Guest Mix: Maft Sai
Column
When he came back to Bangkok, he knew nothing about Thai folk music. So says DJ Maft Sai…Features
Filter
Genre
Feature type
Records Revisited: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F♯A♯∞ (1997)
Column
The end of the world rolls over the listeners with the first LP »F♯A♯∞« of the Canadian band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Drones, field recordings, overlong pieces with several parts make the atmosphere tremble. A breakthrough of post-rock, a swan song to the present. Why everything was different after this album.
Label Watch: Alien Transistor
Portrait
The Notwist are one of the best known and most exciting German indie bands. The two brothers Markus and Micha Acher not only play in this band, but also founded the label Alien Transistor almost twenty years ago. A universe of unusual and special music spreads out with the releases from there – and has long since exceeded its own boundaries.
Label Watch: Frederiksberg
Portrait
Andreas Vingaard has made it his mission to retell old stories about music. On his record label Frederiksberg, forgotten greats of European jazz or records by unheard singer-songwriters are given an update.
Aigner’s Inventory: July & August 2022
Column, List
The gut is dub, the brain is jazz, the heart is broken, the legs are endlessly heavy: Aigner’s Inventory is steeped in sepia tones this time, almost forgets the biggest release of the year and heads straight for the midlife crisis.
The History of Math Rock in 20 Vinyl records
List
At the end of the 1980s, bands began to upset the rock coordinate system. Rock became more unconventional, more arrhythmic, more dissonant. More mathematical? Maybe. In any case, these bands helped break down clichés of what rock should sound like and created a sound that still resonates today.
Wu-Lu wants to make people think with pure energy
Portrait
The 50 best records from the first half of 2022
List
How Stacks Evoke the Gloom in Pop
Portrait
Blame it on the bossa nova
Essay
Records Revisited: µ-Ziq – Lunatic Harness (1997)
Column
Is artificial intelligence altering contemporary music?
Essay
Why Brazilian music would be different without Arthur Verocai
Portrait
Rian Treanor’s machines hyperventilate
Essay
The Bossa Nova of young Werther
Portrait
On Numerology in Boards of Canada’s music
Essay
Hermeto Pascoal is as enigmatic as the jazz he plays
Portrait
It’s Mathematik: 16bars + MK2 = OG
Portrait
Guest Mix: Le Motel
Column
Why Piero Umiliani’s music still electrifies us to this day
Portrait
Label Watch: Les Disques Bongo Joe
Portrait
Pauline Oliveros and the Long, Subtle Revolution of Listening
Portrait
Records Revisited: The Cinematic Orchestra – Every Day (2002)
Column
12 releases to look out for on Records Store Day 2022 (2nd Drop)
List
Label Watch: Emotional Rescue
Portrait
They Hate Change know it counts now
Portrait
Aigners Inventory: May & June 2022
Column, List
Guest Mix: Lefto Early Bird
Column
Records Revisited: Beastie Boys – Check Your Head (1992)
Column
Interstellar Funk on Club Music that defies Classification
Interview