From breakdance in Baghdad, the rebel dance pantsula in South Africa to the role of intoxications in club music: Dance can be a form a self-expression or self-loosing.

  • Popular spaces to listen to loud funkot: angkot bus in Indonesia, 2017 (photo: Pxhere).
    Funkot, Gabber’s Distant Cousin from the Far East
    Short Essay by Gisela Swaragita
    One day, when sitting in an angkot minivan in Bogor, our writer had a weird encounter that made her ears ring; it was funkot, a mix of gabber and Indonesian folk. An essay inspired by the music of Animistic Beliefs who performed at MUTEK festival 2023.
  • Filmstill: Nadah El Shazly, Mahmiya, 2018.
    5 Videos from Egypt: Suspended Realities of the Now
    Playlist by Tucker M. Wiedenkeller
    Dreamlike states, magical realism, and suspended reality. Enjoy a new mind-bending list of music videos from rural and urban Egypt ranging from light-hearted pop to grim electronic dance music.
  • Filmstill: Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed (Jan Moszumanski, Poland/Tanzania 2022).
    The Dance Floor Is My Office
    Short Essay by Lutivini Majanja
    In this essay, our author takes a closer look at Polish filmmaker Jan Moszumański’s film «Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed» and uses it as a starting point for a reflection on the genre’s grounding in the digital age and the dissonances embedded deep in its music.
  • An Active Nuclear Power Plant
    Quotation by Majd Shidiac

    «I take notice of the looping eruptions, as if propelled in an active nuclear power plant.»