Programme-Club Scene 2012

ZIONTIST (CH)

This year, ZIONTIST (aka Mark Hollinger) is again on Slot Art Festival. Anyone who has seen him once in the club scene, knows quite well his ability to dj. In addition to his performance, he also will present his latest album „Digital Lifestyle”, which received many positive comments abroad (Germany, Switzerland). Mark is celebrating the 10th anniversary of friendship with the Slot Art Festival.

He had the opportunity to work together with international artists such as „Faith Massive” (USA), „Jorge Junior” (BR), „Mendez” (DE), „DJ Darryl” (USA), „Prodigal Sons” (USA), and is in friendship with the Top-Producers of Dance Music in Germany.

Link: www.ziontist.ch

HAVOK

Being an active live and studio drummer for many years has shaped his sense of musicality and groove. Behind the turntables he creates highest quality blend of ghetto funk, breaks and mash-ups that shake every dancefloor. That resulted in many gigs, mostly in silesian area and Cracow, with regular parties in legendary Caryca and Off-Centrum clubs among them. You can’t miss this funky bastard when it’s coming to your town!

http://soundcloud.com/havoksound

MAGIX

Born in 1987 in Poland.

Brought up in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, where hip hop culture soaked in him. He was a part of crews like: Triad Squad, that transformed into TRD squad and Brzydale Sound. He performed on stage on such festivals as One Love (2009), Rap Raggae Love and Wroclove. Was on stage with many polish and foreign artists, such as Gural, Grubson, Junior Stress, Tede, Abradab, Rahim, LUC, Sage, Sobota, Smagalaz, Marika, Jamal, Afromental and many more.

Right now he is working on his first studio album, on which you will be able to hear many great, known and unknown artists.

CRUNK?EM

Crunk’eM – a young & fresh selecta straight from the south of Poland (Cieszyn), he’s as fierce as the tunes he’s droppin’ on his gigs. His two main weapons are really heavy and drilly dubstep/drumstep and fidget/bass/punk electro. As for his sets, he’s loyal to two ground rules: „If the music is too loud, you’re too old” & „There’s no place for any other love than the love of bass”. He goes absolutely mental when dj’ing – dancin’, yellin’ and jumpin’ with the crowd. His signature is the amount of bass in the club, (IT’S OVER 9000!) and the huuuge drops he’s laying at the floor. Check out his sets at soundcloud.com/crunkem !

ANOTHER DOSE

Another Dose is a band formed in 2011 by Piotr Grymek and Maciej Milczanowski. It was just at the beginning of their playing together when they took the second place in a contest whose aim was to mix Marek Biliński record. What they create is electronic music combining dubstep and electro. Playing live they use modern equipment and devices such as iPad, Lunchpad, Ableton or Wii controllers. They use digital as well as analogue synthesizers. They strive after making every single live performance special. Listening to them, you will hear vocals, live instruments along with modern electronic music. Both Piotr and Maciej are studying sound production.

https://www.facebook.com/AnotherDose

http://soundcloud.com/anotherdose/another–dose–industry–lovers

http://www.youtube.com/Anotherdosemusic

LUGOZI

Lugozi it’s a solo project of Łukasz Dziedzic, visual artist, curator, co-founder of Paracetamol vs KSZ. Combining dark electronic sounds with processed live and looped vocals, all flavored by a heavy and dirty section. Music is the result of many styles from improvised electronics through hip-hop to synthpop melodies.

His track was released on a compilation Exterritory 01 together with artists such as Monosylabikk, Etamski or Woody Alien. Released the single Peaceful Sleep (Strefa Szarej Records 2011) – http://strefaszarej.bandcamp.com/track/lugozi–peaceful–sleep–sp

This year in June, his debut album will be released in the revived cult label MIK.MUSIK!.

www.lugozi.pl

www.soundcloud.com/lugozi

www.facebook.com/lugozi

ATAKK

Around 2007 he became fascinated by low frequency bass of dubstep and since then AtakK don’t stop exploring world of electronic music. His party mix is a blend of dubstep, fidget house and techno in a dark, agressive, rolling style. AtakK in his search of local artists founded sound collective named Kondeferacja. His goal was to make parties with the best selection of alternative music. Playing experience in several clubs gave him an occasion to practice skill of mixing. This year he joined Slot Art Festival crew.

Sounds: http://soundcloud.com/rhhh

AUDIOMANUFACTURE

Audiomanufacture is a producer/instrumentalist mostly drum and bass quartet which comes from Warsaw. AMF constructs sets similar to live acts with live instruments. It mainly emphasizes on exploring the nature of sound and discovering its infinite possibilities.

Currently AMF is collaborating with following people:

– Kamil Komendecki – bass guitar synths + production

– Pola Trąbińska – vocal samples

– Wojciech Ziniewicz – production

– Paweł Oleszkiewicz – live drums

soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/audiomanufacture

fb: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Audiomanufacture/170934969591489

Q-WIRE

Q-wire, privately known as Kamil Maszkowski, main character of Oko Miasta Club in Katowice since it?s beginnings. Manager and originator of Katowice Na Stolicę Music Festival and many more events. His music career started on the turn of 2003 and 2004 when He was 13 years old. As a member of 42Na crew He was fascinated by turntablism. For the next nearly 8 years as a DJ He was working with most of music genres. In the time between 2007 and 2009 He was concert DJ of Przyjdź Jutro Familia and Vademecum rap bands. Now he is mainly interested in Drum And Bass and similar genres, simultaneously He still plays on Rap parties mixing it with electronic music. He performed with most of top polish DnB/Dubstep and Rap DJs as well as with a lot of foreign artists.

Broflow (Cologne Germany)

Broflow started DJing back in 1999.

He was stage DJ for different Hip Hop artists and played sets in clubs and venues around Germany and Europe. When he started experimenting with electronic music in 2005 it didn´t take long until he discovered his passion for drum´n´bass.

His style as a club-DJ is influenced mainly by liquid tracks and melodic sounds, but there´s always room for the harder tunes as well. With this combination of tunes he´s been representing the English label Spearhead Records in Germany since 2007 and already played out in clubs and at festivals in Germany, Poland, the Ukraine, Luxembourg, Belgium and Spain. Beyond that he´s organized a diversity of electronic music parties and has worked as a booker for different festivals over the last few years.

Links:

www.soundcloud.com/broflow

www.facebook.com/broflow

Sebastian Freymut (D)

After having committed many years of his life first to Hip Hop and later to Drum´n´Bass, Cologne´s very own Sebastian Freymut decided it was time for a change and started to dedicate his turntables to Deephouse. Since the beginning of 2012 he has been mixing positive and melodic tunes, meant to make people move and to put a happy smile on every clubbers face.

www.soundcloud.com/sebastianfreymut

www.facebook.com/sebastianfreymut

Junior D (BG/PL)

Junior D – even he doesn’t know, in which music universe he would be if there weren’t his older brother tapes with The Prodigy albums and Sonic Trip sets recorded in the middle of the night from the radio. Happily he’s on the right path, what more he is involved in spreading the good vibes. Either by the Are you Ravin Or Behavin fb page, introducing to polish people the goods of british music (as long as it has anything to do with syncopated beats) or personally from behind the dj console, heating up the public with a mix of dubstep and uk funky. He mostly likes playing b2b – especially with his jump-up-drum-and-bass-loving-half. So you need to be ready all the time, cause you never know what he will serve you. Presently Junior D and VJ FkS form Ravin or Behavin which is an audio-visual project.

KARTAL

DJ and promoter from Cieszyn. One of the founders of the Podaj Kabel audio-visual collective who play the area clubs. Has been turning the tables since 2005 and has had the opportunity to play with the top of Poland?s House musicians. His sets are a mix of nu-disco, deep house and techno.

www.facebook.com/podajkabel

www.mixcloud.com/podajkabel

www.soundcloud.com/podajkabel

LOONY

There are rumors that he is the son of Kerri Chandler and Nina Simone, He likes good chords on the organ, Roland TR-909 sounds, and herring sandwiches from PSS Cieszyn. Winner of muno.pl dj contest and active member of Podaj Kabel collective. He serves deep house track’s and pretty tracks for cute girls.

GOTTA GO

Gotta Go ? Young hypeman/screamer from Cieszyn, Silesia. Member of Łopopopo Crew with Crunkem. Forthcoming dj, promoter, music journalist and type of guy you want to know when is need of such. Maniac of blastbeats, overwhelming breakdowns, addicted to oldschool hardcore/punk and lemon. Already shared stage with: Son of Kick, Digital Chocolate, Borderline Personality Disorder, Blood Dries First, Crunk?em, Bad4You, Dubsknit, ChokeSick, Junkie Punks and more?

KICKBEAT NIGHT

Members of the Association „Impulse of Tunes” known for their club Kickbeat project, will present its new audio-vizual show, which will combine dj’ing, live music and visualization. The project, prepared especially for the Slot-art, music will be alluded to electronics, dub and techno in a technical form. It is hard to tell what plays a bigger role – the visualization or sound.One thing is certain, though each of these elements is considered and prepared with the utmost thoroughness, not lack elements of sound and image play on an improvised stage. Turntables and machines – David Grabowski and Maciej Sobolewski, trumpet – John „Jiggah” Michalec, visualization – Radoslaw Janicki

MAZUBAR

MAZUBAR – Bartłomiej Mazur, dj from Cieszyn. Fascinated by drone music. Participant and co-inititiator of some projects, propagator of clear vibes. He plays: techno, tech-house, deep, nudisco.

www.mixcloud.com/mazubar

www.soundcloud.com/mazubar

CAPITAN COMMODORE

Capitan Commodore, aka Mariousz Socha, RzutnikB9 and Electric Boy, has been active in the electronic music scene for years. He?s fascinated with the sound of 8 beat computers and especially the whine of a program on tape.

In 2008 he put out an EP with Gigolo Records, published by DJ Hella who also has Miss Kittin, Tigi, Fischerspoonera, Presets, Boys Noize and Justice in their catalog. He mixes electro, house, techno, IDM, microsample post-techno, and at the same time you can feel in his music a connection between a simplified postdaftpunk electro house and la Justice.

http://soundcloud.com/capitancommodore

JUNKIE PUNKS

These 3 Djs, promoters and producers from southern Poland in their short careers have played festivals such as Heineken Opener Festival, No Border Music Festival, Electric Nights Festival, Connection Festival and Plener Festival. They?ve played in the far corners of Poland on stages with artists like Steve Aoki, The Bloody Beetroots DC77, Atari Teenage Riot, Busy P, Krazy Baldhead, Borgore, Cyberpunkers, A1 Bassline, Blatta & Inesha, Pelussje, CCC, Gooral, Novika, Kamp!, Rebeka, Rubber Dots, CKOD… They love all types of music but mostly fresh hits at about 130 bpms in electro, electro house but sometimes they?ll slow it way down.

SOUND APOSTLE

Vocalist and saxophonist- he?s been playing live for the past 3 years with the help of a looper and guitar effects, with vocals as the only instrument. He?s been fascinated with jazz and African ethno for years and creates music full of improvisation. It?s music that touches the senses with a mix of euphoria and nostalgia?

You can float away to a world of spirit and emotions. This year at SLOT he?ll perform with Djs on the clubbing stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzaz86IsTo0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYL4P1nZ6tU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E11UOYE6e_Q

NYP?

A group of creative people from Silesian electronic music scene, got together by simple will to create remarkable events promoting more ambitious sound. Their characteristic mark is undoubtly alternative way of event organization.

Every single NOT YOUR PARTY means countless hours of preparations, tons of projected and produced promo-materials, and enormity of auditioned, then carefully selected music.

During the NOT YOUR PARTY cycle, the group hosted many acknowledged artist, like: Amoss, Sam KDC, Nuage, Hybris, Joe Syntax as well as many great representatives of Polish electronic music scene.

Now NYP? is commited to the STARY DWORZEC KATOVVICE project – which is an attempt to adapt and bring back to life Katowice’s old railway station. On the list of invited producers you can find names like: Spectrasoul, Consequence, Synkro, Cristian Vogel, Karenn, Inigo Kennedy.

http://www.facebook.com/NotYourParty

FIO

Co-founder of one of the top Polish dubstep/electronical crews – The Lordz Team. Fio is known for mixing bangers with hardcore dubsteps and all-kind mainstream which are killing clubs. His DJ Sets are taking 100% of sound-systems’ sub basses, and whenever he plays he is always having fun and enjoy the party with all the rest of clubbers which doubles the feeling and party emotions. He was supporting i.a. Jazzsteppa, Breakage, RSD and Borgore.

VJ?s:

BLENDYM

Marcin Młynek started getting into Vjing when RAVE was dieing on the European stage and Viva Zwej put out live VJ mixes. First experimented with pixelart on a Comodore C 64, wrote a demo in BASIC along with a video. When PCs arrived he began experimenting as well with 2D and 3D animation as well as sound. Then Flash appeared and he began integrating all the elements. He co-founded a VJ group, 247, and has a firm of the same name where he can use his knowledge to make money. He?s worked with the creative agency Sha Creative for years making videos for various brands and firms.

FkS (BG/PL)

Fan of motion graphics. In his vj sets minimalist shapes can be seen integrated into the shots of dirty industrial shots. He use of every space to display their kartwork in the form of mapping. Associated with collective „Are you ravin 'or Behavin’?” He has appearances on many club events at places such as 1500m2 for sale, Mandala, Club 19 and the CDQ. He was shown on the Night of museums in Warsaw and the Warsaw Electronic Festival.
facebook.com/vjfks

EMIKO

Emilia Gumańska/ vj Emiko- visual artist, photographer, video designer and producer.

Vj and a/v sets are created on the basis of various video projects of her own authorship.

She experiments with light, self made scenography elements and stylisation. Visual character of her productions is very minimalistic and clear.

Visual transmission is strongly connected to emotional states of human. By means of visual symbols she creates emotional tunnels between her and viewer.

Since January 2011 emiko cooperates with Czwórka Polish Radio HDTV, making real-time vj sets for music programs.

She is the winner of VJ Torna Championship 2011/ Live Performers Meeting Mińsk edition/.

portfolio:

vimeo.com/vjemikofb  |  facebook.com/emikovj

OLILA

OLILA ? Olga Olechowska

Spontanity is the most attractive thing in vjing. Presenting her video material is the best way to show a great love to music. Music is the greatest inspiration for her. She is a part of Podaj kabel collective.

olgaolechowska.blogspot.com

VisualToGo

VisualToGo or GoToSee caught in the Slot through the Vj workshops in 2005, since then lit his hometown where he shines at events from DnB ending at Minimal. Was the author of the eternal EyeCombatCollective. Started from Resolume and ended up on the Hungarian CoGe. He likes the variety of visual, warm colors. Sometimes does music as Tomas Parkerr.

myspace.com/gotosee  |  myspace.com/eyecombatcollective

WOBIX

Loves vjing since SLOT saved his life. Loves live act and stimulation brains of his public. Filmmaker and animator, media artist. He would like to have projector instead of his head and make visualisations everywhere.

www.facebook.com/wobix

www.therealwobix.com  

Malaga

During the day she sculpts – at night – works by the computer. In visualisations she use the collage of images taken from reality, video, the animation, dirt and noises. She adores multicolor the same black and white.

Her adventure with visualization started in 2008, next year she created the Polish-Czech project ?Podaj Kabel? („Pass the Cable”) consisting of DJs and VJs experimenting with electronic music and video art.

www.fb.com/podajkabel