Kosovo Clubbing

An unforgettable event that will remain forever in our/Kosovo’s clubbers minds & in Kosovo’s Electronic music events history!  September 15,  Next Level  hosted a proper techno night with nowadays  Techno Lady - Rebekah , Rinia Rinia from Macedonia,  Toton ,  Vegim  &  Flekitza  - local support, from Prishtina, on the occasion of it’s 11th anniversary. The event took place at  Teatri ODA  - a private theatre in Prishtina. We went there around 11:00 PM, while Rinia Rinia from Skopje, was opening the night, with his tech house set, until around 00:30 AM. Afterwards,   Toton , took care of warming up the audience for   Rebekah’s  “ Live Hybrid Set ”, with his tech house/techno set. People were so warmed up for Rebekah! Very good set by   Toton ! Rebekah played a   “Live Hybrid”   techno set from 2:30 AM until 4:30 PM.   Rebekah’s “Live Hybrid Set”   was beyond perfect! She was 4 deck mixing, all the time, so maybe some of you can say it was so confusing, with

credits for pic:  Petrit Rrahmani Another weekend!!! And what a weekend! Great artists from Pristina’s underground scene warmed up the dance floor of the  Zone Club  on Bajram. Then the brilliant  Seth Trolex  took away the playful mass with his melodic 7 hour set. credits for pic:  Petrit Rrahmani My friends and I entered  Zone Club  at 2:30AM. We listened to tracks played by  Secret 47  with  Nappy G  on percussions. An interesting performance for the electronic scene but successful. Half an hour later, at exactly 03AM,  Seth Troxler  performed for 4 hours on the enclosed indoor stage. Then the party was moved outside to the open air terrasse of  Zone club. credits for pic:  Petrit Rrahmani Seth Troxler  played a further three hours from sunrise. Phenomenal experience! From 10AM,  Uran B.  (dj from Prishtina) spinned some great tracks for the audience who did not want to leave the sunny terrace of  Zone Club.   However, I did not stay until the end. It was enough danc

Kosovo-born, Switzerland-based DJ & Producer,  Sabb , returns at  Matthias Tanzmann ’s record label ( Moon Harbour Recordings ), after 3 succesful releases (“Don’t kill my vibe EP” w/  Cuartero , remixed by:  Chris Wood  &  Meat , “One of Us” feat.  Forrest , remixed by:  Dennis Ferrer  &  Detlef  & “People of the Sun”), which were massively supported by some of the biggest names of the Electronic Music Industry. by  x This time, he re-debuts with “Daydream”, a track he did in collab with the Spanish DJ & Producer,  Manu Gonzales . It’s been played/being played by the biggest Tech House heads of the industry & it’s creating a unreal/different vibe, every single time. Artists like:  Hot Since 82 ,  Lauren Lane ,  wAFF ,  Pete Tong ,  Paco Oscuna , created top-notch & unreal moments, while playing “Daydream” during their sets at the world’s most famous rave venues ( Tomorrowland ,  Elrow ,  Blue Marlin Ibiza ,  Pacha ). Check out t

The first edition of  Massive Fest , was held at Fshajt Bridge or Saint Bridge (Albanian: Ura e Fshejtë or Ura e Shenjtë) - Djakovica, Kosovo on 19 & 20 May, 2017. With a unique location, spectacular visuals, mint soundsystem & a lineup for every taste in music, including artists like:  Hajdar Berisha ,  MIM , DJ DS, Mali, DJ 69,  Megan , Fidani & Onufri,  Dynamic Man ,  Nita Latifi  & Band, Vibe Honeyz,  Vegim  &  Flekitza , DJ Ace, Duo Deejay’s, Alexose,  Martin B ,  Fatos Çunaku , it was an attractive/long awaited, festival. The variative genres of music, like: rock, house, tech house, deep house & techno, followed by the breeze of the nature & the sound of the river (Drin), that surrounded the festival’s location, made that weekend, unique, unforgettable & non-repeatable. We attended the festival, just so we can give a detailed description of the festival, for all of you festival souls, that weren’t able to attend it. The backstage was open for

The last few years have seen a few regions outside Europe's main clubbing centres become hotspots for purist sounds. There's  Tbilisi , led by Bassiani, pushing no-nonsense techno. Then there's  Montevideo , with Phonotheque and its expert residents who spin electro, house and minimal. Thanks to Closer, you'll also find plenty of killer minimal in Kiev. And if  Vegim's   ' Breaking Point ' is anything to go by, there could be a scene brewing in Kosovo. A student of deep sounds,  Vegim's  output recalls the burrowing aesthetic of labels like Prologue, Semantica and Mote-Evolver, where steady groove meets precision synths and an ethereal touch. Vegim  covers an impressive range across  Breaking Point 's 15 tracks . It's grounded in club-ready techno, with beats that vary from straight and jacking to broken and complex, peppered with the kind of subtle acidic flourishes perfected by artists such as Donato Dozzy and Luke Slater. The track titl

After a performance in 2014 at the  Pulse Festival in Pristina ,  Miss Nat H Lee , has spinned for Kosovo clubbers for the second time. This time she played at  BASSTORE , previously MHz, in Pristina on 15th April 2017. Warm up at that night was local  DJ Lilac , fine light techno, followed on the stage by  Tatu , a DJ from Albania. He played tech-house with a combination of dance music, while at the very end, performed  Miss Nat H Lee. With 4 hours of good grooves of  Nat’s  techno, the crowd danced until the early morning hours. You may have noted that some of the audience wasn’t interested in her harder sound, but later they adapted with to the vibrations and dance moves they received from dj booth and  Miss Nat H Lee. During performance  Nat H Lee , supported Kosovar artists, as she included  Vegim  and  Flekitza's  'Rumble in the Jungle"  as well as a couple other of Vegim’s tracks in her list that night. Again, Nathaly delighted the audience w

* Hi Artil, thank you for your time, for the interview. Can you give us a short introduction to you & Mind+ ?  A: Thank you for inviting me to interview. I found out about electronic music in the early 2000s. For the first time, electronic-underground music here was brought from USA by Baton Domi, who used to be my electronic music lecturer. After a long time, I became interested in producing. In 2014, I launched my own record label (Mind + Records)  mainly focused on house & techno music, influenced by deep, dark & minimal. Mind + Records, it's also meant to be a booking agency for DJ's / Artists. Mind + releases, can be found at all digital stores, like: Beatport, Juno Download, Trackitdown, Itunes, Soundcloud etc.  * Your recent releases, on Mind+, Night and Day Ibiza Music, Patent Skillz, Mask Records, Little Italy Music, were satisfying and unique. What motivates you?  A: My motivation is always linked with my emotional & spiritual state. While producing

It’s the “Zoom” festival organized by TMM records and Radio KFOR  And trust me, I have waited to overcome the bad feelings I had at the start of the party there. But somehow, I can’t get them out of my head. After the successful festival in Mitro “Feel the Peace” where everything was unbelievably super cool, with super young people who want to hang out and listen to music and in the hope that it would be the same in Leposavic, if not better, I was disappointed a little bit. You won’t believe me, but there are still people there that mix up some things, and I expected that in Mitro, but no, it happened in Leposavic. Even though the House of Culture was reserved for the festival, both with an oral and written agreement, and music was supposed to start at 8pm and go on till 4am. But, the karate players had to hold their three hour long training (till 10pm); otherwise they would have practiced karate on us. Then, before the party, a man, dead serious, told me that he is sure

...Aril Brihka did a good live, though a bit more for Balkan people.. 2010, the night at the club FULL HOUSE with  Aril Brikha  was wonderful.  They brought additional sound system, Leg Off offered great real tech house at the beginning, and then Aril Brihka did a good live, though a bit more for Balkan people, and at the end Leg Off with a great break beat.  You can find photos from this night right here. ☆ x I’ll see you at one of the future parties. They are announced, and I will check them out, and so should you: - Sister Bliss FAITHLESS [Friday, June 10 th , 2011] @ Full House / Pristina

..... people that came to listen to the music threw some sort of spray, teargas or something, looks like the music hit them straight in their hearts.... Then came the Active Live Music Festival, where I played too, but very shortly because the people that came to listen to the music threw some sort of spray, teargas or something, looks like the music hit them straight in their hearts. There was a game that was watched, so maybe they thought that at the party one should cheer and throw teargas, same as you would do in a stadium. They know the reasons the best, and we aren’t interested much in that. We’ll leave everything that doesn’t deal with music, dancing and hugging to someone else.  And by clicking on the following links you can listen to two bands and a DJ announcing  themselves for the said festival:   Band – Kanda , Kođa i Nebojša   ,   Band – Šraf ,   DJ Battrič. As well as part of the report of one of the organizers: Petar Pan: “The concept of the

Eelke is not my sound, but I had fun!  Eelke Kleijn was supposed to fly in on April 17 th , but that party didn’t happen that night (because of all the flights being postponed due to the volcano ash cloud, remember that…), nor did it happen in the announced location. It all happened on May 7 th , 2010 at the just opened club, that has a massive sound system, “the new player in town” FULL HOUSE – and as the name of the club indicates, it was full that night. You can see photos  HERE. Eelke is not my sound, but i had fun! 

Before this party (Eelke Kleijn 7th may) there was another one in the  Spray club. You can listen to a short interview and the announcement for the party  HERE. People who went say it was really good, but not great. And that same night I was at  underGRAND , where  Vegim  was spinning, and the people were more concentrated on dancing than the tracks. Hmmm… I guess the tracks made them dance, no?!  

Presale tickets for this event were 3 euro and 4 euro if you bought them at the door. DNB-KS was the organizer. This was the third big event they organized. Before that, they brought Big Bud from London and DJ Lynx also from London, and now Black Sun Empire from Holland.  ODA is a great underground place, at least I like it, it’s totally my type of place. It’s in the center of the city, it’s underground, secluded, you don’t bother anyone. There’s a bar at the entrance, and after that a great spacious room, with a great stage and on both sides there are steps, where you can easily sit down and not bother anyone. And the sound system is good too. Labinot Sponca (a local DJ) was the warm up act. What did he spin? DnB. And I love everything that shakes you up and carries your entire body. All the way till Black Sun Empire started my group of friends was jumping. Even one of our friends who didn’t expect that we’d take her drumming, and she too jumped and shook all the time.  And