soundtrack europe 20—25
New electronic music from Europe
What does a new European electronic music that emerges from itself and the personalities of its creators sound like? Radical? Elegant? Deconstructed? Reconstructed? A mixture of everything? Europe has been a laboratory and pioneer of avant-garde electronic music for over a century. "Avant-garde" simply means being ahead of one's time and daring to do things that have not yet been heard, realised or thought of.
The internationally active label raster-media has sought out new, bold concepts, compositions and groundbreaking recorded music of all genres. The result is SOUNDTRACK EUROPE 20-25.
Concerts in the period March - November 2025
CDs free of charge at the Hartmannfabrik visitor centre (while stocks last)
The European Soundtrack 20-25
CDs now available free of charge
The European Soundtrack 20-25 brings together music by 100 artists and thus forms a survey of contemporary electronic and electroacoustic music in Europe. The result is a compilation of 5 CDs, each with 20 artist positions. Each follows its own focus, diverse, experimental and boundary-breaking: from intuitive improvisations to noise compositions and club-ready beats.
The compilation CDs are now available free of charge at the Hartmannfabrik Chemnitz (reception). Only while stocks last.
These compilation CDs are available:
- ELEGIAC: Europe of sound colours and moods (listen in)
- IN THE FIELD: Europe of sounds and the concrete (listen in)
- INTUITION: Europe of intuition and improvisation (listen in)
- REPETITION: Europe of bars, beats and dances (listen in)
- NO FRONTIERS: Utopian Europe of open borders and technological transfer (listen in)
A new sound for Europe is emerging
The music label raster-media organised an open call for Chemnitz 2025. A total of 4,000 producers and composers from all geographical regions of Europe responded to the call with their works. The music of the winners and shortlisted artists has been released in a compilation series. 5 CDs, each with 20 artist positions, provide a representative survey of contemporary electronic and electro-acoustic music in Europe, publicly archiving and promoting the latest ideas and trends of a generation of artists. Furthermore, the aim was clearly to exchange European and regional potential in order to do justice to the regional music scene in Chemnitz, the Saxon network of club music and an internationally active music scene, to which raster has been committed for 25 years. In this context, raster-media and its partners have organised and implemented award-winning concerts at the Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, the RomaEuropa Festival, Rome, and the Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz. A particular concern of the project was to create a broader perspective for young artists and musicians active in electronic music and musical sound research, to enable them to work together with representatives of electronic and contemporary music and its reception, to develop new ideas and to professionalise themselves.