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Slo, Adnan et Aldin, rejoints rapidement par Dzeno, les quatre membres actifs de l'association, déclarée comme ONG pour la promotion de la musique électronique, commencent par mixer lors de soirées organisées par d'autres associations
de techno. Puis, ils organisent leurs premières soirées avec pour guest Stakka et Skynet (UK) en novembre 2001, puis DJ Markoman (Slovénie) en juillet 2002. Ils
commencent alors à réunir des grands noms de la scène DnB lors de plusieurs soirées à Sarajevo : en octobre 2002,
avec DJ Kemal (Glasgow, UK) ; puis en décembre 2002, avec DJ Raskal & Kune ; en avril 2003, c'est SKC et Chris SU (Hongrie)
qu'ils invitent ; en juillet 2003, sont présents les Black Sun Empire (Utrecht, Hollande). Et, une grosse surprise semble être en préparation pour mars 2004…
Invités par les membres du projet "
Open
Yür Mind ", les Kontra DJs seront en France et joueront dans plusieurs villes en novembre-décembre prochain. A cette occasion, nous avons tenu à les interviewer
(en anglais) afin de mieux connaître leur histoire, musique, ainsi
que leurs influences…
/n ________________________________
When and in which circumstances has Kontra association been created
?
SLO : "well, I have been into music for a long time and after my period as a session/band musician
I started to work as a producer that uses only knobs as a expression ;-).
Since 97 I've been into dnb and I would love for it to grow stronger
and stronger on a daily basis. Because only people who are into dnb and with whom
I can work are NYC, USA (Drazen www.blakanradar.ba) I was a bit desperate to find dnb mates. In 99-2000
I persuaded/converted muh mates (Aldin n Adnan) from house/techno music
into dnb and their next step was DJ-ing as they were not musicians/producers. After a while we decided to officially become an active dnb
crew (or to be more legally precise an NGO - non governmental organisation). In
the beginning, there was a lot of people who were involved in the
crew (mostly promoting the buzz) after a while only a few were left
who were real active members."
ADNAN : "The Kontra association was born from one big friendship. We were
gathering almost every night to speak about the problems in our society. So one day we started to fight
off all those problems."
PEDJA : "Well, I heard about Kontra in 2001 when they booked Stakka and Skynet..At the
of 2002 I got bored of every kind of music, so I started to listen
to drum and bass. After some time I sent a e-mail to Slo to ask him
if I could join Kontra and he said it was a 'closed society' ;) the rest of Kontra (Dzeno, Aldin and Adnan )
and I met at the KONTRAnapad party with DJ Kemal… "
Why this name? And what are the objectives of Kontra ?
SLO : "The name says it all :
Adjective: counter (in Bosnian "kontra")
1. Indicating opposition or resistance.
See also : contrabass (on bosnian "kontrabass")
1. Pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range
you get it? ;-)"
OBJECTIVES :
1 - "To promote good dnb everywhere where you can find people that recognize dnb musical values,
and also make proper parties.
2 - educate people (primarily in local regions) about electronic music
3 - be involved in/organize humanitarian, cultural and educational activities.
4 - produce quality tunes (not just dnb)
5 - preserve Bosnian nationality and heritage? (laugh) ;-)
ADNAN : The "Kontra" in Bosnian language means the opposite, something different from this reality (war, nationalism, politics).
We realized that we are communicating with a lot of young people and that we also have
an opportunity to help them. It was our chance to help them and us!
From that day Kontra started many humanitarian and social projects
through organizations of d'n'b party's. Some of the projects where about main problems in our society (HIV, drugs and alcohol, land mines, children with special problems...).
We just want to educate and to help our nation, especially young generations, because at this
very moment our country is in a very bad position and the government have no strength and have no money to help them."
What are you doing now (organizing party, producing,…) ?
SLO : "Well, the situation is very bad at this moment in Sarajevo regarding parties, so we
are trying to figure out what will be our next move.
Production-wise, we are now stronger, because this year we
integrated a new crew member who is a talented producer/DJ (Pedja), so
I ain't alone anymore in producing ;-)
I produce mostly dnb, but I wasn't always into dnb. Before (<1997)
I was involved in several bands as a member and as a session musician. But even then
I was trying to express myself in a digital form '-) with the help
of an Atari ST + sampler & synth.. Music was experimentation with akward time signatures
and some breakbeat-type music, so I didn't got first into electronic music via early racid-house-rave scene (I
started to listen and produce 4x4 music laters) yet I started to get into electronic music via
trip-hop, breaks and acid jazz. Then I heard about dnb, and got in instantly!"
PEDJA : "I produce every kind of electronicmusic ( goa, techno, house, down tempo, chill and of course drum and bass). Well, as a
DJ I prefer to mix drum and bass and techno…
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