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Sound as Becoming / SPATIAL Festival 2025

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For three days, Funkhaus was no longer Berlin, no longer a building: it became a threshold. You didn’t enter to “see a festival”, you entered to surrender to a rite. From the very first moment I felt that sound was not accompaniment but invisible architecture: living matter shaping body and perception, carving and building, unravelling and reconnecting.

Hexes & Hard Kicks / Sara Landry

Music | Interview
Under the cold glow of an Amsterdam winter night, amidst a moment of stillness before the storm, Sara Landry sits at the epicenter of her own sonic universe—one that pulses between the spiritual and the relentless. February digital cover.

In Dreams / David Lynch Tribute

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Jamie Macleod Bryden attends the Southbank for the David Lynch tribute, conceived by David Coulter.

Per Aspera ad Astra / C2C Festival 2025

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Every November, Club to Club transforms Turin's Lingotto into something that doesn't exist anywhere else in Italy. C2C Festival 2025 — its 23rd edition — did it again, with 42,000 people, a lineup that moved from Jenny Hval to Kode9 to Smerz, and a dedication to Sergio Ricciardone, the festival's founder, who died in March. Per Aspera ad Astra. Through hardship, to the stars.

Alchemic Amazon / Joiah

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Joiah has been orbiting Milan's BSR label for years. Alchemic Amazon is her official debut with the imprint: breakbeat, house, her voice through all of it. Ferocious and fragile. Club music that works at 4am too.

Inside Pyramid / The Soul of Amnesia Ibiza

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For 50 years, Amnesia Ibiza has defined electronic music culture. Pyramid continues this legacy with a vision for the future, a new KV2 sound system, and unforgettable nights. We caught up with the Pyramid team ahead of Sunday’s epic closing party featuring Nina Kraviz, Adiel, Ben Sims, Ricardo Villalobos, Raresh & more.

Lost Kingdom / The Sirens Of Titan

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Unveiled in mid-September, the new album channels the full interiority of the band into a groundbreaking audiovisual project. Combining existential art rock, psychedelic rock, and visuals, it is both a manifesto of uncertainty and a celebration of raw human creativity.

Road to Homobloc 2025

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On Saturday 6 December, Homobloc returns to Depot Mayfield for its sixth edition. The legendary queer block party once again invites artists, performers, and clubbers to unite in a celebration of freedom and self-expression.

Teething / Bande A Part

Music | Interview
Bande à Part is an ecosystem of raw sound, of strings stretched to the point of breaking, vocals bent and twisted into cries carved from an aching body. Teething, their latest release, is a punk rock-inflected coming-of-age ballad and the first glimpse of the upcoming EP Grit. The song will premiere on the occasion of a the single release show at The Old Blue Last on October 2nd. In this interview, we trace the genealogy of the track and music video together with writer, poet and musician Sabina Hellstrom.

Atonal 2025 / The place is the space

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Berlin Atonal closed its latest edition just weeks ago, leaving behind more than a festival of electronic music and experimental art. Returning from the city, clarity emerged: this year was a meditation on Berlin itself—its history, its architecture, its ghosts. More than performances or installations, Atonal revealed how a space becomes alive, how risk defines art, and how presence transforms encounter.

Sonic Portals / Twin Tribes

Music | Interview
Ahead of their gig in Milan on Tuesday September 23rd a conversation with Luis Navarro and Joel Niño Jr. on their duality as bandmates, their obsessions with mysticism and mortality, and the rituals that keep their live performances alive night after night.

I Dream Of Wires / Gary Numan

Music | Interview
In advance of his upcoming Telekon tour we share a catchup held with Gary Numan in the aftermath of his co-headlining tour with Ministry. No further introduction necessary.