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Anyines – Record Labels in the Age of the Platform
Interview by Macon Holt The small Copenhagen music platform, Anyines, was founded in 2017 by long-time members of the Danish electronic (is there any other kind) music scene, Villads Klint (Minais B)...
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Make it Weirder – The Copenhagen Scene from an International Perspective
By Ivna Franic The periodic excitement over locally specific music scenes appears to be alive and well, having successfully survived the beginning of the Internet age and the still rising tendency of...
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Peter Jørgensen – Waking us up from reality, weaving us into a dream
Peter Jørgensen ”Alt i stykker” (No Technique, 2019) – review by Giuseppe Pisano Along the years Peter Jørgensen has developed a compositional style that shares common elements with both the new wave...
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Festskrift III – Passive/Aggressive udsender nyt tidsskrift
Passive/Aggressive udgiver i dag tredje udgave af vores Festskrift-serie. Festskrifterne er samlinger af tekster skrevet, udformet og illustreret af musikere/forfattere selv. Nyeste skud på stammen er...
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Animaux Animé – Death disco transcending the personal
By Wieland Rambke – photo: Thomas Sørensen From a landscape in bright, vibrant colours, animal shapes emerge, almost unrecognizable, caught in motion in twisted stances, their colours just as lively...
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Passive/Aggressive – Vi er taget på sommerferie
Passive/Aggressive er på sommerferie rundt omkring i Nord- og Centraleuropa. Vi vender tilbage med nyt indhold midt i august. Har du forslag til anmeldelser, printudgivelser eller musikudgivelser til...
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Passive/Aggressive #8 – Scenic Capitalism, Nostalgia Machines and the need...
The eighth annual, international Passive/Aggressive zine is set to be released in November as part of the program for Gong Tomorrow 2019. The zine opens with a critical essay on Brian Eno’s notion of...
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Johan Carøe – There is no need to resist imperfection
Johan Carøe ”zenmetal” (No Technique, 2019) – review by Wieland Rambke There is something hypnotic about the sound of sound on warped tape: When the recording begins to warble, and both speed and...
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Jacques Attali – An introduction to Noise: The Political Economy of Music
Essay by Macon Holt Before he was the head of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, and before he was an economic advisor to French president François Mitterrand, Jacques Attali wrote a...
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D/O Ripper – Documentation and scores from “Harness of Patience Epics...
Introduction by Claus Haxholm In August Sufie Elmgreen aka. D/O Ripper and a group of vocalists gathered under the moniker, Whistleblowers Ununite, performed the piece “Harness of Patience Epics (...
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Proton-showcase i Berlin – Refleksioner over Apple-ambassadører og vansirede...
Sofie Birch & Xenia Xamanek Lopez & KhalilH2OP live på ACUD MACHT NEU (14. november, 2019) – Livereportage af Nils Bloch-Sørensen I midten af november måned havde det københavnske...
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Fryd Frydendahl & Lars Greve – Solhverv (videopremiere)
Passive/Aggressive lancerer i dag en nonprofit videoplatform for samtidsværker med musikrelateret indhold. Og hvilken bedre måde at fejre det på end ved at vise et af årets mest omtale audiovisuelle...
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Året der gik – De bedste danske udgivelser i 2019 (udvalgt af redaktionen)
Collider Årets 10 mest værdsatte danske fuldlængdeudgivelser fra 2019 i vilkårlig rækkefølge – ifølge redaktionen på Passive/Aggressive Erika de Casier: “Essentials” (Independent Jeep Music)Erika de...
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Året i billeder – En fotoreportage fra 2019 af Martin Breidahl
Daniel O’Sullivan @ Alice Else Marie Pade fremført af Borbala Brezovszky @ Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium Holly Golightly with Her Band @ Loppen Jack Wright’s Roughhousing @ Mayhem Jandek @...
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Året der gik – De bedste internationale udgivelser i 2019 (udvalgt af...
Nkisi Årets 10 mest værdsatte internationale albums fra 2019 i vilkårlig rækkefølge – ifølge redaktionen på Passive/Aggressive Kali Malone: “The Sacrificial Code” (Ideal Recordings)På sin tredje...
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Året der gik – De bedste danske oddsize-udgivelser 2019 (udvalgt af redaktionen)
Årets mest værdsatte danske oddsize-udgivelser fra 2019 i vilkårlig rækkefølge – ifølge redaktionen på Passive/Aggressive. oqbqbo: “Untitled” (Posh Isolation)Nastya Sipulina er russer, men har boet i...
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Året der gik – Frit, globalt og aktivistisk: 250 centrale udgivelser og 50...
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble – foto: Daris Jasper Af Mikkel A. Kongstad Måske er kvantitet i sig selv i en pointe. Et vægtigt argument i form af en nærmest utømmelig ressource af overraskende...
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Året der gik – Ekspertpanelets årslister
For at give lidt perspektiv på årslisterne har vi bedt et ekspertpanel bestående af komponister, lyddesignere og tidligere skribenter med ekspertise på bestemte områder om at komme med deres bud på...
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Året der gik – Skribenternes lister 2019
Caterina Barbieri Ivna Franic Dansk:Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)SØS Gunver Ryberg: “Entangled” (Avian)Code Walk: “Distance” (Peder Mannerfeldt Produktion)Spellcaster: “Inventory” (Visage)Yuri:...
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Young Bragi – Sitting Close To A Stranger (mixtape)
Text and mixtape by Alexander Holm “Sitting Close To A Stranger” presents unreleased tracks of Young Bragi along side favourite harp artists and storytellers. Among many darlings it features Alice...
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