Felix Kubin
A short history of the audio cassette
Following with Felix Kubin’s line of research on the creative underground tape scene, in this brief podcast we revisit the origins of the format with former Philips employee Wim Langenhoff.
Deutsche Kassettentäter. The rise of the German home-recording tape scene #2
ZickZack label founder Alfred Hilsberg and author Frank Apunkt Schneider talk about the cultural, social and political conditions in Germany at the end of the seventies that gave rise to a radical new type of music, which Schneider describes as 'the undirected aggression of the freed noises'.
Translated lyrics
A compilation of the lyrics and the English translations of the Deutsche Kassettentäter music selection by Felix Kubin.
Czech Republic and Slovakia
A decade after the end of the communist regime, Czech and Slovakian underground musicians began channeling the national legacy of progressive dissident rock to virgin soil.
Latvia
The small but active experimental music scene in Latvia is starting to turn a page and break free of the stigmas that have plagued their cultural life for almost twenty years.