About
The Archive
Electric Echoes is an archival project dedicated to preserving the visual culture of the German bass music scene. We collect, digitize, and make accessible flyers from drum & bass, jungle, and related events — creating a living archive that documents the history, creativity, and evolution of this community. The project is driven by the belief that event flyers are more than just promotional material: they are cultural artifacts that tell stories about the artists, venues, crews, and moments that shaped the scene.
Features & Standards
We are committed to the FAIR principles — making our data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. This means our archive is designed to work with other digital collections and research tools, not exist in isolation. By following open standards and persistent identifiers, we ensure that the materials in this archive remain discoverable and usable for years to come.
All flyer images in the archive are served via the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). This allows for high-quality zooming, panning, and detailed examination of every flyer. Beyond the viewing experience, IIIF ensures our images can be compared, referenced, and integrated with other cultural heritage collections worldwide.
Every flyer and event in the archive receives a persistent identifier (ARK), creating a stable, trusted reference that remains valid over time. These identifiers ensure that flyers can be reliably cited in research, linked from external sources, and referenced long after the original event has passed.
Our archive supports standardised metadata exchange formats: JSON-LD and RDF for linked open data, METS/XML for long-term preservation, and OAI-PMH for institutional harvesting by Europeana, the German Digital Library, and other cultural heritage aggregators. Every published event can be exported in these formats directly from its detail page.
We welcome contributions from the community. If you have flyers sitting in a box, on a hard drive, or tucked away in an old folder, you can upload them directly through the site. Each submission helps fill gaps in the archive and preserves another piece of scene history for future generations.
Please note: we only accept authentic, historical flyers from real events. Submissions of AI-generated or synthetic flyer designs are not appropriate for this archive and will not be published.
Rights & Responsibility
We archive event flyers as cultural documents. Rights situations are sometimes incomplete; we handle this transparently and react quickly to valid claims.
This archive is presented with event context (title, date, venue, scene history), not as a decontextualized image gallery.
Where known, we display creator and rights metadata. Where unclear, we label records as unknown and update them when new evidence is provided.
Rights holders can submit a Notice & Takedown request at any time. Valid notices are reviewed promptly and affected content is temporarily blocked during clarification.
Contributors must confirm they are rights holders or authorized to submit the material before uploading.
Latest Release
v2.2.0
minorMetadata integrations and search/archive quality improvements.
New Features
- +Added Wikidata integration
- +Added MusicBrainz Places support for event venues
- +Corrected German search filters
- +Image master files are now archived as JPEG 2000
Bug Fixes
- ×Bookmarks are now translated into German