Das Conne Island in Leipzig existiert seit 30 Jahren. „Auf dem Klo habe ich noch nie einen Schwan gesehen“ stellt die Geschichte des linken Kulturzentrums aus biografischen Perspektiven dar. Es erzählt von den Anfangszeiten in den 90ern, als den Nazis …

David Toop’s extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson. Beginning in 1889 at the P …

Titled after Soft Cell’s version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. Sometimes extreme, th …

Trance has been the flagship for electronic music across the globe during the nineties and early zeroes. The sound’s trademark optimistic and euphoric aspects has brought some of the most compelling musical pieces of its time, and undoubtedly had a sig …

Mehr als 30 Jahre Subkultur, Systemtransfer, Sozialarbeit in #Ostdeutschland und die Frage: Wie viele Geschichten passen zwischen zwei Clubtüren? 1990 wurde das Kassablanca in Jena aus einer Arbeitsgruppe des Neuen Forums heraus gegründet. Bis heute ge …

Totally WiredTin Pan AlleyCreemBlenderCrawdaddy!Rolling StoneNMEMelody MakerSoundsQThe FaceMojoWriters such as Charles Shaar Murray, Greil Marcus, Nick Kent, and Tony Parsons not only documented the wild excesses of Led Zeppelin, the Who, and the Clash …

Six Black Hole jazz dubs by Cosmic Threat, coming together in one truely epic album straight from the astral echo chamber. Jammed over various sessions in an empty Leipzig club during lockdown, Kiki Hitomi, disrupt and bass clarinet black belt Volker H …

Sabrina Zeltner’s artistic practice is situated in the interplay between video, installation, audio-visual live performances, graphic design, as well as subculture and club culture. She nearly always works in collaboration, making the mutual exchange a …

In ihrer Arbeit konzentriert sich die Leipziger Künstlerin Anna Schimkat auf die Untersuchung verschiedener natürlicher, sozialer und kultureller Realitäten. Ein Hauptaugenmerk gilt der Beschäftigung mit dem Ereignis von Raum; ein anderes dem Klang im …

Born in 1955 in a poor district of São Paulo, Ismael Ivo became one of the world’s most famous and successful dancers. As instigator and director of festivals like the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna, he shaped dance history. Artistically, he forged clos …

Over the 40 years since its launch, i-D has grown from a hand-stapled zine to one of the world s leading international style titles with two million Instagram followers. Founded by Terry Jones in 1980, i-D began as a chronicle of style and attitude as …

Techno im globalen Kontext Als weltweites Phänomen hat Techno nicht nur die Musikgeschichte beeinflusst, sondern auch die Gegenwartskultur. Seine Impulse, die in Kunst, Philosophie, Popkultur, Medienkonsum und Technologien hineinwirken sind allgegenwär …

extended experimental ambient techno longplayer by lowtec enjoy floating into the pure electronic bliss side a: 8 tracks, total time 34:50 side b: 7 tracks, total time 35:35 (direct metal mastering) hand-stamped inner lables printed innersleeve artwork …

In the beginning was the word. Or rather, a rumour that put Max Eulitz on a flight to Kyiv in 2019. He was following the chatter about an ambitious new techno club: one without a name, yet full of promise. During a residency at the Goethe-Institut Kyiv …

For several years, Jonathan Meese and Alexander Kluge were preoccupied with Hagen von Tronje, the fabled character from The Song of the Nibelungs. They were both mesmerized by this mysterious figure, whom Jonathan Meese renamed ”Hagen von Troja“ (Hagen …

Obwohl er sich perfekt in die Gruppe einfügte, auf Konzerten wild pogte, zu viel soff und am nächsten Morgen auf fremden Couchen aufwachte, hielten die Nürnberger Punx Steve Braun zunächst für einen V-Mann. Doch tatsächlich wollte der neue Typ mit der …

Please Come: Shameless/Limitless Selected Posters & Texts 2008–2020 is a 536-page brick of a book. It charts the history of Shameless/Limitless, a Berlin promoter whose trajectory has paralleled (is responsible for?) the establishment of the most r …

Photographs by Rosie Marks Published in 2021 13 x 19 cm 24 pages Color Offset Print First Edition

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is widely known as a musical icon of his native country Jamaica. An innovative and visionary producer, Perry contributed hugely to the expansion of the Jamaican musical art scene throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s. During that time, many …

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is widely known as a musical icon of his native country Jamaica. An innovative and visionary producer, Perry contributed hugely to the expansion of the Jamaican musical art scene throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s. During that time, many …

A selection of stellar contributors to the fabulous women’s magazine The Gentlewoman present a timely selection of thought-provoking, witty essays on manners, offering the modern woman viewpoints and advice on classic conundrums and totally contemporar …

The prolific talent behind Radiohead’s iconic artwork reveals the creative process that has driven a career spanning more than 20 years. Widely regarded as one of the most important graphic artists of his generation, Stanley Donwood is the man behind R …

In 1991, the first issue of Dazed & Confused was released as a single A2 fold out newsprint by a then twenty-year-old Jefferson Hack and the photographer Rankin. Now, thirty years later, what began as a print magazine has gone on to provoke a chang …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance h …

‘Innere Stimme’ is the title of a notation used by Olaf Nicolai as instruction for a sound performance. In the empty space of the Vleeshal in Middelburg, formerly the site of the city’s meat market until the end of the 19th century, the melody of the ‘ …

Hailed as “British dance’s true iconoclast,” Michael Clark is a defining cultural figure in the contemporary dance world. Since emerging in the early 1980s as a prodigy at London’s Royal Ballet School, Clark has remained at the forefront of innovation …

Lists have been used for a long time to provide orientation in the world of music. The technological triumph of streaming ser­ vices has turned the supply of music into a new consumer format that has come to dominate the way music is brought to market. …

Lists have been used for a long time to provide orientation in the world of music. The technological triumph of streaming ser­ vices has turned the supply of music into a new consumer format that has come to dominate the way music is brought to market. …

This book looks at one of Jamaica’s legendary sound system owners and record producers – the man credited with saving reggae music by injecting it with new life through the development of digital rhythms. While the dominant roots sound that had come to …

The image of the DJ dragging his record case through international “non-places” and deejaying in clubs around the globe is one of the clichés of our time. Club cultures have a rich local history and are at the same time much more differentiated geograp …

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Das Arbeitende Konzert (AK) / The Working Concert is a performative installation work focused on concerts and their representations as creative media, whereby concerts are understood not as neutral frames but as a form of artistic expression and as cri …

Forty-five years after its publication, Primary Information brings Yvonne Rainer’s classic book back into print in an exact facsimile. In 1974, Yvonne Rainer published Work 1961–73, an illustrated catalog of her performance works up to that point. In t …

TRUE LIFE dokumentiert anhand von vier Ausstellungen ausführlich Alex Da Cortes Beziehung zu dem Musiker Eminem. Von Detroit bis Köln, von einem Projektraum bis zu einem international renommierten Museum, tritt Eminem im Schaffen Da Cortes immer wieder …

Über sechzig Jahre lang sind Fan-Magazine – Fanzine – bereits eine der wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen der Selbstdarstellung. Oft handgemacht und selbst verbreitet, wird ihnen nachgesagt, nicht nur professionell hergestellte Zeitungen beeinflusst zu haben, …

Ecstatic Data Sets is a manual for a music-making machine of the near future. Whilst the technology already exists, these ideas are meant as a speculative projection, if read with a sympathetic ear this book could soon transform inside your mind and be …

Edited by Achim Szepanski. Texts by Jan Heintz, Frédéric Neyrat, Achim Szepanski, Holger Schulze, Zafer Aracagök, Shintaro Miyazaki, Gerriet K. Sharma, Txgen Meyer, Taylor Adkins & Joseph Weissman, Bernd Herzogenrath, Corry Shores & Melike Başak Yalçin, Algorithmic Committee, Jose Rosales, Stefan Paulus, Marcus Schmickler & Julian Rohrhuber, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner, Alessio Kolioulis, Benjamin Noys, Bill B. Wintermute.

‘Good and Plenty’ reflected and embodied the technology of a brief period between the late 1980s and early ’90s. This book looks at seven issues of the fanzine through the lens of graphic design and typography. Contributions from graphic designers, edu …

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” Alexander Kluge chose this quote from Friedrich Nietzsche as the catchline for his multi-part exhibition project, which revolves around THE POWER OF MUSIC. His staging at Kunsthalle Weishaupt and Museum Ulm is …

Based off of the success of the limited-edition hardcover, Pacific is releasing the first softcover printing of The Nelson George Mixtape. The anthology gathers together articles by George from 1978–1993. Early articles for Record World and the Village …

To celebrate 10 years of Big Ears, the art and music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, AC Entertainment, Rock Fish Stew Institute of Literature and Materials, Southern Documentary Fund, and Hat & Beard Press worked closely with artist Kate Joyce—who ph …

German photographer and filmmaker Tobias Zielony’s (born 1973) latest series documents the gay techno scene of Kiev, Ukraine. Maskirovka alludes to a Russian method of deceptive warfare evoking images of gas masks and hooded soldiers, while the photogr …

With its beginnings in 2009, Crack Magazine has, over a 10-year trajectory, photographed some of the most vital and groundbreaking voices in music. From SOPHIE to Arca, MF Doom to J Hus, and Slayer to M.I.A., the photography has evolved between each is …

Since the early 1990s, Carsten Nicolai (b. 1965, lives and works in Berlin) has worked along the interface between visual art, music, and the natural sciences. With electronic sound and light material, he generates minimalist installations, sound perfo …

»Ohne Musik wäre alles Leben ein Irrtum.« Alexander Kluge (*1932 in Halberstadt) – Drehbuchautor, Film- und Fernsehproduzent, Schriftsteller, Philosoph und einer der einflussreichsten Vertreter des Neuen Deutschen Films – wählte dieses Zitat von Friedr …