//LONDON - SKOPJE - BELGRADE//
Mark Williams /Real Session/Ingoma/Macumba/Concept/ London UK
Goran Kan /Real Session/Primal Force/Concept/ Skopje MK
Vladimir Vujichic /Pionir / Tomahawk/ Belgrade SCG
Ivika /Pionir / Tomahawk/ Belgrade SCG
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Mark Williams
kicked off his DJ career back in the 80’s when dance music was in full force with huge events such as Energy and Sunrise and with pioneers such as Derrick May making classic tracks like "Strings of Life".
Producing was his next step, working alongside Matt Clayden under the guise of M&M in 1990-92. Later 'Acorn Arts' was formed with their label 'X - Gate' producing such tracks as ‘Body’, ‘Vanilla’ and ‘The Drum’. After a couple of years, Mark felt it was time to go solo. Mark has since then developed into a prolific producer and DJ with a distinctive style that has enabled him to play at some of the most respected clubs. His DJing skills ensured him a place on the legendary Carl Cox World Ultimatum Tour in 1998, the Billy Nasty Torture Chamber Tour in 2000, and Ben Sims’ Ingoma Tour in 2003, which ended at one of the best parties at Loft Club, Barcelona, on the weekend of Sonar. In 2004, Mark had the pleasure of being on another tour with Ben Sims, this time it was to promote Mark’s debut album ‘A Point in Time’ on Ingoma. He also completed a tour of Japan. In 2005 he will release his first Dj mix CD. Mark has recorded for some of the world’s finest dance labels including ‘Ingoma’, ‘Phont’, ‘Tortured’, ‘Primate’, ‘Pure Plastic’, ‘Dark House’ and his own labels ‘Macumba’ and ‘RealSessions’.
Goran Kan
started DJing around 1998. In the beggining of his carrier as a DJ,he mostly played house music. From then till now, the tribal vibe is still in his DJ sets and production as well. Back in 2001, he had his first residency at summer club 'Havana' in Skopje.After that summer he got into techno. He has played in all of the cities in Macedonia, including: Bitola, Ohrid, Gevgelija, Kavadarci, Gostivar...
Because of the bad club politics in Skopje, he started organising parties himself at different locations, parties under the promotion group called 'V.C.P.' He received the award 'The most successful macedonian DJ.Goran Kan has played side by side with famous DJs like Ben Sims, Mark Williams, Mark Broom, Terry Mitchell, Deetron and many more. He has also played all over the Balkan region: Prishtina(Kosovo), Belgrade(Serbia), Novi Sad (Exit Fest 04), Tirana(Albania), Durs(Albania)... He was a part of the project called 'Bang Box'(Tour with some other Djs from Macedonia). He started producing in 1999. From then till now, his production has changed from house to techno. His first release was on Terry Mitchell's 'Primal Force', EP called 'Dirty Dance', and he has also signed for some other labels like Real Sessions, Dark House Music ... releases on their way. in 2004' at manifestation named '13 for the best'.
Vladimir Vujichic
He was born in 1980. Lives in Belgrade.Studies Pharmacy Faculty. His professional DJ career began 1999. and since than he plays on huge number of clubs and open-air events and festivals all across his state and abroad, giving his unique positive vibe to the line-ups in some of the most numerous techno parties - Candy Party Serial (vol 1.-6.) 2000-2002, Montenegro New Years Techno Festival 2002, Serbian Beer Festival 2003…50.000 people, New Years Eve 2004 & 2005 on the streets of Belgrade - 4 stages….100.000 people…., Energy Fest in Nish area 2004, Urban-Beat-Power Festival 2004 in Bosnia, Maximum serial,Tribu Fest on MALTA.Street Parade in Switzerland (Zurich 2005 ).ect…sharing the turntables with lead techno djs from Germany, Holland, UK… like - Staffan Ehrlin, Trevor Rockcliffe.,DJ HELL,Dave Clark, and spinnin on the official after parties of bands like - Faithless - European Tour 2004. Behind the project HardDrive, he released two official mixes HardDrive vol.1 & 2,and Pharaceutical Technology 2005 mix including few of his promo singles. Together with his friend Ivika he runs booking&clubing agency Tomahawk, which hosted many foreign and domestic artists on its parties, in cooperation with many dj agencies from Europe and ex-Yu republics. Positive energy in his sets,he achives working on 3 decks and also using some special effects,which gives him new possibility for experimenting in music.His music could be described as "intelligent hardgroove techno with lot of breaks and good pumping base kicks". At the moment, beside gigs, he spens a lot of time on production work and some releases are expected very soon.
Ivika
At the beginning of 1996. Ivika did a first Live act and produced the first official release of electronic music in former Yugoslavia >>>AKROPOLA<<< album Acid burns [Technokratia / SoundGalaxy rec.]. After the tour during the 1997/98 he has organized the association Tomahawk® and has continued with independed projects and performances. Since that time he has been playing with many famous names from SCG’s scene and also with the artists from Europe: Beroshima, Laibach, Staffan Ehrlin aka DJ Slobodan, Miss Innocent, Frank Muller, Marko Nastic, Kobaya, Dejan Milicevic, Goran Kan, Alex Marinkovic...Ivika has two different stiles in his work:One (Live act) is based on combination of Quasi midi Sirius, Decks & AbletonLive ///as DJ/Digital Edit set. His DJ set is very recognizable as pure techno sets in combination of pounding, hardgroove electronic elements. The second Serbian label "PIONIR RECORDS"... is waiting to be open this year where Ivika will publish music together with, Kobaya, Staffan Ehrlin aka DJ SLOBODAN, Concrete Crew and other well known producers. Also he would like to present the works of young talented producers who are still unknown on the techno scene.
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