S.U.B. Podcast #23 Nutty Fiyah Sound System (MK)

SUB: Well, don’t know how to say this, the studio session that you guys have made truly rocks. I was skeptic at first because of the levels of the microphone, but after 5 minutes you just blend in the session. Did you all had fun while recording it? 


* Greetings to one and all. Musically inspired we were conquering new horizons, in that session we put much energy to mek it sound live and direct like on a show. Running and jumping through the studio, that is how we managed to hold onto the jump up style and produced the lyrics. A likkle spliff mek it more hotta, seen.


SUB: How long does Natty Fiyah exist, and how did you come to the idea to create a sound system? 


* We founded Natty Fiyah in 2009, which makes 4 years by now. The main idea was to make a reggae sound system and promote that musical vibez through our likkle country. As shows were flowing we realized that we can mix the reggae sound and vocals with some other similar genres that could mix good with the reggae like jungle and drum’n’bass. So now we mek a foundation inna reggae style and then move on through dub music all the way to the massive jungle.


SUB: Where have you played as Natty Fiyah Sound System? 


* Throughout the year 2009 the sound system rocked only on homestead locations throughout Macedonia, Tetovo, Skopje, Prilep, Bitola, Ohrid, Kumanovo. And then in 2010 we managed to go on tour with Conquering Lion, and said let’s put Natty Fiyah in the whole story too so we did some support warm-up parties throughout the Balkans where the band was touring.


SUB: The first time I have seen you performed, was at a party in Kapan An. My jaw dropped as I saw the first guy that ever climbed the stage and performing on a drum and bass music, and he didn’t sucked. You just blend in… from where do you draw your energy for performing? 


* When I turned from roots to singjay style and combined them both I started producing more powerful flow and could rock it steady like that for hours, the main engine that drives me is wiping off the corruption of Babylon that has been placed upon this world, so when I’m on the stage, me draw pictures in my head and speak them lyrically to the people so dem can get the message, understand it and wake up from the slumber. In the end what gives the spice is the fast drum and bass riddim that is constantly bumping up.


SUB: You have just released a new single “Wicked Man”. Tell us something about third album of Conquering Lion that is in preparation? 


* Yes I. It’s been 2 years since the last release, and we switched some members and now there is this fresh energy that made us work on our third release. It will be called
“Revelation” to reveal the truth behind the lies seen. The album itself will be like a story and “Wicked Man” is the beginning of it. The concept is to tell about the wicked and corrupted things, but also to explain how to avoid and do something different than that. So when you play it, it should sound like you are reading a book and all the songs are connected between themselves like topics in a book. The album will be recorded in Macedonia but it will be mastered in France. The release date is yet to be scheduled but most likely it will be sometime in September.


SUB: Don’t know if someone ever asked you by now, what does “Conquering Lion” stands for; is it something more than just a name? 


* This is a question that has not been asked very often, so I will take my minute and explain to the bredrin’ and sistren’. Conquering Lion stands for the ideology of Rastafari Movement (African Zionism) through their songs. Rastafari ideology (African Zionism) is an ideology that fights for freedom of the human race. It means no politics, no government, no presidents, no police, no church*, no kingdoms, no authorities, no hierarchy… So, with this “plan of living” and social organization, Rastafari ideology has completely anarchistic attributes. It demands freedom of whole human race and love and harmony in every (and between) every human being. We use the similar terms and phrases as American/Jewish Zionism, but we have completely different meaning in the background of it. Seen.


SUB: I must say that the sound of the “Conquering Lion” and the whole band has progressed into a serious act. Are you satisfied of the bands progress and do you think it is accepted enough by the Macedonian public? 


* Yes bredah’, at the current time we be working with full steam and produce massive sounds, since all the bredrin in the band have taken the act seriously and we will produce even better sounds in future. The situation in Macedonia it is very rough and tough when it comes to audience since people don’t have high salaries and most of them are unemployed so sometimes it’s hard to see many people on a concert, but still there are people who are supporting us in many different ways. What pleases me is that there is no age limit for our music, there are older people that listen to us and there is the younger generation as well that support us. The situation in Macedonia will grow even higher in the upcoming years I am sure of it.


SUB: These previous years the whole band was touring trough the region. Are you about to embark on a new tour? 


* Yes the Lion can’t sit upon one place him must conquer. After the release of the third album we are planning to do a European tour this October/November. It will be a nice journey and we can get to know better with the new members. Live and direct inna di Ras mobile.


SUB: Thank you very much for the interview and the hyper magic set that you guys have made for Skopje Urban Beats. If you have something to add please… 

* Give thanks for your time, patience and energy to make this interview and give it to the people out there. Conquering Lion and Natty Fiyah bless ya all out there and give thanks for your support through all this years. Stay strong me people!

For S.U.B. made by D.S.

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S.U.B. Podcast #22 Mystic Trip (UK)

Please introduce yourself to S.U.B. audience…

I'm Mystic Trip, a DJ & Producer from London, England.

 

How did you start playing and producing drum and bass music?

I first heard DnB on a local pirate radio station. I was a listener for a few years then decided to get involved. I started looking into how it was produced / where it was being made and was quite keen to give it a go. It was around the same time I got a chance to start mixing regularly through another local radio station.

Have you had any Releases?

Yeah, I've had a few digital releases with 'Quondam Records' and I've got a few collaborative tracks with 'Wagz' out now on 'Future Thinkin'.

Describe your sound?

Mystical! there's a lot of noisy stuff around, I guess I try and steer clear from that.

 

What type of equipment do you use for production?

I keep it simple! I've been working on music on the move recently, so my studio space varies. My laptop has probably been my key piece of equipment in the past few months!

  

Why do you love drum and bass music?

I've always been into music, but there's something about the versatility of Drum and Bass that has really kept me interested…

  Which MEME  is your favourite?

Heh! Stoned guy…I think.

Why is it that most artists don’t write a bio on their webpage’s?

Not sure, I've never really noticed. I guess a lot of artists are quite wary of their public image. That and they haven't hired a Publicist!

Do you have anyone you want to shoutout? 

Yeah, big up everyone for the support so far. Hope you guys are feeling what's still to come!

by D.S.

S.U.B. Podcast #21

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S.U.B. Podcast #20 Tim Reaper (UK)

Здраво. Today we have a young artist from the UK. I have noticed him after i have heard a couple of his tunes online. His style was completely different than any other young producer that i have heard. Suddenly i have discovered a few young producers that will be promoted in the SUB podcast series. This week S.U.B. Podcast #18 Tim Reaper (UK)


SUB: Hello, Tim. Could you please introduce yourself?
 
* My name’s Tim Reaper & I’m a jungle/drum & bass producer.


SUB: How did you get involved yourself into playing and producing music?
 
* I first found out about drum & bass when I was about 15, when I had to get two music magazines for an essay project in GCSE Media Studies and the two magazines I got were Mixmag & Metal Hammer. On the copy of Mixmag, there was a cover mix CD which Andy C had done and I was blown away when I listened to it, I’d heard nothing like it before, music with such energy.

After a few months on drum & bass, I discovered jungle by browsing MySpace for artists I knew & liked and I stumbled upon a fake DJ Hype profile, which had the tracks Super Sharp Shooter & Dred Bass on it. They were like none of the drum & bass I had heard before and I noticed that I was playing them more than the drum & bass, so I decided to do a bit of investigating and when I was 16, I decided that I would dive head first into what I soon found out was old school jungle.



SUB: Love the way that in your tracks can be heard a certain amen break that resembles to those a-breaks that were used in the 90’s. This became your signature, and you are already known in the jungle / drum and bass world cause of it. How did you decide, or came to this idea to use those certain drum kits, into nowadays production? 

* It came from my aim to try & be as authentic sounding as possible, which involved seeking out a lot of the sample packs that were doing the rounds of the scene at the time, such as the Zero-G Datafile (& pretty much every other pack they did at the time) packs, the E-Lab Goldmine packs, the Best Service packs, the Kniteforce sample CD and all those CDs from the time. From those, you can get a whole load of great sounding samples, ranging from all sorts of sources and usually by sticking with those and not being too obsessed with making the tracks sound all shiny & modern & updated, you can get that authenticity in your tracks.


SUB: What equipment do you use for producing tracks?

* Right now, I actually haven’t got any equipment. Well, that’s not true I recently bought my first piece of kit the other day, an Alesis Q25 MIDI keyboard, but apart from that, it’s just a really basic setup consisting of my laptop & a pair of production headphones (Sennheiser HD 380s) I’ve had for about 1-2 years now.


SUB: By now you have released for: DSCI4 Records, Alphacut, Criminal, Digibeat Music, and Stepping Forward Records. Have you signed anything new? Future releases?

* On top of all that, I’ve got solo tracks coming on 117, Trace’s label which he started after he ended DSCI4, a track on Threshold’s label Dub Clinique, a remix I got asked to do of a Vybz Kartel tune and a track on a new upstart digital label called Thermosphere, think my one’s the first on that label.

I’ve also got collaborative releases coming with Dwarde on Omni Music, Parallel on Inperspective, Drumlinezz on Channel 82 & some other stuff coming on a new label I’m involved with called Green Bay Wax, keep an eye out for that one.


SUB: Your sound is much more experimental, but due to the fast growing and close combining bass music, you somehow manage to successfully sell that old school amen sound over new bass genre music. Its fucking awesome, how did you come to this idea?

* Well, one thing that I’ve noticed is that a lot more people like jungle than you think, but for the most part, they never really know where to go to hear it or where to find it or, like some of the people that I send tracks to weren’t getting sent any jungle, Trace for example, was only really getting sent a lot of neuro & tech when I decided to send him some of what I made and he wasn’t as aware at the time of the current jungle, but he got made aware.


SUB: What other music styles do you love?

* I’m quite a big fan of that juke/footwork stuff because usually all the stuff at this tempo usually gets thrown under the D&B umbrella, but that stuff is so far off from it, whilst still having that energy of the old jungle I love & make. by (D.S.)





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S.U.B. Podcast #19 Ivan Gogovski (Serbia)

SUB: How did you start playing Jungle / drum and bass music?
 
I had my first contact with the jungle/dnb culture in late '96 when i was given several CD's from a friend, among them 4 Hero's seminal album "Parallel Universe" & 1st of React's Artcore compilation series which immeasurably changed and influenced my view of the music world. At that time Hip Hop was at first place to me, but since dj setup was too expensive 4 me, it has been only idea for the future. I had to wait 5 years to obtain equipment... During this time changed my priorities and dnb came on the first place.


SUB: Please tell us more about your shows on Jungletrain.net? (How and when did you start hosting a show on jungletrain.net?)

I am not promoter and I don’t organize parties so my gigs mainly depended on others engaging me.
As I become more and more distant from mainstream dnb, which in mid '00 (from mine point of view), alienated from the essence of its source, I’ve started exploring breakbeat orientated sound that continued evolving original concept . At the time appeared genius Bassbin, leaded by Rohan with the support of the Naphta and torchbearers of that sound, Breakage & Equinox. In period from 2000. to 2008. Bassbin released series of the amazing tracks. Also in 2005. Breakage & Equinox revamped Scientific Wax label which has been hibernated for almost decade. All of these brings me to Jungletrain Radio, on which SciWax Show is still transmitted. Besides of Scientific Wax Show on Jungletrain Radio shows are hosted by: Double 0 & Mantra [Rupture], Chris Inperspective, Code [Subtle Audio], Rumbleton, DJ Trax & Nucleus, Jason 0s, Skitty & Nolige [Foundation X], Phuture-T, etc...

In early 2009. I applied for the slot and soon started to host show titled "Adventures in Breakbeat".
Unfortunately technical issue forced me to postpone show until the 2012. when, with the big support of Vlado [Kicbea] and Nemanja [Shonze], transformed it in Reminiscence Show.



SUB: Who is behind reminiscence show on Jungletrain?
 
Vlado, Nemanja & Me



SUB: How did you start Reminiscence audio? And what have you released so far?

RMA was Vlado’s idea. About one Year ago he came with an idea about starting label which became interesting for me. Since at that time I was occupied on my working place I offered my only my assistance. Soon I lost my job and most of the time I’ve started spending at home, when the idea of active involvement in creating of the label became excellent solution for creative "spending" of free time. In the meantime Vlado and Nemanja have already prepared few releases (Nuage, Parhelia,Nothing) and shortly after Kalgan's EP. Currently topical is labels fifth release which is at the same time first one in a Temporal series which is going to be orientated to more modern sound. This will be followed by several releases as homage to “atmospheric” dnb and breakbeat culture. Producers of this mini cycle are Eschaton, Infest & Parallel, Terminus, afterwards EP by Fushara and second EP of the Temporal series produced by Dave Hoax.



SUB: Future releases for RAUDIO? 

Until the end of the Year are planned single of Montreal's producer Jason 0s/Daat; Retro series which consists of music by 2D33P duo (Legendary DJ Trace & Voyager), Scape, Kid Lib, Tim Reaper, Dwarde...
Also in the pipeline is exclusive material by Okee, Noble Sense, Dave Hoax and another true legend DJ Trax.




SUB: Your view of the current state of dnb in Serbia?

I believe that situation is pretty much the same everywhere, but the people involved in promoting dnb culture are not giving up...



SUB: RAudio seems to get more and more attention from the djs/producers outside of Serbia. With whom did you collaborate? How did you come to the idea to form an label? 

DJ Trax himself, who has joint show with Nucleus on Jungletrain Radio, among the first accepted Reminiscence Audio releases. Thanking to Jungletrain Radio I've met young Dutch producer Infest (which is going to master labels forthcoming releases),whose first LP titled “Darkofi” has just been released on Omni Music and another one is on the way. Also I would like to mention our mate Yankowsky from Poland whose label is Monochrome Recordings. As I mentioned before, forming the label was Vlado's idea I was just godfather.



SUB: Why do you love drum and bass music?

Jah, Amen & Weight.



SUB: All-time favorite top 10  

I simply cannot make choice of only 10 tracks in history of this musical genre over 20 years long.There is so much good tunes that it won’t be honest to choose 10.



SUB: Any word of wisdom?
 
As I don’t consider myself old enough to say any "words of wisdom" I would quote my true musical heroes:

"EVERY STAR IN THE SKY TELLS US HOW AND SHOWS US WHY WE MUST ALL GIVE UNIVERSAL LOVE"

S.U.B. Podcast #18 Nino Flooder (Mk)

Merhaba. This week’s guest comes from the legendary Skopje vinyl house “Massiva”.

One of the youngest dj names that played in the golden years of Skopje (93-99). Passionate vinyl collector and a great technician. Member of the promotional group Pollux. True legend in Skopje. Podcast # 18 Nino a.k.a. Flooder.




https://soundcloud.com/dj-flooder






SUB: Are you aware that you are one of the biggest names in the Macedonian clubbing history?


Sure is a nice compliment which I can’t realize yet, because I don’t feel that way. I appreciate the nice words and the introduction, and most certainly all the people who share your point of view. Whenever I get the chance to communicate, party, or play music I don’t feel like that, I want to be casual and down to earth regarding everything I do. Thank you again.






SUB: I remembered you by filing in as a substitute for the second gig that Umek was suppose to do in Skopje, back in 99. You have played that night with PassNGR, and dropped Holy Ghost “Hand of god”. The club was filled with people from the IRC network, and you only had 17-18 years back then. Anyway even if this was not your first event, please describe us your first gigs and impressions of playing in a club?

Yes, Umek was announced but he could not make it, so we had pretty big space in order to play our music, which varied that night in different genres. It was in the beginning of my career, let us call it like that, and it meant a world to me. My first gig was one year before in the club Metropol, and it was together with the guys from Massiva, PassNGR, Dejan Tevdo, Shark (if I am not mistaken ) and Dj Gaby (Slovenia). The parties back then where I have been dj-ing, where full with enthusiasm and positive energy, and for me it was a different dimension, turntables, mixers, crazy crowd thirsty for music and with more open ears and minds. From my point of view I was not aware of my performances because honestly it was like a dream back then.




SUB: As i mentioned earlier, at the end of the 90’s. Skopje experienced a new cultural rebirth. Youth was living and communicating 24/7 via IRC networks. Lot’s of that core of people even today are friends and still are hooked on the current social networks. Somehow i think that people are not even aware that the whole club life happened because of this impact, of music, technology, and social networks combined together.

You yourself have experienced it, as a part of this core of people that has been online for more than 10 years.

I am interested in your point of view of these 10 years migrating from one to another social network, where the fuck are we going?




I must admit that the influence of the social networks back than really had a great impact on our general life, in communicating, hanging out together, and most important giving support to the events organized back then. I hope that we will not be stuck in our chairs and virtually be present at the parties, ha ha ha. In the past years the social networks have had their peak, Myspace was quite influential 4 years ago, Facebook now currently holding the throne, and special social networks for musicians like Soundcloud and Mixcloud are of great significance for the electronic music, and bringing together the people who share interests in it. My belief is that we are going to be attached to them as we were once dependent of the television, the radio or the newspapers. And we will try not be consumed from the social networks 100%.








SUB: You started as a kid who was hanging in the legendary vinyl shop “Masiva”.

Sooner than later you have become one of the legendary names that come out of that shop. At that time with out even turning 18, you have made yourself a name on the Macedonian techno scene. What do you remember most from that period?




I remember everything, ha ha ha! I have the feeling like it was yesterday, honestly. I remember the people, their enthusiasm and thirst for music, information regarding the artists, since Massiva Shop was opened in my neighborhood. Back then there was no internet access as it is now, the information were precious things to have, and only the older and more experienced had them, however were not selfish to share them. I think that every music that was present on the market back then found its way in everyone’s home or stereo system. I did not know a person which listened only to one genre of music, nor to speak or search only for a particular artist. The funniest thing was that we were sharing one magazine for one month which contained info for the clubbing life in Europe, the Dj magazine that is, before it went commercial. Until we finished the magazine there was already a new issue of it, so we had to find a “victim” to buy it and share it with the rest of the music lovers.






SUB: For those who don’t know, you are a passionate vinyl “junkie” or collector.

I can understand the whole passion and the elitism of the vinyl collector. Let’s make this clear, you are probably one of the rarest people in Macedonia that continued buying vinyl, while others just by a live performance vinyl and not even try to buy a digital track. But we are not here to judge them… Just as a lousy pokemon fan could say, you can’t catch them all, or in your case “You can’t by them all”. Are you aware that you are missing out a ton of quality music?

I plead guilty I am an addict, however I do it for myself, I haven’t stopped buying records for 17 years, it is something that has grown as a part of me and I don’t want it to go away. I can’t judge nor to speak for the others, and yes you are right, “you can’t have them all”. This rule makes me even more dedicated in sense that I still search for vinyls that I used to listen when I was a 12 yrs old child, and I could not get them at all, for me it is like an adventure game, and I can’t describe the feeling when I find something that I’ve been searching for that long.

I am aware, because I follow the digital releases as well, however I make lists of tracks which are good and wait for them to get released on vinyl, if this does not happen, I go to the next one in the list. I am not sad because I am missing music, I am sad that it does not get released on vinyl. As you said in the beginning can’t have them or win them all, I think that this is the beauty, you try to fill in the gap with something close or similar to something that you don’t have.






SUB: What new music genres do you follow these days?




Those are not new music genres that I follow, it is funk, soul and disco music. These genres present the roots to the electronic dance music the one as we know it. And it makes me even happier to see where all the music these days gets its groove from.






SUB: Favorite clubbing period in Skopje?


I cannot be modest and say only one period, can I say the period from which I have started attending the parties 94/95 until now. The periods were changing, hence the music and the magic that was within it. Each time there is something new and challenging is worth to remember.




SUB: Is it possible to see the whole Massiva team in one club night in Skopje, just for old time sakes?




I hope that this question will bring an initiative for this kind of event.




SUB: Do the Macedonian DJ’s deserve a serious booking agency?

Most certainly they do, however the things with the electronic music scene currently are not so keen on the djs side. Nowadays the dj has to be a little bit of everything; music producer, manager, businessman, agent, designer, and etc. I wish the things could be more simple as before.




SUB: I don’t like the current state of the clubbing life in Skopje. Divided, everyone is playing and making their on terms. Also the public is either scattered or there isn’t enough core clubbing movement. Your view of the current clubbing scene in Skopje?




Me neither, the history seems to be repeating itself once more and everyone has something “important” to say about the music, which is more or less addressed to the same target again, the audienc. My point of view for the current situation is that we are hitting rock bottom compared to the “golden days”. However the critical mass that was made from those days remains strong and balances more or less the whole situation. Our effort as djs, and in some aspect as promoters of the electronic dance music is to find fresh and new blodd, ha ha ha, meaning new kids which will give positive energy and movement of the current situation. The starting point should be some education first and then to let them choose theirs “cup of tea”, and remember the dance music knows no boundaries.




SUB: Are you planning to have a gig night on those Skopje 2014 rafts?

Probably YES, if Peter Pan or Captain Hook invites me over there to play to their jolly fellows.






SUB: Please describe to us how you prepare when you are going out on a club night?

In one word, chaos! Ha,ha,ha! First of all if the club where I am playing has no equipment, I pack my turntables, I place one on top of the other, take the mixer, grab my dj bags, put everything in the car, and I hit the road. Regarding the music selection, I have a standard pack of vinyls which I carrying with me, which I make throughout the whole week, by listening to the tracks on the internet, crazy eh?! Because I don’t have time to listen to them for the whole day, and the samples which are over the internet somehow give me enough clue what the track/vinyl is all about. After I make the core selection I put plus 40% of the tracks that I want to play to the audience, or to listen how they sound on a loud sound system, or I have never played them at all.

SUB: Any words of wisdom?

Love what you do regarding music, no matter how hard or how vague the whole thing might seem at the moment.

S.U.B. Podcast #17 Martchin [OffPop] (Mk)

                                                                   By NeuErotik

Kia ora. This week’s guest is Martchin, part of the multimedia collective “OffPop” from Skopje and BTKRSH. Been part of a team, organizer and editor of the web-zine “Skopje’s burning”, later on hosted the radio show “Skopje’s burning” at Kanal103. His sets are variety of trippy techno, electro, acid house, ebm, psychedelic, space, kraut, new wave, post punk, dub... Also, part of the team behind two festivals: Akto Festival For Contemporary Arts that is placed in Bitola, and De:sonanz Festival For Electronic Music, Visual Art and New Media which is held in Skopje. You can catch him play at the “OffPop” events that are placed through Republic of Macedonia… S.U.B. Podcast #17 Martchin [OffPop]. 

SUB: I have always wondered what does “OffPop” stands for. Is it just your dj name or a project? What is the idea behind it?

 * “OffPop” is multimedia collective from Skopje that works on spreading the electronic music, culture and variations of electro, techno, psychedelic, space, kraut, new wave, post punk music in combination & connection with art & experimental movies... The collective is composed of movie directors, photographers, musicians, fans of literature and contemporary art. We are part of the independent scene in Macedonia and we are trying to present noncommercial music, movies and other art.

SUB: You have been a part of teams behind the festivals Akto (Bitola) and De:sonanz (Skopje). Even if i have not been on the Akto events, i have always wondered about and love the idea of setting a party in a moving train Skopje – Bitola. Was the party successful, and please tell us more about Akto, and any “hints” about this year edition of the festival?

  * Yes, the party was great, it was in 2008, and I played music along with Robotek. There were a lot of people on the train, and all of us had a good time (although the atmosphere in the train was extremely hot J). I think that this party was the first of this kind of a parties in Macedonia. For this year we are negotiating with an audio-visual experimental band from Serbia. We are trying to bring this excellent band to the Akto festival, because it fits to the whole concept of the festival.

SUB: With just a few edition of De:sonanz festival, its starts to leave a mark on Skopje club cultural nights. Who are the members behind this festival, and are you satisfied with the outcome of the festival nights?  This year plans for De:sonanz?

 * The De:sonanz festival is supported and organized by Goethe Institute in Skopje, and the NGO “Domino”. Yes, we are satisfied by the outcome of the festival editions, because there were a lot of crowd and we had very good performers (local and foreign). The main problem is the lack of critical mass, people who are open for new kind of music and new types of media and arts. Although the festival had a good crowd, not all people appreciate, valued and support our efforts for presenting different contemporary musical culture and events. For this year we are planning to bring French and German artists, but I can’t give you more details in the moment.

SUB: Besides your love towards the music, you are also a Cinephile. Name a few titles that made a mark on you.

 * As a big fan of a independent artistic movies, I’m also part of the movie group “Film section” (Filmska Sekcija / http://filmskasekcija.blogspot.com/), we started movie projections and discussions two times in the month in the café Absinth House in Skopje’s Old Bazaar. This events are supported by an appropriate musical background after the film projections and discussions, because we think that is important to connect the both types of art.

My all time favourite movies are:

1. The Holy Mountain [1973]

2. El Topo [1970]

3. Enter The Void [2010]

4. The Man Who Felt To Earth [1976]

5. Altered States [1980]

6. Trouble Every Day [2001]

7. Suspiria [1977]

8. The Last Wave [1977]

9. Don't Look Now [1973]

10. Easy Rider [1969]

11. Performance [1970]

12. Ciao Manhattan [1972]

13. Valhalla Rising [2009]

14. Watchmen [2009]

15. 2001 - A Space Odyssey [1968]

16. Häxan [1922]

17. Man With A Movie Camera [1929]

18. The Trip [1967]

19. Wicker Man [1973]

20. Giulietta Degli Spiriti [1965]

21. 8½ [1963]

22. Fellini's Casanova [1976]

23. Histoires Extraordinaires [1968]

24. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes [1972]

25. Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht [1979]

26. Picnic at Hanging Rock [1975]

27. Inception [2010]

28. Naked Lunch [1991]

29. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998]

30. Amer [2009]

31. Beyond The Black Rainbow [2010]

32. Pola X [1999]

33. Holy Motors [2012]

34. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [1970]

35. Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra [1973]

And with the complete filmography of Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky David Lynch, Lars Von Trier, I’m completing the list J.

SUB: These past few years, Skopje has been trying to get back the glory of the club life in the city. Most of the clubs are open just for R&B-Hip-Hop, Pop dance gigs, and mostly trashy folk singers from the neighboring region. There are no chances of involving new electronic sounds, god forbid to mention the experimental sounds. The clubbing scene is divided into mainstream and indie performers (even if there is no difference), lots of teams/crews, bad blood etc. That has brought the result of to many small gigs, and a few club nights. What is your point of view of the current state of the club culture in Skopje?

 * In Macedonia, there was always a quality independent music scene that is inadequately treated. This is the basic problem. As a nation we have a sense of what quality is and always up to date with developments in the global independent music scene. The second biggest problem is that our youth is poisoned with poor quality, low level of musical deviations, which reflect the context and the level of social environment that surrounds us. Those are some of the reasons for my negative point of view and you can’t say that the independent Macedonian music and cultural scene will soon prosper and get the treatment they deserve if thing don’t change in near future.

SUB: Where can people catch you playing and what is next for you?

 * You can find me during the weekends in “Absint House” in Skopje’s Old Bazaar and the club “Wire” in Kumanovo. My plans for this summer is the traveling multimedia project in which along with my collaborators – we intend to go on tour in the cities of Macedonia and the region, as well as to participate in summer festivals in the country and abroad. Also, I’m negotiating with foreign bands and producers, but I can’t give you details in the moment and you will be further noticed for all the activities.

by D.S

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