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This is a nice little project I was involved in last year, it’s all about the presentation of independent music and sound art in Slovenia. More than 10 artists were involved and their work is presented in the form of a podcast: original audio and interviews.
More from Brane Zorman, the author himself: “The aim of the ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) project is to establish connections in the Slovenian contemporary music scene that is active in the performing, experimental, and intermedia and internet field. The project presents authors of the younger and middle generation who create mainly independent music and sound art projects in various art forms in the institutional and non-institutional frame: for theatre, dance, film, ballet, performance art, festivals, events, installations, internet, and experimental projects of a local and international scope.”
The podcasts are linked here to listen or download for free.
2010 was also the year of playing out regularly. I’ve recorded some of the sets and am making them available below. Everything is free to download and share so go ahead. They were done as described in thelive section of this site. Also, here’s a link to my bandcamp.
Here are two remixes I did quite a while ago for a very fresh Slovenian synth pop band New Wave Syria. I’ve been a fan of their label Cheaptunes Records and their DIY ethos combined with circuit bending so it was a great pleasure to do two remixes for them which you can listen and download below. The first one is a droney, dark ambient sort of affair, while the second one is based on a few hip hop beats and pieces. The whole remix album (including remixes from Kleemar, Spock Studios and Yanoosh) can be found here.
I’ve been invited to doKlubski Maraton 2010, a series of concerts in many alternative clubs all over the country. I also got to play livein the studio of Radio Student which was recorded and filmed by the nice people at the radio. The results are below (audio and video slightly out of sync).
A few more words about how the concerts were played: No sequences were pre-prepared but live sound (played by synths, effects, stylophone and triggered by midi controllers) was looped live, layered and played over and over again. Hope it makes some sense for the video.
What can be exciting about a new compilation of unsigned Slovenian electronica artists which is out now on Beatport? This one is not as genre-hopping as some previous ones, it includes artists from abroad as well and it is a compilation of dub-infused electronica, clicks-and-cuts ambience on one side and some more dancey dub technoey tunes on the other. Not sure if those are the right reasons, so let’s look more closely at the tracks. Favourites include Symann’s glitch excursion into the bassy spectrum of steem, Mesec vs. Freeverse’s ragga-influenced breaks and Organon’s fairly standard dub techno which definitely delivers. The download pack also includes new and exclusive tracks from a few more established artists such as Anders Ilar, Aeroc and Forceback, among which Ilar’s slow but wonderful growing ambience is most fulfilling. The production quality is indeed wonderful with no apparent differences from home and foreign artists. The only downside is the rather quick job on the artwork which is unfortunately becoming more and more redundant in the age of digital-only releases. Synapticcrew and the label Soul Industries have no doubt put out a quality comp which hopefully will find its way on the hard drives of interested parties. Good luck!
I found out about Mr Goraguer through one of my favourite Serge Gainsbourg records, Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin, as he wrote and arranged most of the music for Serge’s earlier albums – amazing work. Then I came accross his solo work which includes a soundtrack for a 70′s animated film Fantastic Planet. The music is no doubt based on the jazz-funk tradition with a huge influence of psychedelic rock and a bit of that French je ne sais quoi. But the point of this post is that the film is also amazing in its own wierd way. I still have to watch it in its entirety but when planets, aliens and babies are combined with mellotrons, flutes, wah guitars and synths – what more could you really ask for..?
This is a video for my song Rocking chair from my new album Hovercraft. It was constructed by layering several single images and using very (=too) simple animation. I promise I’ll improve it one day.
This is a nice little project I was involved in last year, it’s all about the presentation of independent music and sound art in Slovenia. More than 10 artists were involved and their work is presented in the form of a podcast: original audio and interviews.
