The recording of my annual solo night at Opium Club, Vilnius. First 3,5 of 12 hours set.

MANFREDAS 12 HOURS AT OPIUM PART 1

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~2025~
16/08 Not_me & Obraz, ZMAR festival
28/06 Not_me & Obraz, Rosnička, Svitavy
21/06 md•mg @ Jaroška, Brno
24/05 Not_me & Obraz, Tendance, Praha
04/03 LBD Sounds w/ Obraz, Tendance, Praha

~2024~
26/10 Rotared., Tendance, Praha
03/08 Rotared. @ bar Zahrada, Olomouc
22/03 Rotared. Experience, Tendance, Praha

~2023~
17/03 ĒTER w/ IVAN SMAGGHE, Vitamin, Brno

~2022~
12/08 Kiosk, Vitamin, Brno
30/07 ĒTER & FRIENDS, chata461, Brno
18/06 Night Shift, Stalin, Praha
27/05 ĒTER w/ ARLETA, Kabinet Múz, Brno
18/03 Sancti @ ArtBar, Brno

~2021~
05/11 Echoes: John Talabot, Fléda, Brno
30/10 Planeta Pravda x ÉTER, Planeta Za, Praha
23/10 ÉTER w/ LOTUS WASH, Kabinet Múz, Brno
27/09 Groove Bar, Praha
25/09 Schrödinger in the box, Bike Jesus, Praha
10/09 ÉTER w/ TRAUMATORR, Yacht club, Brno
21/08 Private b-day w/ Kosmic Skaut, Grid, Praha
12/08 Groove Bar, Praha
10/08 Rozcvička, Stalin, Praha
27/06 Blue Sunday, Blue Demon, Brno

~2020~
04/08 Zahrátka, Kabinet Múz, Brno
28/07 anoda, Brno
25/07 Rostlinný bazar, Olomouc
12/06 Herna @ Café Alfa, Brno
14/03 AVA x ÉTER stream, Studio 410
29/02 Luft, Praha
17/01 Éternal w/Kӣr, BlackBox, Brno

~2019~
20/12 Éternit, Rebelbean Vlněna, Brno
15/11 730, Karnola, Hranice
01/11 Éternal w/ Misonica, ArtBar, Brno
04/09 ÉTER w/ Frank Love & DJ Lamborghini
14/08 ÉTER w/ Møreti
31/07 LFŠ vs ÉTER
26/07 Okolojeles
12/07 Letiště Karneval 2019
27/06 ÉTER w/ Lt.Dan
11/05 ÉTER Stream, Kabinet Múz
03/05 Filtr. w/ ÉTER - Střelák
12/04 HAZED x ÉTER w/ Exhausted Modern
22/02 ÉTER w/ Plast
25/01 ÉTER w/ Guru, Dirty Danzo, Frank Love

Manfredas and Vilnius are not one and the same but so intrinsically linked that the Lithuanian capital makes a good starting point. Although, Manfredas got his first musical experience via his hometown radio (long shifts soundtracking a country exploding itself out of the Soviet glaciation), it was his move to Vilnius that started it all. 

Skip a few shifts at legendary club Gravity and an electroclash band and we get to Opium and Smala. It is quite hard to fathom how important the club and Manfredas’ imprint were to the Vilnius nightlife, and still are. For years, this was the party and what a party that was; creating a scene out of not much, educating a couple of generation of clubbers, tightening friendships and making Manfredas the international DJ he is today. For many, it made Vilnius unexpectedly the best clubbing city in the world.

After a string of solo releases and remixes aimed at the furthest corners of the dancefloor, Manfredas took a deep breath and reached out even beyond that furthest corner. With drummer Marijus Aleksa, he created Santaka, an organic/electronic post-jazz (insert whatever term you please) with releases on Byrd Out and legendary Finnish label Sahko, and a live project where the dance floor and non-dancefloor merge hypnotically.

When Manfredas co-created Radio Vilnius in 2021, a hub for experimental music in a dire national landscape, it was another way to pay his dues to the local scene. Born online, Radio Vilnius has now launched it's own record label, inaugurated by Santaka themselves.

When The Last Smala happened in 2020, Manfredas & Ivan Smagghe created a new party outfit: Dresden, a bastard child of Vilnius and London, mother of all nighters, designer of t-shirts, travelling circus (from Love International to Wonderfruit, Glastonbury to Sonar). More hours put in for unruly people, more psychedelic music, including a two-day “weekender” at Gallery, the new hyper-club opened by the Opium crew.

Jack of all trades but master of many (we haven’t talked about his love of food), you can find Manfredas touring the world searching for that extra sparkle and sharing it with all of us.

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