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60 minutes with: Jon Dujaka

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Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (06.10.2023)

Artist: @jdujaka

Jon Dujaka @ Radio TNP 06.10.2023

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Broadcasted live at Radio Tempo Não Pára (11.05.2024)

Artist: @jdujaka

Jon Dujaka @ Radio TNP 11.05.2024

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Ujstin Echno's "Little Funky Son" releases on Reserve Matinee (the Chicago based label run by Faithful and Forest Management) on October 30, 2024 cat no. 056.

The new album from multidisciplinary musician Ujstin Echno mosaics together the artist's life experiences across countries, years, genres, and friendships. Born in Nagyvárad, Romania, raised in Ferguson, Missouri, and now residing in Los Angeles, Echno's body of work is the final result of a series of catalysts – the desire to spotlight Eastern European musicians through their years-long Radio Benska show, their day job as a post-production sound editor in film, adolescent hours spent driving around St. Louis listening to R&B radio, and all of the ephemera in between. 

The Little Funky Son demos were born out of time spent living, working, and traveling in Chicago, St. Louis, Prague, Milan, and Romania between 2018 and 2021 – often not through, perhaps, more common methods of artistic practice, but rather the serendipities arising from the interim moments. Take the wispy, mordant chugger "ISAACDNB," which started out as a request from a philosophy professor Echno worked with in St. Louis. It exists because, in its original form, it was a backing track for an educational video on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason Echno put together for his class. Another centerpiece of Little Funky Son, "WORDOFHONOR," was taken from recording sessions for Echno's collaborative 2022 album (as EKSE) with ELAZY, BINEAL PONK. The song samples streetcars in the Milan public transit system, pairing them with a Beach House-esque melodic line for a woozy, slightly dissonant lullaby.

In tandem, destructive editing via the Boss PS-3 and iZotope RX software beget a unique audio quality – highly dynamic, weighty but shifting in space. It's not hi-fi or lo-fi but an unknown third thing, like you came across it in an attic. Because of the slippery modalities in play, Little Funky Son feels at once cryptic and vulnerable, a rippling portal into someone else's inner world. Echno tells a story about their father returning to Romania on a trip and showing their music to his friend, who in turn described its genre as personal music.

"He's right," Echno reflects. "[the music] is all over the place, but it's tied to particular people and places, and that is a genre. It doesn't adhere to any kind of external expectations." The sonic non-linearity and frank personalness of the record draw from Echno's experiences as a longtime freeform radio DJ at WNUR, Terry Radio, Ma3azef, KCHUNG and a musical family—their father played guitar, wrote songs, and befriended The Grifters while coming of age in the South in the '80s and '90s, and their mother and her siblings anachronistically collected whatever Western pop records they could get ahold of in Nagyvárad prior to the dissolution of the USSR.

Recursive and refractive, Little Funky Son takes Echno's secret experiences and filters them through each other. The image of the rippling portal again comes to mind – personal music, too, applies to the way you peer in, and are thus actively interpolated into this process. Here, then, Echno's funky-sounding ephemera from the in-between become a communal meeting place for artist and listener.

Little Funky Son

Ujstin Echno - WORDOFHONOR [Reserve Matinee] ✦ Marmint Premiere

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https://www.nts.live/shows/ZULI/episodes/zuli-8th-may-2018

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NTS 022 [08 May 2018] Mostly Joking Takeover w/ Bucalo, UBICA, Jon Dujaka, SAUD & Lil Taty

A long time in the works... so happy to have @jdujaka guest on tonight's show w/ a merciless live cut from his opening slot for ZULI at Klub 20/44 as part of the mostly joking crew. We first crossed paths working on an hour about Albania and Kosovo and it's been months of keeping up with each other since.

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2018

guestmix020: Jon Dujaka

Recorded live on 14th June 2020 on BABA Radio's terrace.
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Serena's Flowers In The Sun - Piano Princess @baojiaxiang2
so long to my skull - ssaliva @ssaliva
crosses (cover) - Malibu @mmmmalibu
In Bloom - Yoong @yoong
Lowers Against The Rocks - Cremation Lily @cremationlily21
LITTLE PRINCE - dj lostboi @djlostboi
Cloud Cover - Bby Eco @bbyeco
A tergo Real - Lee Gamble @leegamble
Devochka Kosmos - WOLS @wols
Angelic Cash Flow - An Gella @an_gella
Always Too Late - HDMIRROR @hdmirror
D BONUS TRACK XO TORUS LliF3 (TORUS REMIX) - dj lostboi @djlostboi @torvs
Showreel, Pt. 3 - Djrum @djrum
San Junipero (For Estoc) - DJ Netflex @dj-netflex
SNOWDREAM - Emily Glass @emilyglassss
ADMSDP (ft. LA Warman) - DJ Python @worldwideunlimited
8210 - Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland
Gloup - North Sea Dialect @northseadialect

Secondary Growth mix for Baba Radio

"In fact, it is as if the traffic between eastern outsiders and their more privileged (western) counterparts work exclusively in one direction: as though works of art, ideas, and manifestations of culture can move only eastward, whereas anything originating in the east is deemed to be either ignored or rejected" - petrica mogos 


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