Fjord Festival Locks Its 2027 Lineup — and It's All Unsigned Acts
All 42 acts on next June's bill are unsigned or self-released, and the festival says the rule is now permanent.
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The Waveform #024: Quiet Wars, Loud Vans
Five months and three writers on what replaced the loudness war: mixing to survive a phone speaker in a loud bar. Plus Substation gets a date and a van gets soundproofed.
The Waveform #023: The Minidisc Bump
Minidisc prices are not what they were, so we updated the piece. Plus Velvet Static's data centre shoegaze and a defence of the skip button.
The Waveform #022: Four in the Morning
Vera Lune on night shifts, tape hiss as a comfort blanket and why she will not tour, recorded at the only hour she is properly awake.
The Waveform #021: One Take, One Roof
Vera Lune plays 'Glasshouse' on the Wire roof with two mics and the traffic left in, plus Tbilisi's basements and an hour of music at walking pace.
The Waveform #020: Basements of Tbilisi
Tbilisi kept dancing without its club. With Substation preparing to reopen, the network built in its absence has to decide what it wants next.
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Live Session: Vera Lune Performs 'Glasshouse' on Our Roof
One pump organ, two microphones, no second take. Vera Lune played 'Glasshouse' on our roof at twenty to five in the morning and let the city play the other half.
The Waveform #019: Small Rooms, Big Records
Low Ceiling cap the room at 200 and produced a record to match, a defence of skipping, and five Reykjavik venues that were never meant to be venues.
The Waveform #018: Slow Motion
Wire Mix 014 goes out free and never rises above walking pace, bedroom labels win on logistics, and DJ Provenance argues for metadata as memory.
The Waveform #017: The Label in the Spare Room
What a label even is now: one-person operations beating majors on logistics, plus a cheap mic that will not die and a lullaby record made of concrete.
Wire Mix 014: Slow Motion for Fast Times
An hour for the walk between two things you are already late for: half-tempo, delay-heavy, and stubbornly unhurried. Mixed by Ada Kwon.
The Waveform #016: Everything Louder Than Nothing
Kilo Nova build a club record out of a room emptying, the Fjord report lands, and a column on why you remember rooms better than choruses.
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