Iran

How the Open Music Lab creates safe space for refugees, marginalized artists [Hacklab Inputs]

This is an easy one to relate to: you want space to be creative, to grow in your practice, and...

Exist weaves ethereal new sounds from Ramallah Palestine to the world

There is a scene that now, more than ever, is decentralized. But that doesn't mean simply "out of major hubs."...

Sounds from the Iranian Ultraverse compiles “underbelly” music, supports Afghan people

People are starving; now is the time when dismantling imperialism and supporting family is vital. So let's turn our ears...

When Tehran lights up Köln, pull up your experimental electronic caravan and celebrate

Here comes the twist – in a year in which so much of the adventurous end of the electronic music...

Fire, voltage, metal, and thumping groove as Rojin Shafari tears through ‘It Made You Blind’ live

Definitely don't miss the latest live performance off her new album - and watch to the end, as more abstract...

Listen to this mix of sounds and music on the theme of phase transitions of water

Robert Lippok (raster media) prepared a beautiful mix as a companion to this year's Glacier Music II release. It's now...

In Glacier Music, sounds and songs capture urgency, deeply-felt and real

It's heard in drips, in flows of water. It's counted in numbers, echoes in poetry, called into the air in...

Tehran Contemporary Sounds’ futuristic music is here – listen to these 15 tracks for a taste

Tehran has one of the world's most futuristic, alive electronic scenes. It just sometimes exists in and out of Iran....

Iranian Duo Temp-Illusion has assembled a perfect sampler of bleeding-edge production

The duo of Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi has produced a tape/digital release of reworks that buzzes and screams with...