He's back with free shit!
To say thanks to his facebook fans for helping him reach 20,000 fans, he has given away 2 freebies. One under Balkansky and one under Cooh.
Grab them here.
Showing posts with label Balkansky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balkansky. Show all posts
8/5/13
- A CATCH UP SESSION WITH THE BRAIN BEHIND BALKANSKY, COOH AND DRUM KID -
This guy is a multi alias producer from Bulgaria. He produces Bass music and Techno under 3 different names and has a very strong following behind all of them.
We managed to catch up with Ivan this week for a short interview.
Here's a chat with
1. Last time we spoke was June 2011 and you were working on some massive projects on your own and with lots of other artists. How many projects have you working on now?
I just released my Cooh - ReBirth album on Position Chrome and already working on new album with Limewax, and also working on the new Underhill album with Dean Rodell.
With Balkansky, I am working on some exiting collabs with artists like Valance Drakes, Broken Note, Current Value, Basscatz, Dubsidia, Niveau Zero, L33, Hempsta and others.
After the second Бalkansky album went really good last october 2012, we are already planning recording a new album with Theodosii Spassov and Ivo Christov.
2. What has been your most memorable gig in the last couple years?
As Balkansky it was the live act we did at the Drum and Jazz night in Sofia last November, as Cooh it was a massive free open air in Ostrava (Czech Republic) just a month ago called Beats for love.
3. You play under several different name's, can you give us a run through of the different styles of music you create for each name and why you have chosen to play under different names?
Originally i started my music career as Cooh, which now stands for my drum and bass, but from the very beginning i was doing other genres too and one day when I already had some following for Cooh, I decided to release my different music under different names. Drum and bass fans, don't always appreciate their favorite artists to be associated with other genres, especially dubstep, so i decided to pick up different names for the different styles. So Balkansky stands for my dubstep/idm/glitch stuff and Drum Kid is for my deep techno tracks.
4. Tell us about your live set up... what equipment do you prefer to use on stage?
On stage i prefer to play with CDs as I have the feeling that when performing with a computer, the crowd looses the connection with me and my music. Maybe i just need to try it more and find a way to do it better, but for the moment i am happy with 2-3 CDJs 2000 and a mixer with onboard fx. Its totally different story when i perform live with Бalkansky. As its all live music, I am having lots of hardware equipment on stage (monger fooggers, access virus, eventide delay and reverb and more)+ a laptop with midi controllers and an iPad with few apps I love to use for live sampling, mangling and loops.
5. What is a new genre of Bass Music that you think is about to take off?
I think thats the glitch hop and its not new, but now it gets really big hype. I also started few tracks with R.O and I am looking forward to see them finished soon :)
6. What Program are you using to write your tunes?
I use mainly Ableton Live 9 with Max4Live now, but I used to write 99% of my music with Reason. I also use Cubase occasionally and some good VSTs.
Also been part of Ableton beta testers and I did lots of Ableton Workshops around the world, including Melbourne and Sydney on my last tour in January.
7. Most inspiring artist of the year?
Too many to mention, but i can't miss Jon Hopkins, Culprate, Current Value.
8. When can we expect you in Australia?
I am now starting to work on getting big tour sorted for the beginning of next year. Cant wait to come back and play more shows with my new tracks and projects. Always good times down under :)
9. What kind of music do you kick back and relax to?
I love to listen to some jazz, ambient and idm. Everything with deeper and music vibe works for me.
10. And finally, What's next for Balkansky?
New БALKANSKY album (after Orenda), EP for Ad Noiseam with Current Value and many more collabs and remixes.
Also participating with 2 tracks in a Pink Floyd tribute compilation for bulgarian net label Mahorka.
I just released my Cooh - ReBirth album on Position Chrome and already working on new album with Limewax, and also working on the new Underhill album with Dean Rodell.
With Balkansky, I am working on some exiting collabs with artists like Valance Drakes, Broken Note, Current Value, Basscatz, Dubsidia, Niveau Zero, L33, Hempsta and others.
After the second Бalkansky album went really good last october 2012, we are already planning recording a new album with Theodosii Spassov and Ivo Christov.
2. What has been your most memorable gig in the last couple years?
As Balkansky it was the live act we did at the Drum and Jazz night in Sofia last November, as Cooh it was a massive free open air in Ostrava (Czech Republic) just a month ago called Beats for love.
3. You play under several different name's, can you give us a run through of the different styles of music you create for each name and why you have chosen to play under different names?
Originally i started my music career as Cooh, which now stands for my drum and bass, but from the very beginning i was doing other genres too and one day when I already had some following for Cooh, I decided to release my different music under different names. Drum and bass fans, don't always appreciate their favorite artists to be associated with other genres, especially dubstep, so i decided to pick up different names for the different styles. So Balkansky stands for my dubstep/idm/glitch stuff and Drum Kid is for my deep techno tracks.
4. Tell us about your live set up... what equipment do you prefer to use on stage?
On stage i prefer to play with CDs as I have the feeling that when performing with a computer, the crowd looses the connection with me and my music. Maybe i just need to try it more and find a way to do it better, but for the moment i am happy with 2-3 CDJs 2000 and a mixer with onboard fx. Its totally different story when i perform live with Бalkansky. As its all live music, I am having lots of hardware equipment on stage (monger fooggers, access virus, eventide delay and reverb and more)+ a laptop with midi controllers and an iPad with few apps I love to use for live sampling, mangling and loops.
5. What is a new genre of Bass Music that you think is about to take off?
I think thats the glitch hop and its not new, but now it gets really big hype. I also started few tracks with R.O and I am looking forward to see them finished soon :)
6. What Program are you using to write your tunes?
I use mainly Ableton Live 9 with Max4Live now, but I used to write 99% of my music with Reason. I also use Cubase occasionally and some good VSTs.
Also been part of Ableton beta testers and I did lots of Ableton Workshops around the world, including Melbourne and Sydney on my last tour in January.
7. Most inspiring artist of the year?
Too many to mention, but i can't miss Jon Hopkins, Culprate, Current Value.
8. When can we expect you in Australia?
I am now starting to work on getting big tour sorted for the beginning of next year. Cant wait to come back and play more shows with my new tracks and projects. Always good times down under :)
9. What kind of music do you kick back and relax to?
I love to listen to some jazz, ambient and idm. Everything with deeper and music vibe works for me.
10. And finally, What's next for Balkansky?
New БALKANSKY album (after Orenda), EP for Ad Noiseam with Current Value and many more collabs and remixes.
Also participating with 2 tracks in a Pink Floyd tribute compilation for bulgarian net label Mahorka.
4/29/13
- DUBSTEP DEMOCRACY'S INTERVIEW'S -
Dubstep Democracy has been doing interviews with our favorite producers for quite a while now. We feel that some of our bigger interviews got overlooked because those specific artists weren't huge at the time of the interviews.
So here is a list of some of our most proud interviews for you to look back at and learn more about.
Interviews confirmed and coming shortly are:
Posij and Joe Ford .
Thanks for reading!!!
4/29/11
-FRIDAY BANGERS-
For This weeks mixtapes we have stuff from
BUL, USA, UK.
BUL, USA, UK.
The First is a mix by Bulgarian DJ Balkansky
Balkansky Podcast for Bassfreqs by COOH
The Second is from American DJ's Dr. Cryptic & Mr. Kiplin
The third is the newest mixtape from the Never Say Die Label. Mixed by Dodge and Fuski
NSD Vol 8 Mixed by Dodge & Fuski by DubstepDemocracy.blogspot
4/6/11
- FROM BULGARIA WITH LOVE -
I was very lucky to get in touch with Bulgarian Producer/DJ Balkansky. Since hearing Excision's Shambhala 2010 mix-tape I was hooked on the track Sundrom. His sound is ambient and heavy at the same time and he has a unique quality that sets him apart. I was so stoked to get this interview, and I'm equally stoked to share it with all of you!
1. Tell us about the Electronic music scene in Bulgaria... what are your likes and dislikes?
Its really getting bigger with every year, so thats what i wanted back in the days and I am happy with the result, but sometimes theres too much fights between crews and different promoters, so the artists are always in the middle of the battlefield. Thats all good on the other hand as it makes the crews bring more quality to the parties.
2. Have you always been making the same type of music or has your style changed over the years?
I originally started playing in a metal band when i was 15 and later on started doing some industrial and experiment with electronic music, but I never kept doing only one style of music over the years.
I used the name Balkansky to cover some of my deeper and more inteligent electronic music productions (trip hop, IDM, dubstep, acid jazz, ethno), but I was doing this kind of sound since I started priducing back in the 1998-2000. I have and another project for deep techno and its called Drum Kid, also Underhill (with Dean Rodell, Current Value, Martina Astner and MC Coppa) which is a project with live vocals covering the darker dubstep - trip hop kinda sound. And ofcaurse Cooh is my name for filthy drum and bass and hardcore crossover heavy beats.
3. What programs and pluggins are you using to make you music?
My main program during the years was Reason, but i am using a lot of Ableton and Nuendo too.
On the plugins side I love all the stuff from Native Instruments and especially Reaktor + few more good stuff around and a lot of free vst plugins.
4. Best gig you ever played?
Its really hard to say, but i think it was the gig in Rotterdam last christmas when i played a back to back set with The Panacea on the PRSPCT XL party for around 2500 people.
5. Which Artist/Band/Producer (dead or alive) would you give anything to see live?
Telefon Tel Aviv, Flanger, Pink Floid and many more....
6. Whats is your favourite tune to relax to?
The sound of the birds and the wind in the trees...but also I love to listen jazz and bossanova and everything from Joal Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
7. Which came first for you, Producing or DJing?
Priducing came first for me and when i had enough of my own music to play I started DJing and enjoying the reactions from my sound.
8. Sundrom is one of my favourite tracks at the moment, when can we expect it to be released?
I just signed it on Dubsaw and I am now doing the track for the flipside then we can go for the release in the next few months..
9. Top 5 tracks to play at the moment...
Nyree - Scream My Name (Balkansky Remix)
Cooh - Helmet
Balkansky & Loop Stepwalker - Sopharma
Culprate - Crash
Underhill - Blind
10. And finally, whats next for Balkansky?
I am now working on a new Balkansky full lenght album featuring Theodosii Spassov and few more Bulgarian musicians and singers. I just finished a new Balkansky album for Ohm Resistance and I am working on lots of new heavy remixes and solo tracks. Also finished an EP with Sinister Souls for Rottun Recordings and working on another EP for Ad Noiseam with Loop Stepwalker.
Its really getting bigger with every year, so thats what i wanted back in the days and I am happy with the result, but sometimes theres too much fights between crews and different promoters, so the artists are always in the middle of the battlefield. Thats all good on the other hand as it makes the crews bring more quality to the parties.
2. Have you always been making the same type of music or has your style changed over the years?
I originally started playing in a metal band when i was 15 and later on started doing some industrial and experiment with electronic music, but I never kept doing only one style of music over the years.
I used the name Balkansky to cover some of my deeper and more inteligent electronic music productions (trip hop, IDM, dubstep, acid jazz, ethno), but I was doing this kind of sound since I started priducing back in the 1998-2000. I have and another project for deep techno and its called Drum Kid, also Underhill (with Dean Rodell, Current Value, Martina Astner and MC Coppa) which is a project with live vocals covering the darker dubstep - trip hop kinda sound. And ofcaurse Cooh is my name for filthy drum and bass and hardcore crossover heavy beats.
3. What programs and pluggins are you using to make you music?
My main program during the years was Reason, but i am using a lot of Ableton and Nuendo too.
On the plugins side I love all the stuff from Native Instruments and especially Reaktor + few more good stuff around and a lot of free vst plugins.
4. Best gig you ever played?
Its really hard to say, but i think it was the gig in Rotterdam last christmas when i played a back to back set with The Panacea on the PRSPCT XL party for around 2500 people.
5. Which Artist/Band/Producer (dead or alive) would you give anything to see live?
Telefon Tel Aviv, Flanger, Pink Floid and many more....
6. Whats is your favourite tune to relax to?
The sound of the birds and the wind in the trees...but also I love to listen jazz and bossanova and everything from Joal Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
7. Which came first for you, Producing or DJing?
Priducing came first for me and when i had enough of my own music to play I started DJing and enjoying the reactions from my sound.
8. Sundrom is one of my favourite tracks at the moment, when can we expect it to be released?
I just signed it on Dubsaw and I am now doing the track for the flipside then we can go for the release in the next few months..
9. Top 5 tracks to play at the moment...
Nyree - Scream My Name (Balkansky Remix)
Cooh - Helmet
Balkansky & Loop Stepwalker - Sopharma
Culprate - Crash
Underhill - Blind
10. And finally, whats next for Balkansky?
I am now working on a new Balkansky full lenght album featuring Theodosii Spassov and few more Bulgarian musicians and singers. I just finished a new Balkansky album for Ohm Resistance and I am working on lots of new heavy remixes and solo tracks. Also finished an EP with Sinister Souls for Rottun Recordings and working on another EP for Ad Noiseam with Loop Stepwalker.
SUNDROM
And a taster from a new one
And a taster from a new one
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