Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek (Seismograf):

How are your ears? How did 2025 sound like to you?

Bastian Zimmermann (Positionen):

This year, something essential shifted. For obvious reasons, I finally moved from Spotify to Tidal – which meant leaving behind years of saved albums and playlists and starting from zero. It brought back a memory from when I was seventeen or eighteen, when a hard drive crash erased my entire archive of ripped CDs from the jazz club where I used to play. A loss that felt both devastating and strangely liberating.

There is something refreshing in starting over, but also something painful. Maybe that’s why I began buying vinyl again – selectively, intentionally – replacing albums that have accompanied me for years, even decades.

The first half of the year was shaped by my own festival. I barely traveled, instead immersing myself in the sound worlds of the artists at Musik Installationen Nürnberg.