Birds
Every form of protection leaves a fingerprint. Birds unfolds through four species: the pigeon, the raven, the swan and the falcon; each carrying a different contract with human desire: rejected, worshipped, preserved, trained to return.
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/by Editor NastyAgainst The Delusion / Mikhail Borzykin
Forbidden pages, passed hand to hand, with only days to read before they moved on. Borzykin has been writing that way ever since. What follows is his own account of how the bleakest record he ever made turned out to work as medicine, not poison.
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/by Editor NastyLiquid Diamonds
We are water wearing the shape of a stone, and the shape keeps slipping. Shine once, then give it all back to the surface. A fashion story by Esther Galván starring Thaisa Rodrigues.
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/by Editor NastyThe Maiden In Armour
The body remains exposed but never surrendered, each strap deciding what can be seen and how close the gaze is allowed to come. Photographed by Josh Showell.
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/by Editor NastyOutside Reality / Voodoo Village 2026
There are places that only make sense after sunset. VOODOO begins where the familiar dissolves: a forest lit by fire, sound echoing between the trees, strangers moving as if they've been following the same ritual for years. Nothing asks for your attention; everything pulls you further in. This autumn, the ritual returns.
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/by Editor NastySteel Bloom
Wet hair, chrome at the throat, a face built one shining instrument at a time. A beauty series by Alena Saz, starring Haven Grace.
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/by adminThe Power Of Music / Freddy K
He came out of punk, where saying no is a discipline, and then spent forty years declining to fight anything from outside. Virus went on air in Rome in 1993 — eight until midnight, every night, eight years — named for what enters a system unnoticed and changes it from inside. KEY Vinyl runs the same way: he turns down more records than he takes and sends honest feedback with every rejection, because a door was closed on him once in Berlin and he was told the DJ doesn't know you. He left Rome at the moment the city stopped letting him grow. Everything he has made: the radio, the label, the fifteen-hour closings is a way of getting back to the side of the booth he came from.
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/by Editor NastyReclaiming The Antipop Roots / Neopop 2026
NEOPOP Festival 2026 returned to its original name, ANTIPOP, for its twentieth edition in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Across three days inside the historic Santiago da Barra Fort, the festival brought together techno pioneers and a new generation of artists, proving why NEOPOP remains one of Europe's most distinctive destinations for electronic music.
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/by Editor NastyFixed Self
Pressing the body into shapes it cannot fully inhabit. Flesh and shadows turn identity held in place until it starts to look permanent. Fashion story by Stefano Facca and Arvin Kazeminia.
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/by Editor NastyWhere Is My Home? / Anatoly Shabalin K.
There is a wooden box inside artist’s Berlin studio, built to the exact measurements of a seated body. What began as a purely functional structure has become, perhaps, an answer to a generational need: to find a place to settle when the rest of the world no longer seems to hold. We spoke about disorientation, about a low-grade anxiety that never fully switches off, and about the relentless pressure of images and information that accumulate without ever resolving into meaning. In this vortex of sensations, artistic practice becomes a refuge. Perhaps the only safe harbor left.
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/by Editor NastyAggressive Tenderness / Callush
Callush exists in a constant pull between intensity and softness. Her music is relentless and the person behind it speaks with surprising openness about doubt, instinct, boundaries and the parts of herself that success has sharpened. For the Nasty Cover, she looks back on seven years of building an artist identity, what Berlin continues to give her, the habit of adapting to everyone else, and the moment intuition became more valuable than perfection. Photographed by Marco Giuliano and styled by Anca Macavei.
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/by Editor NastyCreature Of Balance
Trying to follow the rules of earth, starts tearing her sense of self. Balance is precarious, so is lingering. Now she realizes, she must keep shifting. A story shot by Leandro Ramirez, with Michaela Baitelman.
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/by Editor NastyNothing Is Out Of Place
On the outskirts of Slobozia, Romania, a now-abandoned holiday park was built as one man's private vision of paradise, where an Eiffel Tower could stand beside Southfork Ranch from Dallas. And, as if the place had been projecting the same unfinished film for decades, the story loops back to where it began. A fashion series by Marc Aldinger.
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/by Editor NastyNull – Where To Go
With no offline left to disappear into, flesh remains the only interface built for permanent connections. A series by Elina Fan and Ruix.
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/by Editor NastyNorthern Stars
The glaciers crack like breaking bone while the mountains still breathe an ancient fire beneath. Daphne and Nina in Iceland, photographed by Nicholas Fols.
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/by Editor NastyNew visions from London
Spotlight on three emerging talents, graduating photography students in 2026 at University of the Arts London, whose projects explore themes of mental health, personal space and chronic pain.
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/by Editor NastyStudio Is My Place Of Solitude/ Amotik
At Stone Techno Festival 2026, Amotik played b2b with Lea Occhi, bringing a track they had made together in a single afternoon to a crowd hearing it for the first time. For someone who has spent the past decade working largely alone, it felt like a small departure from the system he had built around himself: his own label, his own release schedule, sets stripped to five or six sounds. A technical constraint became a method, then a philosophy. Through AMTK+, he eventually opened that system outward, becoming a curator of other people’s music too. Anil Chawla has spent his career protecting a very particular part of the process: the moment when the music still belongs entirely to him, before it has to become anything for anyone else.
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/by Editor NastyWhat Excess Actually Sounds Like
Just club posters, from the airport all the way to the road that leads onto the island. That was the first sign of what I was in for. In Ibiza, from May to October, the real sightseeing is clubbing, a party that never really stops, it just changes rooms. I was there for my first time for one of the rarest nights of the season at Pacha: the one where Solomun plays alone, from open to close, no second name next to his. What follows is the account of twenty-four hours, a hotel, a restaurant, a dancefloor, in which I stopped being a tourist.
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/by Editor NastyWitnesses To The Raw / Vitalii Akimov
Akimov pursues the moment when reality reveals itself through the body, when a face dissolves beneath the light, losing its contours until it becomes something else. Raised in the Russian provinces and now immersed in the chaos of Paris, he describes his work as a wound that reopens every time he turns on the camera: an act of subtraction where colour disappears, leaving only the raw essence of the image. His subjects become witnesses to the real; he digs beneath the surface to reveal what remains.
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/by Editor NastyI Still Feel Curious/ Sterac
45 years into a career that has helped shape the language of techno, Steve Rachmad is still driven by the same thing that drew him to music as a kid: curiosity. Ahead of his Basilar Festival debut, the Dutch pioneer reflects on four decades of music, his many aliases, analogue machines, Detroit, the freedom to experiment, and the constant search for something new. From the records that defined his early years to the music he is still creating today, Rachmad looks back at a journey shaped by technology, instinct and an enduring need to explore. A conversation about legacy, creativity and what it means to keep moving forward without losing sight of where it all began.
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/by Editor NastyNew Life / Funk Tribu
Twenty-five, and his work has been three steps ahead of him for two years. “Against All Odds” named the trajectory that he never planned. While “Reborn” was the version of himself he had to bury to keep going: the shy kid in Engativá who spent all day making beats, the one Berlin has never met till recently. He cites a quote: you can have excuses or you can have results, but you can’t have both. He truly believes and built a career on it: a degree abandoned, a continent crossed, a hundred shows a year. He also cut that number to sixty and said out loud that he needed to breathe. Somewhere between those moments is the part about success nobody prepares you for.
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/by Editor NastyA Lover’s Ardour
Two mistresses entering a possessive gothic fashion ritual photographed by Chase Harding and shaped by Maya Wilkinson.
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/by Editor NastyRotting
"My body rots like mold, but like a mold I can give it shape.” A project about the relation between bodies and eating disorders by Martina Piacentini, photographed by Nita Biella.
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/by Editor NastyTimeless
The wound is caught outside time and made to repeat until it becomes a part of the body, then begins to consume it. A fashion editorial from Paris by Shayan Rézé and Emma Hugnet.
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/by Editor NastyThe Human Cost of Funding Your Own Work
Being a designer looks like what nobody shows you on Instagram. It looks like three a.m. dreams about silhouettes you’ll never build, a laptop and a spreadsheet at your corporate desk while your best work lives somewhere else entirely, watching your own ideas walk past you with someone else’s name attached. It looks like choosing between paying rent and creating something that belongs to you.
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/by Editor NastySoundscapes vol.108 | Psyclon Nine
A selection by Nero Bellum, lead vocalist, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and producer of Psyclon Nine, industrial metal group formed in 2000 in California.
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/by adminThe Counterculture Of Counterculture / Antipop 2026
Twenty years in and the name changed back. ANTIPOP is what Neopop was called when it started in 2006. Pereira changed it in 2009, when the project took a different shape. Bringing it back now — one edition, no ambiguity — is the festival saying out loud what every choice it's made has been saying quietly for years.
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/by Editor NastySoundscapes vol.59 / Front 242
“The music is just a sample of what I like to listen to at this time, because it just came out or it is something older I wanted to experience again.” The EBM/Electro pioneers here presenting their most refined and eclectic selection of hidden gems, welcome to Front242 paradise.
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.28 / Molchat Doma
Heavy classics and trip-hop vibes in a selection curated by Molchat Doma (translates “Houses are silent”), the dark and danceable band operating on the dark borderlines of post-punk and synth-pop, hailing from Belarus.
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/by adminSoundscapes vol.63 / Marcel Dettmann
Take a deep dive into Marcel Dettmann's home listening record collection. For our Soundscapes series the longstanding Berghain resident, BAD MANNERS and MDR label owner selected music from his defining teenage years during the late 80s and early 90s.
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/by adminThe last everything / Phase Fatale
Phase Fatale came up on The Cure and black metal before he ever set foot in a techno club. Now he's a Berghain & Khidi resident, the founder of BITE Records, and one of the most distinctive voices in industrial electronics. We caught him in Milan — ahead of a set at Tempio del Futuro Perduto — for a shoot and to talk roots, romance, his "romantic and expressive" project Soft Crash, a recent collaboration with The Soft Moon and five years of BITE Records.
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