Q&A w/ Sobek

1. Funniest experience at Aether club:

-Last year we had Marcus Worgull at Sobekin series and the lights were not working. I didn't know him - lookin a serious guy - and was worried how this gonna turn out. He arrived and said; no probs, shut everything down and I play in total darkness. Mastervibes.

 2. Who are you? What do you do?

-Hello, I'm Sobek. I make your face melting down when the e starts to hit hard.

 3. Your podcast in one word?

-Essential. 

4. Define the job of a dj:

-Connect and build the energy flow.

5. Funniest compliment you ever got:

-At AETHER I got cash as a tip several times in the morning. Funny or not, each time I had to take it at the end.

6. Whats your biggest inspiration?

-New music and new adventures.

7. How do you pick track names?

Really good question. Sometimes I reflect on the track closely, other times want to express something else through that part. Nowadays I'm checking the top 10 charts and try to give similar names. Maybe is a maybe,

8. 3 worlds to describe yourself:

-more German than a German (srry was 5)

9. Favorite BPM:

100-125

10. 3 most important skills of a producer?

-Willingness to learn and change. Ability to let it go.

11. Best advice for newcomers:

-Pay yourself in. Its much more easier.

12. What would you change in the industry?

-I wouldn't change anything. That's how it is, the rest is complaint kulture.

13. B2B of your dream?

-The basis for a good b2b is about chemistry and the ability to raise the vibe higher and higher. I'm quite picky on that topic and actually not dreaming about others. 

14. If you would be a sound which would it be:

-The sound of silencio.

15. One secret tip for djs:

-Look up to the crowd sometimes. It's worth the effort.
 kulture.

Aether 001 Sobek

Our 56th podcast comes from @Mankindddd, who has made his appearance first in 2017 as a member of a new generation of DJs in the Budapest 🇭🇺 nightlife. Since then he founded and contributed to many successful projects such as Pursuit of acid, Tripolar or at the partyseries called Hardboiled. Most recently he has been active as a resident and music curator of the iconic Aether club.

His hypnotic, percussive and often trippy style brought an exciting and much needed breath of fresh air into the electronic music scene of the capital, that propelled him to being one of the most known and acknowledged DJ nationwide.

Mankind ■ Hapësira Podcast LVI

Aether podcast series will include works from artists who are involved in the development of Aether Club and provide the tone of the house for a long time. 
Stay tuned for more!

What about Jaffa Surfa?

Serious mixing skills, groovy sound and a slight of oldschool, that’s definitely Jaffa Surfa. His performances are all about creating a flow and tripping into sounds. Obsessed with vinyl, always digging and searching: a true craftsman behind the decks whose true strongest skill is his ability to go beyond mere genres and trends. No matter where he plays, chemistry is always working.
Tune in and welcome our beloved and the 5th guest of Aether podcast series, Jaffa Surfa!

JAFFA SURFA on Soundcloud
@jaffaz

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/jaffazzzz/

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Aether 005 Jaffa Surfa

What about AGA2L?

AGA2L the co-founder of the BRVTAL series, DJ and producer is known by his strict ’vinyl only’ rule. Rezystor, Niki Istrefi and Draugr are familiar faces at his label.
He started his activity in the scene as a DJ for a while now and he became an unavoidable figure of it in the last few years. Maybe not too many people knew, but he started making music almost the same time as he's playing vinyls, but until the beginning of 2020, he didn't share anything. 

Q&A with the master

1.Funniest experience at Aether club:
-The first time when I played in Aether club, I struggled all the way through my set because of the location of the monitor speakers. The next time I told Mankind about it, he just said and pointed "look, it's adjustable!" haha! Since then I have not had a word, everything is perfect!

2. Who are you? What do you do?
-On the weekends I'm AGA2L, techno DJ and vinyl collector music fanatic. I rarely make my own tracks as time allows, but I wouldn't call myself a producer yet. I've been working on a label/podcast/event series for 6 year, but only with Maxi now. It's called Brvtal. We have vinyl and digital releases that I'm very proud of, as we've been able to line up names like Niki Istrefi, Draugr, Ryuji Takeuchi, Öspiel and many more. Looking ahead to the future, we will be working with many exciting names. And on weekdays I'm Gyula or Gyuszi. I work as a revenue manager for a book wholesaler. I record incoming goods in our system and upload them to our webshop. In fact, wherever and whatever I do, my mind is always on music-related things, whether it's a new release or an idea.

3. Your podcast in one word?
-Boring, hahahaha. I don't know, let everyone decide for themselves.

4. Define the job of a dj:
-Entertainment. I tend to over-mystify a lot and theorise, but you don't have to. We are for the dancers and audience and we give them a piece of ourselves.

5. Funniest compliment you ever got?
-I'd rather tell a story. About 8 years ago, I went to the Bonus Festival to hear Vril. A man found me and thought I'm Gábor Kraft and let's take a photo together. After 5-10 minutes of persuasion I realized that I couldn't explain to him that I'm not him. I found it easier to stand for the power of a photo and move on.

6. What's your biggest inspiration?
-My biggest inspiration is my Berlin tours. I love it when I get to the lobby of a club and hear the first kicks, the smoke and the pulse. The atmosphere and the environment gets me goosebumps. These experiences can fill you up.

8. Favorite BPM?
-It's constantly changing. Now I feel at home around 143-144 bpm.

9.Best advice for newcomers?
-I think that persistent work will pay off after a while and that you don't have to ride the trend, it will pass. Try to create something lasting or timeless. Do sincerely what comes from the heart and don't settle for what you have, keep improving.

10. What would you change in the industry?
-This would be a long dissection, so I won't. At the moment techno has become mainstream. For me, I really miss the intimate environment which basically characterized this scene.

11. B2B of your dream?
-When Hector Oaks first came to Hungary for the Pursuit of Acid event at LÄRM, his plane left a few hours after the party ended, so he came up to our place with Tirza and Ákos for a little bit. The idea of playing together came up, but I was still relatively rookie DJ around that time and I didn't dare to join him while he played. Last year it turned out that I will play after him at Flashback. At the end of my set, I noticed that he was packing up his stuff to play together. In the end, I didn't run away, and it was a experience of a lifetime.

12. If you would be a sound which would it be?
-What kind of voice I would be, I don't know. About 6 years ago we were sitting on the couch after some BRVTAL gig and we were talking about if you were a track, what would you be. I got Lost from Wata Igarashi.

Aether 006 AGA2L

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Captain Knuckles @ CityMatine - 20180915

Analogue set performed live at Aether club.

Ramin Sayyah live modular @ Aether - Analogue Soul 2018.11.09.

Dj Palotai made our Halloween special!!!
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Dj Palotai @ Aether - Aether Halloween 2018.10.31.

Traditional back to back handcraft dj mixes.
Since 2010.

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Collective Machine @ Aether 03.05.2019

Mario Domján, born and resident in Hungary is the artist behind Collective Machine. It’s not odd that his work echoes in worldwide known artists making himself indispensable in the sets of artists like Marco Carola, Hot Since 82, Steve Lawler, Maya Jane Coles or Nick Curly with whom he played B2B .

Not only by his excellent sets is he known. His passion in the studio and his tireless work searching for the perfect sound has opened the doors of the most recognized record labels in the international scene. 8Bit Records, Knee Deep In Sound, Deeperfect, Elrow Music, Bedrock, Stereo Productions, are only some of the labels where he has published his tracks the last couple of years. Without forgetting the remix he made for Plastikman under his previous alias Domyan in the legendary “Minus 100 Compilation”. Mario has also his own Label, “Collective Music”

Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Serbia, Ibiza and his native country Hungary, are some of the places where he has performed, making famous clubs tremble like Nordstern, Sankeys, Aether, Flex Vienna, Zef, Lips, Fuse Sunset Lisbon … or festival booths like Balaton Sound, Exit Festival or B-My lake have seen Collective Machine behind the decks making thousands dance

Booking: 
info@collectivemachine.eu

Promo
promos@collectivemachine.eu

Production Request
info@collectivemachine.eu

Demo
demos@alliwantmusic.hu
demos@collectivemusic.eu
demos@aularecords.com

►Biography

Márió Domján a.k.a. Collective Machine is one of the artists who first became a professional DJ then started to write his own songs. Due to his DJ presence he knows exactly from which music will start shaking the audience. 

As a producer his first release came out under the name of well known labels. With the artist name Domyan he made a remix for Plastikman which was released on the legendary M_Nus 100 compilation, and with the same alter ego got on Maya Jane Coles Dj Kicks mix too.

He could be called as a resident of KD Music which has been running by Kaiserdisco because only in 2013 four times were released his songs at this label. His first album released by the Hoehenregler Records, leading by Basti Grub. He choose this German label because he earlier made an LP with Larry Peters which has similar soundings and it was released by this label.12 fantastic tune a real trip arround the world!

In the international electronic music life he became more and more respected, till today so many DJs had been played and included in its top lists his songs that it is almost impossible to mention everybody, however there is a few significant artists who are playing Collective Machine’s music: Carl Cox, Luciano, Marco Carola, Paco Osuna, Hot Since 82, John Digweed.

Márió has an unbelievable respect for the world of electronic music and of course for music in general, he worked together with 20 labels this year and he entertained hundreds of thousands of electronic music lovers across more than 10 countries. He also attended in the Burn Residency DJ competition and won the 1st Prize in Hungary. Then he flew to Ibiza and participated in the final challenge but the manager of Privilege did not choose him to be the winner although it is remarkable that Márió won his place from 5.000 of competitors.

He is a multicolored performer with exceptional technical knowledge which was also said by Valentino Barrioseta / leader of mentors at Burn/ in the summary video of the competition. Steve Lawler was also impressed by Márió’s performance, he said in a 
Resident Advisor’s interview that he was positively surprised by the Hungarian competitor’s performance.

Collective Machine is able to bring fresh energy wherever he goes he takes his audience in the party mood indifferently if he plays in a small club or at a big festival.

Labels:
Knee Deep In Sound
8bit
Bedrock
Collective Music
Deeperfect
Monday Social
Cachai
Stereo Productions
and more...

AETHER is an underground electronic music club in the heart of Budapest.

From the start of the 1990’s Captain Knuckles started collecting vinyls and made mixes for fun. Knuckles was influenced by various styles of music in which he learned new technics in mixing and got more productive in producing. The Captain’s aim was to get familiar with the 2000’s night life in Budapest and the underground street culture. He began to play in front of audiences at illegal parties around 2010. These parties were called IllFest, which gained recognition from Mixmag and other media presses. From this point on his life changed. 

Recently Captain Knuckles has been playing in well known clubs all around Budapest such as A38, Cinema Hall, Corvin Club, Akvarium Club. Has also played at great festivals in Hungary as B my Lake and Balaton Sound Festival at lake Balaton, Sziget Festival at Óbudai Island and many more. He has played at clubs with artists such as Nick Curly, Chris Carrier, Reboot, Robert Babicz, Butch, Karotte, Sascha Dive, Nakadia, Super Flu, Alex Picone, Daniel Bortz etc. But where his heart really belongs is Aether Club, where he’s a resident since it’s opened in 2015 December. He often plays at series called RAW which are always tip-topper because of it’s chaning thematics and special sound. Earlier, from 2012 he became a resident for Citymatiné which is an open air - daytime party series based in Budapest Hungary, also runned by the guys who established Aether Club. Citymatiné is moving around the city’s best open air venues and playing the smoothest of music. The residents of the series beside Captain Knuckles are the well known Dj Sobek and the Monolit duo. They also invites other talented hungarian DJs, and from the third season internationally renowned guests such as La Fleur, Sebo K, Gorge, Cassy, Bas Ibellini, Dewalta, Cesar Merveille. The citymatiné crew is also famous for their sessions, they’re making tapes at the rummest places in Budapest.

Hapësira is a team of earnest individuals with diverse experiences who believe in the advancement of the society through culture, education, art and music by sharing mutual cultural values rooted in the collaboration of open minded individuals with the aim of shaping contemporary Kosovo through cultural movements and events.


International Acts surfaced at Hapësira events:

ABDULLA RASHIM, ACRONYM, ALEX.DO, ALFREDO MAZZILLI, ANTHONY ROTHER, ANCIENT METHODS, ANETHA, ANASTASIA KRISTENSEN, ANSWER CODE REQUEST, AURORA HALAL, AERA, ARTEFAKT, AWB, BLAWAN, BLAZEJ MALINOWSKI, BLOND:ISH, CLAUDIO PRC, CRAIGIE KNOWES, DANIEL AVERY, DASHA RUSH, DANIELLE, DJ DASCO, DANIELA LA LUZ, DVS1, EFDEMIN, ETAPP KYLE, ELLI ACULLA, EVIGT MÖRKER, GIEGLING COLLECTIVE, GIORGIO GIGLI, HUNTER/GAME, JAMES ZABIELA, KEITH CARNAL, KORRIDOR, LUCY, LUIGI TOZZI, LUX, MARCO SHUTTLE, MATISA, MANKIND, MOR ELIAN, NENE H, NEEL, NTHNG, NESS, NIKK, LAKE PEOPLE, PETER VAN HOESEN, PISETZKY, PAULA KOSKI, RROSE, SHIFTED, SHLØMO, SIGHA, STENNY, SOMNE, SHDW & OBSCURE SHAPE, SHTEPHANIE SYKES, TIN MAN, TOBIAS., UMWELT, VARG, VRIL, VOISKI

Contact: info@hapesira.space

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