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

Review: Nat H Lee at Basstore Club, Prishtina, KS

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

Q&A - Electrorites [Nightmare Factory Records, Shout Records, Structures Records, IT]

Italian techno DJ, Producer and label owner of Shout Records (2010) and of Nightmare Factory Records (2011)   - Hi Electrorites, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. Can you give us a short introduction to you / Shout Records / Nightmare Factory Records?  E: Thanks to you. My passion started 26 years ago. As an Italian techno DJ, i started to play 6 years ago in Europe. Later i also became producer. In 2010, i launched my first label Shout Records and in June 2011 my second label Nightmare Factory Records was born. They are two different labels with different styles of music, but both represent a lot of great artists! Last year was a great year, full of work with my labels, in the clubs, and in the studio. I worked on my first album, Structures, which was released last September on my label Nightmare Factory Records. It was a dream because you know, the first album is always something special.  - Your recently released track, "Spherical Geometry" on MFM Rec

Q&A - Pumio Space [99% Robot, TMM Records, KS]

 - Hi Pumio Space, thank you for your time for the interview. Can you give us a short introduction to you & and 99% Robot?  P: Hello! The concept behind my artist name and its philosophy of it is to create and manifest something different. If I’m not surprising myself then everything is super terrible. 99% Robot is a record label mostly focused in techno. At the moment I’m only releasing my own stuff.  - You graduated at SAE Institute for audio engineering, in 2014. What are your impressions about that institute?  P: It was quite a nice experience, meeting new people and sharing knowledge was great but that doesn't make you an artist. I’m anti-school especially when it comes to arts. The most fundamental thing to be an artist is to work on your own and push the imagination somewhere where no one has ever been.  - Your releases on 99% Robot, TMM Records, DSR Digital, and your first release on Credo, were satisfying. What keeps you going?  P: It’s a natural process, all my ene

Q&A - Lag [Teskoba, SR]

* Hi Lag, thank you for your time, and for the interview. Can you give us a short introduction to you?  L: Hi, I’m Lag. I’m a Serbian producer of, well, mostly broken techno. I release on MORD, THEM and a few other labels. I also DJ, mostly around Europe, although I just came back from a US tour. Your latest releases on: Mord Records / Unkown Entity / Stale / Soul Notes, were impressive as always.  * What inspires your production?  L: It really varies from track to track. I usually start with a genre or track that I really love and an idea. Most of my original music comes from a concept, a non-musical idea that I want to transfer to the musical form and most of the remixes come from how I've heard the sounds of the original in my head. I sometimes stick hard to what I had envisioned (which often makes the process long and tedious, but pays off in the end) but more often I lay down the original idea and start experimenting, seeing where that takes me.  * What equipment are you cur

Q & A with Artil [Mind+, KS]

* 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

Q&A with Anetha [Blocaus, Reclaim Your City]

Anetha presented her music to Pristina clubbers at one of the events that Hapesira is organized, on 16 February 2017. The party was at the perfect location in Prishtina, the former Rilindja printing factory warehouse. This is the place in Kosovo that serves to organize cultural events with electronic music. This is a real rave warehouse. At this fifth event of Hapesira , Anetha performed immediately after the Ukrainian artist Etapp Kyle and played a perfect techno set. It was a pure techno mix with few acid tracks in it. She created perfect energy and was great at playing.  Below is a brief interview with Anetha.  • Hola Anetha, thanks for your time to answer some of our questions and to present you to Kosovo clubbers. Can you give us a short introduction about Blocaus Series?  A: Blocaus series is a French techno label created in 2016, as the next stage in our evolution after four successful years of hosting parties at various venues in Paris. Blocaus series as a record label is a

A Belgian Impression of Next level's 11th Anniversary with Rebekah!

Photo credit to  Petrit Rrahmani            After a long journey through Europe, we entered Kosovo. We decided to stop at the capital of Kosovo - Pristina. Surprisingly, we found out about  Next Level’s  “11th Anniversary” Event with the UK-born/Berlin-based DJ -  Rebekah . We decided to attend the event.            That night, the host -  Next level, celebrated it’s 11th anniversary , and hellboy, they know how to do it!!! When we entered the venue (ODA Theatre - in the center of Prishtina), we were welcomed by heavy Techno beats and a large LED video wall. Visualisation was so great and powerful! "Kosovo is on the top of techno scene and they really have very good clubbing life.               We were amazed and shocked, in a positive way of course, as this party was all you want for a night out! The 11 years of experience of “ Next leve l”, certainly showed us how the Electronic Music Scene in Kosovo is growing, in fact, the Techno scene, what we wouldn’t