For the pilot episode of our new video editorial series “Deep Talk NRW”, Kaput talked to Miki Yui und Stefan Schneider at the Filmwerkstatt in Düsseldorf-Flingern. 

Miki Yui and Stefan Schneider live in Düsseldorf. Born in Japan, Yui often works with field recordings and explores the deeply hidden secrets of sound. Her solo album “Aperio!” was recently released and she is currently collaborating with Asmus Tietchens. Miki Yui takes care of the Klaus Dinger archive.

Stefan Schneider was a member of the bands Kreidler and To Rococo Rot. His music is characterised by his curiosity for sounds beyond well-known paradigms. Stefan Schneider runs TAL records, he currently releases as Mapstation and collaborates with artists like Katharina Grosse and Koshiro Hino, among others.

In the second episode of Deep Talk NRW, kaput magazine talks to the artist Daniela Georgieva about her work, her motivation and inspiration.

Daniela Georgieva studied art at the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie. Her artistic work is influenced by the Judson Dance Theater, a New York City based collective of dancers, choreographers, filmmakers and composers from the 1960s.

Georgieva is interested in the daily movements of humans, which she transfers into her art performances. Her last exhibition “quixotic essence of a breath of movement / 1×3“ was shown at NAK – Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.

In the third episode of “Deep Talk NRW” Kaput visits Ronja Schwikowski who came to Duisburg from Lower Bavaria. Just because of Punk. She now runs a mailorder and a magazine: “Plastic Bomb” is one of the most active brands in the contemporary German punks scene. 

Schwikowski also is engaged in the #punktoo-movement which calls attention to sexism in the scene.

In the fourth episode of the documentary series “Deep Talk NRW”, we introduce you to Vladimir Ivkovic. We met the DJ and label owner of OFFEN MUSIC at Hülser Berg, a mysterious little forest north of Krefeld.

Alter Walder Bahnhof – is a quiet lost and abandoned railway station in the rural part of Solingen. A place where you hardly expect one of the most exciting clubs in the Ruhrgebiet.

But there he is: The Waldmeister Club. We spoke with Lina Holzrichter and René Regier who – with a lot of other enthusiasts – are running the things at this special location.

Acephale is a club near a rail station, it’s located in the southern part of cologne. Not so long ago that Dima Oboukhov bought the club and a prospering space for the cologne music scene opened up. One of the resident bands is Keshavara mixing Indian music, krautrock, indie attitude nowadays with Vaudeville elements.

Their new album is called “Kabinett der Phantasie”. We visited Dima and also Keshav and Niklas to introduce us to the magic of Acephale and beyond.

In the seventh episode of “Deep Talk NRW”, Kaput Mag was drawn to Dortmund, between former coal mining factories we suddenly found ourselves at the gates of Tresor West. The local counterpart to that legendary Berlin club. The operator of both nightlife institutions is Dimitri Hegemann.

“Working twice for free always sucks!” Without her, Cologne’s subculture would be poorer by many places, events and experiences. At the time, Meryem Erkus gave the first live series “Köln ist kaput” (Cologne is broken) of the Kaput Mag a space in her gallery Gold + Beton under the Ebertplatz and, beyond that or in parallel, set up an incredible number of projects that grew far beyond Cologne. For the eighth episode of DEEP TALK NRW, Meryem takes us on a tour of the city’s off-locations.

Skuff Barbie is one of the most talented german MCs of this decade. Her debut album will push the game to the next level, your mother and Olaf Scholz are not going to believe it.

Seriously, Skuff Barbie born in Münster but with familiar roots in Equatorial Guinea impressed us more than any other artist in a long time. Give a warm hand to … Skuff Barbie!

For the last episode of our “Deep Talk NRW” series, we met up in the spring of 2020 with Hedda Schattanik & Roman Szczesny in the rooms of their Düsseldorf based gallery Sies + Höke to conduct a deep talk. But in the end the artists decided to come up with a work of their own, reflecting our ambitions. We are right on blown away.