The Energy Is the Year 2000 / Mark Leckey
On the end of twentieth-century youth culture, working-class intelligence, losing yourself on the dancefloor, religion, archives and what the internet did to all of it. Talking about youth culture with Mark Leckey quickly makes the term itself feel inadequate. We use it as if youth were a permanent social category, changing clothes every decade but essentially surviving intact. Leckey is less sentimental. For him, something very particular happened between the post-war years and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Then the internet arrived and the conditions changed. Not everything disappeared. The energy can still be found. But it no longer moves in the same way, nor does it announce itself with the same confidence. This is where our conversation began.
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/by Editor NastyA Pain, Hidden And Unyielding
Pain survives the storm. Concrete, hosiery, bandages, mud, hair and lashes give physical weight to wounds that remain private yet refuse to stay buried. A series by WanJin.
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/by Editor NastyWet Dreams Again
What happens when red lights turn the room into a closed circuit of desire. Second part of the glamorous-spicy series photographed by Marco Del Borrello.
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/by Editor NastyMorpheus
Sometimes we feel like torn feathers drifting through black air, disappearing far away from what we are. A fashion story by Habib Achcar and Miguel Herrera.
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/by Editor NastyInto The Night / Barbara Hoogeweegen
London, a 19th-century townhouse, ambiguity and abstraction. The artist presents her exhibition as an escape from reality, or perhaps as a gateway to the forget land of emotion. Everything is allowed: a lucid dream immersed in half-light. On view until September 23 ((open daily 12 – 6pm or by appointment).
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/by Editor NastyWoven Stories / Manusama Nuance
Some stories simply must be woven by hand. A meditation on identity, memory and self-expression, tracing the process of becoming through the act of creation. Presentation of the fashion movie by Mirjam Manusama -creator and mind behind the brand- and director/cinematographer Ottilie Maters, with Trip to the Moon Films.
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/by adminBirds
Every form of protection leaves a fingerprint. Birds unfolds through four species: the pigeon, the raven, the swan and the falcon; each carrying a different contract with human desire: rejected, worshipped, preserved, trained to return.
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/by Editor NastyAgainst The Delusion / Mikhail Borzykin
Forbidden pages, passed hand to hand, with only days to read before they moved on. Borzykin has been writing that way ever since. What follows is his own account of how the bleakest record he ever made turned out to work as medicine, not poison.
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/by Editor NastyLiquid Diamonds
We are water wearing the shape of a stone, and the shape keeps slipping. Shine once, then give it all back to the surface. A fashion story by Esther Galván starring Thaisa Rodrigues.
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/by Editor NastyShapeshifters
Molting in a darkened room. The color dries faster than my form changes, by morning the sun finds a stranger wearing my own skin. A beauty series shot by Eileen Aolani.
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/by Editor NastyThe Maiden In Armour
The body remains exposed but never surrendered, each strap deciding what can be seen and how close the gaze is allowed to come. Photographed by Josh Showell.
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/by Editor NastyOutside Reality / Voodoo Village 2026
There are places that only make sense after sunset. VOODOO begins where the familiar dissolves: a forest lit by fire, sound echoing between the trees, strangers moving as if they've been following the same ritual for years. Nothing asks for your attention; everything pulls you further in. This autumn, the ritual returns.
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/by Editor NastySteel Bloom
Wet hair, chrome at the throat, a face built one shining instrument at a time. A beauty series by Alena Saz, starring Haven Grace.
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/by adminThe Power Of Music / Freddy K
He came out of punk, where saying no is a discipline, and then spent forty years declining to fight anything from outside. Virus went on air in Rome in 1993 — eight until midnight, every night, eight years — named for what enters a system unnoticed and changes it from inside. KEY Vinyl runs the same way: he turns down more records than he takes and sends honest feedback with every rejection, because a door was closed on him once in Berlin and he was told the DJ doesn't know you. He left Rome at the moment the city stopped letting him grow. Everything he has made: the radio, the label, the fifteen-hour closings is a way of getting back to the side of the booth he came from.
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/by Editor NastyReclaiming The Antipop Roots / Neopop 2026
NEOPOP Festival 2026 returned to its original name, ANTIPOP, for its twentieth edition in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Across three days inside the historic Santiago da Barra Fort, the festival brought together techno pioneers and a new generation of artists, proving why NEOPOP remains one of Europe's most distinctive destinations for electronic music.
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/by Editor NastyFixed Self
Pressing the body into shapes it cannot fully inhabit. Flesh and shadows turn identity held in place until it starts to look permanent. Fashion story by Stefano Facca and Arvin Kazeminia.
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/by Editor NastyWhere Is My Home? / Anatoly Shabalin K.
There is a wooden box inside artist’s Berlin studio, built to the exact measurements of a seated body. What began as a purely functional structure has become, perhaps, an answer to a generational need: to find a place to settle when the rest of the world no longer seems to hold. We spoke about disorientation, about a low-grade anxiety that never fully switches off, and about the relentless pressure of images and information that accumulate without ever resolving into meaning. In this vortex of sensations, artistic practice becomes a refuge. Perhaps the only safe harbor left.
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/by Editor NastyAggressive Tenderness / Callush
Callush exists in a constant pull between intensity and softness. Her music is relentless and the person behind it speaks with surprising openness about doubt, instinct, boundaries and the parts of herself that success has sharpened. For the Nasty Cover, she looks back on seven years of building an artist identity, what Berlin continues to give her, the habit of adapting to everyone else, and the moment intuition became more valuable than perfection. Photographed by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei.
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/by Editor NastyCreature Of Balance
Trying to follow the rules of earth, starts tearing her sense of self. Balance is precarious, so is lingering. Now she realizes, she must keep shifting. A story shot by Leandro Ramirez, with Michaela Baitelman.
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/by Editor NastyNothing Is Out Of Place
On the outskirts of Slobozia, Romania, a now-abandoned holiday park was built as one man's private vision of paradise, where an Eiffel Tower could stand beside Southfork Ranch from Dallas. And, as if the place had been projecting the same unfinished film for decades, the story loops back to where it began. A fashion series by Marc Aldinger.
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/by Editor NastyNull – Where To Go
With no offline left to disappear into, flesh remains the only interface built for permanent connections. A series by Elina Fan and Ruix.
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/by Editor NastyNorthern Stars
The glaciers crack like breaking bone while the mountains still breathe an ancient fire beneath. Daphne and Nina in Iceland, photographed by Nicholas Fols.
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/by Editor NastyNew visions from London
Spotlight on three emerging talents, graduating photography students in 2026 at University of the Arts London, whose projects explore themes of mental health, personal space and chronic pain.
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/by Editor NastyStudio Is My Place Of Solitude/ Amotik
At Stone Techno Festival 2026, Amotik played b2b with Lea Occhi, bringing a track they had made together in a single afternoon to a crowd hearing it for the first time. For someone who has spent the past decade working largely alone, it felt like a small departure from the system he had built around himself: his own label, his own release schedule, sets stripped to five or six sounds. A technical constraint became a method, then a philosophy. Through AMTK+, he eventually opened that system outward, becoming a curator of other people’s music too. Anil Chawla has spent his career protecting a very particular part of the process: the moment when the music still belongs entirely to him, before it has to become anything for anyone else.
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/by Editor NastyWhat Excess Actually Sounds Like
Just club posters, from the airport all the way to the road that leads onto the island. That was the first sign of what I was in for. In Ibiza, from May to October, the real sightseeing is clubbing, a party that never really stops, it just changes rooms. I was there for my first time for one of the rarest nights of the season at Pacha: the one where Solomun plays alone, from open to close, no second name next to his. What follows is the account of twenty-four hours, a hotel, a restaurant, a dancefloor, in which I stopped being a tourist.
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/by Editor NastyWitnesses To The Raw / Vitalii Akimov
Akimov pursues the moment when reality reveals itself through the body, when a face dissolves beneath the light, losing its contours until it becomes something else. Raised in the Russian provinces and now immersed in the chaos of Paris, he describes his work as a wound that reopens every time he turns on the camera: an act of subtraction where colour disappears, leaving only the raw essence of the image. His subjects become witnesses to the real; he digs beneath the surface to reveal what remains.
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/by Editor NastyI Still Feel Curious/ Sterac
45 years into a career that has helped shape the language of techno, Steve Rachmad is still driven by the same thing that drew him to music as a kid: curiosity. Ahead of his Basilar Festival debut, the Dutch pioneer reflects on four decades of music, his many aliases, analogue machines, Detroit, the freedom to experiment, and the constant search for something new. From the records that defined his early years to the music he is still creating today, Rachmad looks back at a journey shaped by technology, instinct and an enduring need to explore. A conversation about legacy, creativity and what it means to keep moving forward without losing sight of where it all began.
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/by Editor NastyThe last everything / Phase Fatale
Phase Fatale came up on The Cure and black metal before he ever set foot in a techno club. Now he's a Berghain & Khidi resident, the founder of BITE Records, and one of the most distinctive voices in industrial electronics. We caught him in Milan — ahead of a set at Tempio del Futuro Perduto — for a shoot and to talk roots, romance, his "romantic and expressive" project Soft Crash, a recent collaboration with The Soft Moon and five years of BITE Records.
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/by adminA Different Kind of Love / Stone Festival 2026
In the heart of Essen, amidst the remnants of an industrial past and the vibrant energy of the present, Stone Techno Festival organised by The Third Room collective took place. This event is more than just music; it’s a collective ritual blending history, technology, and underground culture. Three intense days in a place steeped in memory, where every beat tells a story and every sound becomes part of a unique experience
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.12 / Silent Servant
Organised emotional response to isolation, selected by the American techno DJ and producer John Juan Mendez aka Silent Servant.
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.59 / Front 242
“The music is just a sample of what I like to listen to at this time, because it just came out or it is something older I wanted to experience again.” The EBM/Electro pioneers here presenting their most refined and eclectic selection of hidden gems, welcome to Front242 paradise.
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.108 | Psyclon Nine
A selection by Nero Bellum, lead vocalist, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and producer of Psyclon Nine, industrial metal group formed in 2000 in California.
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.8 / Fecal Matter
A selection for peace and tranquility by Fecal Matter: Hannah Rose Dalton & Steven Raj Bhaskaran of the Montreal-based art-fashion duo with an otherworldly aesthetic.
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