Club Fuga line-up at Pohoda on the Ground on Thursday, 8th July
The focus of dramaturgy of Fuga are concerts and parties where mostly less widespread and more experimental forms of electronic and dance music, rock, metal, and jazz are played. This was also reflected in their line-up for the Pohoda on the Ground festival. On the 8th July, the Fuga stage will host Isama Zing Edúv syn & Žakhéles, Lazy Bastards Soundsystem, band Lutra, and a new project by Miroslav Tóth, Srnka.
12. May 2021
SRNKA
SRNKA is a new project that includes composer Miroslav Tóth (electronics), Matúš Mordavský (vocals), Zdeněk Závodný (baritone saxophone), and Marek Buranovský (guitar baritone). Fuga dramaturgist Juraj Hoppan told us about this booking: “Pohoda is an excellent pretext for booking new projects. One of them is the SRNKA project. It is something like if Maťko Burlas and Atari Teenage Riot played sludge metal with heavy beats and highly absurd lyrics.”
ISAMA ZING
Isama Zing is a club project of Jonatán Pastirčák (Pjoni), who is also a member of the Mäss team. His music is a reflection of the diversity of interconnected genres of contemporary electronic music. The combination of modulated field recordings with industrial beats and fragile melodies indirectly illustrates the reverberation of civilizational mechanicality, which, in the work of Isama Zing, is organically divided and then reconnected into the whole of compositions. Fuga dramaturgist Juraj Hoppan said that Isam Zing has long confirmed that this is one of the current-sounding projects that will perform great at home as well as abroad. A proof of this is his participation in the SHAPE platform uniting top artists from Europe and his performance at showcase festivals such as ESNS and Ment. The new album promises a number of interesting and surprising guests who do not normally dwell in the waters of supra-genre electronic music.
EVIL MEDVĚD
Evil Medvěd is a Prague liveact. Their live sets work mainly with modular improvisation, they are malicious and often intricately built, they play with anticipation, discomfort, and personal stories. These are selected artists from Shape Platform Artists 21 who are part of the Trigger collective based in the Synth Library Prague. “Evil Medvěd is one of those brand new names that deserve more attention. Faolan McGowann from Scotland is currently active on the Prague scene, and there they quickly earned attention for their innovative approach to club production. Like Isama Zing, they are part of the SHAPE Platform,” adds Juraj Hoppan.
EDÚV SYN & ŽAKHÉLES
Why did punk rockers start doing trap? Matej Myslovič aka Edúv Syn is an increasingly well-known name in the field of the underground rap scene, which opposes materialism and sexism, and instead prefers introspection and authenticity, which speaks directly to the soul of many of his listeners. Matej's rap art is as artistic as his paintings, which he paints in his free time. They don't pretend anything. This time, you can look forward to a double concert with his buddy Žakhéles, a rap character created by Kabala. Some things are more real than reality, as will be soon evidenced to you by these two performers with the support of DJ Obštrukcia. “A perfect combination of two, in my opinion, the most interesting names of contemporary Slovak hip-hop. Both of these rappers speak the words out of their mouths exactly as they should and, moreover, this is no gimmick channel, but rather a conscious satire that does not pretend anything,” adds Hargi, the head of Fuga.
LUTRA
Band Lutra was originally founded by friends from Petržalka playing crust / neocrust music and a mixture of harder punk music. So far, they have released three EPs and in a slightly modified formation, they still play like in their recordings: fast, loud and full of energy. Hargi, boss of Fuga, adds: “Lutra is one of several renowned names of the Bratislava hardcore-punk scene, which lives, in addition to a few other clubs, mainly in Fuga. This band has been producing heavy quality material for many years and deserves a little more attention and a big stage.”
LAZY BASTARDS SOUNDSYSTEM
Lazy Bastards Soundsystem is a pack of DJs and electronic music producers from Bratislava and Trenčín. Their natural habitat is the club and freetekno scene, but most often you can meet and hear them in Bratislava's Space for the missing culture, Fuga. The pack consists of Maraki, Shutcoo, Minkz, Barzjako, Bartek, Drakh, Arrow, and Skrat. The bastards move in a wide space of different styles of electronic music. They play straight and broken beats, from techno to speedcore and hardcore. They feel at home with breakbeat and genres such as jungle, drum and bass, and breakcore. Yet they do not avoid experimental hallucinations either. “In Bratislava, it is a legendary group of about ten DJs, each of whom plays a different style of electronic music. No party has ever been too good for them, or the club has been too small, and they are among the most important figures of the Slovak freetekno scene and the whole underground,” says Hargi about Lazy Bastards Soundsystem.
Boris Vitázek: Installation on personal data and space
Fuga will also bring an installation by Boris Vitázek on personal data and space—an issue in a unique combination brought about by the adoption of virtual reality by the general public. It was first premiered at the Kiosk festival. The installation is designed for one person and is a short experience that combines sound, visual and body movement into a multimedia work.