Karen Willems: The great closeness that comes from falling glasses
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Is it sound art? Is it pop? Karen Willems’ music is many things. Above all, it is immediate. And that is what makes it so great.
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24Jul 2026
Gaswerk Music Days
Berlin • Gaswerksiedlung (+8 more)
Berlin • Gaswerksiedlung (+8 more)
19Aug 2026
Arthur Verocai & Nu Civilisation Orchestra
Hamburg • Elbphilharmonie
Hamburg • Elbphilharmonie
01Sep 2026
Angine de Poitrine
Köln • Live Music Hall (+3 more)
Köln • Live Music Hall (+3 more)
03Sep 2026
Meakusma
Eupen (BE) • Festival area (+2 more)
Eupen (BE) • Festival area (+2 more)
Chat Pile remain heavy – and allow more melody on new album
News 60 Minutes Jazz: we’re starting a curated playlist
News beabadoobee brings in Hayley Williams, Chino Moreno and Brendan Yates for her new album
News Jay-Jay Johanson brings his 1996 debut »Whiskey« back to the stage
Event • Meakusma Festival 2026 brings more than 140 acts to Eupen in eastern Belgium
Event • Hania Rani brings »Non Fiction« to the Berlin Philharmonie with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester and Jack Wyllie
Event • Overmono announce new album – machine error as method
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Guest Mix: ChewChew
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ChewChew does not seek excess in the club, but connection. Her sets of house, disco, funk and soul build spaces in which music once again takes centre stage. How did a vinyl lover become a DJ who gently brings people to the boil?
Jazz as a practice of mutability: Belgium’s Black Flower have the world in their sound
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Movement as a primal state: Black Flower formed in Belgium. In Ethiopia, they found what set their sound in motion – and what remains, to this day, the raw material for ever wilder blossoms.
How Harmony Rec. went from hosting off-raves in Prague to becoming a leading name in European techno
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Harmony Rec. seeks out techno where depth and physicality converge. Somewhere between deep techno, trance and progressive directness, a sound is emerging that defies categorisation. Prague is its birthplace; Europe is its sounding board.
Records Revisited: Dabrye – Two/Three (2006)
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At the turn of the millennium, an exciting meeting of two genres unfolded, which had never actually been far apart but were often sharply separated by their protagonists. Hip-hop met Electronica. Rap flowed over computer music.
The unlikely pop of the Tara Clerkin Trio defies the logic of the feeds
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Artificial intelligence, of course. Then perception crammed into newsfeeds. Advances in technology and science on the one hand, the absence of any practice for dealing with the unknown on the other. The music of Tara Clerkin Trio reminds us that everything need not feel quite so finished.
Guest Mix: Kapote
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It’s going downhill. With Kapote, though, not into the cellar, the bunker. But down the autoroute, along the coast. Our new guest mix is one for – wait for it: good fucking weather.
Laura Misch’s move is slowness
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Carla dal Forno on 10 records that have shaped her
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Records Revisited: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)
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The invitation has been sent out: Loraine James takes us on a tour of her world of shadows
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Festival, radio, record label: How Meakusma connects new musical worlds from Belgium
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Aldous Harding, or: it must be terribly boring to be the same person every day
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How unexpected collaborations gave rise to one of the most influential release series of the 1990s and 2000s
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10 Releases aus der In the Fishtank-Reihe, die du kennen musst
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