Center Of The Universe aka Dj Sissyfus is a Norwegian electronic music producer who recently turned his output into a mixture of unique ethno disco & warm synthpop. Live, he presents us with enchanting lyrics, catchy melodies, pinches of acid and clarinette playing. He has been releasing close to 15 albums, performing in numerous live bands and has been running his own label Metronomicon Audio since 2000. 

Center of the Universe has been active in the Norwegian underground music scene since 1998 and has in addition to participating in several other projects, found the time to release a whole host of solo albums, including a trilogy where the theme was space and time. It is difficult to give a clear definition of the band’s musical impression, as this tends to change from release to release, but it would not be wrong to say that melody is always at the center. What apparently may begin as a pop song entice you into a world where nothing is as it seems and musical expectations are seldom met. For the Center of the Universe no surna is too high and no bass too deep. He has always walked off the beaten path next to the road less travelled and keeps trudging on in a landscape where the sun shines, vulcanoes erupt and it’s raining guitars, sitars and just plain’ol tars.

Kӣr is the solo production epithet of Bane Jovančević, resident live
artist and program manager of Belgrade’s club Drug§tore. His first
release Imrali was on Creme Organization and second one
Mramorje was released on Yerevan Tapes.
By combining traditional and experimental influences in electro-acoustic music,
Kӣr creates the sound in which drone-navigated post-industrial logos
transgresses into a tribal mythos, in search for the traces of future. The clash of
synths and acoustics invoke an audio landscape of Byzantine sacral traditions
and Balkan folklore rhythms. Kӣr’s symbolic language (Dimiskija, Imrali,
Mramorje, Balčak) layers it up with an ancient temporality and its logic of being
that is not past but our own. The basic concept is to challenge conventional and
predominant rhythmic structures in music by juxtaposing traditional rhythms with
contemporary electronic sound design. The visual imaginary invoked in the
sound – that of a forest air, a river, a hum of birds – delivered through the
ruthlessness of the machine, insist on an active listening, to all the otherworldly
of this world. It is music that hypnotizes, contemplates and raves. And it always
dances.

composer, performer, lecturer and analog synthesist who is endlessly fascinated by and exploring sound...

● X-Coast ●

Fan mail, death threats: x@x-coast.com
Mgmt: mconstance@courage.world
EU bookings: juliette@blbcagency.com
AUS|NZ: peter@houseofmince.com

Somewhere in the deep blue Caribbean Sea, between your imagination and what's real, lies an island - X-Coast.

All mixes are produced by Jonas Alexander David.

Welcome onboard this flight. Your ears are your wings. 


Composer and sound artist. Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio - Basel. Ex Head of Radio Belgrade's Electronic Studio
www.svetlanamaras.com
marasoffice@gmail.com
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Maraš has presented her work internationally, at venues, festivals and events such as  Ruhr Triennial, CTM (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), House of Electronic Arts (Basel), Ruhr Triennial, Espace Multimedia Gantner (Bourogne), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Heroines of Sound (Berlin), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Ausland (Berlin), Izlog Suvremenog Zvuka (Zagreb), ICMC (New York), International Rostrum of Composers (Wroclaw), ISEA (Dubai), International Music Institute (Darmstadt), Orpheus Institute (Ghent) and many other places. Her music was used in theatre plays, experimental and documentary films, presented at places like MOMA (New York), Aubagne International Film Festival and Bitef theatre (Belgrade).
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Svetlana Maraš was SHAPE artist for 2020, and co-curator of 4fakultät concert series in Hamburg.

Nibiru is Marduk's star, which he made appear in the heavens...The stars of heaven, let Nibiru set their course; let him shepherd all the gods like sheep. [Enuma Elish]

Nibiru is the musical project of Bor, hailing from Kranj, Slovenia. Impressed by early gems like Juno Reactor's appearances in movie soundtracks and drawing inspiration from a wide range of musical styles, he discovered his passion for psychedelic music at a young age. Influenced by different kinds of counter-culture, Bor started to connect with the psychedelic scene in local squats and after a transformative night at the 2011 edition of Ozora festival, he got inspired him to become a DJ and completely immerse himself in psychedelic culture.

Nibiru's favorite sound is Forest psychedelia with dirty, punky, driving bass lines and twisted vibes, which he forms into dynamic sets ranging from 135 to 160 bpm. He already had the honor to play at some of the best festivals around the world, including Mo:dem, Masters Of Puppets, Ometeotl, Psycristrance, Aluna Ritual and many more. Besides being a co-founder of Chagga Records, together with his Brother Filip aka Fifs, he is also one of the main organizers of DROPS festival, Slovenia's only psychedelic/experimental festival. 

In the end of 2023, Nibiru teamed up with Berlin-based label Quintessence Records, opening a new chapter of his musical evolution.

GIG LIST:

- 04.04.2020 - Maribor, Slovenia - forest set
- 04.08.2020 - MoDem Festival, Croatia
- 09.08.2021 - MoDem Festival, Croatia, v.1
- 15.08.2021 -  MoDem Festival, Croatia v.2
- 30.12.2021 - PsyCristrance & Eudaimonia Festival, Mexico
- 30.01.2022 - ASCENSO, CDMX, Mexico
- 04.07.2022 - 10.7.2022 - Masters of Puppets, Czech Republic
- 08.08.2022 - 14.08.2022 - MODEM festival, Croatia
- 16.8.2022 - 21.8.2022 - DROPS festival, Slovenia
- 23.12.2023 - Trainstation Subart, Slovenia
- 02.02.2023 - 07.02.2023 - Aluna Ritual, Colombia
- 07.08.2023 - 13.08.2023 - MO:DEM Festival, Croatia
-02.02.2023 - 07.02.2023 - ALUNA ritual, Colombia
- 31.03.2023 - 02.04.2023 - OMETEOTL Festival, Mexico
- 28.12.2023 - 2.01.2024 - PSYCRISTRANCE FESTIVAL MEXICO
- 05.08.2024 - 11.08.2024 - MODEM festival, CROATIA
- 13.08.2024 - 18.08.2024 - DROPS festival, SLOVENIA

WEB: https://drops-festival.com/
Bookingz: tesladeathray1@gmail.com

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