Jungle, emotions, a female gaze: A conversation with Nia Archives
Interview
Music, cigarettes and tequila: Nia Archives is a self-styled Emotional Junglist. For her, raving isn’t about escaping your own shit, but diving right into it.
Reviews
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Knowsum
Cherry Stone Pillow
Sugar Brain
Cosmo Dance
Cosmo-Logic
Periodica
American Cream Band
Twin
Quindi
Batu / Donato Dozzy
Exhale
!K7
Kelela
New Avatar
Warp
Milky Way
Summer-Time Love Song
WeWantSounds
Various Artists
5 Years Paryìa
Paryìa
Lifted
Movie
Outside Time
Fields Of Mist
Intergalatic Rose
Ilian Tape
Dulce Neves
T’chuba T’chiba
Hot Casa
News
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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)
09Oct 2026
Jay-Jay Johanson
Berlin • Berghain Kantine
Berlin • Berghain Kantine
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 Phoebe Bridgers announces first solo album in six years
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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Features
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Records Revisited: This Heat – This Heat (1979)
Column
When rock’n’roll destroyers This Heat released their debut album, barely anyone paid attention. But in hindsight, it stood out amongst the now-classic post-punk albums in 1979 as the most radical record of its time.
Records Revisited: Aaliyah – Aaliyah (2001)
Column
Testament and blueprint: with her final album, the singer Aaliyah, who died at a very young age, made R&B ready for the first decade of the 21st century.
Guest Mix: ChewChew
Column
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?
Die 50 besten Schallplatten der ersten Jahreshälfte 2026
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Die Redaktion hat es wieder getan. Sie hat selbst gewählt, sie hat sich Zeit genommen, sie hat gesammelt und verworfen, hingehört, eingeordnet. Ihr findet hier nur: zertifizierte, entsloppifizierte Masse, Shit mit einem Puls.
Karen Willems: The great closeness that comes from falling glasses
Portrait
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.
Jazz as a practice of mutability: Belgium’s Black Flower have the world in their sound
Portrait
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
Portrait
Records Revisited: Dabrye – Two/Three (2006)
Column
The unlikely pop of the Tara Clerkin Trio defies the logic of the feeds
Essay
Guest Mix: Kapote
Column
Laura Misch’s move is slowness
Portrait
Carla dal Forno on 10 records that have shaped her
List
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
Portrait