The mother of all blog entries

So here I am, finally getting some time away to wrap up what was an awesome summer…in November. To say I’ve been too busy would be an understatement, yet so many good things happened this year that I find it hard to not mention them just because a few months have passed. This is gonna be one massive blog post since I don’t think I will have more free time in the coming months. So for starters I suppose the big thing that I should comment on was the Mafia fest in Tanzania. A pretty hard topic to be honest, one that I’ve somehow turned a blind eye to at the time. In case you don’t know, the fest was canceled a couple of weeks before it was supposed to happen and it left me in a state of shock, disbelief and just plain confusion. On the other hand I was relieved that a big job I was supposed to do was now taken off my shoulders. At the time I was very stressed out from other stuff pouring in, the compilation was coming along nicely but the day job was taking away a lot of time and energy. I still couldn’t find someone to take care of my cat for 20+ days and I couldn’t sort out transport to the airport in Vienna as well since Trains were running very irregularly. The waves of unhappy and furious comments erupted on forums and Facebook and I quickly started getting questions from people that I couldn’t really answer.

Posted on November 27th at 02:23 by DovlaContinue reading

It’s time to kick ass and chew bubblegum…and I’m all outta gum

Dang, it's been 6 crazy months since a proper update. I guess facebook would be to blame. The fact that I'm fully booked up until mid september also has something to do with it. I'm still amazed by the feedback I'm getting for last years Ozora fest. You people should know that I am doing other gigs too Things have been so hectic lately it's made me question weather I need to let some of my hobbies go. The obvious one to suffer has been gaming, most people will point out that it's a good thing, and that I need to grow up. Those people need a good kick in the balls. I find it fascinating how many times I hear this argument tossed around. If there's one thing I love about modern video games is that they have storylines and proper writing which surpass many of today's movies in just about every possible way. Mass Effect 2 comes to mind, the intro of that game along with everything else just makes me glad to pick up a gamepad every now and then. I've been properly pissed off about the whole Roger Ebert shite that went down but I won't waste my breath on it since so many dedicated gamers have already jumped at his throat.

Posted on June 23rd at 22:55 by DovlaContinue reading

Torn between worlds

I never cared much for new year’s eve, this entire idea that there is a certain time and place in which you have to go all out and celebrate really pisses me off. So artificial and bloated and it doesn’t take into account how you might feel on that particular day. I’ve always had big issues in regards to where I would spend my new year’s eve and with whom. Since people always tend to get shitfaced beyond recognition I’d usually wind up either staying home or just hanging out with a few of my gamer friends. However this year I got lucky enough to get a killer gig In Gent. Apparently a lot of people in Belgium heard my set at Ozora and everyone loved it so much. I was really looking forward to playing some 4/4 set for a change. Even though music wise I am still listening to nu jazz and trip hop a lot more. Especially after the great gig in London.

Posted on January 4th at 23:24 by DovlaContinue reading

Thank you London!

Every year when the summer festival season ends things slow down to a crawl here. The few parties that do happen usually have the style of music that I no longer have a craving for. It's sad when the only reason why you go to a party is to socialize with people you don't really have tight friendships with. But there are always nice little exceptions that happen and make me remember the lovely summers I've been having these last couple of years. One of em was the Pitch Black party that happened about a month ago here. I've been wanting to write a proper review of it for a while now but just couldn't grab the time. I met up with a good friend before the party and started talking about how we just want to go out and dance to good music and not be bothered with facts like who's there or who isn't. We both got what we asked for...and then some. I loved their live so much that I bought two cds right afterwards.

Posted on December 8th at 23:21 by DovlaContinue reading

Working on a daily basis

So the day finally came that I'd get a proper day job. It got to a point where the only thing I was doing regularly was watching movies, playing videogames and listening to music all day long. Another bad case of insomnia soon followed so I'm very thankful to be an upstart in a really cool web development company called Neumatik.

Working together with a longtime friend of mine and his mates as well as being right next to a full blown music production studio is a dream. I can't imagine a better working place right now. Check out the company Neumatik.hr. The owner of the studio is a famous techno artist called Petar Dundov. Anyway the job is now keeping me pretty busy and letting me sleep and eat properly which is a really good thing. Things have been rather busy on the music front as well. After the successful Ozora festival gig I sparked a lot of interest and became part of a booking agency called Human Touch so in case you are interested in booking me please do so through them. Local gigs are still done by myself though.

Posted on October 18th at 12:48 by DovlaContinue reading

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