If you want to explain Franco Battiato’s music to someone, you have to go a long way
Portrait
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented towards a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.
Features
Kelly Lee Owens picks 10 records that have shaped, improved and formed her
List
Işık Kural picks his 10 Vinyl Records of the noment
List, Portrait
The Incredible Noise Chansons of Marie Klock
Portrait
Rosa Anschütz on the big Questions and how the Lack of Answers can be Art
Interview
Lost Girls on Disarmament in Pop and Loneliness in Life
Interview
How Total showed up in Berlin, but then nearly faded from memory
Portrait
Records Revisited: Talking Heads – Speaking In Tongues (1983)
Column
Overmono on Shared Feelings and Separate Hotel Rooms
Interview
Ghia are Bielefeld’s best kept secret
Portrait
The Fabulous World of Genevieve Artadi
Portrait
Kate NV is in Search of the Perfect Loop
Interview
Kelela on Setting Limits as an Artistic Means
Interview
Aigner’s Inventory: September 2022
Column, List
How Stacks Evoke the Gloom in Pop
Portrait
Is artificial intelligence altering contemporary music?
Essay
Records Revisited – Daft Punk – Homework (1997)
Column
Loredana Bertè – Somehow Incomparable
Portrait
Leslie Winer is the world star nobody knows
Portrait
Records Revisited – Björk – Vespertine (2001)
Column
Records Revisited – Grace Jones – Nightclubbing, 1981
Column
How Sault became the musical voice for Black Lives Matter
Portrait
Records Revisited: Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love (1985)
Column
Records Revisited: Björk – Debut (1993)
Column
Records Revisited: David Bowie – Let’s Dance (1983)
Column
Deko Deko – The Sound of Deconstruction
Portrait
Reviews
Σtella
Adagio
Sub Pop
Yukimi
For You
Ninja Tune
Helen Island
Silence Is Priceless
Knekelhuis
Eiko Ishibashi
Antigone
Drag City
SPELLLING
Portrait Of My Heart
Sacred Bones
Voice Actor & Squu
Lust (1)
STROOM 〰
Marina Herlop
Nekkuja
PAN
Citron Citron
Maréeternelle
Les Disques Bongo Joe
Tim Koh & Sun An
Salt And Sugar Look The Same
Music From Memory
Sam Morton
Daffodils & Dirt
XL Recordings
Mariko Katsuragi
Aoyama Nights
Memme Vaev
Margo Guryan
Words And Music
Numero Group
Caoilfhionn Rose
Constellation
Gondwana
Vegyn
The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions
PLZ Make It Ruins
Beth Gibbons
Lives Outgrown
Domino
Sissi Rada
Aporia
STROOM 〰
Guests
I Wish I Was Special
World Of Echo
Dana Gavanski
Late Slap
Full Time Hobby
Ana Lua Caiano
Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado
Glitterbeat
Meiko Kaji
Gincho Wataridori
WeWantSounds
Sonoko
Chante
STROOM 〰
Golden Diskó Ship
Oval Sunpatch
Karaoke Kalk
The Beatles
Now & Then
Apple
Loveshadow
II
Dark Entries
Total
Jede Nacht derselbe Traum
The Outer Edge
Sampha
Lahai
XL Recordings
Sparkle Division
Foxy
Temporary Residence
yeule
Softscars
Ninja Tune
Sylvester
Private Recordings August 1970
Dark Entries
Tom Misch
Quarantine Sessions
Beyond The Groove
News
Erobique & Jacques Palminger celebrate the Principle of Shared Joy with a new album
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Enjoy the oh-so-beautiful melancholy with Milan W. live in Cologne
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Yeule are bringing their raw Goth-Glitch-Hop to Berlin in July, with a new album coming out soon
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Arooj Aftab captivates her audience, and no doubt will do so live in Heidelberg at the end of October
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With »My Method Actor«, British musician Nilüfer Yanya presents her Ninja Tune debut in September
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Critics’ favourites Oum Shatt from Berlin release new album
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New album by Discovery Zone announced, no Metaverse release planned
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New York singer Rahill live in Berlin and Cologne this November
Event • 
Róisín Murphy with new album, produced by DJ Koze
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Big Dada announces Rahill’s eagerly anticipated debut album, »Flowers At Your Feet«
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Limited vinyl edition of Lana del Rey’s new album »Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd«
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