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Beglika Dam Free Fest

Date: 07 August 2008
Time: 17:00

Ecological Sound of Varna - Aladja Manaastir Open Air - 25,26,27 July 2008

Dark dubstep promomix (june 2008): Check Releases

I was able to “steal” 1 hour to perform a small part of my set at the second stage. I am happy that I was able to satisfy few people which came to listen to my mix so… I think it was a good start and of course - I really liked the festival up there in the heart of the Balkan.

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And here is the set tracklist:

Part 1:
1. Deflax - Beyond Infinity
2. Deflax - Mirror (right)
3. Deflax - Infotron
4. Deflax - Jenna
5. Aphex Twin - I
6. Deflax - I Need to Consume
7. Squarepusher - Vacuum Garden
8. Aphex Twin - Matchsticks
9. Deflax - Hug

Part 2:
1. Digital Sickness - Garden of Eden
2. Digital Sickness - X98
3. Digital Sickness - Midnight Brunette
4. Digital Sickness - Singularity
5. Deflax - Plush Fox
6. Boards of Canada - Beware The Friendly Stranger
7. Aphex Twin - Heliosphan
8. Digital Sickness - Yana
9. Digital Sickness - The Tree of Life

Part 3:
1. Deflax - Advanced9thc
2. Burial - Ghost Hardware
3. Deflax - Night Coffee
4. Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place out in the Country
5. Shpongle - Star Shpongled Banner
6. Boards of Canada - The Smallest Weird Number
7. Boards of Canada - Everything you do is a Balloon
8. Boards of Canada - Seeya Later
9. Squarepusher - Tundra 4
10. Boards of Canada - The Beach at Redpoint
11. Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun
12. Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy

Thanks for the support!

I am happy to inform you, that I’ll perform live at the Artmospheric Festival located in Stara Planina mountain, near Lakatnik - Svoge. Thus this will be my debut live performance, I will be on the second mini-stage, but I think it is a good start for an low expectation artist like me, so… I will do my best

Due the fact I’ve never performed live before… and still there is some stage fever hidden somewhere inside me… I’ve decided to do a hybrid live/set by mixing my own home-brew music with some afx/sqp/boc teasers before the show… which will give me some time to ajust the mix to the sound system and then, I’ll try some live performance with my laptop and midi controller using Reason in standalone mode. After all.. If everything goes wrong, I can still enjoy my favorite artists.. lying somewhere on the ground… high

So.. I’m pretty sure that this will be a nice party after all

More info about the place and the party line-up of the event is available at the official festival site:

www.artmospheric.org

Last night, ODP released my dark ambient project “Mirrors” through their website: ODP Label

You can download it from there and also from the releases section of deflax.net

I just love the review in ODP… thanks to v1le:
“Have you ever faced something that scares you to death but in the same time fascinates you so much you just can’t help thinking about it. This is absolutely what we felt when we first heard Deflax’s debut release for ODP - “Mirrors”. This record is probably the darkest piece of work we’ve released for these almost three years online. 12 tracks of pure darkness. Deep dark atmospheres are collaborating with intoxicating drum loops, creating amazing soundscapes. All of these are filled with so much creativity, feelings, memories and inspiration that you start wondering if this isn’t a direct gaze in the depths of its creator’s instead of a musical product. So click on the link below and face Deflax’s mirrors, because as it was said in a Mytrip song once - “Mirrors are where you touch reality…”

I’ve decided to finish my dark ambient release - the reason I’ve started with the music production hobby back in 2006. After all.. Aphex Twin and his Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 were the most inspirational project in my view of the dark ambient genre.

The release is called “Mirrors” and will contain the really personal to me track - “Hot Chocolate and Memories” plus a compilation of dark ambient tunes and it will come to light (or darkness … ) on 17 March 2008 thanks to v1le and ODP Label.

In the meantime… you can check the promo single Reflections:

last.fm/music/Deflax/Reflections
Deflax.Net Releases

This small release does not have much in common with the LP… but … who cares anyway

Enjoy

I’ve decided to maintain a list of my music production (and personal entertainment) gadgets. I’m doing this not to demonstrate … power as some of you may think, but to make an advertise of these products - with links to the product manufacturer’s websites. Let this be some kind of manifest to them, due the quality experience that I have with them.

Computer stations
Mobile - Apple MacBook (mid 2007)
Desktop - AMD Athlon 1800+, VIA K600, 256 MB RAM

Audio interfaces
M-Audio FireWire Audiophile

Controllers
Novation ReMOTE 25 LE

Audio drivers
Headphones - Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro @ 250 Ohm
Loudspeakers - Sound system “Panasonic SA-AK20″ back from 1997 - Yes.. I know that it is not professional… but I’m so used to it for 10 years of listening so it does work for me in the post-production process. I will definitely switch to some studio monitors at some point… but not now