A record player, or a Gram[m]ofon, is more than just a device that plays back music. Combine it with a record collection and you have a machine that plays back a person’s history.
Gram[m]ofon = Talk + podcast + performance
by Mats Almegård, the Goethe-Institut and The Polish Institute in Stockholm
Gram[m]ofon = Talk + podcast + performance
by Mats Almegård, the Goethe-Institut and The Polish Institute in Stockholm


Tuesday, August 7. 2018
Resina (Karolina Rec)
Born 1982, Karolina graduated from the Music Academy in Gdansk and the University of Gdansk. Active in Poland’s independent music scene since the late ’00s, she was co-founder / collaborator of some of Poland’s most influential alternative bands. [Foto: Kamila Chomicz]
Tuesday, May 8. 2018
Don´t DJ
When performing live Don't DJ is constantly rearranging the components of the rhythms, thus never really reproducing the initial tracks but constantly experimenting.Don't DJ seeks to inspire consciousness to wander beyond culturally suggested boundaries of the perception of reality. [Foto: Don't DJ http://www.option-music.net/artist/don´t-dj]
Tuesday, November 21. 2017
Hauschka
Volker Bertelmann (born 1966) is a German pianist and composer who mainly performs and records under the name Hauschka. He is best known for his compositions for prepared piano. [ © 3festival/tallinnmusicweek/aron urb]
Tuesday, November 7. 2017
Manuel Göttsching
Göttsching's independence – along with his creative gifts and a joy in spontaneity – made him Germany's most legendary 'Kosmische' guitarist, as well as one of its most influential modern composers and the 'godfather of Techno'. [Foto: Frank Seiffert, 2001 © MG.ART]
Tuesday, October 10. 2017
Blazej Malinowski
Blazej Malinowski is a producer, dj, radio journalist based in Berlin. Collector of vinyl records and items with potential to generate music. In his work obsessed by the musical genres related to techno and deep atmospheric forms. Founder of "Why So Silent project" which includes live techno perfomances and silent movies in the background. [Foto: Matt Kovalic]
Thursday, August 10. 2017
Ewa Justka
Ewa Justka is a Polish electronic noise artist, self-taught instrument builder and electronics teacher based in London. She currently studies MA Computational Arts at Goldsmiths College.
Wednesday, April 19. 2017
Electric Indigo
Electric Indigo is a DJ, a musician and a composer. She started her DJ career 1989 in Vienna and worked at the legendary Hard Wax record store in Berlin. She makes music for concert spaces, clubs, sound installations and occasionally for stage plays and short films. The international database for female artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts, female:pressure, is her project.
Raphael Roginski
Raphael Roginski is a guitarist, composer and performer; improviser, culture animator and musicologist. Since the very beginning of his creative work he has been focusing primarily on improvisation rooted in blues and jazz, as well as on ethnic and folk music. It’s the combination of those two paths that best defines his style both in terms of composing and performing. Deeply rooted in the Jewish culture, Roginski has always sought to accommodate it in his art and this search resulted in the conception of two (of the many) projects which he leads: Shofar and Cukunft. 2015 he released a celebrated album dedicated to guitar interpretations of John Coltrane compositions, which was presented at the Unsound festival the same year. [Foto: Agata Grzybowska/Agencja Gazeta]
Friday, November 11. 2016
Tamas Ungvary
Tamas Ungvary was born in 1936 in Budapest and has an extensive classical music education. He was a double bass player in the Hungarian Philharmonic before he studied conducting.In the 60’s he came to Sweden and began composing electronic music at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm.
Anna Zaradny
Visual artist, composer, improviser, sound art artist, music festival animator, author of installations and objects. Born in 1977 in Szczecin.
[Foto: Magda Wunsche]
[Foto: Magda Wunsche]
Thursday, November 10. 2016
Robert Piotrowicz
He has authored radio dramas, sound installations, and music for theatre productions, and collaborates regularly with other artists on audio-visual performances. As an instrumentalist, Piotrowicz works mainly with his own live performance setup, developed around the electric guitar and analogue modular synthesiser. His music has as much in common with contemporary electro-acoustic compositions as it does with sound art.
Friday, October 14. 2016
Reinhold Friedl

The 29th of October 2016 at Högskolan för Scen och Musik, Göteborg
Reinhold Friedl´s favourite albums [Spotify]

Reinhold Friedl, born 1964, lives in Berlin since 1987. As a performer, interpreter and composer, he has received various fellowships (Eurocréation Paris, the Rome Fellowship (Villa Serpentara) of the Berlin Academy of Arts, STEIM Amsterdam), as well as various composition commissions. He founded and directs the ensembles Piano-Inside-Out and zeitkratzer.
Wednesday, September 28. 2016
Dr. Motte
Hardly anyone has so decisively formed and shaped the technoscene like Dr. Motte. He is a dreamer and visionary, an ambassador for electronic music world wide. His sound is ambitious, energyloaded and multifaceted. Compelling club-grooves he binds with driven techno beats and fashions underground music accessible to a wider public.
[Copyright: Dr. Motte]
[Copyright: Dr. Motte]
Tuesday, April 19. 2016
Lillevan
Lillevan is an animation, video and media artist.
He is perhaps best known as founding member of the visual / music group Rechenzentrum (1997-2008).
Lillevan has performed and collaborated with many artists from a wide array of genres, from opera to installation, from minimal electronic experimentalism to dance and classical music; performed and exhibited all over the globe, and at all the major media festivals.
He is perhaps best known as founding member of the visual / music group Rechenzentrum (1997-2008).
Lillevan has performed and collaborated with many artists from a wide array of genres, from opera to installation, from minimal electronic experimentalism to dance and classical music; performed and exhibited all over the globe, and at all the major media festivals.
DJ Olivia
DJ Olivia aka Olivia Ungaro is a Kraków-based DJ who is part the Chrono Bross collective. She is a great believer in vinyl and pushing truth through mixing. She's been a key player in the Polish electronic music scene for 10 years, both solo and performing as the duo Chrono Bross, with her brother Kinzo Chrome. Through the raw and dark edges of techno, the liquid sensation of acid, the deep reaches of cosmic, the simplicity of electro and the warmth of house, her sets shine with originality and a strong belief in the sound she delivers. For Olivia, mixing and digging is life, a DJ's work is to shape tastes and not be distracted and diverted by fashion or trends. For her every piece of wax is a choice from the heart and another testament to her singular musical vision.
[Foto: Kasia Maniak]
facebook.com/olivia.ungaro
[Foto: Kasia Maniak]
facebook.com/olivia.ungaro
Wednesday, April 13. 2016
Tolouse Low Trax
Detlef Weinrich, performing under the pseudonym Tolouse Low Trax is one of the resident DJs at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf, a loose connection of some more, some less professional but adventuresome and passionate makers of electronic music. Weinrich is foremost a member of the experimental band Kreidler and has now his solo tour as Tolouse Low Trax.
Friday, October 16. 2015
Zenker Brothers
Zenker Brothers are Marco and Dario Zenker, techno DJs and producers who also run the celebrated Ilian Tape label. As prolific artists, both solo and together, their profile has been rising steadily for almost ten years, with releases on their own imprint, Tresor and Frozen Border. The slow climb to the techno pantheon has culminated with the release of their debut album "Immersion", a deep leftfield record that is very engaging thanks to its unique atmosphere and interesting rhythmic patterns, which shuffle and skitter under heavy layers of hazy synths.
Zenker Brothers´ 10 selected records:
1 (First ever bought record) Michael Jackson – Bad (1987)
2 Gza - Liquid Swords (1995)
3 Aphex Twin - Syro (2014)
4 Com Truise - Galactic Melt (2011)
5 Group Home - Livin Proof (1995)
6 Rhythm & Sound - Rhythm & Sound (2001)
7 Taylor Mc Ferrin - Early Riser (2014)
8 Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (1993)
9 Shed - The Traveller (2010)
10 Anthony Shake Shakir - Frictionalism 1994-2009 (2010, not on Spotify)
More about Zenker Brothers and Ilian Tape
More about Unsound
Jacek Sienkiewicz
Jacek Sienkiewicz is one of the pioneers of techno music in Poland. Fascinated by the sounds of Detroit and minimal techno, he began his DJ-ing career in Warsaw in the early 90s, then soon also become a producer. Over two decades he has played at countless parties and festivals, perfecting his own brand of minimal techno through a series of EPs and albums on Sven Vath's Cocoon, as well as on his own Recognition label. 2015 saw the release of his club album "Drifting", a mountainside-inspired ambient collaboration with Max Loderbauer, as well as more experimental pieces for No. and Bocian.
Jacek Sienkiewicz´ 10 selected records:
1 Cannonball Adderley “Somethin Else” (1958)
2 The Beatles “Magical Mystery Tour” (1967) (not on Spotify)
3 Wanda Warska “Piosenki z Piwnicy Wany Warskiej” (1969) (not on Spotify)
4 Klaus Schulze “Dig it” (1980) /Elektronik-Impressionen (DDR, 1982)
5 Philip Glass “Koyaanisqatsi” (1982)
6 Coil “Love Secret Domain” (1991) (not on Spotify)
7 Public Enemy “Fear of the Black Planet” (1990)
8 Polygon Window “Surfing On Sine Waves” (1993)
9 Autechre “Tri Repetae” (1995)
10 Robert Hood “Internal Empire” (1994) (not on Spotify)
More about Unsound
Tuesday, May 12. 2015
Cio D´Or
“Cologne´s queen of hypnotic minimalism” started as a resident dj in Munich´s former cult club Ultraschall in 2001. Cio D´Or´s music arises from an idea, which she develops and threads through her own sounds: Emotional, extravagant, charismatic, cinematic, sometimes poetic. Her dj set´s and mixe´s filtering to track down deep and authentic musical developments amongst the mass of music and records without forgetting the gems of the past. With the participation of musical sources, Cio D´Or mirrors the new in the old andvice versa, immersed in the deep grammar of music – leaving this again and allow the sound to live, to resonate now and on through times.
She is a dramatic advisor in her style techno and electronica. She doesn´t play music, she lives it.
ciodor.de
voltfestivalen.se
More about Voltfestivalen at UKK
Cio D´Or´s 10 selected records:
Guru Guru ”Der Electrolurch” (1973)
Brian Eno – David Byrne “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts” (1981)
Stravinsky “Le Sacre Du Printemps” (Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Igor Strawinsky in 1960)
LTJ Bukem “Logical Progression” (1996)
Motorbass “Pansoul” (1996)
Richard Bartz “Evolution – Revolution” (1998)
Planetary Assault System “The Electric Funk Machine” (1997)
Mathew Jonson “Marionette” (2004)
Chateau Flight “Cosmic Race” (2002)
ø (Mika Vainio) “Röntgen & Kvantti” (1997)
Donato Dozzy “Jacopo Carreras PuNto” (2006)
First ever bought record:
Dave & Ansell Collins “Double Barrel” (1970)
[Photo copyright: Cio D´Or 2015]
Michał Jacaszek
MICHAŁ JACASZEK is a Polish composer and producer of electroacoustic music that combines electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments. He is also making music for movies and theatre. He is a co-curator of C3 Festival / Club Contemporary Classical and a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music. Jacaszek has performed in USA (Unsound New York, Communikey, Hopscotch), Canada (Mutek Showcase), Great Britain (Fertilizer, Apha Ville), the Netherlands (Urbanexplorer), Belgium (Fereejen), Portugal, Sweden (Volt), Slovakia, Germany, Ukraine and Russia (Electro-Mechanica) as well as at the most important festivals in Poland: Heineken Opener, Off, Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Unsound, Astigmatic and Festiwal Ambientalny. Some of the highlights among his albums are Treny, Pentral and Glimmer. Jacaszeks performed in Sweden for the first time in April 2010 in Katarina kyrka in Stockholm. This performance was arranged by the Polish Institute and Södra Teatern.
[Foto: Kasper Glanz]
jacaszek.com
norbergfestival.com
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, or D. A. F., was formed in 1978 by Robert Görl och Gabi Delgado-Lopez. They recorded five albums the first four years and are celebrated as pioneers of electronic music.
D.A.F.´s 10 selected records:
1. Gabi: Rockin' Down the House / Adonis
2. Robert: Help / The Beatles
3. Gabi: En el Barrio from 2 Faces/ Wagon Cookin
4. Robert: Hey Joe / Jimi Hendrix
5. Gabi: Black Astronaut from Fear of a Black Tangent/ Busdriver
6 Robert:Whole lotta love from Led Zeppelin ll / Led Zeppelin
7. Gabi: Nuclear War / Sun Ra
8. Robert: Odessa / The Bee Gees
9. Gabi: One Nation Under One Groove / Funkadelic
10. Robert: Super Trouper / ABBA
First ever bought records:
Gabi: Hot Love / T Rex
Robert: Michelle / The Beatles
More about DAF at Inkost
Friday, May 8. 2015
WE WILL FAIL
WE WILL FAIL is a project focused on the pleasure of wandering. Field recordings, tape samples, synthesizers and electronic drum kits are mixed together in order to find some peculiar quality, referring to the aesthetics of techno. The person responsible for this project is Aleksandra Grünholz - a Polish graphic designer, who paradoxically spends most of her time making music. She manipulates her recordings in creative ways, creating multilayered techno collages. Her debut album Verstörung and the follow-up Verstörung 2.0 with new edits as well as fresh material were both released by Monotype in 2014. In April 2015 she had her first concert in Sweden at the Intonal festival in Malmö.
Talk: Inter Arts Center the 25th of April
Performance: Inkonst the 24th of April
wewillfail.com
We Will Fail´s 10 selected records:
AGF Delay „Explode”
Jim o’Rourke „Eureka”
Boris & Merzbow „Sun baked snow cave”
Plastikman „Ex”
Autechre „Incunabula
Alva Noto ”Xerrox”
Kode9 & Spaceape „Memories of the future”
Thomas Koner „La Barca”
John Cage „Choral works”
Mathew Herbert & Gustav Mahler „Recomposed” for Deutsche Grammophon
First ever bought record: Backstreet Boys cassette
[Photo: Olga Ozieranska]
Thursday, May 7. 2015
Pole
Pole, aka Stefan Betke, has excelled in all matters concerning dub during his long and glorious career, breaking genre restraints and creating new musical paths with the warmth of his music and the sheer force of his dubby bass.
He´s upcoming album release “wald” is scheduled for late summer 2015. It will be presented in an audio visual collaboration with the video artist Marcel Weber aka MFO and the premiere took place at the Intonal Festival in Malmö, Sweden in april 2015.
Talk: Inter Arts Center
Performance: Inkonst
Pole´s 10 selected records:
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel "Loves a Prima donna"
Prefab Sprout "Protest Songs"
The Sugarcubes "Birthday"
Jungle Brothers "J Beez wit the remedy"
Root Manuva "Dub come save me"
Hu Vibrational "Bonghee Music 1"
Moondog & the London Saxophonic "Sax Pax for a Sax"
Max Romeo "Birth of Reggae Music"
Desmond Dekker and the Aces "Fu Manchu"
Keith Hudson "Playing it cool"
First ever bought record: Phil Collins "In the Air tonight"
[Photo: Filipe Marques]
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