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An ancient force

Oerheks is a Belgian Black Metal act whose music is based around the folklore of his hometown Kaggevinne.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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03.10.2024

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A kind of choreography

»iiinox« is a solo drum album by French out-of-the-box thinking percussionist Charles Dubois. In our interview, he talks about the intentions behind his work.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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02.10.2024

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»You have to let the music beat you down«

Syöttökäärme is a psychrock-band from Finland who just released their self-titled debut album, which is full of kosmische musik-based endless boogie.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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01.10.2024

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Black and white, good and evil, light and dark

»Piffiverse« is the debut EP by Antwep-based pop artist Piffy. It contains contrasting and vulnerable pop tunes.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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25.09.2024

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Moving mountains of sound

Loudness and laughter with the Japanese lord of the lute – a charming and A L’arming interview with Keiji Haino and interpreter Shouji Hara.

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Lisa Wallerstein
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23.09.2024

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A soft spot for anti-capitalism

Bruges-based psych folk veteran Edgar Wappenhalter aka Steve Marreyt made an album inspired by Dutch non-conformist and communist poet Sonja Prins. 

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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20.09.2024

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Pop music avant la lettre

Younes Zarhoni is a Brussels-based visual artist and electronic musician with Moroccan roots who mixes polyphonic madrigals with 1990s R&B production.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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16.09.2024

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Life is not a single mode

Jack Paton is the singer / voice / noise behind the Band L. We asked him for an interview on occasion of release of their debut »Marilyn Monroe – All of Us«.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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30.08.2024

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Get active!

Alpha Morzel is a new label from Belgium concentrating on extreme music. Its first release is a tape by US harsh noise act Meketa. We asked label founder and graphic designer Bram Kluizenaar also known as Kluzehellion for an interview.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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29.08.2024

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Music as a means of a meditational exercise

In our interview, electronic musician Ryan Hill aka Kagami Smile talks about his influences from the US and China and what makes his sound »dreampunk«.

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Joeri Bruyninckx
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26.08.2024

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About that bass, and about that drum

A listener’s journey that feels like being Alice in the wonderland of Japanese noise & psychedelic underground music, as well as a conversation about music and (due to his recent passing) Fushitsusha bassist Chiyo Kamekawa, by way of an interview with band member and (snare) drummer Ryosuke Kiyasu.

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Lisa Wallerstein
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13.06.2024

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»There’s nothing fascinating about serial killers«

Der SciFi-Autor Lavie Tidhar veröffentlicht mit »Maror« einen Thriller, der die Geschichte Israels aus der Perspektive von Kriminalität und Korruption erzählt. skug sprach mit ihm u. a. über die Entstehung des Buchs und die Bedeutung israelischer Musik.

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Lutz Vössing
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27.05.2024

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»In the end we are all dogs in the same hot car«

Colin Foord und J. D. McKay veröffentlichen gemeinsam mit Nick Léon Ambient-Musik, die Inspiration aus der Beschäftigung mit dem Leben der Riffe schöpft. skug sprach mit Foord über die Verbindung von Kunst und Natur, Korallen und Menschen.

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Lutz Vössing
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11.04.2024

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Das Leben entscheidet über das Leben

Der dänische Jazz-Saxophonist Benjamin Koppel hat eine schriftstellerische Ode an seine Tante Anna verfasst. Das Buch »Annas Lied« erzählt die Geschichte ihrer jüdischen Familie über ein ganzes Jahrhundert und erscheint nun erstmals auf Deutsch. Wir haben mit dem Autor gesprochen.

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Lutz Vössing
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21.03.2024

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Translations of forgotten dreams

The Finnish spirits of Paavoharju howl back with their third album from the very original constellation. We talked to Lauri Ainala about this and his other projects within the realm of the Finnish city of Savonlinna.

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Lutz Vössing
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25.08.2023

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Fabrics of fire are coming down

Belgian multi-talent Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe presents the music theater »Madrigals« at ImPulsTanz 2023, showing »a future freed from normativity«.

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Michael Franz Woels
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25.07.2023

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All about memories and joining dots

Electronic maestro Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) and clarinettist Gareth Davis are two central figures of UK’s experimental music scene. We had the chance to talk with them about friendship, the pitfalls of memory and why Neue Musik might be one of the most easy-access genres around.

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Michael Zangerl
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15.06.2023

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The potential to be kind

Lane Shi is a multi-disciplinary artist from China operating under the moniker Otay:onii. Following the release of her latest album »夢之駭客 Dream Hacker«, skug had the chance to talk with her about dreams, 1,500 year-old music scores, and modern-day oppression.

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Michael Zangerl
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27.03.2023

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»Hybrid Practices«

Cevdet Erek, a prolific sound artist, prog-rocker and architect from Istanbul, created an audio-visual art installation in Vienna’s Museumsquartier. While the project was taking shape, we talked about curiosity, historical instruments, and electronic dance music.

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Michael Zangerl
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19.12.2022

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»Art needs tension«

Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo, co-founder of Sonic Youth, created two art installations in Vienna. Ahead of the release, we talked with the couple about their creative process.

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Michael Zangerl
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27.08.2022

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I am a Christian whore

We met Ivo Dimchev for an interview ahead of the performance of his new piece »In Hell with Jesus« at Impulstanz Vienna on August 1st and 3rd, 2022.

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Dominika Krejs, Michael Franz Woels
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29.07.2022

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What’s inside Dis Fig

Two ultimate highlights of this year’s Donaufestival were The Bug & Dis Fig and the solo performance of Dis Fig. We met Felicia Chen for an interview.

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Walter Pontis
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25.05.2022

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We were never ascetic born-again Christians

After nine years, a new Paavoharju album has been released. Reason enough to talk to the head of the group, Lauri Ainala, about the new album »Happiness«, a collaboration with Folk-Singer Joose Keskitalo, and to seek some answers about that ever-mysterious thing from the cold north.

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Lutz Vössing
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29.04.2022

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»That’s the reality in Ukraine right now!«

Her new album dropped. Then the war started. Katarina Gryvul is a Ukraine-born, Graz-based sound artist, talking about the current situation in her home country — and why there’s still hope.

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Christoph Benkeser
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23.03.2022

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A missed opportunity for Vienna

Wolfgang Bill Price wrote this text about the inauguration of the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna shortly before he died in hospital of a heart attack on November 24, 2021, having survived Corona in intensive care a few weeks earlier.

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Redaktion, Wolfgang Bill Price
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27.11.2021

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Covid-19 sucks ass, but The Beths still kick ass

In the midst of the Corona pandemic, The Beths released a new album and skug asked them a few questions and promptly got answers. Although their statements have been reproachfully glancing into the interviewers’ eye from the editing desk for about two months, their meaning hasn’t changed a bit.

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Lutz Vössing
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11.09.2020

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She was always a star

We had a lot of fun writing, practicing, and performing our duets together and we used to spend a lot of the time that we should have been working in fits of laughter. That was how many of our songs were born. A personal obituary for Elinor Mora.

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Joshua Korn
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10.06.2020

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»Complications« in den USA

Thalia Zedek hat mit ihrer Band E mitten in der Corona-Krise ein neues Album herausgebracht. Mit skug sprach die Gitarristin und Sängerin über die Umstände der Veröffentlichung und die Realität in Zeiten von Trump und COVID-19.

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Lutz Vössing
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15.05.2020

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Wasting our selves for the environment

In a time where seclusion and privacy are the new norm and no one can go out and get wasted, let’s – at least in theory – rave about the utopian potential of self-destruction in clubbing. How can the excess of rave culture be understood as an ecological practice in times of environmental collapse?

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Kilian Jörg
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11.05.2020

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Crowned Death – On good living and dying in times of Corona

Eine paradoxe Katastrophe entwickelt sich durch die Corona-Pandemie, weil auch steigende Opferzahlen scheinbar bedeutungslos bleiben. Das Massensterben der Tierarten zeigt, dass es zur »Masse« kaum Bezug gibt, der Handeln erzeugt. Es muss vielleicht ein anderes Verhältnis zum Tod gewonnen werden.

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Kilian Jörg, Redaktion
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22.04.2020

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