J.N.

Music researcher with an unhealthy passion for music and music festivals. Former studio owner, semi-functional drummer and with a fairly good collection of old analogue synthesizers from the 70's. Indie rock, post rock, electronic/industrial and drum & bass (kind of a mix, yeah?) are usual stuff in my playlists but everything that sounds good will fit in.

Hater is far from being a depressive pop band: Interview

Critically acclaimed Swedish indie pop band Hater is on their first European headliner tour and faces a seventeen date long tour across four weeks in January and February 2018. Messed!Up meet up with Lukas, Caroline, Adam and Måns an hour before Hater’s opening night in a rainy Hamburg to have a talk about melancholic pop, the unexpected breakthrough during 2017 and …

If you’ve been paying attention, you should be as utterly infatuated by London electronic pop duo Empathy Test as I am. Their time-travelling mix of analogue 80:s synthpop and contemporary electropop with bits and pieces of chillwave and dreampop, refined into 22 tracks on two debut albums, makes Empathy Test 2017 an exciting addition to the electronic pop scene. Messed!Up …

Johnossi returns to Hamburg with their latest album in the ”rucksack”, and Messed!Up takes the opportunity to catch up with John Engelbert about ”Blood Jungle”, touring in Germany and how it has been to be part of and observe the transition from selling CD’s to digital distribution of music. John Engelbert meets up backstage at Fabrik two hours before their …