@thequietus.com paid respect to Slovakian techno from the late 90s and early 00s era. The content beyond paywall contains some nice picks, though i expected some more text, not just embeds thequietus.com/subscriber-a...
@tomasbella.bsky.social možno by ste mohli kúpiť od Condé Nast aj @pitchfork.com a trochu im pomôcť s predplatiteľským modelom? 😅 open.substack.com/pub/firstflo...
V júnovom BWO Sessions sme vyspovedali Jonáša Grusku o vystúpeniach s Axis Mundi, výbere releasov na LOM audio, akciách v LOM space a sérii DIY akcií na Devínskej kobyle radiopunctum.cz/archive/2025...
Pálffy alleys
Biskupice with the ever-present Slovnaft chimneys on the horizon
Midwar Czechoslovak bunker, part of the Bratislava defense system
Vladimír Karfík water works
Haunted oak and chestnut alleys from the old times, looming oil-industry chimneys, mid-war bunkers, floodplain forrests, post-WWII waterworks. Biskupice meadows Vlčie hrdlo (Wolf throat). www.vopz.sk/park/7680-bi...
Global Ear: Bratislava
Chiara Rendeková compiles an annotated playlist to go with her report on Bratislava’s LGBTQI+ underground music scenes in The Wire 496, as the city resists authoritarian crack downs
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
Mohol mať @miloshroch.bsky.social čítačku Šeptej nahlas o českom shoegaze na festivale s lepšou témou ako je Väzbi? Na Braku čítal v Rómerovom dome do gitáry a efektov Obelisk of Light obeliskoflight.bandcamp.com. Jeden z highlightov tohtoročného BRaKu, spolu s “detskou Pecha-Kucha” na dvore MMB
Adam Badí Donoval from Bratislava gets a deserved praise in the recent newsletter of @philipsherburne.bsky.social . His last album from 2022 was a comforting and hope-full listen , this one is dark and moody mappa.bandcamp.com/album/a-mirr...
Could be Buchbox where I bought my copy too! Just finishing it with #1 West. I couldn’t resist and read the chapters zigzag, starting with Centre, following with North and East. Loved the parts where you stroll around the places, like Čachtice, wooden churches in Ruthenia, or Chernivitsi.
An urgent message from The Wire magazine
Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
“His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that’s any indication of how he runs the company, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat.” www.ft.com/content/b180...
Early Bird Shows with Spirit Blue is soundtracking my morning tea almost every week. Love for the scheduled media & rituals they make happen www.nts.live
Denmark has no shortage of songwriting and production talent: Efterklang, Smerz, Quadron. Erika de Casier is from Portugal, lives in Copenhagen and knows how to use her voice and production skills. Her new album Lifetime is wrapped in lush trip-hop beats erikadecasier.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime
TikTok EU ban kedy?
@lewis
New additions to the library: along the lines of the border & party lines. @lewisbaston.bsky.social on the places locked in between countries, mountains and rivers. @ehgillett.bsky.social on the spaces and events in between legal and illegal, mainstream and underground.
Great solo show “Many Worlds Over” by Ayoung Kim at the Hamburger Bahnof.Digital&analogue media based story of two delivery drivers meeting between future Seoul and timezone wraps. The sequel to the main movie has been commisioned&is on display @acmimuseum.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3xP...
Čítanie predposlednej kapitoly o konci shoegaze a EOST v pôvodnej zostave bolo silné, pustil som si Free-D a do toho išla búrka. Prvýkrát a naposledy som album počul 4 roky po vydaní na svojom prvom napálenom CD s mp3. Asi som vtedy na to nemal aparát a setting, teraz mi ten zvuk zafungoval.
Výborná kniha! Historiek z natáčania, tripovania a cestovania tak akurát. Kultúrne a dobové referencie, archívne materiály a rozhovory nakombimované.Pripomenula mi Gaming the Iron Curtain @electroslav.bsky.social v tom, ako dokumentuje kultúru počas zmeny režimu bez stereotypov.
Obrat podcastov k videu som zachytil, ale nevedel som akú škálu a hĺbku to má, vďaka za tip.Podobný príklad ako Ezra je @joshuacitarella.bsky.social , z opačnej časti spektra ako Tate/Rogan. Má podobný dosah na YT ako Ezra, nedávno s ním mal jeden diel youtu.be/NzODyazKIC8
This was a fun interview, and @ianwilloughby.bsky.social had serious questions about my Czech shoegaze book. We were trying to figure out why shoegaze symbolised the rupture after the 1989 revolution, and the year zero was soundtracked by massive guitar distortion.
english.radio.cz/it-was-year-...
Whisper Aloud: Czech shoegaze between the East and the West
Just got my hands on this fresh-off-the-press book by the great @miloshroch.bsky.social. He’s throwing light at the czech shoegaze movement from the after-velvet-revolution times which got recognition around/beyond Europe. Extract from the book on @thequietus.com thequietus.com/culture/book...
Sam Valenti IV of the @ghostlyint.bsky.social fame digs in the vaults and brings back memories of the early 00s pop electronica masterpieces from DNTEL and Postal Service open.substack.com/pub/herbsund...
Where were you in 1984?
Big Tech backed Trump for acceleration.
They got a decel President instead
Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.
🔗 www.404media.co/big-tech-bac...
Prievoz orbital
Blunt question: How far does Zuck have to go until you delete your Insta / FB account? I understand how these might be embedded in some aspects of your social life or information feeds, I was in the same position. But keeping the accounts will be soon get as unbearable as keeping Twitter.
The MIT Museum,Harvard Art Museum and Damon Krukowski conversation took me (flash)back to Museweb 19 in Boston, great times.Things happening in US must have imprinted an eerie feeling to the visit. I was considering to go to the East coast this spring for Future Museum meet, but I’m not anymore.
Dobrý postreh, aj keď sú rozdiely vo forme, rýchlosti pri ničení kultúrnych inštitúcí (najnovšie Smithsonian). USA: zarezaný rozpočet a odstránenie “nežiadúcich prvkov DEI” ako história afroameričanov a hnutí za práva žien. U nás: živelný rozklad kultúry bez tejto stratégie,funguje len vďaka času.
Betón, krása na pohled
Maria Somerville’s selection and soothing voice on NTS Early Bird Show always makes my day. Her new album Luster comming up on @4ad.com fits the label but isn’t confined with the dream pop and shoegaze tags. Have a listen mariasomerville.bandcamp.com/album/luster
