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BIOGRAPHY
Spinning since 1999, Igraczech is active central-european drum'n'bass and electronic music freak. All the years Igraczech was smashing dancefloors at Czech Republic and not only Prague clubs Spilka, Piranha, Swamp, XT3, U Sudu, Roxy and last but not least Punto Azul. You can find Igraczech’s own tracks in MP3 section of his second personal server syxra.cz. There are four private-press albums (Destination: Trashcan, Platform, No.command and Nothingness of Existence), fifth album Ctrl-Art-Escape officially released as Punto Azul: Presence vol. 2 and free net-release at kaktusrecordings.org and 12" single Witch Instinct on own label KAKTUS Recordings based together with one of leaders of Czech d'n'b scene - DJ Touchwood. The album No.command, was rated 9/10 in Czech club scene magazine Ultram:x. Together with canadian Adam Stepanek aka DJ Marvel, they founded project called Edgestatika and produced some heavy dancefloor drum'n'bass tracks often played from Final Scratch, but never released. In the 2007 there are still running residential nights at Prague: Punto Azul drum’n’bass headquarters and monthly at Le Mirage. The repertoire now consists of 66 % d’n’b and the rest is breakbeat, downtempo and self-made tracks played using up to 3 turntables plus mixing CD players or Final Scratch at least once a month as the best favorite for future performances. Igraczech cooperates closely with DJ Touchwood, DJ Stanzim (Radio 1), Matkore and Nailer promoting Digital Penetration electronica/experimental/brekbeat/grime/dubstep/anything night in Cross Club Prague, bringing underground artists from UK labels like Seed, Anticat, Lo, Control Tower, Baselogic or even Warp. Igraczech is also member of HPNVSN crew specialized on light and visual effects for drum'n'bass and breakbeat parties. Igraczech fully uses his music knowledge through understanding the mix thus being able to work with light scenes much better than usual depending on what's the dj on the decks playing in this nanosecond. HPNVSN crew lit names like: Adam Freeland, Fauna Flash, Stanton Warriors, Monika Načeva, Rennie Pilgrem, Lee Coombs, LTJ Bukem, DJ Esta, Panacea, Reality, Triple Vision, Aphrodite, Klute, Suv, Alex Reece, Utah Jazz, Surge, Nookie, Ed Rush, Fabio and many others. Official releases:
2001: Kaktus Recordings KAKT001: 12 inch split Witch Instinct (w/Stonedhigh: Hack) 2004: C41 C41001: Playback compilation CD: single Breathe 2005: Quazi Delict QDR005: Alvik - Beat::skip remixed: igraczech rmx 2005: Drumandbass.cz DNBCZ01: Back In My Mind compilation CD: single Blackmagic 2006: Punto Azul: Presence vol. 1 PACD001: Carrier & Zainfish also released on Punto Azul 2006: Shotgun compilation: Dream is Destiny / Sand Witch 2006: Punto Azul: Presence vol. 2 PACD002: Ctrl-Art-Escape author album also released on Kaktusrecordings.org 2007: Punto Azul: Presence vol. 3 PACD003: Ouroboros compilation CD: single Quantum Decoherence also released on Punto Azul
Played with/at:
2001: Luxury of Dirt: Panacea (Position Chrome, GER)
2002: Hyperfunk: Triple Vision (NL) 2003: Marvel (CAN), Drumstation: The Engine (CH) 2004: Digital Penetration: Stormfield (UK) back2back live! 2005: DigiTraction: with djs Stormfield [UK] and Cursor Miner [UK] live back2back sets 2006: Digital Penetration: with many UK artists (Mark Moore, Mr.6, Rob Hall, DJ N>E>D, Synapse, Symmetrik, KansasCityProphets, Ardisson... see DigitalPenetration.wz.cz Played at: CZ: Spilka.blok Prague, Liquid (Liberec), Depo 9 (Olomouc) and dozens of other small clubs all over the country... abroad: Volks and Sidewinder (Brighton, UK), Wagon (Wroclaw/PL)
CV:
1986: first home experiments with audio recording and light effects
1988-1995: basic school of Music arts / acoustic guitar 1994: first cover design jobs 1998-2002: art director of computer games magazine 1999: graduated at digital-communication-oriented high school 1999: intermediate dj course at LIVC dj centre (www.djschool.cz) 1999: founder of HPNVSN (hypnovision light engineering crew) 2000: Destination: Trashcan CD 2001: Platform CD 2002-2004: art director of alternative music magazine Ultram:x 2002: No.Command CD 2003: self-released Nothingness of Existence CD 2004: resident of Digital Penetration in Cross Club, Prague 2005: played for the very first time at Volks in Brighton, UK 2006: released Punto Azul Presence vol. 2: Ctrl-Art-Escape album CD 2007: running kaktusrecordings.org free mp3 netlabel
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