Formed in 2010, Barcelona-based outfit Belgrado has existed at the innovative forefront of the global post-punk scene. Now in their ninth year, the quartet continues to play at home and abroad, carrying with them a reputation built on three full length albums and an impressive touring career that has taken them to all corners of the globe.

Emerging from the DIY underground of Barcelona, Belgrado initially traded in a stylish mixture of post-punk tropes that could be traced back to the Europe of the early 1980s. Following the release of their debut LP (2011), the band embarked on an extensive touring schedule of Europe and North America. As the group progressed onto their sophomore Siglo XXI (2013) the sound became distinctly more streamlined, elegantly incorporating a colder element, and ultimately marking them out as true frontrunners of the genre. Further touring ensued including a month-long expedition to Latin America in 2014, performing in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. But it could be argued that their latest LP, Obraz (2016), really demonstrated what the band is capable of. Sophisticated yet accessible, different to their previous work but still noticeably Belgrado. The LP saw the group branch out into territory clearly influenced just as much by psychedelia, dub and exotic rhythms as they were by the now familiar canon of cold wave and post-punk classics. Following the release of Obraz, the four-piece once again set out on the road, playing dates in the USA, Mexico, Japan, South-East Asia and Australia, as well as a series of European festivals. In 2019 they toured South America for the second time, doing sold out shows in Chile and Brasil as well as playing in Perú for the first time.

Musically, the band is equally the sum of their four distinct parts. The machine-tight drums retain an expressive quality which drives the band forward as its rhythmic engine in propulsive dance. Atop the percussive motion, smooth bass lines dictate the harmonic language of the songs, whilst the guitar ricochets and echoes textural motifs high above the rest of the music. In the open space between the guitar and the bass, the voice (sung in the singer’s native Polish tongue), often rhythmic and repetitive, lulls to and from in a trance-like state. The resulting music is uptempo but dreamlike, danceable but serene. In their lyrics, the band touch on themes such as that of an automatic world in acceleration, the darker side of a world moving forward technologically and the social alienation that brings, the omnipresence of the image (‘obraz’ in polish) as a tool of social control in a world filled with spectacle, and an ever growing blur between the discernibly real and unreal. Aesthetically, the group take influences from the vanguard of 20th century art movements such as Dadaism, Constructivism/Suprematism, and the Bauhaus School. Most visibly represented in the artwork of their records, posters, videos and merchandise. Notably, their visual aesthetic is a collaborative effort from amongst the band’s members.

Whilst based in Barcelona, Belgrado’s membership is a blend of transplanted Venezuelans, a Brit and a Polish woman. This cultural collision of rectangular post soviet buildings and grey skies with a Caribbean sensibility inevitably informs their sound, as does the city of Barcelona, with its mediterranean backdrop and cosmopolitan multiculturalism.

 
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Cosey Mueller is a musician and artist currently living and working in Berlin. After finishing her studies in fine art at Udk Berlin in 2018 she started her musical career as one half of the synthpunk duo DAS DAS whith which they released two albums “DAS DAS (S/T)“ in 2020 and “Leben in Bildschirmen“ in 2021 (label: Detriti).

She also played synthesizer in the hardcore/experimental group Glaas whith which she co- released their debut album “Qualm” in 2022 and their EP “Cruel heart cold Summer” in 2023 (label: Static Shock).

“Interior Escapes” was her solo debut, a self released synthwave project recorded on tape during 2020/2021. It was followed by her second LP, “Irrational Habits”, released February 2023 (label: Static Age). Her music is characterized by repetitive synth melodies, explosive beats, expressive vocals and a playful use of language. It makes you travel to another time. A pulsating, shimmering and danceable live experience is guaranteed.

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As Mareux, musician and producer Aryan Ashtiani makes music filled with stories of unrequited yearning and the ghosts of lovers’ past. Even before going viral in 2021 with “The Perfect Girl” (his interpretation of a 1987 song by The Cure), the Los Angeles-based artist has been steadily building an international cult following from Eastern Europe to South America. After more than a decade of developing his post-punk and darkwave-inspired dance style of piercing synths, cavernous vocals, and forlorn melodies, he is finally unveiling his debut album, Lovers From the Past, via Warner Records/Revolution Records. It’s a collection of sinister, yet magnetic tracks that explore heartbreak and disillusionment.

Having helped spark a resurgence of interest in post-punk and darkwave among a new generation online, Mareux finds himself at the forefront of the latest innovative strain of goth music. “I want to become a gateway to older subcultural genres for people who are just discovering alternative music today,” he declares.

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Nuovo Testamento is the Los Angeles & Bologna-based trio lighting up the dance floor with their uniquely dark italo disco-flavored pop hits. Following the release of the coldwave cult favorite Exposure EP in 2019 on Avant! Records, their widely acclaimed full length New Earth exploded onto the dance floor. Including instant synthpop staple “the Searcher,” alongside Hi-NRG homage “Michelle Michelle” and goth-tinged hits like “Golden Boy,” New Earth is widely considered across genres to be one of 2021’s best underground albums of the year. Nuovo Testamento is on tour throughout 2022.

 
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The Mall is music for punks who dance. In the suburban wasteland of middle America, malls exist as decaying artifacts of conspicuous consumption–forgotten tombs haunted by the ghosts of capitalism’s failures. Using sequencers and analog synths, the Mall’s Mark Plant raises the dead to get glamorous amidst decay. Fusing the shimmering, plastic qualities of 80s dance electronica with the punishing, visceral energy of midwestern hardcore, the Mall soundtracks the liminal space between beauty and anger, celebration and cynicism, resilience and destruction. Performances are as ephemeral as kisses in a movie theater in 1987–and more lethal than radiation fallout from a space probe. The Mall experience is spasming, ecstatic technical disaster.

The Mall debuted its jubilant synth-punk squalor in early 2020 with the release of Zone, an album that rightfully received acclaim both online and overseas for its driving industrial beats bathed in lush and melodic electronics. The project’s first show went down only weeks before COVID-19 arrived and shuttered concert venues for the foreseeable future. Not to be deterred, singer Mark Plant quickly refocused and started streaming live sets with a wild light show and a vivid, raw approach to performance. The Mall feels very much a culmination of Plant’s past work with a variety of different bands, and the recent addition of Spencer Bible has propelled the apocalyptic post-punk outfit to a new creative peak. With a 24-day tour through the U.S. and Canada in the rearview mirror, the dark wave duo will pay off the last two years of momentum when new album Time Vehicle Earth drops in October. Plus, the Mall managed to get punk.bandcamp.com for its web address, which alone is a praiseworthy historic feat.

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