borshch was founded in Berlin in 2017 by Mariana Berezovska and Tiago Biscaia to do something that most electronic music publications do not attempt: look at the culture that surrounds the music with the same seriousness that the music itself demands. The magazine opens dialogues about making, listening to, and dancing to electronic music that challenge traditional ideas about what the genre is and who it belongs to.
Published in print every two years — a deliberately slow rhythm for a culture built on beats per minute — borshch examines the impact of electronic music on contemporary life both inside and outside the club. The conversations it hosts move between the physical and the digital, the euphoric and the political, the personal and the collective. This is not a DJ magazine or a club listings guide. It is a publication interested in what happens when a musical form that was born in warehouses and basements becomes a defining cultural force of its era.
The name, borrowed from the Eastern European soup, suggests nourishment — something warm, substantial, and rooted in tradition even as it adapts to wherever it is served. Published from a city that has been the global capital of electronic music culture for a quarter of a century, borshch brings a perspective shaped by Berlin's clubs, its immigrant communities, and its ongoing negotiation between creative freedom and commercial pressure. It is a magazine that listens as carefully as its readers dance.
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