Snake Boots – The Garten (Tender Matter, 2025)

“Eine Idee kann nur so radikal sein, wie sie Abstand zu sich selbst bewahrt.” – Thomas Brinkmann im Gespräch

EM GUIDE: Die erfrischende Offenheit von Perfume Genius

EM GUIDE: Krista Papista on queering Cypriot & Balkan pop

EM GUIDE: Time doesn’t work; here it doesn’t make sense – an interview with Ankali

“to explore the limits and modalities of this sensory apparatus”- An interview with Jessica Ekomane

Take a glimpse back: Slikback, Yao Bobby & Simon Grab amm

“Autechre is still one of my favourites” – In conversation with Sturmherta

S+I PREMIERE: STURMHERTA – “Riii” (2025)

„Techno war irgendwann auserzählt“ – Im Gespräch mit Transki

EM GUIDE: TAL – A Düsseldorf-based label exploring local sounds, music from other regions and histories of forgotten scenes

Take a look back: Teklife

Take a look back: Exiles Showcase

EM GUIDE: Gin&Platonic – Sounds plucked off the floor after dripping through a black hole

Take a look back: S+I Showcase Budapest

“I grew up amongst ruins of ancient palaces, monasteries, and cremation mounds” – Ruhail Qaisar

“EVERYTHING FEELS STRANGE” — AN INTERVIEW WITH KAVARI

Take a look back: ㋛ Struma+Iodine = 12 ㋛

EM GUIDE: Ellen Arkbro “I love making sound in a room and having people there to experience it”

EM GUIDE: The Digicore scene in Slovakia — How to make music and build community

Ernst Lima. The Peak of something very, very dark.

EM GUIDE: “I try to make order from chaos.” — in talks with Martyyna about what is written in the scars

“Insects are fascinating and underappreciated” – An interview with Robert Schwarz

“EVERYONE IS A STORYTELLER” – IN CONVERSATION WITH THE NARRATOR

REVIEW: BARA & ISA – (ii)

“it’s demarcating what fits into a specific idea of rap” – Iceboy Violet

Julia Just. Jetzt. Klangquanten für die Post-Demokratie

EM GUIDE: Music without Agency – The struggles of acting in the alternative scene

Glimpses of past night feat. Rabit, Nunguja, Lung, KEINPONNY, Yves b2b call me daddy

EM GUIDE: Thoughts on the semiotics of music – parlour game

EM GUIDE: Listening to Other Realities – Elia Moretti on sound art, the Carpathians and dissidence

EM GUIDE: Underground Culture Under Threat II. — Nomadic festival ICKPA sparks solidarity and wrestles Westsplaining

EM GUIDE: A snapshot into festivals, clubs & networks in electronic music through The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes (TIMES)

“Healing is communal – it occurs in collectivity” – In conversation with Mala Herba (Zosia Hołubowska)

UNSAFE+SOUNDS 2024 REVISITED

S+I PREMIERE: DRUG SEARCHING DOGS – “CANINES OF TEH WORLD, UNITE!” [INTERSTELLAR REC]

“It is like sculpting experiences” – A conversation with Evicshen

“Ich bin seitdem eine Andere” – Im Interview mit FRANKIE (Franziska Aigner)

EM GUIDE: With mappa on the fluid boundaries between fictional and real sound worlds

A queer platform dedicated to experimental electronic music – AN INTERVIEW WITH TENDER MATTER

“I don’t like how it feels, when it’s not 100% genuine” – An Interview with DJ LOSER

“Die Harfe war schon immer sehr mit Klischees behaftet” – Im Interview mit Miriam Adefris

EM Guide: Ored Recordings – Punk ethnography and the sounds of the North Caucasus

EM Guide: Underground Culture Under Threat (Part I) — Georgia’s illiberal turn and resistance movement

EM Guide: The Muscut and Shukai sounds of lost futures

Unsafe+Sounds Festival 2024: First programme details

„Die Theaterproduktion ohne Theater“ – Aki Traar im Interview

“Ich hasse Musik”: Conny Frischaufs Sprach- und Hör-Spiele entlang der Grenze zwischen Da und Dort

Ariadne Randall – “Her Water Dream / Image of a Blue Thumbs​-​Up” (2024)

THE FINAL TRANSCRIPT: Tina Frank

“Processing life” – An Interview with RENT

EM GUIDE: Interview w/ DiV4 from the Polish trans-femme and non-binary collective DEKONSTRUKT

EM GUIDE: Noriko Tujiko/ 辻子紀子 Interview – “We could feel beautiful and peaceful, maybe.”

EM GUIDE: Underground culture in Argentina’s post-dictatorship

EM GUIDE: Keeley Forsyth – “I’m not even interested in my own life and my own thoughts“

EM GUIDE: Gedanken über Postkoloniale Neue Musik – Wege aus der Dauerschleife

“I had my memory travelling” – In conversation with ABADIR

EM GUIDE: “Earthly” meditation accessible to anyone – An Interview with Line Gate

Take a look back – Asifeh & Qow

EM GUIDE: Aunty Rayzor – „Alles begann in der Kirche“

S+I PREMIERE: BARA & ISA – “BELLSONG” [JEOPARDIZE]

Flashback: Listening Session VIII feat. Brandon LaBelle, DeForrest Brown Jr., Ghostpoet

„MUSIC IS MY PLAYGROUND” – AN INTERVIEW WITH HYEJI NAM

Flashback: Liliane Chlela, Kasho Chualan, Yasmina Haddad, Andrea Lumplecker & Listening Session VI

EM GUIDE: As loud as possible

“Concepts of care, conviviality, and embodiment” – An interview with ssolve

EM GUIDE: A new network of independent music magazines

EM GUIDE: “Don’t call me G, but rather next one” – the new generation of Slovak rap

EM GUIDE: Cultivating tenderness through listening with Warm Winters Ltd.

The Final Transcript: Manos Saklas (OTOLITHS IN FLUX)

Heavy Calmness – An Interview with KMRU

SONIC AGENCY – STATEMENT

Flashback: ㋛ Struma+Iodine=11 ㋛

S+I PREMIERE: SSOLVE – “Rytm F” (2024)

Flashback: Gil, Peter Kutin, Zs Zs

THESOSUNG – “THESOSUNG II” (2024)

END OF THE YEAR 2023

Flashback: YL Hooi, Hylut, Windtal, Lucia Kagramanyan

“Therapy and ritual” – bela in conversation with Pope Sangreta

“Reclaim power and agency with music” – An interview with Asifeh & Firas Shehadeh

UNSAFE+SOUNDS 2023 – MUSIKGUIDE

Flashback: Hide, Drug Searching Dogs, Morast (Struma+Iodine X Liccht)

Flashback: Evicshen, Jana Woodstock, Codex Empire, Mike Nylons, GNEVER, Tiredpurple, DJ Jackhammer, Distortina, Greensequence, Relatic, Tucibi

Flashback: Hieroglyphic Being, Mama Snake, Tin Man, Quehenberger & Altroy, Alpha Tracks, Inou Ki Endo

“EVERY TIME YOU FACE RESISTANCE, YOU CAN FIND A WAY AROUND IT”- An Interview with Hieroglyphic Being

FLASHBACK: ㋛ STRUMA+IODINE=10 YEARS ㋛

“Music is always political” – An Interview with Pavel Milyakov

„Hardcore will never die“ – Schirin im Interview

“I am a sucker for pathos” – An Interview with Alpha Tracks

„Ich hoffe, dass gerade atmosphärische Musik dazu anregen kann, zu spekulieren und zu träumen.“ – Hunt im Interview

BEST OF 2022 – PART IV (FEAT. ALPHA TRACKS, ROSA NEBEL, GISCHT, ANTONIA XM, IN MY TALONS, VICH MIND, CONNY FRISCHAUF, INGRID, PURE, INOU KI ENDO)

Best Of 2022 – Part III (feat. DJ Warzone, Katana, Hunt, Kenji Araki, Polyxene, Voiler, Robert Schwarz, Chra, Marie Vermont)

BEST OF 2022 – PART II (feat. Rojin Sharafi, Heap, Distortina, Ehrenschwesta, Fingers of God, Welia, Haskii, Rent, Morast)

BEST OF 2022 – PART I (feat. highlights by DJ JACKHAMMER, DJ DIAMOND, ANDREA IDA, MARAWS, ABU GABI, JUNG AN TAGEN, GNEVER, PAUL EBHART, DJ GUSCH)

“In hardcore everything is just full-on in the red and clipping!” – An interview with Somniac One

„Ich möchte nicht in meiner Comfort Zone bleiben“- Im Interview mit Rojin Sharafi

ON STAGE: DEFORREST BROWN JR., BLAQ HAMMER, SPEAKER MUSIC, MARIE VERMONT, SAMI NAGASAKI

UNSAFE+SOUNDS 2022 – DISKURS GUIDE

UNSAFE+SOUNDS 2022 – MUSIC GUIDE

„Zuzee von den Waxolutionists hat mir Musikunterricht gegeben“ – Im Interview mit DJ Warzone

“Rethink the concept of a netlabel” – An Interview with Jung An Tagen

„Die Suche nach dem Weirden und Strangen, das sich hinter den Sounds verbirgt“ – im Studio mit Electric Indigo

ON STAGE: SOMNIAC ONE, KILBOURNE, SCHIRIN, FLOWER CRIME, ANTONIA XM, NACHTBOTE, DJ WARZONE, DJ EBHARDY

„Es ist so eine sonderbare Form der Kommunikation“ – Paul Ebhart im Interview

ON STAGE: KLARA LEWIS, FRU FRU, THE CONCEPT HORSE, SUBLETVIS

„Gegen die Vereinnahmung durch eine einzige Szene“ — Rosa Nebel im Interview

ON STAGE: ZOË MC PHERSON, MALA HERBA, MORAST, ADHS LENE

Insides: Patrizia Ruthensteiner

Insides: Paul Ebhart

Insides: Pure

Insides: Kim Leclerc

Insides: Patrik Lechner

Insides: Irradiation

INSIDES: DJ WARZONE

INSIDES: ERIC ARN

Insides: Kobermann

INSIDES: GRACE SCHELLA

INSIDES: POLYXENE

Insides: MIRELA IVIČEVIĆ

INSIDES: THE FUTURE

INSIDES: THE BOILER

INSIDES: BOCKSRUCKER

Insides: Chra

INSIDES: ANGÉLICA CASTELLÓ

INSIDES: INOU KI ENDO

INSIDES: TREIBGUT

Insides: Stefan Fraunberger

Insides: Mala Herba

Insides: Conny Frischauf

Insides: Mo Nahold

INSIDES: ANTONIA XM

Insides: Paul Gründorfer

INSIDES: MISONICA

INSIDES: KŒNIG

Insides: Billy Roisz

INSIDES: TIN MAN

Insides: MAGDA CHOWANIEC

INSIDES: KUTIN

Insides: Rojin Sharafi

INSIDES: WELIA

INSIDES: PITA

INSIDES: ADORNO

Insides: Idklang

Insides: Dorian Concept

Insides: Ulrich Rois

INSIDES: SPECIFIC OBJECTS

Insides: Rosa Anschütz

Insides: Asfast

Insides: Abu Gabi

INSIDES: ROBERT SCHWARZ

INSIDES: ALPHA TRACKS

INSIDES: HASKII

Insides: Jung An Tagen

Insides: Jakob Schauer

Insides: Schirin

Insides: Rosa Nebel

Insides: Dino Spiluttini