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

Review of Massive Fest, Djakova, KS

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

RA reviews: Vegim ‎- 'Breaking Point' [TMM records]

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

Album world tour "Breaking Point" by Vegim

Nowadays, after producing & releasing their first album, every artist of electronic music, wants to share it with the world. After failing to start his  “Breaking Point” - album world tour, due to visa refusal by some of the embassies, here in Kosovo & his bike accident, Kosovo based DJ & producer,  Vegim , finally starts his album world tour, on: Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, Belgium & Lithuania. The album, is released on his own record label,  TMM Records . It includes 15 tracks, all written & produced by  Vegim . In this album,  Vegim  spreaded his inspiration & creativity, into 15 tracks. It’s no surprise that the album, is supported by:  Chris Liebing , Dax J, Slam, Audio Injection aka Truncate,  Pfirter , Dave Miller (Abstract Division), Kr!z, SNTS, Armaud Le Texier, ELECTRIC RESCUE, AnGy KoRe, Lag, Boriqua Tribez. Within approximately 15 years of practising techno,  Vegim  has moved, from a talent to a mastermind. His 1st album tour gig,

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