2025 5 10 魔法と科学 kohei

“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”

― Marcus Brigstocke

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke

Improvisation,Minimal,Techno,Krautrock,
Psychedelic・Progressive Rock,Experimental,Drone,Ambient・・・♬

Hello :-)
Minimal
Experimental
Unreleased

An experience of Zlatnichi, born on 8. of February in Sarajevo, that truly lives, organically. 
That would be the best way to define, not only Zlatnichi’s sound or the way it gets to others, but the very process of his creating. 
Each sound is an experience on its own, alive, growing and evolving indefinitely as they mix and pair and combine; and producing is more about witnessing the process of it than orchestrating it. An experience Zlatnichi couldn’t help but surrender to, in all the forms of it he met – from primary music school early age to first DJing steps in 2005. Spending hours researching and listening to a huge variety of tracks online only made him more amazed by what was coming out of those experiences, and naturally lead him to his first encounter with Ableton in 2011. From then on, his life became a journey of discovering the process of experiencing music – in all its forms: making it, playing it, talking about it, dancing to it… His first release of “Serious Damage EP” came out in February 2015, on the London-based label “Noexcuse Records”. 
The singularity of his sensibility got noticed and acknowledged by various headliners, especially Marco Carola who completely adopted his tracks in his sets. Spinning trough well-known music festivals such as Sonus or Timewarp, his music quickly built him a name in the industry, opened him Moon Harbour’s door, established his integrity, and made him travel and play over the globe. 
The more he played, the more he experienced, and the more he focused on the very process of creating. Experiencing the sounds of Marco Carola, Mathew Jonson, Lee Curtis, Seth Roxler, Raresh, Villalobos, Ambivalent, Jon Gaiser led him on the way of giving birth to his own. A music that pushes boundaries while honoring legacies, an experience that sounds innovative yet familiar, experimental yet already established – organic, intuitive, alive, persistently evolving.
While he settled his main share-base on Bandcamp up until now, he aims to head to the wax side for the future.

Derek (aka The Rhythmist, Number 8, Boxbanga) has been making electronic music since 1987. His deep and shuffled grooves layered with abstract textures and funky, disjointed melodies have a futuristic quality that gets your body moving.

Inspired by groups like Art Of Noise, Kraftwerk, and Mantronix he started an all-synth band in high school with some friends. The band broke up shortly after graduating, so he started working on music solo. His first official release on a label was in 1994 on Flask (a subdivision of the now defunkt Silent Records) under the alias ‘Number 8. He teamed up with local veteran producer Mattski and Solid Trax label manager Lucas Rodenbush to launch the Trax Cafe project in 1997. Their EP helped Derek to land apperances on two compilations and to get his own EP on Resource Records in 2000. Since then he has also done releases for labels such as Jump, Random Access Recordings, SIXONESIX, Friction, Diggarama, and Audio Abuse. From 2003 to 2012, Derek ran the DoBox Recordings netlabel to help promote his sound and other like-minded producers from around the world.

Lately you can find Derek doing live PAs around the SF Bay Area with the live improvisational Techno band, Haptic Synapses (along with DoBox label mates Steve Cooley and Qorser). He is also been in the lab doing various remixes and preparing to launch his new label, dbl (pronounced "double").