Fusion of Horizons

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music is my self-defense

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19/08/22 ⌁ OÏDA, Matters, Kaunas
1/09/21 ⌁ Üle Maa Heli @ Maajaam
01/10/22 ⌁ IDA Radio Sound Residency, Viljandi
02/08/20 ⌁ Kullaaugu, Ahja, Estonia
04/04/20 ⌁ elektron.live, online festival
27/04/19 ⌁ Intonal Festival, Malmö, Sweden
07/02/18  ⌁ Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
27/01/17  ⌁ Odööride öö, Kanuti Gildi SAAL
04/05/17 ⌁ Slumdance, KAIKU, Helsinki, Finland
07/10/16 ⌁ Fusion of Horizons, MIMstudio
27/09/16 ⌁ Vaal Gallery, Tallinn
15/09/16 ⌁ Heliodesign, Tallinn Design Festival
22/07/16 ⌁ Kalana Saund, Hiiumaa, Estonia
18/09/15 ⌁ Audiovisual Poetry Festival TARP, Vilnius, Lithuania
3/07/15 ⌁ Abstraktsioonide ÖÖ, Tallinn, Estonia
26/06/15 ⌁ Fest Anča, Žilina, Slovakia
9/05/15 ⌁ ITFS, Ludwigsburg, Germany
13/12/14 ⌁ Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
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music to listen to while wandering on the moon
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from downtempo to disco, with funkiness and synthesizers in between,
from ambient to experimental, with weirdness in between,
from sensuality to techno, with an artificial paradise in between,
from the 70s to the present, with the silence and the trains in between
from the ground right up to the moon, with the whole cosmos in between.

Manfredas and Vilnius are not one and the same but so intrinsically linked that the Lithuanian capital makes a good starting point. Although, Manfredas got his first musical experience via his hometown radio (long shifts soundtracking a country exploding itself out of the Soviet glaciation), it was his move to Vilnius that started it all. 

Skip a few shifts at legendary club Gravity and an electroclash band and we get to Opium and Smala. It is quite hard to fathom how important the club and Manfredas’ imprint were to the Vilnius nightlife, and still are. For years, this was the party and what a party that was; creating a scene out of not much, educating a couple of generation of clubbers, tightening friendships and making Manfredas the international DJ he is today. For many, it made Vilnius unexpectedly the best clubbing city in the world.

After a string of solo releases and remixes aimed at the furthest corners of the dancefloor, Manfredas took a deep breath and reached out even beyond that furthest corner. With drummer Marijus Aleksa, he created Santaka, an organic/electronic post-jazz (insert whatever term you please) with releases on Byrd Out and legendary Finnish label Sahko, and a live project where the dance floor and non-dancefloor merge hypnotically.

When Manfredas co-created Radio Vilnius in 2021, a hub for experimental music in a dire national landscape, it was another way to pay his dues to the local scene. Born online, Radio Vilnius has now launched it's own record label, inaugurated by Santaka themselves.

When The Last Smala happened in 2020, Manfredas & Ivan Smagghe created a new party outfit: Dresden, a bastard child of Vilnius and London, mother of all nighters, designer of t-shirts, travelling circus (from Love International to Wonderfruit, Glastonbury to Sonar). More hours put in for unruly people, more psychedelic music, including a two-day “weekender” at Gallery, the new hyper-club opened by the Opium crew.

Jack of all trades but master of many (we haven’t talked about his love of food), you can find Manfredas touring the world searching for that extra sparkle and sharing it with all of us.

bookings : caroline@spunoutagency.com

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