em guide a snapshot into festivals, clubs & networks in electronic music through the independent movement for electronic scenes (times)
Festivals, and especially clubs, are in a tricky situation in recent years, and 2024 is arguably the most challenging year after COVID and since the start of the war against Ukraine. Obvious reasons are inflation and less money in the pocket of festival goers/clubbers, less obvious ones include the lack of the usual generation takeover on the dancefloor due the COVID years, and lastly, there seems to be a transition in genres and trends where festivals and clubs need to adapt to.
em guide underground culture under threat i. — georgia’s illiberal turn and resistance movement
The illiberal frenzy has hit Georgia hard. Gábor Erlich sketches out some of the key challenges facing this tiny gem of a country in the South Caucasus — including its creators, selectors, promoters, clubs, venues and electronic music scene (and its entire civil society as such). Essentially: of 2024 in Eastern Europe.
