DTF Journal is launching an anthology about up to date Ukrainian tradition with a brand new particular problem — it can encompass printed points that can reveal a particular phenomenon. The fifth problem is devoted to the Ukrainian digital music scene, its key formations, occasions, individuals and releases. We let you know extra about what’s inside the problem and get it
What’s within the new print DTF Journal
The brand new problem captures the final decade of the Ukrainian digital music scene, which began actively creating after the occasions of the Revolution of Dignity, its heyday and subsequent adaptation to the encircling situations and turning factors — coronavirus pandemic and full-scale struggle.
‘The digital music scene, particularly the Kyiv scene, turned an actual phenomenon of post-Maidan Ukraine. It was greater than a neighborhood phenomenon — Kyiv declared itself as one of many key facilities on the membership map of Europe, — Volodymyr Voloshchuk, editor-in-chief of DTF Journal, says. — The yr 2021 has change into a peak yr for each Kyiv and the areas… The yr 2022 promised to be way more eventful. However russia’s full-scale invasion modified every thing’.
The fifth problem comprises the next:
— The checklist of ‘30 Ukrainian digital music albums of the last decade’, compiled by the outcomes of the survey.
— Unique photographs of the development of essentially the most well-known Ukrainian membership on the planet — ∄ (Membership on Kyrylivska), and an interview with its architect.
— A uncommon interview with Slava Lepsheiev, founding father of Japanese Europe’s largest rave Cxema.
— A short historical past of Kyiv rave as a phenomenon.
— Six essays and reflections on the regional digital music scene by individuals with out whom it’s onerous to think about it.
— Interviews with digital musicians equivalent to Heinali, Maryana Klochko, Nastya Vogan and Roma Krymskyi.
— A photograph undertaking in regards to the romance of the dance flooring within the works of Yana Franz.
‘This problem doesn’t write a chronology of the Ukrainian digital music scene. It discusses just some elements of its life, which had been talked about above. It was vital for us to listen to the voice of the areas, so we invited its direct contributors to jot down a collection of essays. We wished to study extra in regards to the backstage of a few of the most iconic initiatives, in addition to reply the query: ‘What’s going to this decade be remembered for by way of music?’, so we carried out the primary large-scale survey, compiling an inventory of ‘30 Ukrainian digital music albums of the last decade’. This isn’t but a canon of Ukrainian digital music, however a step in direction of its formation’.
The difficulty ends with tales of representatives of the digital music scene, who from the primary days of the full-scale struggle stood up for Ukraine. So, within the fifth problem you’ll be able to see the frontline picture story by DJ and producer Raavel ( take a look at his combine for DTF Journal right here), in addition to the diaries of Nikita Kozachinsky, the founding father of Dnipro membership Module.
‘We strived to present voice to these heroes who’re defending Ukraine on the frontline right this moment. And we shut this problem with their phrases, ideas and feelings. We dedicate the fifth print problem of DTF Journal to all those that are combating. In reminiscence of all these whose lives had been taken by the struggle’, Volodymyr provides.
Kyiv-based design studio CREVV was accountable for the design and format of the fifth problem.
The undertaking is carried out with the help of the Ukraine Confidence Constructing Initiative (UCBI), funded by the US Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID).
The place to purchase the print problem
You possibly can place your order for the particular problem on-line at this hyperlink.
Worth — 400 UAH. The copies will probably be despatched on June 17 — we will ship the journal by Nova Poshta on the recipient’s expense or you’ll be able to choose it up in Kyiv (Lviv Sq. and Golden Gate space, we’ll let you know the precise place).
It is possible for you to to purchase the journal offline from June 22: in Kyiv — in Syndicate retailer, in Lviv — in MOT artwork house (the place a brand new exhibition will run from June 22), in Kharkiv — in Ssweep retailer (from June 24).
In April 2023, the editorial employees of DTF Journal launched a collector’s print problem particularly for the Module of Temporality (MOT) undertaking.
Just like the artwork house exhibition, the problem continued to discover the important thing theme of the exhibition — temporality, and to have interaction in a dialog with Ukrainian and overseas artists. On the core of the journal are works by Ukrainian artists mixed with essays, interviews and diaries to current the artwork and reflection of these people who find themselves in a state of temporality and uncertainty.