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Ambassador Award 2023 - KUJU Studio from Kosovo for the "Best Art Production of the Year"

WonderLight Festival Strikes ⚡🤩😍🎶💜💚

Wonder Light Festival is a new festival by Kuju Studio . The festival will take place on Kosovo Independence Day (FEB 16-17) at Prishtina's former brick factory. Location The factory will be filled with shocking lights & visuals by Kuju Studio and amazing music selected by: DJ Reas , George Adi , Air Bajko (LIVE), Pife ,  Liburn , Lekë , Eramah , Altin Boshnjaku for two nights in a row. Get ready to get THUNDERSTRUCK !!   ⚡🤩🤩

The Sixth Skopje Vinyl Convention on October 1st!

Skopje Vinyl Convention  is a venue created by  Funky Fresh  (a DJ community from Skopje) which has been bringing  music/vinyl lovers  together. As every year, music/vinyl lovers will come together at Youth Cultural Center Skopje on Saturday, October 1, 2022, for the sixth edition , digging the crates, sharing interests, moments and hugs. 🎶❤️😊   "After a two year break due to COVID, we are getting back on track with world famous DJs that will come to our convention. This year the guests are Funky Cheff from Spain, Naughty NMX and Robert Smith from Germany."   -  said the representative of SVC, Goce Veleski, for our article. This year, with 15 record stores selling new and used vinyls and a lineup consisting more than 30 artists ,  SVC will enrich you with experiences, amazing music and vinyls.  "We expect a sunny day, filled with a lot of new music, happy people and good vibes."  - added Goce Veleski. It's going to be an unforgettable experience!  Can you

MDMA could repair bad relationships in romantic relationships

The pandemic has put love relationships under significant pressure as couples grapple with new difficulties, i.e. lack of privacy. Too much togetherness, lack of personal space and the inability to do normal activities, such as going to the gym, are cited as reasons that lead to problems in relationships. A website that provides legal documents has reported a 34 percent increase in divorce contract sales during the pandemic, compared to the same time period last year. Recent research by Dr. Brian Earp , titled Psychedelic Moral Enhancements, recalls MDMA being used in couples therapy in the 1980s. Is the time right to revive this study? Yale University's Earp writes:  "In the 1980s, before it was outlawed, MDMA —popularly known as ' ecstasy ' for the euphoric feeling it can produce"—was used by professional counselors as an aid to couples therapy." Writing in in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs in 1998, George Greer and Requa Tolbert described a method

Techno label from Kosovo with the first vinyl release

The Techno duo  Vegim   and  Flekitza   debut their first  12-inch vinyl release , with the hypnotic groove EP  "Shifting Operations"  on their label  TMM Recordings .  The label was founded in 2006 and to this day is constantly pushing the boundaries of techno music with the unique taste of talented artists.  "Few know that Prishtina has one of the dopest  techno  labels on the region — TMM Recordings. " -  frekvencii.org  Shifting Operations EP by Vegim, Flekitza This release includes 5 tracks, and the phenomenal review of them was done by Macedonian music journalist Andrijan Apostoloski for the music platform frequency.org, which aims to unite the youth of the Balkans through contemporary art and techno.   The project was supported by the Municipality of Prishtina , Department for Culture, during the pandemic years when the culture was hit the hardest and stagnated.  You can buy " Shifting Operations " on your favorite music stores around the world.

Multimedia platform for art and culture in Montenegro

 The multimedia platform “Platform081” was created with the aim of being a link for all young creative people who want to contribute their art to the development of culture during the pandemic.  This platform is a place to meet and create new creative industries in Montenegro.  Pandemia co19 was fatal for the culture, but this platform, through live streams, connected performers with the audience and created space for art to live in times of crisis. So far, they have mostly worked with artists from Montenegro, choosing locations that will complete the experience of the audience and performers and of course to promote Montenegrin tourism.  Platform081 implemented two great events called “Sunset VICE”. The epidemiological situation in Montenegro was in their favor, so they managed to organize two events - respecting all epidemiological measures and both were for a limited number of people.  “Sunset VICE” parties are mini-festivals, because visitors, in addition to beautiful Montenegri

Awakenings message to the Dutch government - Techno culture is going to extinction

  Awakenings promotes # technotogether campaign with all ravers, artists, managers, and other members of the techno community.  Through this movement , they seek to make a powerful statement to the government of the Netherlands and to the rest of the world so that people involved in the industry are taken seriously in this context in which an entire culture is in danger of disappearing.  "As soon as creative companies and institutions do not survive this crisis, there will be no more new artists or other creatives on this stage to build. Think photographers, dancers, DJs, sound and light professionals, the production team, bar staff, club and event managers, the list goes on and on", they explain in a statement.  To spread the message they created a video, a Photoshop filter, a Facebook filter, and an Instagram filter so they can join together ‘from listeners to ravers, from artists to festival and club teams, managers, agents, and vendors’.  Check out the video and so

Amsterdam Dance Event gears up for 25th edition and returns to Felix Meritis in 2020

Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) , the world’s leading conference and festival for electronic music and its associated industries, is gearing up for its 25th anniversary edition which will take place from 21st to 25th October 2020.  As part of the celebration, the organization is taking the ADE Pro conference back to its “home base”, Felix Meritis on the Amsterdam canals.  Between 1999 and 2016, eighteen editions of the ADE conference were hosted at Felix Meritis.  While the venue was closed to undergo major renovations, the organization found a temporary home in DeLaMar Theater near the popular Leidseplein.  “Felix Meritis is one of the most iconic cultural landmarks on the Amsterdam canals. Hosting ADE at such a location has made it possible for the event to develop and grow into the gathering it is today” states Meindert Kennis, director of ADE.  “The result of Felix’s renovation is absolutely spectacular and its re-opening couldn’t come at a better moment. It enables us

Two events of Rotterdam Rave at the same date

Rotterdam Rave is a pure underground techno & house scene of Rotterdam. Rotterdam Rave was founded with the aim of placing Rotterdam on the international techno map. Now, this is one of the biggest techno events in the Netherlands . All of their festivals have sold out so far.  The festival is renowned for its industrial location and three stages with different kinds of techno music. In addition to quality music, much attention is paid to the decoration and event experience. Rotterdam Rave Spring edition will be held on 28. March 2020 at Maassilo , but as the festival is sold our already, they just announced one event on the same date and the party will start at 13h.  This daytime party named  " Rotterdam Rave by Day " is an indoor festival that will be held at Now&Now club at Rotterdam too.  Rotterdam is Rave. Rotterdam is Techno. x

Movie - Police Close Clubs; Rave Activists Occupy Georgian Parliament

A documentary on the Georgian underground scene was premiered in London . The title of the documentary is " Raving Riot ," and the film focuses on the Georgian club scene that organized mass protests in Tbilisi in 2018 after the closing of two nightclubs - a vein of electronic sound. Director Stephan Polivanov : "We decided to shoot the movie ... let's explore the the generation that made that protest possible."

“Electrochoc” by Laurent Garniera at 18 years of “Klubska scena” in Aquarius club in Zagreb, Croatia

Electronic bestseller “ Electrochoc” by Laurent Garniera at 18 years of “Klubska scena” in Aquarius club in Zagreb, Croatia on 15th November 2019. A ten year old kid who improvised partying in his own room, collected over the years of experience, wrote it all in 2003 and published a book, the most famous electronic bestseller " Electrochoc ".  Laurent Garnier confirmed his status as the highest authority on the electronic scene with the publication of this book, whose writing was assisted by the French journalist David Brun-Lambert , and the success of the book is confirmed by numerous world-wide translations, including publications in the Kosovo region, as in Serbia, Croatia and BiH. We hope that there will be a Kosovo edition soon.  " Electrochoc " is an autobiography written as a novel in which the protagonist is Laurent himself, who witnessed and actively participated in these events.  It is not an egoistic autobiography but a coherent inte