EM GUIDE is a network of independent music magazines which empowers the members with resources for quality music journalism reporting on underrepresented artists of Europe and beyond.
More and more I’m losing touch with the hard, semi-ironic and, to be honest, boring post-punk sound that has defined UK guitar music for a few years now. I much prefer a band like caroline: they push the whole thing more in the direction of post-rock, sound accordingly epic,...
COVID-19 in Romania altered the landscape of the music scene. While there is a strange and inexplicable feeling that something is missing, the post-pandemic experimental music scene in Bucharest has faced significant challenges, struggling with the inherent difficulties of operating independently.
As far as I’m concerned, most artists and fans of a given genre are fairly content with the name they have for the kind of music they are involved in. Punks are proud to be punks, pop-music lovers can hardly argue that their current pop-icons are making popular music,...
Honnan jön a sampling és hova tart? Egy korokon, műfajokon és ideákon átívelő jelenség, amelynek megfejtését egy magazinközeli producer sample CD gyűjteményének megismerése inspirálta.
A Time Waster from Sydney The musical explorations of Berlin based composer and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi take place mostly on the guitar. He is an avid collaborator and improviser who has worked with many of the leading personalities in today’s music scene (including Keiji Haino, Merzbow, Stephen O’Malley,...
There is a new genre in town: punchier than your average Billboard Top whatever queen, and witchier than anything these days; it would be like a warehouse rave party if everyone cared to dance with each other while holding hands. Where did it come from, what does it sound like,...
– "From Medellín, Colombia, here. HK4, Alfa, Delta, Juliet, Alejo Duque, greeting Florencia in Buenos Aires." – "Lima Uniform 3 here, Charlie Uniform Romeo greeting Alejo. Looking forward to free media challenging monoculture." I met Alejo Duque at a Latin American experimental radio gathering that I organised in...
Digital streaming platforms (DSPs) are mighty. The best known player is obviously Spotify. They manage an enormous amount of data: user, behavior, and the music itself. Distributors are constantly uploading tons of new music to these platforms. Ideally, DSPs would act as lighthouses, given their position and resources, and one...
Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical affect, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody. Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes are grounded in...
Az MMN B2B évszakozós sorozatának negyedik részében Feryne és Softense mutatnak be 5-5 (plusz 1) trekket az idei tavasz lezárásaként.
EM GUIDE, an international network of independent music magazines, with MMN Mag as one of the members, will celebrate their (almost) two years of existence and a jointly curated printed book via a one-day festival on May 31st in Vienna at Flucc.
RESi betrays a rhizomatic approach to sound synthesis and musical composition. Post-post-club: 1’s and 0’s stretch their fingers from creative coding environments like Max/MSP into the real-world, technology informing art informing life informing art.
I saw Erfana speak with vigour and deep dedication to her pursuit of community and underground culture during a panel discussion on queer safe spaces held at the Budapest club Turbina — the same club where Erfana throws her popular Kink Budapest parties. This took place just a few days after...
