Disconnected. Connected! 2006: Architecture and DJing
March 16 - April 9, 2006
Opening on March 15, 2006, at 7:00 PM
Press conference: March 16, 2006, at 4:30 PM
Accompanying program:
DJs, VJs, and architecture March 10, 2006, at 8:00 PM (Cross Club)
Past-Present-Future March 16, 2006, at 6:00 PM (CCEA)
Start Architecture March 22, 2006, at 7:00 PM (NoD/Roxy)
The Disconnected. Connected! cycle is one of the curatorial projects of CCEA (established in 2003, www.ccea-info.org) and follows its efforts to promote architecture, the young generation of architects, advocating attractive and understandable forms of presenting architecture to the lay public, and finding ways to popularize architecture through other artistic disciplines and their possibilities.
This year marks the third edition in the series (the first took place in 2004 with the subtitle Architecture and Animation, and the second in 2005 with the subtitle Architecture and Advertising Photography). Their realization initiated the creation of 11 short animated films (in 2004) and 15 sets of photographs (in 2005) as responses to diploma architectural projects.
Disconnected.
CCEA, as the curator of the architectural part of the project, always selects from the most current diploma works that have been defended at all Czech universities focused on architecture (FA CTU Prague, FA BUT Brno, FA Technical University in Liberec, Atelier of Architecture AVU in Prague, and Department of Architecture AA in Prague). Thus, the best diploma works, which result from the influence of various architectural schools, are confronted in one place. This offers a unique opportunity to compare whether there is a transparent difference between graduates of these schools. The selection criteria always involve the intellectual concept, quality of execution, and not least the theme of the diploma work.
The main emphasis of the installation is placed on architectural models, which are accompanied by an audio recording of comments from their authors, attempting to capture and describe the most important points of their designs and solutions within the span of two minutes. For completeness, the models are supplemented with catalogs containing technical reports, drawings, and visualizations.
This year, the following graduates were selected: Jakub Tejkl (Pilgrimage Church in the Doupov Mountains), Radoslav Dvořák (Settlement for Refugees), Věra Šatochinová (Rehabilitation of the North Bohemian Coal Basin), Lukáš Fišer (New Center of Slavonín-North in Olomouc), Viktor Vlach (Ideal Náchod), Petr Štefek (Terminal Hradec Králové).
Connected!
In 2006, the field of architecture was connected with the field of music. This time, students were not invited, but rather professional DJs active in the Czech club scene. The curator of this part of the project is Babe LN (Radio 1). A multimedia graduate from AVU can confidently be placed among the legends of the Czech dance scene and DJing. She has played alongside stars such as LTJ Bukem and Mc Conrad, Zinc, Ed Rush, High Contrast, D-Bridge, Fabio, and others.
DJs participating in the project: Blue, Brooklyn aka Juanita Juarez, Kaplick, Nika 77, Nitrous, Stanzim, MKS, Yukimura, Akira, and Silent Cut.
The DJs are tasked with creating a set inspired by the architectural project. The assignment is intentionally very open, and it is up to the creativity of the respective artist how to approach the project. The audio recording of this set will be part of the installation at CCEA.
A catalog will be published for the exhibition, containing portfolios of all architectural projects and a CD with recordings of the musical sets.
The project also includes a multimedia and multistyle club night, the specialty of which will be that the participating DJs and their guests will perform two to three stylistically completely different sets on three stages, supported by VJs, who will connect and present architectural visualizations of the projects selected for the exhibition at CCEA on a visual surface.
Location and date: March 10, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Cross Club (Plynární 23, Prague - Holešovice)
Past-Present-Future
The architectural works presented at the exhibition are a thing of the past for their authors.
What they are doing now and what they plan for the future will be discussed in brief personal presentations.
Location and date: March 16, 2006, at 6:00 PM, CCEA (U Půjčovny 4, Prague 1)
Start Architecture (lecture series by CCEA)
The first lecture in the series will be given by Ivan Kroupa.
Theme: School, professional environment - one perspective.
Location and date: March 22, 2006, at 7:00 PM, NoD/ROXY (Dlouhá 33, Prague 1)
Jakub Tejkl (AA in Prague)
The oval outer wall of the church visually resembles a nave set in the landscape. The horizontal plane laid out in the landscape is complemented by the verticality of the tower. The central structure combines two archetypes of sacred architecture: a tower with a bell tower and a chapel. The nave of the temple is not roofed. It is formed by outer walls woven from fine threads of steel rods and the blue sky.
CCEA Commentary
The church itself does not address the salvation of nature but the salvation of humanity in nature. We are happy to select projects that possess a strong idea in the foreground, regardless of the realizability or non-realizability of the work.
At a time when architecture succumbs to the pressure of investors and often absurd regulations from authorities, when architecture distances itself from art, this project shows a path where the pilgrim becomes a builder, playing a role outlined by one of humanity's basic instincts: "building."
We selected this project not only due to its original idea, where the spiritual level transforms into action, but also due to the high standard of its presentation. In the presentation itself, the author does not mention details and technical specifics, which brings freshness to the entire project and does not bore with unnecessary technicality.
Settlement for Refugees U Nové hospody
Radoslav Dvořák (FA CTU Prague)
The urban-architectural project aimed to create a settlement for 150 refugees and staff. The solution was to meet ecological and economic requirements, but primarily it should present functional integration systems in the host country, providing not only accommodation but also possibilities for daily activities, work, education, and recreation. The settlement should function independently and self-sufficiently, especially easily from an ecological perspective.
CCEA Commentary
The diploma work opens up one of today's acute problems. For three reasons, it instills strong optimism in us: the consistency with which the pre-diploma seminar is worked through, the depth of the topic, and the author's ability to "survive" five years of educational training, during which students of ZAN-u* are bombarded with standards, dimensions of toilets, simple shapes, clean and logical architecture that has a "strong" idea, and the truthful use of materials.
"Surviving" seems to imply that the submitted proposal meets all norms and technical parameters while being architecturally different from what is taught at CTU.
The determination of Radoslav Dvořák to name the taboo correctly based on analysis, to which the author invested a considerable amount of energy, was crucial for the selection of this work. An aesthetics based on cultural mixing, transformed into primitive dwellings-home, may not excite us, but the "strong" idea is the foundation of the project.
*ZAN - fundamentals of architectural design - studio creation of the first year at CTU, where students often "design" buildings without anyone asking about the meaning of buildings, construction, or architecture.
Rehabilitation of the North Bohemian Coal Basin
Věra Šatochinová (FA CTU Prague)
The Podkrušnohorská Basin, covering an area of 20 x 70 km, extends between Kadaň and Ústí nad Labem. Various specialists should participate in the project of landscape revitalization. Ecologists, natural scientists, foresters, sociologists, and architects will play no small role. The diploma work addresses one part of the project: the architectural aspect, with an attempt to also look into ecological themes.
CCEA Commentary
Věra Šatochinová's proposal stands in opposition to the established practice today, where the rehabilitation of land destroyed by mining is solved by camouflaging what we have done. By creating a maximally energy-independent system that revitalizes the devastated area, the scars transform into benefits. The inclusion of this project in the selection was influenced not only by the appreciation of the overall solution to the problem but also by the assumption that the stance of large planners will change over time and that by 2038, we will consider such projects as a matter of course.
New Center of Slavonín-North in Olomouc
Lukáš Fišer (FA BUT Brno)
An urban plan for the new center of Slavonín-North in Olomouc. The project works with solutions for a park, town hall, residential buildings, and a commercial zone.
CCEA Commentary
An interesting example of how even in mega-structures, which are mostly public investments, a respect for the real program and real needs of the locality can be combined while preserving sufficient space for leisure and its inhabitants. The architecture of the individual structures is clear, and the function is identifiable even from the exterior. We decided to select this project because the confrontation of raster construction and organic layout does not appear as a cliché but as a functioning coexistence.
Ideal Náchod
Viktor Vlach (AVU Prague)
The theme of the diploma work is the ideal plan for the author's hometown, in this specific case, Náchod. A city that the author has known for over a quarter of a century, aware of its faults and deficiencies. The city is understood as a living organism. The goal of the new urbanism is to make Náchod a healthy individual, a manly city, or at least to guide its successors to think in a way that will gradually heal the organism.
CCEA Commentary
The author has arrived at a number of solutions that change the character of the city. Simple shapes of cylinders and cuboids are transformed into houses that enrich the city with functions it previously lacked.
The author's confidence in working with the simplest shapes might face challenges in confronting authorities, investors, communities, the public, or the current poor urbanism. However, it establishes a platform for discussion. We included this project in the selection as a manifesto of contemporary Czech urbanism.
Terminal Hradec Králové
Petr Štefek (TU Liberec)
The Hradec railway station designed by Václav Rajchl was one of the most generous transport buildings upon its completion. However, rail transport has lost its priority status today. Current designs do not reflect this reality and extensively occupy further areas of the city for poorly located bus stations. The goal of the diploma work is to propose a compact terminal for all types of genuinely integrated transport, with the intention of enhancing the significance of the cultural heritage.
CCEA Commentary
An interesting approach where the needs of the public as voters and the public as consumers intersect. The intertwining of public and commercial functions is a necessity, the solution of which we cannot avoid in the future. Petr Štefek's project transforms this challenge into interesting contemporary architecture, placed in the "underground," where the mix of functions becomes an intriguing social experiment. The current relevance of the issue also contributed to the selection alongside the architectural expression.
Blue began DJing in 1996. Thanks to the D-Smack-U agency, he became a resident at Prague's Roxy. He performs in clubs and at numerous festivals in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands, and England. Since 1999, he regularly organizes his resident night, aiming to encompass progressive trends in the dance scene with guests and new talents. He has been dedicated to his own production since 2000. Initially in the remix project Blue & Clad (Ecstasy Of St. Theresa, Tatabojs, Here, Priessnitz), followed by a purely stage freestyle project Lazy Jimmy with Jan P. Muchow. He is now working solo on his own tracks and remixes. He is involved in scoring music and sound collaborations on theatrical projects (Divadlo Komedie, Bohnická Divadelní Společnost, Divadelní Společnost NUN, Národní Divadlo, Činoherní Studio Ústí nad Labem, Spolek DAMARU, Divadelní Spolek Davida Drábka, DAMU 2006)
Brooklyn aka Juanita Juarez
Under the alias Juanita Juarez, this Prague producer gained attention especially with the album Spa Boy, released in 2003 on the Quazi Delict label. The album, a combination of drum & bass, downtempo, and more experimental music, was nominated for the Academy of Popular Music Award; followed by official remixes for Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Skyline, Slovak Veneer, or most recently for Prague's Khoibu.
Currently, he is focusing on a club-oriented approach to drum & bass. Still as Juanita Juarez, he released two twelve-inches on local labels. Under the name Brooklyn, he has released a single on the British label Spearhead, with the track With All My Heart coming out in March 2006 on the Norwegian label Subtitles, followed by others with several British indie labels. Brooklyn's music has received DJ support from Pendulum, Fresh (Breakbeat Kaos), Nu:Tone (Hospital), Brian G, LTJ Bukem (Good Looking Records), Calyx, Mathematics, Big Buda, and others. Brooklyn alias Juanita Juarez has also created several jingles for Radio 1 shows; his tracks have appeared in theater productions, on many compilations, and recently in the new Czech-Finnish film Restart.
Kaplick
Kaplick's sets in their breakbeat dance form are primarily more progressive, influenced by the sound of labels like Marine Parade, Acetate, or Kilowatt. As a DJ, he has played at events with most foreign breakbeat stars who have visited the Czech Republic: Adam Freeland, Rennie Pilgrem, B.L.I.M., Elite Force, DJ Hyper, Lee Coombs, Koma + Bones, Aquasky vs Masterblaster, FC Kahuna, Freestylers, Krafty Kuts, Tayo. Currently, he is preparing a program with Josef Sedlonec on Prague's Radio 1 called Breakbeat Conference, focused exclusively on breakbeat. He is a resident at the regular breakbeat club night Breaksome at Roxy and Funkilla at Cast in Liberec.
Nika 77
She has been DJing since 1997. She has performed in most of the most famous clubs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and has appeared in England, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia. In Prague, she is a resident of the Connect Yourself event (Radost FX, Roxy), organized by the largest Czech dance music portal, www.techno.cz, under whose umbrella she performs. She mainly plays techno, but occasionally she plays minimal/deep house and experimental to ambient electronic music.
Currently, she is focused on studio work. So far, she has released several tracks on the Czech label TechEx (002 and 003), Fylo, Ambsine (Vol.1). She is currently working on her own label.
Stanzim
He owes his life in close connection with music primarily to Radio 1, where he has worked since its inception in 1991. Through industrial electronics and the Manchester guitar scene, he found his way to dance music. He prefers tracks with intricate rhythms of different tempos - from jungle to breakbeat to downtempo. In Prague, he regularly performs in clubs Roxy, Cross, Matrix, Akropolis, Punto Azul, XT3, 7 Wolves, and outside of Prague in Ostrava, Plzeň, Český Krumlov, Brno, Olomouc, Kladno, Vrchlabí, etc. He participates in festivals Creamfields, Open Airfield, Colours Of Ostrava, Cosmic Trip, Sázavafest, Czech-tech, and others, playing abroad in Vienna, Paris, Bratislava, Nové Zámky, Košice. In 1998, he co-founded the music publishing house QDR with Jan Kvasnička, specializing in listening author albums (Floex, Juanita Juarez, Alvik, Bratři Orffové). They also produced remix compilations for Universal (Ivan Král) and New Gate (Priessnitz). QDR includes two sublabels: Stoika (dnb) and TT22 (breaks).
For the stylish program on ČT2 Paskvil, he prepared reports and is a co-author of Radiopaskvil, which runs once a month as part of Čajovna on ČRo3 - Vltava.
Nitrous
He has been playing since 1998 in Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Austrian, and Slovak clubs. He is an editor of the Czech music portal www.shadowbox.cz. He is the author of the shadowbox program on Radio 1. In 2000, he became the winner of the DJ awards.
Yukimura
One of the most versatile Czech DJs, with an incredibly broad range far exceeding the boxes of contemporary electronic and acoustic dance music, he also works as a producer and sound engineer in his own studio in Žižkov, from which numerous remixes and vinyl have already emerged. Last year, he established the Kaliyuga Sound association, which focuses on the reproduction and promotion of the fusion of Asian and Oriental music with electronics, also referred to as Asian underground.
Akira
He operates mainly in Karlovy Vary, while being a frequent guest at music nights both domestically and abroad. A turntablist, editor of www.shadowbox.cz, and a member of the dubwize project.
Silent Cut
He has been involved in music since 1996 when he acquired his first music software. After several highly abstract projects dave6 and ninsei, where besides massive sampling he experimented with sounds from computer games, he operates in the spectrum from downtempo to breakbeat with occasional forays into dnb. In the club Rotes Berlin, he attempts to establish a tradition of Wednesday FLOWMASTER sessions, where he appears alongside master Emsy (BowWave). Hand in hand with music has come an interest in design; from the first amateur cassette covers, he progressed to CD covers, posters for various events, websites, flash animations, photo montages, and t-shirt designs.
Opening on March 15, 2006, at 7:00 PM
Press conference: March 16, 2006, at 4:30 PM
Accompanying program:
DJs, VJs, and architecture March 10, 2006, at 8:00 PM (Cross Club)
Past-Present-Future March 16, 2006, at 6:00 PM (CCEA)
Start Architecture March 22, 2006, at 7:00 PM (NoD/Roxy)
The Disconnected. Connected! cycle is one of the curatorial projects of CCEA (established in 2003, www.ccea-info.org) and follows its efforts to promote architecture, the young generation of architects, advocating attractive and understandable forms of presenting architecture to the lay public, and finding ways to popularize architecture through other artistic disciplines and their possibilities.
This year marks the third edition in the series (the first took place in 2004 with the subtitle Architecture and Animation, and the second in 2005 with the subtitle Architecture and Advertising Photography). Their realization initiated the creation of 11 short animated films (in 2004) and 15 sets of photographs (in 2005) as responses to diploma architectural projects.
Disconnected.
CCEA, as the curator of the architectural part of the project, always selects from the most current diploma works that have been defended at all Czech universities focused on architecture (FA CTU Prague, FA BUT Brno, FA Technical University in Liberec, Atelier of Architecture AVU in Prague, and Department of Architecture AA in Prague). Thus, the best diploma works, which result from the influence of various architectural schools, are confronted in one place. This offers a unique opportunity to compare whether there is a transparent difference between graduates of these schools. The selection criteria always involve the intellectual concept, quality of execution, and not least the theme of the diploma work.
The main emphasis of the installation is placed on architectural models, which are accompanied by an audio recording of comments from their authors, attempting to capture and describe the most important points of their designs and solutions within the span of two minutes. For completeness, the models are supplemented with catalogs containing technical reports, drawings, and visualizations.
This year, the following graduates were selected: Jakub Tejkl (Pilgrimage Church in the Doupov Mountains), Radoslav Dvořák (Settlement for Refugees), Věra Šatochinová (Rehabilitation of the North Bohemian Coal Basin), Lukáš Fišer (New Center of Slavonín-North in Olomouc), Viktor Vlach (Ideal Náchod), Petr Štefek (Terminal Hradec Králové).
Connected!
In 2006, the field of architecture was connected with the field of music. This time, students were not invited, but rather professional DJs active in the Czech club scene. The curator of this part of the project is Babe LN (Radio 1). A multimedia graduate from AVU can confidently be placed among the legends of the Czech dance scene and DJing. She has played alongside stars such as LTJ Bukem and Mc Conrad, Zinc, Ed Rush, High Contrast, D-Bridge, Fabio, and others.
DJs participating in the project: Blue, Brooklyn aka Juanita Juarez, Kaplick, Nika 77, Nitrous, Stanzim, MKS, Yukimura, Akira, and Silent Cut.
The DJs are tasked with creating a set inspired by the architectural project. The assignment is intentionally very open, and it is up to the creativity of the respective artist how to approach the project. The audio recording of this set will be part of the installation at CCEA.
A catalog will be published for the exhibition, containing portfolios of all architectural projects and a CD with recordings of the musical sets.
ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM:
DJs, VJs, and architecture at CrossThe project also includes a multimedia and multistyle club night, the specialty of which will be that the participating DJs and their guests will perform two to three stylistically completely different sets on three stages, supported by VJs, who will connect and present architectural visualizations of the projects selected for the exhibition at CCEA on a visual surface.
Location and date: March 10, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Cross Club (Plynární 23, Prague - Holešovice)
Past-Present-Future
The architectural works presented at the exhibition are a thing of the past for their authors.
What they are doing now and what they plan for the future will be discussed in brief personal presentations.
Location and date: March 16, 2006, at 6:00 PM, CCEA (U Půjčovny 4, Prague 1)
Start Architecture (lecture series by CCEA)
The first lecture in the series will be given by Ivan Kroupa.
Theme: School, professional environment - one perspective.
Location and date: March 22, 2006, at 7:00 PM, NoD/ROXY (Dlouhá 33, Prague 1)
Short annotations of the presented architectural works:
Pilgrimage Church in the Doupov MountainsJakub Tejkl (AA in Prague)
The oval outer wall of the church visually resembles a nave set in the landscape. The horizontal plane laid out in the landscape is complemented by the verticality of the tower. The central structure combines two archetypes of sacred architecture: a tower with a bell tower and a chapel. The nave of the temple is not roofed. It is formed by outer walls woven from fine threads of steel rods and the blue sky.
CCEA Commentary
The church itself does not address the salvation of nature but the salvation of humanity in nature. We are happy to select projects that possess a strong idea in the foreground, regardless of the realizability or non-realizability of the work.
At a time when architecture succumbs to the pressure of investors and often absurd regulations from authorities, when architecture distances itself from art, this project shows a path where the pilgrim becomes a builder, playing a role outlined by one of humanity's basic instincts: "building."
We selected this project not only due to its original idea, where the spiritual level transforms into action, but also due to the high standard of its presentation. In the presentation itself, the author does not mention details and technical specifics, which brings freshness to the entire project and does not bore with unnecessary technicality.
Settlement for Refugees U Nové hospody
Radoslav Dvořák (FA CTU Prague)
The urban-architectural project aimed to create a settlement for 150 refugees and staff. The solution was to meet ecological and economic requirements, but primarily it should present functional integration systems in the host country, providing not only accommodation but also possibilities for daily activities, work, education, and recreation. The settlement should function independently and self-sufficiently, especially easily from an ecological perspective.
CCEA Commentary
The diploma work opens up one of today's acute problems. For three reasons, it instills strong optimism in us: the consistency with which the pre-diploma seminar is worked through, the depth of the topic, and the author's ability to "survive" five years of educational training, during which students of ZAN-u* are bombarded with standards, dimensions of toilets, simple shapes, clean and logical architecture that has a "strong" idea, and the truthful use of materials.
"Surviving" seems to imply that the submitted proposal meets all norms and technical parameters while being architecturally different from what is taught at CTU.
The determination of Radoslav Dvořák to name the taboo correctly based on analysis, to which the author invested a considerable amount of energy, was crucial for the selection of this work. An aesthetics based on cultural mixing, transformed into primitive dwellings-home, may not excite us, but the "strong" idea is the foundation of the project.
*ZAN - fundamentals of architectural design - studio creation of the first year at CTU, where students often "design" buildings without anyone asking about the meaning of buildings, construction, or architecture.
Rehabilitation of the North Bohemian Coal Basin
Věra Šatochinová (FA CTU Prague)
The Podkrušnohorská Basin, covering an area of 20 x 70 km, extends between Kadaň and Ústí nad Labem. Various specialists should participate in the project of landscape revitalization. Ecologists, natural scientists, foresters, sociologists, and architects will play no small role. The diploma work addresses one part of the project: the architectural aspect, with an attempt to also look into ecological themes.
CCEA Commentary
Věra Šatochinová's proposal stands in opposition to the established practice today, where the rehabilitation of land destroyed by mining is solved by camouflaging what we have done. By creating a maximally energy-independent system that revitalizes the devastated area, the scars transform into benefits. The inclusion of this project in the selection was influenced not only by the appreciation of the overall solution to the problem but also by the assumption that the stance of large planners will change over time and that by 2038, we will consider such projects as a matter of course.
New Center of Slavonín-North in Olomouc
Lukáš Fišer (FA BUT Brno)
An urban plan for the new center of Slavonín-North in Olomouc. The project works with solutions for a park, town hall, residential buildings, and a commercial zone.
CCEA Commentary
An interesting example of how even in mega-structures, which are mostly public investments, a respect for the real program and real needs of the locality can be combined while preserving sufficient space for leisure and its inhabitants. The architecture of the individual structures is clear, and the function is identifiable even from the exterior. We decided to select this project because the confrontation of raster construction and organic layout does not appear as a cliché but as a functioning coexistence.
Ideal Náchod
Viktor Vlach (AVU Prague)
The theme of the diploma work is the ideal plan for the author's hometown, in this specific case, Náchod. A city that the author has known for over a quarter of a century, aware of its faults and deficiencies. The city is understood as a living organism. The goal of the new urbanism is to make Náchod a healthy individual, a manly city, or at least to guide its successors to think in a way that will gradually heal the organism.
CCEA Commentary
The author has arrived at a number of solutions that change the character of the city. Simple shapes of cylinders and cuboids are transformed into houses that enrich the city with functions it previously lacked.
The author's confidence in working with the simplest shapes might face challenges in confronting authorities, investors, communities, the public, or the current poor urbanism. However, it establishes a platform for discussion. We included this project in the selection as a manifesto of contemporary Czech urbanism.
Terminal Hradec Králové
Petr Štefek (TU Liberec)
The Hradec railway station designed by Václav Rajchl was one of the most generous transport buildings upon its completion. However, rail transport has lost its priority status today. Current designs do not reflect this reality and extensively occupy further areas of the city for poorly located bus stations. The goal of the diploma work is to propose a compact terminal for all types of genuinely integrated transport, with the intention of enhancing the significance of the cultural heritage.
CCEA Commentary
An interesting approach where the needs of the public as voters and the public as consumers intersect. The intertwining of public and commercial functions is a necessity, the solution of which we cannot avoid in the future. Petr Štefek's project transforms this challenge into interesting contemporary architecture, placed in the "underground," where the mix of functions becomes an intriguing social experiment. The current relevance of the issue also contributed to the selection alongside the architectural expression.
About the DJs:
BlueBlue began DJing in 1996. Thanks to the D-Smack-U agency, he became a resident at Prague's Roxy. He performs in clubs and at numerous festivals in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands, and England. Since 1999, he regularly organizes his resident night, aiming to encompass progressive trends in the dance scene with guests and new talents. He has been dedicated to his own production since 2000. Initially in the remix project Blue & Clad (Ecstasy Of St. Theresa, Tatabojs, Here, Priessnitz), followed by a purely stage freestyle project Lazy Jimmy with Jan P. Muchow. He is now working solo on his own tracks and remixes. He is involved in scoring music and sound collaborations on theatrical projects (Divadlo Komedie, Bohnická Divadelní Společnost, Divadelní Společnost NUN, Národní Divadlo, Činoherní Studio Ústí nad Labem, Spolek DAMARU, Divadelní Spolek Davida Drábka, DAMU 2006)
Brooklyn aka Juanita Juarez
Under the alias Juanita Juarez, this Prague producer gained attention especially with the album Spa Boy, released in 2003 on the Quazi Delict label. The album, a combination of drum & bass, downtempo, and more experimental music, was nominated for the Academy of Popular Music Award; followed by official remixes for Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Skyline, Slovak Veneer, or most recently for Prague's Khoibu.
Currently, he is focusing on a club-oriented approach to drum & bass. Still as Juanita Juarez, he released two twelve-inches on local labels. Under the name Brooklyn, he has released a single on the British label Spearhead, with the track With All My Heart coming out in March 2006 on the Norwegian label Subtitles, followed by others with several British indie labels. Brooklyn's music has received DJ support from Pendulum, Fresh (Breakbeat Kaos), Nu:Tone (Hospital), Brian G, LTJ Bukem (Good Looking Records), Calyx, Mathematics, Big Buda, and others. Brooklyn alias Juanita Juarez has also created several jingles for Radio 1 shows; his tracks have appeared in theater productions, on many compilations, and recently in the new Czech-Finnish film Restart.
Kaplick
Kaplick's sets in their breakbeat dance form are primarily more progressive, influenced by the sound of labels like Marine Parade, Acetate, or Kilowatt. As a DJ, he has played at events with most foreign breakbeat stars who have visited the Czech Republic: Adam Freeland, Rennie Pilgrem, B.L.I.M., Elite Force, DJ Hyper, Lee Coombs, Koma + Bones, Aquasky vs Masterblaster, FC Kahuna, Freestylers, Krafty Kuts, Tayo. Currently, he is preparing a program with Josef Sedlonec on Prague's Radio 1 called Breakbeat Conference, focused exclusively on breakbeat. He is a resident at the regular breakbeat club night Breaksome at Roxy and Funkilla at Cast in Liberec.
Nika 77
She has been DJing since 1997. She has performed in most of the most famous clubs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and has appeared in England, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia. In Prague, she is a resident of the Connect Yourself event (Radost FX, Roxy), organized by the largest Czech dance music portal, www.techno.cz, under whose umbrella she performs. She mainly plays techno, but occasionally she plays minimal/deep house and experimental to ambient electronic music.
Currently, she is focused on studio work. So far, she has released several tracks on the Czech label TechEx (002 and 003), Fylo, Ambsine (Vol.1). She is currently working on her own label.
Stanzim
He owes his life in close connection with music primarily to Radio 1, where he has worked since its inception in 1991. Through industrial electronics and the Manchester guitar scene, he found his way to dance music. He prefers tracks with intricate rhythms of different tempos - from jungle to breakbeat to downtempo. In Prague, he regularly performs in clubs Roxy, Cross, Matrix, Akropolis, Punto Azul, XT3, 7 Wolves, and outside of Prague in Ostrava, Plzeň, Český Krumlov, Brno, Olomouc, Kladno, Vrchlabí, etc. He participates in festivals Creamfields, Open Airfield, Colours Of Ostrava, Cosmic Trip, Sázavafest, Czech-tech, and others, playing abroad in Vienna, Paris, Bratislava, Nové Zámky, Košice. In 1998, he co-founded the music publishing house QDR with Jan Kvasnička, specializing in listening author albums (Floex, Juanita Juarez, Alvik, Bratři Orffové). They also produced remix compilations for Universal (Ivan Král) and New Gate (Priessnitz). QDR includes two sublabels: Stoika (dnb) and TT22 (breaks).
For the stylish program on ČT2 Paskvil, he prepared reports and is a co-author of Radiopaskvil, which runs once a month as part of Čajovna on ČRo3 - Vltava.
Nitrous
He has been playing since 1998 in Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Austrian, and Slovak clubs. He is an editor of the Czech music portal www.shadowbox.cz. He is the author of the shadowbox program on Radio 1. In 2000, he became the winner of the DJ awards.
Yukimura
One of the most versatile Czech DJs, with an incredibly broad range far exceeding the boxes of contemporary electronic and acoustic dance music, he also works as a producer and sound engineer in his own studio in Žižkov, from which numerous remixes and vinyl have already emerged. Last year, he established the Kaliyuga Sound association, which focuses on the reproduction and promotion of the fusion of Asian and Oriental music with electronics, also referred to as Asian underground.
Akira
He operates mainly in Karlovy Vary, while being a frequent guest at music nights both domestically and abroad. A turntablist, editor of www.shadowbox.cz, and a member of the dubwize project.
Silent Cut
He has been involved in music since 1996 when he acquired his first music software. After several highly abstract projects dave6 and ninsei, where besides massive sampling he experimented with sounds from computer games, he operates in the spectrum from downtempo to breakbeat with occasional forays into dnb. In the club Rotes Berlin, he attempts to establish a tradition of Wednesday FLOWMASTER sessions, where he appears alongside master Emsy (BowWave). Hand in hand with music has come an interest in design; from the first amateur cassette covers, he progressed to CD covers, posters for various events, websites, flash animations, photo montages, and t-shirt designs.
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