meticulously composed

On top of it all, in terms of innovavtion and meticulous detailed work, have to be my three albums that evolve around odd-time grooves. After obtaining a degree in Sonology with all due experiments and departure from given musical traditions, I felt a strong urge to work with standard musical stems evolving around drums, bass, harmony and melody. First such album gained attention from my two musical heroes from the balkans to the extent that they became interested in collaboration. Thus came to be the albums below. Recent saturation with computer screens and mouses has brought a halt to such extended composition. Also, it is my recent conviction that all recorded music is a simulation and I am more motivated to play real music, live.

mod-folk (2020)

Microtuning, odd meters, modular processing & Bojan Zulfikarpašić = all my dreams come true, this is it, the most challenging and intense album I ever made. It took 11.5 years from suggesting to Bojan making an album on an afternoon in Toulouse, until it was completed. I have developed the scales and the themes in advance of recording Bojan's interpretations and departures from these. In the process many other musicians contributed, and you can find them listed. For many years these fragments did not appear to have any completion potential, until one day Dejan Tomka heard the hidden threads and managed to masterfully articulate them in the process of mixing the album. In retrospect, it became hugely surprising that the music exposes pain. Nevertheless, it does seem clear that this universe rests on absurd making it a divine joke.

                 mod-folk on bandcamp

rambo leaks (2015) ramboleaks_uncut

These are the remixes of tracks by Rambo Amadeus, all in odd meters and hilarious, especially if you understand the lyrics and know the originals. He has been very kind to offer me his compositions and outtakes to work with. The progressive nature of the result did throw him off, but thanks to certain common friends as well, he finally accepted this difficult to listen, hard to follow and painful to digest radio drama. To this day when I relisten to this album I find new relationships, both musical and narrative. The album has been released three times in different formats, but the real connoisseurs dig the uncut version the most.

                 01 emanuela
                 02 shwantzwald klinik
                 03 plastic fantastic
                 04 demode
                 05 rasta mana
                 06 abvgd
                 07 summer hit
                 08 ilidza hamams
                 09 grande valse
                 10 mr popovic
                 11 intermezzo
                 12 finale

quattrophobia (2007) zipped

This is my first thoroughly compsed album that admittedly includes remixes as well. Packed with scratches and odd rhythms this record drawing on funk, jazz and balkan music must be considered my earliest masterpiece. Three years of hard work have gone into this CD that is a milestone in turntablism prpulsing it into the odd-time cosmos. To this day it sounds fresh as it took a direction that seems still underexplored. It is youthful and light in contrast to most of my other work that carries that much more intended madness. The fear of number four is an exaggaration, it might have been more accurate to call it the boredom of number four instead.

                 01 web weaver
                 02 ki7
                 03 ajde romale
                 04 paparaczo
                 05 bee15
                 06 delusion
                 07 the dragon
                 08 midget
                 09 dog tree
                 10 maple