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When the City Becomes the Enemy: How Eastern Europe's Club Culture Navigates Hostile Ground

Eastern Europe's club scenes have long danced in defiance of a state built to suppress unsanctioned assembly — and the bureaucratic suspicion hasn't fully faded since the Wall came down.

June 3, 2026

Barry Can't Swim and the Scottish Electronic Diaspora: Dance Music Made at the Edge of the Map

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Barry Can't Swim and the Scottish Electronic Diaspora: Dance Music Made at the Edge of the Map

Scotland's physical and cultural distance from London's music industry created the conditions for a distinctly function-first electronic sound — one that shaped Barry Can't Swim and generations of Glasgow artists before him.

May 31, 2026