Inside The Semi-Legal Croatian Club Scene Growing In Zagreb
Discover the people who have made a name for Zagreb techno.
Discover the people who have made a name for Zagreb techno.
Take a look at photos of clubbers at the top spots in Zagreb, Croatia.
One of Norway’s finest exports, Erlend Øye, performed a set that the Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb will never forget. Check “Golden Cage” from that memorable evening and see more live videos right here on the Telekom Electronic Beats YouTube channel.
Mykki Blanco had to cancel her performance tonight at our festival in Zagreb due to logistical problems with a prior show in London that were beyond her control. All tickets will be refunded by the ticket provider via ADticket and hard copy stores. Therefore, the show at Močvara is now free to all and entry will be granted on a … Continued
Check out photos and listen to what was played at our parties during this year’s EB Festival in Zagreb.
We’ve organized a bonus gig with Lone to round out the first night of the EB Festival in Zagreb this weekend. Find details of how to get in here.
EB is collaborating with local partners for galleries events, panels, coffee brewing workshops and more during our 48-hour festival in Zagreb on November 6 and 7.
Come see DJ Koze, KiNK, Romare, Mykki Blanco presents C-ore, Sinkane, Kölsch, Young Fathers and many more
EB.TV LIVE.
EB.TV LIVE.
Get the rundown of our Croatian festival, featuring Erlend Øye, Patrick Wolf, Den Sorte Skole, and Eyedress!
Check out the first impressions from EB’s Zagreb festival featuring Patrick Wolf, Erlend Øye, Den Sorte Skole and Eyedress.
A local Croatian crew gave us the low-down on the best hangouts in the capital city. Oh, and we’re giving away tickets to the EB festival in Zagreb.
Catch Erlend Øye, Patrick Wolf and more when Electronic Beats Festival returns to Croatia’s capital! Get info and buy tickets here.
Watch MS MR perform “Fantasy”, “Think Of You” and “Hurricane” live and in 1080p HD video at Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb (08 November 2013) — Hashtag is #EBFest13
Watch EFTERKLANG perform “Frieda Found A Friend”, “Sedna” and “Between The Walls” live and in 1080p HD video at Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb (08 November 2013) — Hashtag is #EBFest13
Watch FRITZ KALKBRENNER perform “Wes” and “Sky And Sand” live and in 1080p HD video at Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb (08 November 2013) — Hashtag is #EBFest13
EB lands in the Croatian capital for a night to remember with DENA, MS MR, Efterklang, and Fritz Kalkbrenner.
Croatians really want to see Efterklang, Fritz Kalkbrenner, Dena, and MS MR. So much so, in fact, that we had to get a bigger venue to accommodate them all!
Croatia is about to get invaded by some of EB’s finest, including Efterklang, Kalkbrenner and more. Get the full details inside!
View some selected exhibition images from the first Depeche Mode Fan Exhibition in Zagreb, opening May 9th.
Join us for one last night with Andy Butler on his EB-present tour, live in Croatia’s beautiful capital city.
What’s that thing about good things coming in threes? That. The third and final stop-off for Hercules and Love Affair Soundsystem’s European jaunt—presented by Electronic Beats—is scheduled to touch down this Saturday 15 December in Zagreb. Ticket and live stream details inside.
Watch WOODKID perform “Baltimore Fireflies” and “Run Boy Run” live and in 1080p HD video at Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb (26 October 2012) — TWITTER hashtag is #ebfest12
Watch MODESELEKTOR perform “Black Block” and “Evil Twin” live and in 1080p HD video at Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb (26 October 2012) — TWITTER hashtag is #ebfest12
Watch DILLON perform “Thirteen Thirtyfive”, “From One To Six Hundred Kilometers” and “Contact Us” live and in 1080p HD video at Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb (26 October 2012) — TWITTER hashtag is #ebfest12
We are pleased to announce that this winter, Electronic Beats will be presenting a string of European dates featuring Hercules and Love Affair Soundsystem.
Watch HOT CHIP perform “Boy From School”, “Flutes” and “How Do You Do” live and in 1080p HD video at Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb (26 October 2012) — TWITTER hashtag is #ebfest12
“This is important! This is more than important! This is our youth!”, Dillon screams into my ear. “You have to write that in your review, this is the future!” Standing on the right corner of the huge stage, hidden by the massive speakers, Dillon was referring to Hot Chip’s ongoing live performance at Zagreb’s … Continued
Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb goes off tomorrow—we hope you have your tickets already, because they’re going fast! Of course, with this lineup it’s no wonder. BPitch Control‘s Dillon is a hell of a performer (and, in a pinch, a good improvisationalist) and we’re very much looking forward to seeing the EB Magazine covergirl open the festivities. … Continued
Soon Hot Chip, Modeselektor, Dillon, and Woodkid will be coming to a very lucky crowd—and you could be one of them!
It seems like we only just wrote the announcement for the 2012 edition of Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb; yet it’s already almost here. On October 26th, we’re bringing you a selection of sounds to make your feet (and hearts) move.
We don’t know about you, but following a brilliant 2011 event we’re already anticipating our return to Zagreb. The Electronic Beats Festival is set to touch down in the city on October 26, 2012, with a line-up bristling with cutting edge acts. We can reveal that the headliners will be the mighty Hot Chip. Following … Continued
Impressions of Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb.
Impressions of Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb. See When Saints Go Machine, Digitalism, Róisín Murphy performing live at Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb (November 25th).
A freezing Zagreb was the setting for the latest Electronic Beats Festival with Digitalism, Róisín Murphy, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and When Saints Go Machine all packed into the Tvornica Kulture centre. With crowds of people trying to get inside and excitement levels rising, we got the feeling that this was going to be an … Continued
MURTUMA is a Berlin party collective that specializes in industrial techno.
Hot Chip is a Grammy-nominated synth-pop band from London.
“Kings And Queens” is the first single off the German artist’s forthcoming album ‘True Colours’.
“But life is moving fast. We knew there was war and you didn’t want to have fun, but you had to – you couldn’t stop.”
The xx are back.
Featuring tracks from Frank Ocean, Young Marco, Björk and The Velvet Underground.
The IDM heavyweights have three of their touchstone records reissued in the lead-up to a huge European tour.
As you’ve probably heard by now, Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary (AKA Modeselektor) are closing down their storied 50Weapons label at the end of this year. Over Christmas, the Berlin-based duo delivered a farewell mix for Solid Steel Radio which covers a lot of musical ground, from evocative ambient to deep-sea dub techno, rowdy breakbeats and a bunch of … Continued
Dang…what a headline.
Can’t catch Mykki Blanco at EB Festival Zagreb? We’ve got another option for you.
Our extended program for EBF Romania 2015 includes late-night shopping, innovative installations, compelling panels, concerts and much more.
EB City Festival brings 48 hours of multi-venue, multi-genre musicians and DJs to Bucharest, Zagreb, Podgorica and Budapest!
Before we arrive in Prague for the EB Festival, we asked a local to recommend 10 restaurants, bars, clubs, galleries, and more. Win tickets inside.
We asked a Warsaw local to compile a guide to the city’s local scene before we land there for the EB Festival this weekend. Oh, and you can win tickets here.
We asked Leipzig’s Moon Harbour label to compile a guide to the city’s local music and art scene, and we’re giving away free tickets to our festival there.
Max Dax waxes philosophical on sampling with Cophenhagen duo Den Sorte Skole.
The loveable Norweigan crank sounds off on electronic music, reggae, and British cities.
Our October 31 gig starring James Blake, James Holden, Zoot Woman, and Joy Wellboy has reached capacity.
Dillon’s video for “Lightning Sparked” from her latest BPitch Control LP has arrived, and you can watch it here.
Caribou mastermind Dan Snaith talks about his favorite Sun Ra records and why countless contemporary artists cite the jazz legend as an influence.
“I love the tension that you create when you do art in a public space, especially when it’s unannounced.”
Breaking news: this fall, Electronic Beats Festival will be coming to Vienna, Podgorica, Budapest, Zagreb and Leipzig. Find out more here.
Be the first to see the video which accompanies Dillon’s first single “A Matter of Time”, taken from her forthcoming album ‘The Unknown’. Today’s EB Video Premiere.
Noah Lennox talks influences, collaboration, and why Animal Collective is not as pompous as their name implies with The Style Guy.
Prior to their much talked about set at Electronic Beats Festival Zagreb, Lucia Udvardyova landed face time with the 4AD-signed Danish masters of atmosphere. Away from the tyranny of promotion, the band instead expound on the subjective nature of sound, the essence of creativity, and a certain Mr X.
With the memory of their performance at EB Festival Zagreb still fresh, we asked the Brooklyn art poppers to break their lives down into ten songs. These are the results.
In our new regular feature, we ask artists to delve deep into their memory banks to surface with some of the tracks that have defined their lives. For this edition, we speak with the Berlin-based, modern pop up-and-comer DENA.
Download one of the Electronic Beats mobile applications and get a twenty percent discount off EB Festival tickets—for a limited time only!
Forthcoming EB Festival booking DENA follows the underground hit “Cash, Diamond Rings, Swimming Pools” with new single “Guest List”. Hear the track remixed by EB Festival break out stars Coma in today’s stream.
Each week, Moritz Gayard rounds up the best new music videos so you don’t have to. This week featuring Solange, Holy Ghost!, DENA, The Weeknd, and
Join us in the beautiful Hungarian capital for a night of beautiful music featuring Washed Out, Charli XCX, John Talabot and… well, click here for more details!
This Fall, Electronic Beats is bringing three fantastic acts to Dresden. Find out the identities of two now!
We bring you a video playlist of the polymath’s orchestral chamber pop taken from his live performances at our festivals.
We spent a week in Montenegro, a country which has only known independence for seven years, to understand the struggle for a national identity through personal narratives.
EB’s Fall Festivals return to Montenegro, Hungary, Croatia, and Austria for another bounty of great live shows, and for the first time ever Dresden as well!
The largest and most comprehensive fan exhibition on Depeche Mode has now opened its doors. Find out what you can expect within.
The Berlin edition is the largest and most comprehensive DM fan exhibition ever, and it opens on Friday, June 7th. View a gallery from it as it’s installed.
With a beautiful private resort, organized activities, sunset partyboats, day stages and label showcases, Pratersauna’s first Lighthouse Festival has presented a new way of experiencing a relaxed music vacation, setting the bar high for everyone else at the same time. Iva Vukšić reports from the Croatian peninsula Lanterna.
We take an exclusive look inside the covers of the new Depeche Mode monograph “Depeche Mode: Monument” by Sascha Lange and Dennis Burmeister.
View some selected exhibition images from the second Depeche Mode Fan Exhibition in Budapest, opening May 11th.
We speak with the über-collector of Depeche Mode memorabilia whose collection contains over 10,000 pieces and makes up the majority of our DM Fan Exhibition.
The Mute Records-signed duo of Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender (two of the three Raster-Noton founders) have been announced as support for select European dates of Depeche Mode’s stadium tour.
Calling all Depeche Mode fans! We want your submissions to the unique Depeche Mode Fan Exhibition which accompanies the Depeche Mode European Tour 2013.
This week sees the release of acoustic techno act Brandt Brauer Frick’s third LP Miami. Electronic Beats’ editor-in-chief Max Dax went to their studio in Neukolln to talk about the record, why Theo Parrish means more to them than the European avant-garde and their endless fascination with airport towers.
We are giving away tickets to see DM unveil their new album Delta Machine live!
Hot on the heels of our hosting the video premiere for Depeche Mode’s new single “Heaven” we’ve yet another piece of big news for you. Click here to read
With one track you can achieve a certain kind of immortality—if you’re lucky. A song is a time capsule, a memory; they have the power to soundtrack moments in our lives… or they can simply get on our wick. Time to find out what songs made your 2012…
Your favorite restaurants and eateries of 2012 were a revelation. Including a floating restaurant in Budapest, your pizza joint down the road and… McDonald’s.
2012 was an exciting year; from a New Order Exhibition to an exclusive Pet Shop Boys Show, we’ve done it all—and we even filmed most of it! This is an audiovisual journey, so let’s just drop some names and then lean back and watch: Squarepusher, Hot Chip, Dillon, Modeselektor, I Heart Sharks, Woodkid, Hudson Mohawke, … Continued
David Bogner crashes Andy Butler’s studio time to get the skinny on the new Hercules and Love Affair record and his impressions of Vienna.
Read an in-depth review of Andy Butler’s DJ Kicks and win tickets to forthcoming EB Presents Hercules and Love Affair Soundsystem gigs in Warsaw and Zagreb.
Discover our favorite articles and events, compiled from the beginning of the first day of EB.net’s redesign.
Watch some video highlights from our traveling festivals, including Woodkid, Hot Chip, Austra, and Hudson Mohawke.
Last week we were very excited to announce that Electronic Beats were presenting Hercules And Love Affair Soundsystem across a string of European dates. Alongside stop-offs in Amsterdam and Zagreb, we can now reveal that the third date will take place in Warsaw, Poland on December 8, 2012
EB is traveling to the beautiful Mediterranean country for the very first time—and we’re bringing the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble, Karin Park, and Fil Lavin with us.
Join us for a live video broadcast from Depeche Mode’s press conference. Follow the event as it happens through video feed and our live blog coverage.
When it comes to Dillon, we’re pretty sure you’ve already realized how much we do adore her. Covergirl for Electronic Beats Magazine issue 1/2012, live guest on the Electronic Beats Festival in Gdansk last year and guest at the Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb in a few weeks. Here’s her wonderful new music video, exclusively on eb.net
Modeselektor, Nicolas Jaar, Junior Boys, Mostly Robot, and Volkova Sisters are in—but what about you? Win festival tickets in here!
Guess who’s back? It’s EB-favorite Róisín Murphy with a new tune. The lovely Irish pop star, who recently played the sold-out EB-Festival in Zagreb, joined forces with American DJ-Legend and “Remixer of the Year 1998” David Morales for the dance floor filler entitled ‘Golden Era’. Originally premiered during Morales’ FG RADIO SHOW we can now … Continued
New When Saints Go Machine stuff is always welcome at the office (last week’s ‘EB favourite’ for instance). The Danish band have played several Electronic Beats festivals in 2011, and also travelled alongside Azari & III for the EB recommended tour during last year’s fall. Also, they are very smart chaps! Taken from their !K7 … Continued
One of the rare long running party venues in Croatia’s capital – Aquarius – is turning 20 this weekend. Aquarius which opened in 1992 soon became one of the musical institutions in Zagreb, opening it’s doors not only to electronic music fans, but also hip hop, r&b and other well loved scenes in the area. … Continued
All the transformations inside Pimp My Bike and similar shows may seem kind of tacky after one sees Re:Cycles – custom made bikes by croatian doctor, crafter and photographer Goran Šari? ScharLaw. His work on each ordered bike may take a while, but the final result is worth waiting for: a fixed gear/single speed/one of … Continued
Cheer up Croatia. Maybe 2011 was not the best year considering the ongoing crises and political scandals shaking the country. That said, thanks to the certain individuals we had more than a few bright music moments to make up for things. After all when summer starts and the festival season begins nothing is as important … Continued
Welcome to the final round up of the year as we take a look at what happened in the world of Electronic Beats over the last 12 months with change and rejuvenation, unforgettable live music experiences, and in depth cultural exchanges. 2011 began with a new outlook and a fresh perspective. In April our beloved … Continued
We hope you know the score now. Ten numbers for one of the stars of the Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb, the one, the only Róisín Murphy. 1 memorable line in a film or a song: In a song… I have to say something really cool, but I’ll probably end up saying Jingle bells, Jingle … Continued
We sure do love Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and we were very excited to see him play in Zagreb a couple of weeks ago. Propulsive beats covered in sticky audio jam, the music of Orlando Higginbottom is almost impossible to resist. He also was kind enough to give us five minutes of his time, just … Continued
Digitalism’s pulsating, sing-along electro, that you can jack and sweat to whilst embracing strangers, was the soundtrack to the Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb last weekend. The two boys from Hamburg put on an explosive and spectacular show and it was a true honour to have them grace the stage. They were so nice in … Continued
Zagreb. What a night, what an Electronic Beats festival! One of the artists, who turned in a star performance last Friday, was Róisín Murphy who’s all singing and dancing DJ set almost tore the roof of the venue. Mixing her own tracks and Moloko classics with up to the minute ghetto house and electro whilst … Continued
We are super excited about today’s Electronic Beats Festival in Zagreb and hope you are, too. To get you warmed up, we spent some time with one of the bands on today’s line-up, When Saints Go Machine. It seems that you are inspired by a lot of different genres – house, nineties pop stuff, trance, … Continued
What a great concoction: two of our favorite artists together for an absolutely genius remix! This remix is one of a number on Planningtorock‘s new Living It Out EP for DFA that also features remixes from Billy Lock, Jackson, Cosmodelica and Laurel Halo. Have yourself a treat and listen to the When Saints Go Machine … Continued
Explore new videos with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, K-X-P, Chrome Wings, Gabriel Bruce and many more. #1 Hubble – Hubble’s Hubble (directed by Sheena Callage & Tiffany Borders) Brooklyn based Hubble is set to drop his full length album Hubble Dreams shortly, but before he has released a spectecular video, in conjunction with Sheena Callage … Continued
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs has just finished his debut LP which is due for release next February. However if you need a bit of new music in your life sooner, then today is your lucky day as T.E.E.D has just posted a brand new track ‘Dream On’ which you can download for free in exchange … Continued
German electro- house kings recently released a video for their track ‘Circles’, taken from their latest LP I Love You Dude. Exciting stuff indeed; check the video below and be sure to catch them at EBFest Zagreb this Friday!
Ja Ja Ja is probably best known as an established club night in London, which invites the most interesting and enthralling talent from the Nordic countries to come and show the city what they’re all about. Now the time has come for the second anniversary of Ja Ja Ja, and they’re celebrating it with a … Continued
Even though the Electronic Beats Festival is soon heading to Zagreb and Warsaw, we are still amazed by the sold out event in Hungary’s capital at the end of October. So we got our hands on some albums, exclusively signed by the respective artists – FM Belfast, Apparat Band, Buraka Som Sistema and Does It … Continued
Just a couple of weeks to go before the Electronic Beats Festival rolls into Zagreb for a party of epic proportions. Alongside a headline slot by Digitalism, Róisín Murphy’s DJ turn and the Scandi power-pop of When Saints Go Machine there will be a live set from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs who is one of … Continued
With help from Croatian label Home Made Electronica, Zagreb-Based quintet How Convinient have just released their first album SeXeS. The liaison of pathos that comes from new romanticism of the early 80s and sophisticated modern production tends to keep an initial discourse of lo-fi estheticism. SeXes tells us a story through 11 high quality electropop … Continued
It’s Electronic Beats Festival season again, and boy are we busy these days. The EB Festival at Vienna’s Arena went down last Thursday (here’s our review). A thousand times thanks to everyone who came out to see Bon Homme, Crystal Fighters, The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble, Wolfram and Peaches DJ MCExtravaganza – here are some … Continued
The cavernous Vienna Arena was the setting last night for an epic night of music and dancing. The old factory complex was the perfect venue for the latest edition of our beloved Electronic Beats Festival. As soon as the doors were open, Austrian euro dancer Wolfram was behind the decks and laying down discoid beats … Continued