I am happy to let you know, that the conversation I had with Victoria Shen for Struma+Iodine in May, is finally online after her awsome gig at Westbahnstudios at Unsafe+Sounds festival in September. Here is a little teaser, in case you do not know her yet: “It is like sculpting experiences” – A conversation with Read the full article… »»»»
This interview is only available in German. Switch to German icon to read it or here: https://www.musicaustria.at/hoffnung-fuer-die-hoffnungslosen-ein-gespraech-mit-rent/ More info & sound: RENT (bandcamp) RENT (Soundcloud) Ventil Records »»»»
One of Viennas finest music event series “struma + iodine” finally has a proper home in the virtual world as well. Here host and organizer Shilla Strelka has curated writers, photographers, artists, musicians and other professionals for her wonderful homepage. As part of the team I got to interview DJ Warzone, and you can read Read the full article… »»»»
mica-interview with BIANCA LUDEWIG 28 June 2021 BIANCA LUDEWIG has been researching club culture as a cultural anthropologist for years. She talks to Stefan Niederwieser about utopias, a communal love of music, stories that are missing and hard work at female:pressure to fight misconceptions. Heart of Noise 2014 / Lumisokea (c) Bianca Ludewig Is Read the full article… »»»»
We continue the Rerun-issues 2018 with a show that was done long ago in March 2005 and transmitted via the free radio station in Hamburg FSK, where wiseup-radio started. It features an interview with Mike Patton about his album with the turntablists X-Ecutioners which was released back then, and it also features a short Read the full article… »»»»
End of August the network female:pressure presented their new facts counting on female presence in electronic music festivals at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin. WiseUp cut-up some excerpts on the outcome of the survey. In October WiseUp made a trip to UH Festival in Budapest, a festival for adventurous music, where Monika Werkstatt played the opening concert Read the full article… »»»»
<iframe width=”100%” height=”400″ src=”https://www.mixcloud.com/widget/iframe/?feed=%2FWiseupRadioshow%2Fwiseup-082017-wiener-festwochen-performeumhyperrealityhysteria%2F” frameborder=”0″ ></iframe> Wiseupradio explores another club culture avantgarde festival called Hyperreality. HR is part of the Wiener Festwochen, which are happening since the 1950s and are showcasing cutting edge cultural productions in music, theatre or fine arts. This year a new creative director & curatorial team started their work. Postcolonial approaches Read the full article… »»»»
(Deutsch) Dub-Treff mit Jacques Palminger beim Heart of Noise Festival 2016! Der 2. Teil des Rückblicks auf das Innsbrucker Festival, das seit 2011 Sound Art, aber vor allem musikalische Perspektiven elektronischer und experimenteller Musik der Gegenwart zeigt. »»»»
WiseUpRadio is focusing this time on Berlins Subculture of the 1980s. This was an evening in Berlin with rare videos of concerts in West-Berlin which Horst Weidenmüller, now head of !K7 Records, was filming in the 80s featuring bands like Neubauten, Malaria or Nick Cave. These videos capture “the nervous energy of Berlin’s subculture of the 1980s”. Wiseup sat down for an interview with Weidenmüller and Mark Reeder who edited the material & organized the screening. This is accompanied with music of the artists featured in the footage. »»»»
(Deutsch) WiseUp im Gespräch mit zweikommasieben – Magazin für Klubkultur. Zweikommasieben ist ein Magazin aus der Schweiz, das seit 2011 zeitgenössischer Klubkultur dokumentiert. Dabei werden Künstler interviewt, Essays und Kolumnen geschrieben sowie Fotografien, Illustrationen und Grafiken kreiert. Zudem veranstaltet zweikommasieben regelmässig in verschiedenen Städten Konzerte, Partys, Klubnächte, Matineen oder Raves. »»»»
The CTM festival 2016 focused on “new” geographies in the global landscape. Together with last months edition this is a unit dealing with musical & political activities in the Middle East. WiseUp focuses its attention once more towards the Lebanon in an interview with Beiruts radiohost & music activist Ziad Nawfal.
The second part features the Rojava solidarity campaign organized by the network female:pressure. They introduced their initiative for the women of Rojava at the CTM discourse program with a discussion of f:p members DJ Ipek, AGF, Sky Deep, Annie Goh and women involved in the Rojava Revolution. »»»»
This edition is dealing with the so called “new” geographies in the global musical landscape, which was the theme of CTM festival 2016 which invited several artists from Lebanon, Indonesia or Egypt which WiseUp will focus. I took the chance and interviewed Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at CTM – a Canadian musician with Lebanese roots, who’s project Jerusalem In My Heart has been lingering around for 10 years as a live project, but has become more known since he released his debut album 2013. »»»»
This is the annual end of the year review and a preview to CTM festival 2016. There were loads of great releases in 2015! For example Lena Willikens – who released her EP Phantom Delia in early 2015, and we did an interview April 2015 @ Rokolectiv Festival. For the past five years, she has been in charge of long and sweaty Friday night parties at Düsseldorf’s Salon Des Amateurs. She is also a dedicated member of the Cómeme records tribe. As a DJ, radio broadcaster (check out her show Sentimental Flashback), producer, and Theremin player, Lena is never committed to one style, all is welcome as long as it is twisted the in a one-of-a-kind way. When she spins records she likes to let herself go in the name of dance and free thought. »»»»
Felix Kubin, one half of the Hamburg based futuristic noise band Klangkrieg, lives and works against the rest of the world. His activities comprise Sci-Fi Pop/Noise/animation films/radio plays/experimental broadcasting. As the messenger of exploding lungs he started his label “Gagarin Records” in 1998 and rules the “syndicate of counter-noise” since 1999. His experiences both in electroacoustic music and strange electronic pop (that he followed already in the early 80ies) induced him to launch a vinyl record label for all kinds of Dada-Electronics on the edge of pop and experimental music. »»»»
Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Bernholz (née Walling) – a British composer, producer and musician from Brighton, England. After singing in bands and experimenting with classic and folk styles she discovered pop, darkwave, electronic, and experimental music which she produces as Gazelle Twin. After a demo and 2 previously released singles her debut album, The Entire City, was released in 2011 to critical acclaim. Her latest album, Unflesh, was The Quietus’ Album of the Year 2014. »»»»
WiseUp went to Bukarest to attend the Rokolectiv – Festival for electronic music and related arts for its 10th anniversary and the program features an interview with Mihaela Vasile who creates and organizes the festival together with Cosmin Tapu. I used the time to do more interviews with artists and this time you can hear the interview with Bukarest based Ion Dumitrescu who runs this exciting romanian label. But Future Nuggets is also a collective of musicians from Romania and stands for a psychedelic scene, whether fictitious or real, waiting to be discovered. You will find out about wedding music from egypt and romania – like manele, proto-manele, the music of the albatros generation and other psychedelic sounds. »»»»
My guest in the studio is this time Miruna, performing under the moniker of Borusiade (formally DJ Boru). She is a DJ and producer from Bukarest who is living in Berlin since many years. As part of the electronic music scene in Bukarest as well as Berlin we are listening to some of her new tracks and to other artists from Romania and get to know the Berlin based label Cómeme. We will take a preview on the Rokolectiv – festival for electronic music and related arts – in Bukarest end of april, where Borusiade will be playing. »»»»
(Deutsch) Zu Gast ist der Journalist Ulrich Gutmair – Autor des Buchs “Die ersten Tage von Berlin – der Sound der Wende” mit dem sich diese Sendung intensiv beschäftigt. Das Buch ist eine Spurensuche in die Nachwendezeit von Berlin-Mitte und die Anfänge der lokalen Szene der elektronischen Musik. Gutmair liest Auszüge aus seinem Buch, spielt Platten aus dieser Zeit und beantwortet Fragen. Musik, Orte, Menschen, Geschichtsschreibung sowie die Erinnerung oder das Vergessen werden thematisiert. »»»»
(Deutsch) der pure wahnsinn: peter votavar aka pure war zu gast im studio. der wiener-berliner oldschooler intensiviert sein musikverhältnis 1990 als dj in wien und sein erstes solo album erscheint 1994. bekannt machten ihn vor allem seine abentheuer mit christopher just als ilsa gold in den 1990ern. seit dem sind genres wie experimental und dark ambient ebenso seine vertrauten wie breakcore/hardcore oder oldschool techno/acid/electro. Über all dies weiss er zu berichten, ebenso wie über seine projekte heart chamber orchestra, prszr, bolder oder musiksoftwareprogrammierung. wir tauchen in die tiefen der letzten schallplattenrille, streifen durch die diskografie und bringen rostschutz in die gehörgänge. »»»»
Some bits and pieces from the Ars Electronica Festival 2014 in Linz: Interview with “the sound guy” young sun kim, resident at AE Futurelab; interview with markus decker & pamela neuwirth – who are working on cryptographic key generation, chance and ghostradio; together with franz xaver who has information on the work of Stadtwerkstatt Linz and their new media artist residency programm at Messschiff Eleonore, donautic research or the floating village. Alongside a mix up of electronic, experimental, ambient, noise, pop… sound. »»»»
Wiseup visited the Ars Electronica festival in Linz/ Austria which had its 35th anniversary this september. The festival was the starting point for researching the cultural landscape and artscene in Linz, which is entangled with the emergence and advancement of the Ars Electronica – festival for technology, art & society. »»»»
(Deutsch) Die AutorInnen Natascha Strobl und Julian Bruns im Interview.
Die Identitären, deren Anfänge um das Jahr 2002 auszumachen sind, verstehen sich als Jugendbewegung der ›Neuen Rechten‹ in Europa. Seit der Initialzündung in Frankreich haben sich u.a. in Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz, Italien, Großbritannien, Spanien sowie Dänemark, Schweden und Norwegen Ablegergruppen gegründet, die untereinander vernetzt sind und sich im strukturellen Aufbau befinden. »»»»
(Deutsch) Anfang Juni fand das Heart of Noise Festival Innsbruck zum 4. Mal statt. Kuratorisch ist das Programm dieses Jahr an der Schnittstelle von abstrakter Club-Electronica zu Elektroakustik, Showgaze oder Ambient sowie harsh-noisigen Experimenten verortet. Wiseup macht einen musikalischen Spaziergang durch das Festival Lineup. Dazu gibt es einige Interviews – mit dem Musiker Robert Lippok und dem Videokünstler Lillevan, zwei Urgesteinen der Berliner Szene; mit dem Psychedelik-Ambient Duo Aun, der Multimedia-Aktivistin Holly Herndon und dem Ambient-Turntabelist Philip Jeck. »»»»
In april wiseup explores the the book ‘dj culture in the mix’ in an interview with one of the editors Hillegonda Reitveld, who is a scholar for dance music and dj culture. She was a musician herself and worked in the legendary hacienda club in manchester where she was witnessing the evolving uk club culture. Later wiseup checks out the line up of the upcoming heart of noise festival. »»»»
(Deutsch) Das CTM – festival for adventurous music & art – fand dieses Jahr zum 15. Mal vom 24.01.-2.2.2014 in Berlin statt. WiseUp war bei der Jubiläumsedition dabei und hat Oliver Baurhenn, einen der Initiatoren und Macher, zum Interview geladen, um die Frage “was ist und will CTM?” en detail zu beantworten. Dazu Musik aus dem CTM 2014 LineUp. »»»»
(Deutsch) Böse Musik – Oden an Gewalt Tod und Teufel @ HKW Berlin 10’2013: Performances, Lectures, Exhibition, Microsymposium. Keynote/ Dietmar Dath und Interviews mit Ale Dumbsky/ Pure Hate, Kode9/ AUDINT/ Martial Hauntology, Duna Brill/ Schöne Böse Welt, . Evil Music Soundtrack. »»»»
(Deutsch) Heart of Noise Festival 2 – Detroit, Berlin & Beyond. Interviews und Musik zum Heart of Noise Festival 2013; im zweiten Teil mit Shampoo Boy, Elektro Guzzi, Lissi Rettenwander und Bretterkeller. »»»»
Trying to get the old stuff uploaded. So here some fun & noise with Otto von Schirach. »»»»
(Deutsch) Man nennt sie “Female John Peel” und anlässlich ihrer 2. Mix LP habe ich mich mit DJ Marcelle zum Interview getroffen. Freiheit. Das ist die Essenz von Marcelle’s DJ-Stil. Die niederländische Plattenakrobatin beschränkt sich nicht auf eine bestimmte Musikrichtung. Was Marcelle so auszeichnet, ist neben ihrer unfassbaren Kenntnis von Musik (Sie besitzt eine umfangreiche persönliche Sammlung von circa 15.000 Schallplatten und arbeitet live nur mit Vinyl), die Einzigartigkeit ihres Mixes. Sie ist vielseitig und überraschend. Die Zuhörer werden nicht nur unterhalten, sondern sind Teil eines Abenteuers. »»»»
On-U Sound – lessons in Dub since 1979. Interview with Adrian Sherwood, producer, remixer , and founder of a variety of record labels, however most well-known for his label On-U Sound Records. 2012 he released his solo album Survival and Resistance, and 2015 together with Dubstep producer Pinch the record Late Night Endless. »»»»
Here I talk with two very interesting musicians from South Africa: Spoek Mathambo and Pastor Mbhobho. Learn from the Pastor all about the magic of ayobaness and the uplifting spirit of southafrican music. Mathambo and Mbhobho are leading the way to the dancfloor! »»»»
For those who don’t know, the group started back in ’94. Teao and Zygoat made music under the name II Sense (two sense). In ’97, they combined with Defiance and Laxman to form Kaotic Souls, one of the only experimental and conscious hip hop acts in San Jose, Ca. The group eventually grew to the supa huge size of about 30 members… all spirtually connected artists. Finally in 2002, they created the name Audiopharmacy Prescriptions. Now, Kaotic Souls is broken down to subgroups, all of which are in the Audiopharmacy family. Audiopharmacy Prescriptions then became the San Francisco indi label which supports consciousness and community. »»»»
1,000 years old, AWOL One is still shaking the grounds of hip hop. Bursting on the scene from Planet Zero, California, Awolrus’s style has taken him through the murky waters of hip hop. In 1988, AWOL took off on his b-boy journeys influenced by KDAY and breakdance music. Soon after, vinyl became no stranger and the art of DJing lived in his knuckles. AWOL found himself DJing in underground parties and eventually moved up to night clubs. Then in 1995, he opened for Roger and ZAPP on the “Lowrider Magazine” American Tour for Thump Records. »»»»
Tracklist (28) 1 a volta nasa feat sizzla & amanda blank anti 2009 2 might like you better Amanda Blank downtown/universal 2009 3 bump Spank Rock + Amanda Blank big dada 2006 4 get fresh instrumental Kid Sister Random Rec. 5 single diplo/mayor lazer mad descent 2009 6 make it take it Amanda Blank downtown/universal Read the full article… »»»»
Tracklist (22) 1 blame it all on the rain Atmosphere re-release rhymesayers 2002/2009 2 next best thing Toki Wright rhymesayers 2009 3 earthshaking Jahdan Blakkamoore golddust 2009 4 come with me Jahdan Blakkamoore golddust 2009 5 same old love song ceschi feat awol one, myka9 & 2mex project mooncicle 2009 6 unterschlupf Nazz deck 8 Read the full article… »»»»
Interview mit Dead Prez & neue Platten Tracklist (32) 1 heaven only knows Kos emi 2001 2 calm down Cotti feat. Doctor bass face 12″ 3 diverse tracks Caspa everybody is talking 4 wassup wassup Diplo mad decent 2009 5 2009 Dub Pistols 6 when i am ere Roll Deep virgin 2005 7 must be Read the full article… »»»»
Schamoni is a German entertainer, author, musician, club proprietor and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun. »»»»
Text 2014: Listening to El-P at a Bar last night made me search for the Def-Jux-Special. I was a bit shocked that it is so long ago. Back in 2007 @ FSK freeradio Hamburg the show was sunday night and open-end so we took our time: it was a 4 hour special, joining forces with Nandor of NoTVRaps. So this is a good half of that night shift featuring the El-P interview and defjux discography. In 10/2014 El-P has a new record out: run the jewels 2 with Killer Mike. »»»»
