DJ Funky Junkie's career began way back in 1985. when he started his weekly radio show on "Radio Nis" along with his friend, DJ Mixmaster. The show lasted until 1988. In 1989., FJ started to play music in then famous Symphony club, and from that moment on up to these days he spins his records & CDs in clubs & venues all over Serbia, neighbour countries and around Europe.
With almost 25 years of experience under his belt, and many records in his huge vinyl collection, it is fair to say that Funky Junkie is one of the founders of a contemporary club scene in Nis & Serbia.
Despite the fact that he plays progressive, tech house & electro on most of his gigs, he never forgets his roots. As a great fan of funk, jazz funk, soul, disco funk, brazil & latin music, nu wave, post punk he collects vinyls which are kept in his respectable collection, and this is the music he likes to play most even today alone or with his friend DJ Ceka The Boss as a part of notorious "The Funk Soul Brothers". There are many DJs who have rather major influence on his career, to name some of them: Francis Grasso, David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Larry Levan, Walter Gibbons, Bobby Guttardo, Danny Krivit, Francois Kevorkian, Ron Hardy, Frankie Knuckles, Gilles Peterson, Paul Murphy, Patrick Forge, Kevin Beadle, Dr. Bob Jones, Keb Darge, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa etc. (to name just a DJs, not the bands & the producers). Considering Serbia, the greatest impact on him had DJ Bane and original "Disco 13" DJs from the 70's, then DJ Brkica & the crew from "Muzicki klub '81", and of course DJ Nenad Mitic from "Symphony club". It wouldn't be fair not to mention DJ Chile (and THE ONE & ONLY "Soul Food" club in Belgrade), who is "guilty in charge" for FJ's love for all kinds of both contemporary & vintage black music.
The proof of his musical diversity was a legendary cult one man radio show called "Tripovanje" (Trippin') which was broadcasted firstly on "Belle Amie" radio back in the 90's and then on "Fast Radio".
During all these years he was behind the decks with many famous DJs and played opening acts for many bands from Bob Sinclar and Hernan Cattaneo to The Brand New Heavies, Gilles Peterson and Paul Murphy, for example. To name all of them would take a lot of place & time. Unfortunately, we do not have enough of both :) Funky Junkie is also a promoter and alongside his good friend and great DJ Acim he organized many great events in Nis.
In summer of 2010. he released widely acclaimed bootleg compilation "Idi, igraj!-Funk, soul, jazz funk & disco from ex-Yugoslavia 1969-1987 compiled by DJ Funky Junkie" which got massive feedback from many famous producers and DJs from USA, Japan, Europe etc. and earned almost cult status among them.
In 2011. he made remixes for Beatfanatic and Valique along with his friends, and recently he is about to promote the third and the last part of "Idi, igraj!" compilation and touring all over Serbia and abroad.
You can still see and listen to him playing live all around. He is a part of "Selected DJs" team, still trying to preach the gospell of music and spread the positive vibrations everywhere. The story of Funky Junkie continues...
For the love of music, for the love of beats...


Daniel Bernstein is a composer for film and interactive media. Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, he now lives in Bothell, WA.

A group of musical enthusiasts decided they were not going to just listen to their favourite bands, but would begin creating and playing music of a similar style. Influenced by indie rock artists of broad variety, Die Hamsters (pronunciation: di ˈhamstərz) compose and preform original indie rock, which won’t leave you feeling indifferent - be it that you would only like to lend an ear or even move to the various rhythms.

The young indie rock mega pop band brings you fresh, critical and at the same time playfully
entertaining perspective of the world to open the curtains of uniformity and let in rays of variety and igniting the fire of curiosity, a familiar background of drums and bass, overlaid with guitar sounds and singer’s melodically expressive vocals, backed-up by the rest of the band.

The band was created as a tranformation from a DJ project with a same 
name by producer Jasarov. At that time (2010) he produced 
Zajednica - a track released on Balkan Grooves compilation under a 
german label Eastblok. 
 
There was a plan to establish a band with the same sound and the right time to 
make that move was when the right people got together. Gregor Volk is balkanizing for Leni on the guitar, Gregor Koderman 
is banging the drums, vocals ranging from ambiental to crowd-lifting are 
the domain of Tamara Goričanec and Milan Jerkic. Jasarov as the founding member is thumping 
the bass and taking care of programming. Jaka Birsa makes the sax sound anything
from funky jazzy to Balkan. 
Gašper Selko plays the trumpet at an academic level but with so much soul it's tear-jerking.  
The band developed their sound to combine the elements of electronic 
music and all the different genres and traditional Balkan.

A journey through synth waves from 80s Miami sunsets over palms and cocktails to epic outrun car chases with loads of guitar solos! 

Contact & booking:
quixoticsnd@gmail.com

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