Absolut Hear Me - Arsenal Festival Club
On Saturday, July 26, the semi-final of the nationwide DJ competition Hear Me will take place in the form of a silent party. Guests will be given headsets with three channels, each of which is connected to one of three consoles, so that they can decide for themselves which channel they want to listen to. The winner will be determined by the channel with the most listeners throughout the party, as well as by the votes of the jury, who will be judging technical elements, the choice of songs, dynamism, the creativity of the mixes, and contact with the audience. This year’s jury will include the duet Flirtini (Ment XXL and Jedynak), Maciek Prorok, and Pioneer DJ.
RAQ (Poznań)
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RAQ is a digger, DJ, and self-taught beat maker. He gets his rocks off on propagating tough-to-peg broken bassy beats, ranging from chillwave, future r'n'b, modern funk, to abstract hip-hop, glitch hop, jersey club, soulful house, trap and juke – generally everything that’s best between hip-hop and electronic music. You can catch his sets on Warsaw’s Radio Roxy (Kosmos), Krakow’s Radiofonia (Mamy Dla Was Kwiaty) and Poznan’s Afera (Duszne Granie). He’s shared the stage with international artists such as Dead Prez, Lunice, Flume, Lapalux, Salva, Tokimonsta, Pixelord, Samiyam, Eric Lau, Robot Koch, Shlohmo, B-Ju, Teebs, Slow Magic, Giraffage, Kidsuke, inc., and Polish acts, including Chloe Martini, Klaves, DJ Twister, Ten Typ Mes, VNM, W.E.N.A., Good Paul, DJ Czarny/Tas, Daniel Drumz, Maceo Wyro and Kixnare. He’s one of the foxes in Foxhole and the founder of the 5:55 series at Poznan’s Projekt Lab.
Konakov (Kiev, UKR)
Konakov is a Kiev-based DJ and electronic music producer from Kiev.
Anthony Hopekins
Anthony Hopekins is a DJ, promoter and producer from Łódź whose achievements include a remix released on We Are Your Music Mate, a performance on Polish Radio 4 and a mix for Sweat Lodge Radio. He hosts “Techno-Break,” the first radio show devoted to club music since “Night Trance” on Polish Radio Łódź. He’s played many after parties during Łódź Fashion Week and opened for HNNY, Madteo, Mosca, Terekka, Locked Groove and leading acts on the Polish house scene (SLG, Eltron John, Pol_On, Ptaki). His sets brim with a mix of techno, house and disco, from Detroit to Berlin, from 90 to 130 bpm.
Porcelain Head aka Cro55
This Wrocław native loves synthetic sounds, is fascinated with the sounds of the 80s, plays and produces electronic music. His preferences oscillate around the dark side of the force, in a blend of melancholy, the psychedelic, deep base and a pinch of melody. It is musical minimalism upon the extreme of excess. He’s taken part in numerous musical projects and strained his health during countless sets of Nu Disco, Indie, Deep House, Tech-House, Dub Techno; all the genres with which he most frequently makes his musical mésalliance.
Michał Zakrzewski
Michał Zakrzewski is a Wroclaw producer and DJ, member of the Hush Hush Pony collective. He graduated from the first Polish edition of the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp, held in Warsaw in March 2012. Along with Hush Hush Pony, he works with the French record label Moveltraxx, which has released several tracks by the collective including those played by Nightwave (at Boiler Room), Nick Catchdubs (cofounder of Fool's Gold Records with A-Trak), Big Dope P and Whistle. An HHP track entitled "Creative People" debuted in October 2012 and was recorded with Natalia and Paulina Przybysz. It was the first release by the new Reebok Classic Trax label (sponsored by Reebok) and includes a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmaH8IQQc2E in late January, Moveltraxx released the first official Hush Hush Pony EP called "Ponytales": http://soundcloud.com/moveltraxx/sets/hush-hush-pony-ponytales-ep One of the cuts on the EP is presented on the lauded XLR8R portal: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/01/1-wants-2 He has remixed artists such as Funkystepz, En2ak, Klaves and Negativ, played solo and with HHP with acts that include Moodymann, Locked Groove, Actress, Hnny, Pedestrian, Randomer, Bit Funk, Guy Andrews, Fabian Bruhn, Daniel Drumz, Eltron John, Klaves, Viadrina, Ptaki, Kuba Sojka, Zeppy Zep, Kixnare, Chino, Jonkpa, The Phantom and Sentel. His sets are dominated recently by various mutations of deep and tech house but you just might find sounds and rhythms of UK/future garage, UK funky and modern or oldschool techno.