zweikommasieben
Magazin #11
Over the last couple of months, we’ve observed a realignment of priorities in the electronic music scene. Many producers, promoters, DJs, etc. who have until now concerned themselves primarily with club and dance music are beginning to investigate new artistic trajectories. They’re creating and advocating sound installations, musical experiments, and sonic studies – anything, essentially, but danceable beats. The scene seems to be more open to experimentation than ever.
We’ve also come across the word “experimental” more often recently than ever before. For example, Mumdance discusses his insistence on playing left-field sounds in clubs like London’s Fabric. Also, the American artist Dalglish questions the scene that identifies itself with that term and compares it to a high school clique.
The theme of experimentation runs throughout this latest zweikommasieben issue and appears in conversations besides the two listed above; in an interview with the sound-curious Brit Beatrice Dillon and in a discussion with the Austrialian – ahem – experimental pop trio Seekae, to name a couple more.
Also in this magazine are interviews with Hieroglyphic Being, TCF, Joe Shakespeare & Kuedo, Moon Wheel, Norbert Möslang and Oneohtrix Point Never, a RVDS portrait, and five of the usual as well as two new columns: a photo column by Georg Gatsas portraying artists he’s recently come across, and a text column by fromheretillnow introducing and unpacking wonderfully unspectacular discoveries. Not in the magazine is an essay section (because, for this issue, not all contributors could manage the deadline – and the section is better off presented whole as fragmented).