Poland has a rich electronic music history. As far back as the ‘50s, if you tuned into the frequencies of the Studio Eksperymentalne Polskiego Radia you would hear the earliest electronic sounds beamed back to you. In the ‘90s, while we in the UK were revolting against the Tories with the free rave scene, so were post-Communist Polish youths sharing tapes, cobbling together tracks on whatever gear they could find and throwing raves in hotspots like Warsaw.
“I wish I had experienced those parties,” says Wrocław-based artist Anna Suda, AKA An On Bast. “But unfortunately I was not aware of this scene, I was studying some philosophy book back then, singing in a choir or improvising on the piano for fun.” Her entry into the scene she is now a key part of was far from a typical one, and actually started after she had already begun performing live in clubs and at festivals. Rather amazingly, completely on a whim one day in 2005, Anna decided that she wanted to make an album.