No matter what you say, dance floors – whether institutional or underground, legal or illegal – are eminently political, especially when it comes to electronic music. An aspect that Melvin Laur, artist and co-founder of the collective project Vertige Records, highlights in a thesis entitled “Ethnographic analysis of the Kyiv rave community: the post-revolutionary context”. … Continue reading Techno and politics: a look at the Kyiv counterculture