em guide impossible possibilities: the difficult paths of pakistani regional music. interview with daniyal ahmed of honiunhoni label
Daniyal Ahmed is a musician, ethnomusicologist, music enthusiast and founder of the honiunhoni label from Karachi based in Pakistan. The label started as a blog gathering recordings of regional classical music from Pakistan, but quickly evolved into a full-fledged platform for publishing and promoting local artists. Bulat Khalilov met Ahmed for an interview.

em guide a düsseldorf-based label exploring local sounds, music from other regions and histories of forgotten scenes
In this article Ored Recording's Bulat Khalilov interviews Stefan Schneider, a prominent figure in the contemporary Düsseldorf scene. Although this statement may sound clichéd, it accurately reflects the musician’s extensive experience.

em guide with mappa on the fluid boundaries between fictional and real sound worlds
Jakub Juhás likes to listen to sounds that are easily overheard – from soundscapes in ponds to gradually disappearing Ukrainian folk songs. Ján Solčáni met the Slovakian mappa label runner and talked with him about peripheries, creating in Eastern Europe and doing things with love.

em guide cultivating tenderness through listening with warm winters ltd.
Warm Winters Ltd. is a great platform to discover experimental music (not only) from Eastern Europe. The label from Braitslava does not commit itself to genres, and yet the music is characterized by a certain tenderness. Label founder Adam Badí Donoval on his approach to curating and the challenges of running a label in Eastern Europe

gespräch mit makroscope
Nach Jahren des Lebens und Arbeitens in Zwischennutzungen entschied sich 2018 eine Gruppe von Künstler:innen, ein Haus inmitten der Innenstadt von Mülheim an der Ruhr zu kaufen: das Makroscope. Nach zweieinhalb Jahren Renovierung erstrahlt das Haus nun in neuem Glanz. Wir haben den einzigen festangestellten Mitarbeiter Felix Möser getroffen und ihn gefragt, was das Makroscope ausmacht. Ein Bericht von Hanna Fink.
