Gabber Eleganza launches his label Never Sleep with Multo Crudo by London via Brazil & Russia producer Lizzitksy. The label is “an organic step after seeing the original Gabber Eleganza archival project grow into a multi-platform endeavour”, with a remit to showcase new and old artists that symbolise not just rave and post-rave culture, but a wider DIY aesthetic. 

Lizzitksy’s debut release draws from a disorientating suite of tropes - blasts of harsh noise, hollowed out sub-loaded kick drum barrages, digitised 90’s Italian Trance melodies, sped up reggaeton snare rushes & post-hard core vocal manipulation. Despite the range of elements in play, there is still a clear aesthetic red thread present - the rhythmic building blocks of the various genres referenced are sliced, distorted and re-arranged but never to such an extent that their dance-floor rending capabilities are compromised, whilst occasional flashes of melody and feedback laden shrieks help unravel each track. 

“Dark Millennium DJ Tool” deploys slowed down noise-charged kicks and ear piercing synthwork before switching into an 8-bar grime breakdown, whilst “Untitled EX4” takes the 150 BPM+ broken hardcore rhythmic template currently being established by the likes of Slickback and E-Sagglia and perforates it with howling feedback and Shackleton inspired percussive work. “Beef6” and “Bad Vein” melt power electronics fuelled drums into a post Latin-Perreo mis-en-scene – with “UMS303”  and “Video Green” providing moments of melodic introspection.

Dark Millenium Dj Tool

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Mother Criminal is a Prague-based DJ, promoter, director, and founder of Bukolika, the annual dance mania based in Přelouč, CZ.

2024

25/05/24 - Místní odkoj @Přelovice 
26/07/24 - Bukolika 2024 ༻ @Přelouč
12/10/24 - Farewell Ceremony @Kolín
15/11/24 - Bukolika Contagion Legion @Fraktal, Brno

2023

18/2/23 - reggaeton study mix vol. 2 @Grid, Prague 
17/3/23 - @BVCOLICA CONTAGION LEGION w/ Bite Clique @Bike Jesus, Prague
21/4/23 - Ankali x Standard Deviation @Planeta Za, Prague
5/5/23 - Gin&Platonic x Bukolika @Otvor, Ostrava
9/6/23 - Lunchmeat x Bukolika: Till the last @Poldi, Kladno
28/7/23 - Bukolika ⎺⎻-⎽⍜⎽-⎻⎺ 2023
15/9/23 - Ozvěny FAMUFESTU @Klubovna, Prague
20/10/23 - Microfestival @Hyb4, Prague
28/10/23 - ATG presents: GABBER MODUS OPERANDI @Altenburg 1964, Prague
3/11/23 - LUNCHMEAT Collective 15th Anniversary @Meetfactory, Prague

2022

1/4/22 Explicit: Signal to Noise @Artbar Druhý pád, Brno
2/4/22 @bvcolica contagion legion w/ DJ Hristos, Ancestral Vision, Gin&Platonic, Mother Criminal, notsureyet
3/5/22 Lunchmeat: Gabber Modus Operandi, Raja Kirik, DJ Bingo, Mother Criminal
5/8/22 - Bukolika i͠s͠ ͠a͠ ͠D͠a͠n͠c͠i͠n͠g͠ ͠P͠l͠a͠g͠u͠e͠²͠ᵍ͠²͠²͠  @Přelouč
27/8/22 - @bvcolica contagion legion @ATG 1964, Prague
17/9/22 - Fragile Like a Bomb Afterparty @Bike Jesus, Prague
21/9/22 -  "Optimized fables about a good life" exhibition-launch afterparty @PLATO, Ostrava
4/11/22 - @bvcolica contagion legion w/ oolongbru, Kumquat Tang, rgreat and Mother Criminal @Planeta Za, Prague
16/11/22 - reggaeton study mix vol. 1, @UMPRUM, Prague
9/12/22 - FAMU Mikulášská, @FAMU, Prague