MEAKUSMA FESTIVAL 2024 FIRST RECORDINGS NOW AVAILABLE 

A first batch of recordings made at the Heuboden room of the Alter Schlachthof during the Meakusma Festival 2024 is now available for your listening pleasure through the Studio Néau website. 

Featuring DJ sets and live performances by Hill Men, Lupini, Nosedrip, Pub, Grace & Raffaela (ML & Vittoria Totale), Ultra Instinct (Steph Kretowicz & Ben Babbit), Angel Rocket, Lorenzo Fortino, Dj Peacock, NikNak, Ard Bit, Hugo Freegow, Monita Wagma, Ced, Julian Weber, you can now relive the festival a bit, check out some stuff you might have missed or otherwise. 

Happy listening!

Meakusma Festival 2024

MEAKUSMA MAGAZIN RADIO INTERVIEW SERIES NOW ONLINE

Editor-in-chief of the Meakusma Magazin Wolfgang Brauneis co-curated a series of interviews during the 2024 Meakusma Festival, touching upon subjects dealt with in the magazine and talking to some of the performers of the festival. We are very happy to now unearth this series of very interesting talks. From academic musings to concrete performance and music-related issues, the scope here is wide and all interviews manage to dig deep. 

Some interviews in German, some in English. 

Happy listening! 

- Michael Leuffen in conversation with Dijit
- Unreasonable Facsimiles (Wolfgang Brauneis im Gespräch mit Michael Leuffen)
- Hanna Bächer in conversation with Aine O’Dwyer
- Rafael Severi (Sensu) in conversation with NikNak
- Wolfgang Brauneis im Gespräch mit Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle
- Till Kniola in conversation with Frederic Van De Velde

Meakusma Magazin at Meakusma Festival 2024

HOWLONGISNOW #5 - Sonmi451

HOWLONGISNOW #7 - Toki Fuko

HOWLONGISNOW #8 - Daniel[i] & Lukas Freisem

HOWLONGISNOW #9 - Iwamaki

Soundƨcape.liege :

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Tracklist : 

1. The Unthanks – Magpie
2. Maria W Horn – Veir
3. Farida Amadou & Pavel Tchikov – 1
4. Alireza Mashayekhi – Yaad, Op. 66
5. Missing Scenes – Lectreus ii
6. Elanie Lilios – Veiled Resonance pt. 1
7. Abigail Toll – RUIINS
8. Luka Aron – Variation 2:XV (XXVII III XXI IX)
9. Chloe Alexandra Thompson – A Craving To Be Engulfed
10. Days Like Television – Vänta
11. Mich L. - S.L.
12. Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap
13. Maria W Horn & Vilhem Bromander – Mycelial Bloom
14. Zemlya – Earth
15. Phew – Flashfoward
16. Lazzaro & LY Foulidis – Gathering #1
17. Franck Vigroux & Matthew Bourne – Geiger Counter + Radioactivity
18. Brian Eno – Sparrow Fall (2)

CED — Bazar Bizar #27 Guest : soundscape.liege

Pub - Meakusma Festival 2024

Nosedrip - Meakusma Festival 2024

Lupini - Meakusma Festival 2024

The two brothers behind Hill Men grew up with a percussion and jazz-obsessed father and a figure sculpting mom. They themselves channel their creativity through the saxophone, recording sounds, drawing and designing. Hiphop, dub, funk and jazz had a profound influence on their musical stance, apparent still in their electronic music tastes and tendencies today. Deeply into collecting vinyl and spending a lot of their time experimenting in the studio, they also recently launched the Souvenirs From Imaginary Cities record label together with Koen Galle aka Kong DJ. A deep and engaging musical adventure!

Hill Men - Meakusma Festival 2024

Grace & Raffaella (ML & Vittoria Totale) - Meakusma Festival 2024

Margaux Gazur is a composer, musician, producer and DJ. Her music is influenced by musique concrète, experimental jazz, world music and electronic music. She is constantly on the lookout for deep, organic sounds to create intimate atmospheres. Over the years, she has cultivated her own unique approach to music, her projects including DJing, live performances and interdisciplinary collaborations. She lived in Vietnam for five years and played a key role in the development of Hanoi’s music community. Now based in Berlin, she is part of the WEICH collective which focuses on creating a space for exploration, intimacy and collaboration across all mediums and genres.

Margaux Gazur - Meakusma Festival 2024

Kirk Barley (aka Church Andrews) is a Yorkshire-born composer and sound artist. Under his own name he produces textural, organic work, formed from processed studio and field recordings. As Church Andrews he produces synthetic, often beat-focussed music, using digital synthesis and algorithmic compositional techniques. For both projects, he draws influences from jazz, minimalism, techno and hip hop, while experimenting with time signatures, temporals and tuning systems to create a unique and compelling soundworld.

Kirk Barley - Meakusma Festival 2024

Perpendicular Music is a new series of live performances by Dial Records co-founder Peter M. Kersten aka Lawrence, premiered at the finissage of Marina Pinsky’s exhibition Infinite Play at La Loge, Brussels in April 2023. A variety of acoustic instruments and pre-recorded material on cassette tape intersects with computer-based audio manipulation. Slowly growing sound clusters emerge into a detailed yet captivating elegy. Kersten is responsible for some of Germany’s most renowned house and techno institutions. With Dial Recordings, he launched the careers of artists like Pantha Du Prince, Efdemin and John Roberts – and not much later he started the record shop and label Smallville. Both in his club-based and listening musical work, he focuses on the deep end.

Lawrence - Meakusma Festival 2024

Since moving to Berlin in 2017, singer and songwriter Alias Error has been regularly writing, recording, performing, and touring with various bands and producers on the Berlin electronic and indie-pop music circuits. Working as a solo artist, she is also an integral part of a.s.o. music, a duo that releases mesmerizing downtempo, trip-hop and more. She hosts the monthly Deep Pop radio show on Refuge Worldwide, a mixed-genre show that encompasses everything from dream-pop, trip-hop, shoe-gaze, experimental, folk, indie pop, soundtracks – and anything else that could be considered waywardly pop, all influences that are more than apparent in her own beautiful work, balancing between comfort and discomfort, acceptance and resistance.

Alias Error - Meakusma Festival 2024

Unreasonable Facsimiles (Wolfgang Brauneis im Gespräch mit Michael Leuffen) - Meakusma Festival 2024

Michael Leuffen in conversation with Dijit - Meakusma Festival 2024

Till Kniola in conversation with Frederic Van De Velde - Meakusma Festival 2024

Rafael Severi (Sensu) in conversation with NikNak - Meakusma Festival 2024

Hanna Bächer in conversation with Aine O'Dwyer - Meakusma Festival 2024

About a half of Phuong-Dan's closing set at this year's Meakusma Festival

Phuong-Dan’s sets are a hypnotizing, compelling mixed bag of rhythms and influences. Consistently exploring moods by jumping back and forth between musical fields with some sort of defiant approach. He combines gigs all over the world with project specific works and musical programming. A good example of the latter are the Gatto Musculoso nights he hosts at Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg since 2006, which through the years have seen artists of every shape and size. Since 2021 he runs dispari – a label and platform for all kinds of auditory publications, collaborations and performances at various places.

Phuong-Dan - Meakusma Festival 2024

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Le Motel DJ Set at Meakusma Festival 2024

WHISPERING SIGNALS — HOWLONGISNOW #10

GRåZON — off the radar #28 w/Tijn Driessen

BIJOUTIER — #2

ULRIKE LEA MOORMANN — Oreille Sauvage #17

GRåZON — off the radar #25  GRåZON b2b Maxbar

Playlist

Oyl - Side A - ANA

Sa Pa - Captigon - Short Pan

Grace & Raffaella - Candy Culture - Meakusma (upcoming)

Enchante - Dream Frequency * Dancer Mix - Jolly Discs

DJ Neumann - E - Tax Free

Valentina Magaletti, Fanny Chiarello - Russian Twist - Permanent Draft

Troubadours - Interior Rainbow - Few Crackles

Nboj Tespo - Interaction - South of North

Zoron - Untitled - Doo

ST/NE - ME/WE - Laura Lies In

Filter Feeder - Shopping (Shelley Parker Remix) - Entr’Acte

Gerald Cleaver - The Process Part1 - Positive Elevation Records

MEAKUSMA — mck #2

NACHTSCHICHT — Podcast vol.10

NOAH WILLEMS — Loco x Coco „The System²„

BIJOUTIER — #3

CED — Bazar Bizar #40

Meakusma w/ Claire Dickson (live at Studio Néau)

YOU'RE WELCOME — Tak #6

TOMS LISTENING SESSION - Ein Deepdive in Musik — #1 Genre: Rap Meine Anfänge mit Musik

SLITE — épisode 11

ROMANOWITCH — #3 (MODULAR LIVE SESSION)

Bijoutier : Pour toucher la lumière, il faut connaître l’envers, comme embrasser l’ombre pour révéler l’éclat. Artisan solitaire sur un océan sensible, il poursuit sa voie au rythme des émotions et des sourires rencontrés, vers la quête infinie du bonheur partagé.

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Bijoutier is linked to the Liège-based party and festival organisation Kollectif Bunker. He spins rare grooves, italo disco and techno, conjuring up an intensely entertaining mix of catchy rhythms, bewitching voices and haunting basslines.

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Bijoutier ist mit der Lütticher Party- und Festivalorganisation Kollectif Bunker verbunden. Er legt rare Grooves, Italo-Disco und Techno auf und zaubert eine höchst unterhaltsame Mischung aus eingängigen Rhythmen, betörenden Stimmen und eindringlichen Basslines.

BIJOUTIER — #4

GIOGIA — #20 w/ Ilias

DJ VYRUS 33 -  Favorites der Deutschen Dance Charts : Vol 1

PACCO'S LIBERTY CITY JAMS — #15

Window Kid & Shapes - Folklore
M.O.P. - Ante Up (Higgo Remix)
parashoot - London Bridge Dub
Silva Bumpa - Doin' It (Feat. MC DT)
Douvelle19 - Empty (Club Edit)
Sadie Ama - Fallin' (Silva Bumpa Edit)
scruz - LOVE
Silva Bumpa - Rush On Me
LAMMER - Get Out My Head
Sammy Virji & Interplanetary Criminal - Damager (Higgo Edit)
Kris Kross - Jump (PAULY Flip)
Silva Bumpa - House Nation
Jauz x Offaiah x Benny Benassi - Push Push
saka - ALL4U W/ LYNY - Section
Zero - On Job - W/ LYNY Section
16bit - In The Death Car (Claybrook Flip)
SVDDEN DEATH - Magic Armour (Tape B Remix)
odd language - HEX
Basstripper - In The City (Old Sport Dub)
Sammy Virji & Skepta - Cops & Robbers (Claybrook Edit)
IFB & Mush - Man
Sub Focus - On & On (PYX Edit)
2HOT2PLAY & Paul Meier - Heads Will Roll
Glen West - S&M
2HOT2PLAY - Flow
Paraçek & mrgnstrn - Rave All Night
coil circuit & Belik - Work It
High Contrast - If We Ever (Unglued VIP Remix)
Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor (SUUNE Bootleg) W/ If We Ever Vocals
Wiguez, Moneo, The Clamps - La Calle Del Aire
Circadian - Flamethrower (Feat. Cody Frost)
1991, Luciana & Dave Audé - Yeah Yeah
Jenks - Rowdy (Feat. Joe Burn)
Catching Cairo, LZee & Bastion - Open Season
Refracta - SHE DON'T NEED 2 KNOW
Document One & Jamezy - All For You
AIRGLO - RAINDROPS
Lixed - Energy
A.M.C - X12
Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor (Feat. Pitbull) (Entity Bootleg) W/ Herbz & Entity - Transformation
Hedex & Rou Reynolds - Dance Dance Dance W/ Blur - Song 2 (Nautika Bootleg)
Hedex, Sullivan King & Basslayerz - Ringtone
ATLiens - FINDING SILENCE (Feat. Northside Hollow) (Renaux Remix)
Hairitage - Blue

10:36 FM — #8 DubHub

Heute soll es um das Genre IDM, kurz: Intelligent Dance Music, gehen. Für viele Musikfans ist Aphex Twin sicher ein Begriff, der einer der Hauptvertreter des Genres darstellt. Welche weiteren Künstler es gibt, was das Genre auszeichnet und vieles mehr erfahrt ihr in dieser Folge von Toms Listening Session mit mir, Tom.

TOMS LISTENING SESSION - Ein Deepdive in Musik — #2 Genre: IDM

Ende 2019 trafen sich Wolfgang Brauneis und Thorsten Schneider in Oberhausen mit Clemens Heinrichs, Leiter der dortigen Gedenkhalle. Anlass des Gesprächs war die Ausstellung „Risse im Stein“, die sich mit der Karriere des bereits im NS renommierten, „gottbegnadeten“ Bildhauers Willy Meller im Allgemeinen und seiner Skulptur „Die Trauernde“ im Besonderen beschäftigt, die zur Eröffnung dieses ersten NS-Dokumentationszentrums 1962 enthüllt wurde. Das Thema der Kontinutitäten künstlerischer Karrieren nach 1945 ist in der vergangenen Jahren vermehrt in Fokus gerückt, gleichwohl ist die Frage nach dem möglichen Umgang mit Arbeiten von Künstlern des NS im öffentlichen Raum nachwievor, und insbesondere vor den politischen Entwicklungen der jüngsten Vergangenheit, ein aktuelles Thema.

INSTITUT FÜR BETRACHTUNG — Risse im Stein w/ Clemens Heinrichs.

ODJ TOMMI GRÖNLUND — #16 Winter Solstice 2025

Tracklist:

Phase Space – Generator 1
Wilson Tanner – Idle
Mort Garson – Music to Soothe the Savage Snake Plant
Wolfgang Tillmans – Don’t Kill It by Naming It
Satch Hoyt – Un-Muting Beyond Misspelt Borders (B5)
Os Les Oiseaux – Cinéma Du Look (Jan Jelinek Remix)
Lutto Lento – 2568 (with Antonina Nowacka & Children’s Choir)
Smerz – Big City Life
Church Andrews & Matt Davies – Roses
f.ampism – Non-farminal
Michel Banabila – E.T.
Tó Neto – Daly
Wolfgang Tillmans – Insanely Alive

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