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SKUPINA & MAPPA is a mixtape series that focuses on the vibrant Eastern European experimental music scene. Fresh news and premieres from the region, unreleased tracks, self-released albums and labels' activities. Music you don't often find in year-end charts and Western music magazines, yet you should!

mappa (Jakub Juhás) is a music label and curatorial cell based in the glittering epicentre of Slovak mining. It is a sounding cartography, a speculative travelogue and a listening mission, focused on releasing and creating unpredictable sound situations.  

Skupina (Ján Solčáni) is an independent music label and publisher based between Slovakia and Czechia. Skupina turns its attention to the field recordings and listening through the practice of recording, releasing, imagination, oral and aural history and acoustic ecology.

Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio

The first in a series of mixtapes presenting the most interesting and the freshest sounds from the Eastern European experimental music scene. From the premiere of ambient queen Martyna Basta, through the epic journey and transformation of AWOO, right up to the legendary vocal equilibristics of Ukrainian artist Ihor Tsymbrovsky.

The first in a series of mixtapes presenting the most interesting and the freshest sounds from the Eastern European experimental music scene. From the premiere of ambient queen Martyna Basta, through the epic journey and transformation of AWOO, right up to the legendary vocal equilibristics of Ukrainian artist Ihor Tsymbrovsky.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 06.02.2023

A fresh batch of news from the East. Metabolic fomo pop by Slovak intermedia artist Sea Fur. Trailer-core bubblegum gabber polished by Julek Ploski. Hyper manic and rigorous sound design by paszka - the perfect substitute for morning coffee and superpower yoga. The premiere of the Symposium Musicum project takes you to Roma villages in the east of Slovakia. Last but not least, a hidden gem, the album Trance Balance by the legendary Hungarian composer János Másik.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 06.03.2023

Spring is finally here. Everything is waking up and hope is coming back into our lives. You can hear it in the Jaro / Spring series of field recordings by our favourite Czech sound artist Tomáš Šenkyřík. Kyiv and the whole of Ukraine are still resisting enormous russian aggression. On the album Kyiv Eternal, Ukrainian artist Heinali composed hymns to the capital, which had faced a five-week onslaught at the beginning of the war. 

There are also three great reissues (Richter Band - Czech, Nenad Jelić i Laza Ristovski - Serbian, Oleksandr Yurchenko - Ukrainian), testaments to the vibrancy and innovation of the Eastern European experimental scene of the 80s and 90s. Don't forget to include in your AOTY list the debut album of the Emer project by Marija Rasa, a Lithuanian native living in Brussels.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 03.04.2023

This month's mixtape opens with an intimate archival recording from the 1970s by an anonymous Czech outsider-folk singer who calls for an immediate end to animal cruelty. Around the constant repetition of a fragment from a poem by the anti-fascist Spanish poet Miguel Hernández, Katya Shirshkova and Yura Kuznetsov gradually deconstructs their composition. 

Liis Ring's pulsating ambient questions the true meaning of home, while the wailing sound of Elina Bolshenkova's accordion in On Hold is a testament to its true worth. Brno's Sky to Speak creates miniatures that move in between library music and tropicalia in their song Feather Palms. All this wrapped in a freshly released field recording featuring the works of Belgrade-born Manja Ristić, Toronto-based Alëna Korolëva and Prague-Berlin duo Veronika Svobodová and Pia Achternkamp.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 01.05.2023

For this month's show, Skupina x mappa reveals a mix of new and upcoming releases as well as reissues from the increasingly growing Eastern European experimental scene. 

Triglav's latest album is an exploration of analogue electronics, featuring a custom-built real-time radio receiver for his Buchla Music Easel. Despite being originally banned by Soviet censorship for its perceived "cacophony," Šarūnas Nakas' Ramblings invite us into the dreamlike worlds of art rock and avant-garde. 

Svitlana Nianio offers in her album Transilvania Smile a unique blend of experimental sounds and improvisation, mixed with haunting vocals. And in Tok, a piece created for Lush Abundance, the second edition of the Seasonal Diary series, Adela Mede and DASA's vocal urges listeners to leave something behind and free themselves from worries.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 05.06.2023

July's episode opens with two tracks from the talented plunderphonic artist Ellis, who hides behind many aliases such as non-binary love, jiko hakai and magie the マジシャン. Ellis lives in Uzhhorod, western Ukraine. Their album introduces the sentence: Dreaming in the room where no one exists in this world. 

Track ábrándvilág by előd comes from the juicy compilation Healer, by one of our favourite labels EXILES and it presents a wide range of new names and fresh faces of the Hungarian electronic music scene. Finally, it's out, contains some of the funniest and most imaginative songs we've heard in years, and therefore certainly belongs in your AOTY lists. 

The show closes with four tracks by Eastern European artists from the legendary Prague-based label Genot Centre. 

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 03.07.2023

Summer is at its halfway and here Skupina & Mappa bring you another palette of new music from the other side of Europe. 

The opening track by PFC Timur Dzhafarov, recorded near the frontlines at Bakhmut reminds us that there is still a war against humanity going on, where brave Ukrainians are fighting for our freedom. 

Chains by Svitlana Nianio and Tom James Scott blends a delicate collection of intimated piano compositions. Saša Spačal uses sonification to explore the biological processes of human intervention due to nitrogen fertilisation. 

Lucia Vítková takes us into the late warm summer evenings of southern Slovakia. On the contrary, Zaumne invites us to dreamscapes of which fragments show up here and there in tracks drenched in weary pop sunk in the elegance of surrealism.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 07.08.2023

Skupina & mappa's latest show maps field recordings of birdsongs from different parts of Eastern Europe. 

The archive of Dr. Ország Mihály and Peter Szöke, two legendary Hungarian ornithologists, features some of the well-hidden gems followed by recordings of Polish sound artist Izabela Dłużyk. Mihály persevered in his work despite being blind towards the end of his life, while Dłużyk was blind since birth. Both demonstrate tremendous sensitivity and honed listening practice. 

Additionally, the show includes a recording from the compilation „Sounds From Dangerous Places,“ where Peter Cusack explores the sonic environment of Chornobyl.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 04.09.2023

If there is a genre of music that can be labeled as „Central European“ or „Eastern European,“ then Adela Mede, a sound artist from Slovakia and Hungary, is considered its queen. Through her music, she brings hope, faith, and beauty to the bleak regions of Europe. The multifaceted worlds of the Polish artist paszka acome to life with the voice of annie grr. Czech sound artist Tomáš Knoflíček has created a new world of fascinating organic architecture, filled with crackling, juicy, and liquid sounds reminiscent of his debut album on the LOM label. We also dive into the minimalist, slightly droning, and slightly baroque environment of Petra Hermanova cathedral's folk music. Finally, listen to the anti-Europocentric mad tuning of the Hungarian supergroup Decolonize Your Mind Society.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 02.10.2023

In the November show, you will discover two new releases from the Slovakian label, mappa. The first one is a compilation titled "Synthetic Bird Music," featuring songs by Czech sound artists Enchanted Lands and Ursula Sereghy. The second is a track titled "Maze I" by Line Gate. Line Gate returns to the earthy sound of the hurdy-gurdy alongside some deep, crooning voices and embellishes its drones with a performance on a glass cup. Also, in a few days, the album of Slovak visual and sound artist Richard Hronský will be released. With Adela Mede and Line Gate, the work of Richard Hronský represents the best of the Slovak music scene in 2023. Make a note of these releases for your year-end charts.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 06.11.2023

As the end of the year is knocking on the door, we have compiled a list of the music that we have enjoyed the most in 2023, in another year of war. In a few days, the end-of-year charts will start to go crazy, and we hope that some of our favourite releases will make it to the top. 

We are optimistic that the Eastern European music scene will receive more recognition from the mainstream media than in other years. But anyway, we don't expect any miracles. Many thanks for your year-round support. We would be grateful if you could share your favourite albums that we may have missed during the year.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 04.12.2023

Into the new year with Skupina & mappa's two-hour trip through Eastern Europe's scene. 

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 01.01.2024

Last month brought an incredible amount of new music. The EZMVA compilation from Budapest-based digital label 111records showcases a selection from the current raster of Electronic Music and Media Arts at The University of Pécs. 

The neo-psychedelic folk of Hizbut Jámm, a collective organized around guitarist and composer Raphael Rogiński. Recordings from the early 90s by the Ukrainian avant-garde ensemble Cukor Bila Smert’, as well as last year's hidden gem, the dreamy lullabies by spāre. 

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 05.02.2024

In the March mixtape, Valentina Goncharova's documentary piece takes us on a journey through the musical traditions of the North Caucasus, whose folklore has often been trivialised due to the influences of Russian colonialism and Orientalism. Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon have collaborated with the legendary EMS Synthi 100 modular system to explore the question of whether machines can possess a soul. Ukrainian composer and pianist Valentin Silvestrov presents his archival songs celebrating kitsch and Liis Ring and alëna korolëva walk us through their sonic landscapes. 

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 04.03.2024

April's mixtape opens with a melancholic, repetitive piano piece by Georgian sTia. Slovakia's Warm Winters Ltd. celebrate their fifth birthday with Prah, a compilation that tenderly maps the contemporary Slovak and Czech independent scene. Simina Oprescu's exploration of the relationship between materiality and sound is embodied in Sound of Matter I, in which the sound of bells gradually builds into a meditative dronescape. An introspective desire for mutual connection is expressed in Man Rei's pandemic-era piece. The selection is rounded off by new releases from Shakali, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Olga Anna Markowska, Áron Porteleki, buttechno and many more.

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Outsiders: Skupina x mappa @ Kiosk Radio 01.04.2024

liquid cartography
sonic wanderings

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MAP041 Slowfoam - Worlding With Earth
MAP045 VA - Synthetic Bird Music
MAP044 Line Gate - Trap
SKUMAP002 Action Pyramid & Jack Greenhalgh - Mardle: Daily Rhythms of a Pond
046 Adela Mede - Ne L​é​pj a Vir​á​gra
043 Plume Girl - In the End We Begin
039 Forces - Chim​æ​ras
040 Rob Winstone - sifting through heaven
SKUMAP001 Lucie Vítková - Cave Acoustics
030 Symposium Musicum - Symposium Musicum

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038 Nighte - Pin down the dust
036 Kensho Nakamura - Electric Rust
037 Andrew Oda - Back To The Body
031 Baldruin - Kleine Freuden
035 CC Sorensen - Phantom Rooms
034 Alexandra Spence - a veil, the sea
033 Manja Ristić - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found In labyrinth of many a round, self​-​rolled
Grykë Pyje - The Fantastic World of Grykë Pyje
032 Atte Elias Kantonen - POP 6 SUSURRUS

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029 Grykë Pyje - Squirlich Stroll
028 Cucina Povera - Dalmarnock tapes
027 Nick Storring - Newfoundout
025 Lucia Nimcová & Sholto Dobie - DILO
026 Cheryl E. Leonard - Schism
024 Tastin Menu - Stand closer when you have something to say
023 Infant - face first in the entangled

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022 Line Gate - Apex
021 Andrew Oda - SOTTO
020 Cristián Alvear & d'incise - Bow down thine ear, I bring you glad tidings
019 Vlad Dobrovolski - Natursymphony No​.​1 — Spring Music
018 Felicity Mangan - Creepy Crawly
017 Roman Radkovič Collective - Televize
016 Olli Aarni - Mustikoita ja kissankelloja
015 Sarah Hughes - I love this city and its outlying lands
014 Sébastien Branche - Lignes de Fuite

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013 Grykë Pyje - Collision And Coalescence
VA: UŠAMI / Sound mapping camp - Gemer Gothic Route
012 IQ+1 - Conversaphone Plus

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011 Sarah Hennies - Sisters by Lenka Novosedlíková
010 Simon Whetham - Open and Closed Circles
009 MP Hopkins - Aeroplanes & Puddles

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008 Bruno Duplant, Pedro Chambel - Autofictions
007 Catriel Nievas, Sergio Merce - Pampa
006 Diatribes - Sistere
005 Line Gate - Den

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004 Sarah Hennies: Orienting Response by Cristián Alvear
003 Daniel Lercher & Vinzenz Schwab - Decrecimiento Exponencial
002 Adam Asnan - Carriers, PA
001 Jeph Jerman - 34​°​111'3"N 111​°​95'4"W