistic Festival, which take place in two parts in Copenhagen and Warsaw respectively next week. The festival focus is cross-cultural exchange of independent artists and labels from the new generation of freethinking musicians and could be viewed along the lines of similar initiatives like Multiversal ...

I denne måned udkommer det seneste batch i serien af kombinerede ‘kassettebåndstidsskrifter’, som produceres på nonprofit vilkår af KLD Repro og Passive/Aggressive. Det består af tre udgivelser med hhv. værket Windows Gateways Bridges, den verdensomspændende 10 BPM Dance Club og den The Wire-roste danske freejazz-kvartet The Hum. Alle udgivelser består af et kassettebånd med originalmusik og en perspektiverende tekst.

Passive/Aggressive udgiver i denne uge et tidsskrift, der er en samling af tekster skrevet, udformet og illustreret af musikere/kunstnere selv. En refleksion over musikkens betydning i 2017, hvor hverken længde, format eller indhold er blevet dikteret af en redaktion – den slags beslutninger har ligget i hænderne på den enkelte forfatter. Tekster og illustrationer af Tom Blancarte, Emil Elg, Greta Eacott, Anders Hjernø, ...