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Relja Bobic
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please introduce yourslf
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My name is Relja Bobic; live in Belgrade, Yugoslavia where I work as a kind of activist in promoting non-mainstream artists and labels. All this is done as part of the Belgradeyard Sound System project - through 2 radio shows, web-site and the first electronic music festival in Belgrade - Dis-patch.
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what do you think about your domestic electronic music scene?
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The scene is not so developed, mainly due to lack of money and technical possibilities. You even cannot say that there is a scene, apart from the usual club culture which is flourishing everywhere in the world. Young artists also have no access to new good material and information, which we try to change. Hopefully in the next years, we will try and help build a scene, the basis being our festival Dis-patch. . |
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what do you think about european electronic music scene?
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is quite developed, with Germany definitely being the leader in Europe.
So many good projects come from Berlin, Cologne and other cities. Also
France and Britain have developed scenes, but it is nice to see that
good labels are also coming up in Portugal or Italy. In the end, nearly
every country of West Europe has a scene of its own - Norway, Sweden,
Austria, Denmark... It will be interesting to see what will come from
the East, as hopefully artists in these countries will improve their
production skills and try use the strong ideas that they already have... |
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what do you think about north ameriacn electronic music scene?
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When I think about American scene, first i think of San Francisco, and it definitely is the most productive electronic community. I don't know how it works with playing shows across America and what is the interest, but it seems that SF, Chicago, NYC, Washington have strong networks. Canadian projects are getting more attention as well. |
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do you know the japanese electronic music scene? and are you interested
in it?
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I
know it, its diferent streams and I am very much interested in it. On
one hand, there is the "older" community coming from the experimental
end - like Otomo, Sachiko, Nakamura... - and also the young crew of Masakatsu,
Noriko, Takamasa, Norihide etc. Asa-Chang & Junray is also the new project
which amazed me. In between, I know there is a lot of psychadelic bands
using electronics as well, but I am not so much into it. The improv scene
is also very big there. It also always amazed me that there is a huge
audience for this music in Japan. |
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what do you think about future of electronic music?
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It
will keep developing ang growing endlesly. Sometimes it will b very boring,
and sometimes it will be very new. But there will be so much stuff that
you will always be able to find exciting records and projects. It will
also be more and more involved with other media. |
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do you have any interests in current music scene?
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If
you mean the mainstream, then the answer is - not much. A simple fact
is that if I am dedicated to exploring el. music and other fractions of
genres which are not related to the mainstream market, there is no time
left. Listening to radio from time to time is my only contact to the "official"
musical framework. |
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if you have something to add, feel free.
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I just want to share my impression that together with the growing of the el. scene comes a less focused audience - people are not so interested as some time ago; a release of a record is not an event so important, as there are so many records released every day. This I find very bad and hope it will not go up to the extrme, where the only dedicated audience will become the musicians themselves... Belgradeyard
Sound SystemRelja Bobic < http://www.belgradeyard.co.yu
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