Party Time Magazine Party Time Magazine Issue 19 UMEK | Page 208
Www.PartyTimeMagazine.com Photo by R2D2 What are your feelings about the music scene now compared to when you started DJing? The scene obviously evolved. When I started, there were no infrastructure for electronic dance music in our country. We did our first parties at the community centers,
empty warehouses or just throwing open-air parties with sound system loaded on trucks. There were some clubs, but you can imagine their quality just after we came out
of communism. Now, we live in the era of hi-tech superclubs and festivals equipped with all the latest sound, light and visual WHFKQRORJLHV DYDLODEOH RQ WKH PDUNHW :H�YH gone from creating new alternative culture from the scratch to making big global business out of it. Now everything is much more professional, and even the technology
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Traktor, through Ableton where I add different effects and combine this with Kaos Pad 2. Along that I also use Faderfox controllers and Allen and Heath 92 mixer.
Do you remember the name of the first record you ever bought, what was it?