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Celebrating the 30th anniversary of “Mystery Hotel” and way beyond thirty-five years as an artist, Darrin Huss of Canadian poppy darkwavers Psyche summarizes a long-lasting career and promises a new Psyche album in due time. We have written about these Canadian-German veterans several times before and won’t bore you with the basics. Messed!Up met a cheerful Darrin before his show at …

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 …