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Solhorn – Image and sound intertwined in a feedback loop
Solhorn ”Kredsbevægelsen” (År & Dag, 2019) – review by Wieland Rambke The dominance of algorithms has come into being at breath-taking speed, particularly in the last 20 years. Coding as a...
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Brooch – Impulsive rock on a tight schedule (premiere)
By Mikkel Arre Ben Stidworthy and Mikkel Holm Silkjær met when their regular bands, Ought and Yung, toured together in 2016. They started a duo called Brooch and released their first 7” a year later....
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Teksti-TV 666 – Vi skal motorvejsrocke og bolle
Foto: Rasmus Søndergård Madsen Teksti-TV 666, Plan B, Malmö, 1. februar 2020 – koncertanmeldelse af Rasmus Søndergård Madsen Det var min første gang på Plan B i Malmö, og hvilken debut! En lang, mørk...
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Northern Winter Beat 2020 – En ode til mørket (reportage)
Kogekunst: Rafael Zajac Af Peter Svendsen – fotos: Rafael Zajac, Balazs Popal & Moment Photo I sin ottende inkarnation virker det til, at den aalborgensiske festival Northern Winter Beat har...
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Perko – Incorporating Copenhagen soundscapes into introspective techno tunes...
Interview by Alexander Julin Mortensen, photo by Matthew McArthur Williams The Scottish, Copenhagen-based producer Perko debuted back in 2018 with the release “NV Auto” on likewise Scottish label...
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Alexander Holm – The Understated Sci-Fi of “GiVa1G”
Alexander Holm “GiVa1G” (Sensorisk Verden, 2019) – Review by Macon Holt Known for his work with Vid Edda, Group 4K, Young Brag amongst others, the prolific Danish sound artist, Alexander Holm,...
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Atlantics – Kærlighed i kapitalismens slagskygge
Af Viktor Retoft, redaktør på Balthazar – tidsskrift for filmkritik. Da jeg oprindeligt så Mati Diops “Atlantics” var noget af det første, der slog mig, filmens soundtrack. Filmen begynder realistisk,...
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Randi Pontoppidan & Christian Rønn – Improvisation carefully avoiding the...
Randi Pontoppidan & Christian Rønn “Head¨Space” (Chant Records, 2020) – review by Giuseppe Pisano This record came as an unexpected surprise to me. Two very prolific Danish artists, Randi...
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Peter Voss-Knude – “Danish politics are the mother of this record”
Feature/Interview by Macon Holt “Danish politics are the mother of this record”, Peter Voss-Knude told me in a small cafe around the corner from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, where his...
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Ingrate – Hvert track sin gimmick (interview)
Af Emil GrarupProducer og musiker Anton Lenander udgav d. 14. februar sit andet udspil under aliasset Ingrate på det københavnske pladeselskab Anyines. EP’en, som hedder ”With A System in Mind”, er et...
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Messell – The complex beauty of our communicative failures (interview)
By Macon Holt “If no one fits in,” said Martin Messell to me in his studio in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, “then maybe we don’t have to worry about fitting in.” We were talking about the concept behind his...
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“Unfuck the World, You Stupid Girl” – If Grimes is the Villian What Does That...
An essay about pop music and the climate crisis with Grimes as a case study. “Miss Anthropocene” is out now on 4AD. Written by Macon Holt. Grimes, Claire Boucher, C, or indeed the eponymous “Miss...
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Scientific Sonification – The Sound of Corona
Essay by Holger Schulze, professor of musicology at the University of Copenhagen. Can you hear the coronavirus? What does it sound like? Recently, some compositions which used data gathered from the...
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Fortidens avantgarde er nutidens pop – Om den historiske avantgardemusiks...
Komponist og lydingeniør Pierre Schaeffer i sit studie, hvor han bl.a. arbejdede med fonografer, båndafspillere og sin selvopfundne ‘phonogène’. Essay af Mads Hæsum ChristensenDet kan være svært at...
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Syv rejser i det musikalske kosmos anno 2020 – Astralt, psykotropisk og 0%...
Dire Wolves henter forsyninger inden afgangen mod andre galakser Af Nicklas Sørensen Her er et udvalg af de bedste plader, der indtil videre er udkommet i år. Det er ikke et definitivt udvalg, men et...
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Giuseppe Pisano – Being An Artist is Horrible
Essay by Giuseppe Pisano The outburst of Covid-19 is having disastrous consequences for everyone but, personally as one that works within the arts, I wanted to direct attention towards some elements...
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Pythia’s Journals – A monomedia festival for our isolation pods
Review by Macon Holt Pythia’s Journals is an online art festival conceived, organized and curated by artists Tobias R. Kirstein and Signe Vad, through Vad’s organizations, Office of Emergency and The...
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Alle – Mellem modenhed og barnlighed, kundskab og intuition (interview)
Af Emil GrarupJeg vil begynde dette interview ved at lægge mig fladt ned og indrømme, at Natal Zaks’ (Central, Palta, Mitro, Maizena m.fl.) seneste udgivelse som Alle, ”Alletiders”, er et af de bedste...
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By Wieland Rambke Look at a lava lamp. You always see the same thing while the shapes within keep changing. In presenting you with a visual stimulus that is in perpetual motion, it is as predictable...
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Whistler – Rockmusik om syg politik og et farvand fuldt af håb (interview)
Af Mikkel Arre – foto: Christian Friedländer Undervejs på københavnske Whistlers debutalbum bliver der sunget et spørgsmål, der indkapsler et af pladens grundtemaer: ”Hope’s a bust / love’s a must /...
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