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Nickname: AlienSteppa
Year: 1978
Location: Europe, Lithuania

AlienSteppa - an ideological founder and a head of CYBERNAUGHT alliance – is an organizer, DJ, producer, poet, writer and scriptwriter. He has been interested in music all his conscious life. The roots of his musical way can be found in his mother’s collection, which included the tunes of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Glen Miller, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Abba, etc. That was the basis which helped AlienSteppa to grow, filled him with intellectual vibrations and developed his love to the most beautiful art – the music. The above-mentioned performers made an important contribution to music, not to mention their financial success; their creative work brought the qualitative aspect into AlienSteppa’s choice of preferences in music: even though being 5 or 6 at that time, he never chose the music which was ‘cheap’ in terms of quality and popularity. Drifting in the sea of melodies and getting older, AlienSteppa started searching for his own side of the music, the one that sounded inside of him. As a result, his one true love – the electronic music.

In the beginning of 1990’s it was Enigma that sounded most often at AlienSteppa’s home. To be more precise, it was a remixed album – Enigma & Other Gregorian Mysteries, the remixes created by techno DJs who were to become popular in the near future - Jens Lissat, Equinox, Oliver Lieb, etc. These were the first steps made by AlienSteppa into the world of electronic music; by the end of 1991, when the compilation called Welcome to Technology got into his hands, he was already more confident. Having heard many styles of contemporary music, in Welcome to Technology he finally found what he longed for in music. Then he started to look for any compilation which had the word techno in the title.
After about a year of searching, he came across some compilations in which heavier rhythms dominated. As a result, he found the whole spectrum of the contemporary music, which at that time was associated with the underground: European and British hardcore. Lenny Dee, Dj Dano, The Prophet, Gizmo, Laurent Ho, Technohead were common in AlienSteppa’s playlist. This period lasted until 1994, when the heaviness of hardcore was little by little taken over by something that changed AlienSteppa into a man presently known in Lithuania and the neighboring countries. This ‘something’ was the early stage of a universal style, now known as Drum’n’Bass, which was just coming to Lithuania and was called Jungle at that time. It began with a track from the Rave City compilation, called BassFace Sascha – Deep In Da Groove. Enormous amounts of positive energy, fast rhythm, depth and transparency of this composition radically changed AlienSteppa’s world. Then came LTJ Bukem – Demon’s Theme, Goldie – Inner City Life and two compilations mixed by BassFace Sascha – Jungle Fever 1–2 The Junglistic Revolution – that became the drum’n’bass Bible for AlienSteppa. He was carried away by that style; gradually compiling his collection of music and reading all sorts of music literature, AlienSteppa was getting more conscious about the whole spectrum of electronic music.

1997 saw the next stage of AlienSteppa’s musical development – he started a DJ’s career. For about half a year he played in a café Kavinė prie Gedimino Kalno every Friday and Saturday. That is where he formed his views about DJs as artists. AlienSteppa was a self-taught DJ, but the quality of his music was getting better each time he played – the knowledge he got reading the music literature and the understanding of DJ’s work over turntables helped him in that. He played such underground drum’n’bass compositions as Lemon D. – This Is Los Angeles, Dillinja – You Don’t Know / Armoured D / The Angel’s Fell, Goldie – Kemistry, Ganja Kru – No Fear / Plague That never Ends, J. Majik – Your Sound, Source Direct – Enemy Lines / Capital D, Photek – Ni – Ten – Ichi – Ryu, Asylum – Da Base II Dark, etc. People attending these events liked such a selection and AlienSteppa was getting more popular. During the next few years he played at the private parties, getting more experienced.

The beginning of 2002 saw the birth of a new massive stage in AlienSteppa’s career. Due to the well-organized parties in the Intro club, his name became famous in Lithuania as well as in some neighboring countries. He organized a series of weekly parties called DnB Eve in the Intro club, a series of events with Lithuanian and foreign DJs taking part in them and numerous parties in Lithuania as well as outside the country. From 2002 AlienSteppa tried working as a producer and succeeded writing his own music and making tracks. Practice showed that his tracks were popular among the d’n’b fans. In the end of 2002 he created a team of DJs naming it Artificial Dreaddaz, with Intakz (ex Capsulle), Babilan, and Roof in it, and analyzed the possibilities of launching a webpage that would include the information about the team and the history of contemporary electronic music. Nevertheless, in the beginning of 2004 the disagreements among the members resulted in breakup. AlienSteppa strived to achieve his goals and by the end of the year he launched a massive project called CYBERNAUGHT (The Eastern Europe Art Alliance). Such people as Magnetique, MC Psyooze a.k.a. Zee – Dan and Nekyia joined the project together with Monte - the ‘computer brain’ of the CYBERNAUGHT webpage who was working with AlienSteppa to launch it.

In 2006 the official webpage of CYBERNAUGHT (The Eastern Europe Art Alliance) appeared.

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Ignas JuzOKas a.k.a. magnetique [1982.09.01]

Musician (double bass) / dj / live electronics

Inspiration: There can not be any inspiration for the music. Music is an inspiration itself. I'm an artist. I live in it. I have my whole life in it. I'm still studying music.

Interests: i'm interested in music, electronics, acoustic/electronic instruments (transformations), acoustics itself, sound egineering, various sound gadgets, technological stuff. Not interested in drinking, getting high/stoned.
That's why i love drum&bass.

Playing style: i love playing classics. But when the party is getting on – i play it hard.

Mixing style: i don't know if it is a mixing – it's very slow. It's a kind of a re-composition. Sometimes i catch myself in a moment when i can not understand which vinyl is a source and which - destination.

What's on playlist: there You can find Krust, dj Hype, Dillinja, EZ-Rollers so on; there you can find Decoder, Substance, ED Rush, Optical; there you can also find many great music from Moving Shadow (I really love Dom&Roland), Bad Company, Bad MF, Concord Dawn, Mathematics, Aquasky, Black Sun Empire; and finally – You can find there some old classical jungle (from 1992…).

Since 2001 studies double bass (drum&bass – since 1996) LAMT (Lithuanian Acedemy of Music and Theatre).

Joined CYBERNAUGHT in 2006.

Projects/clubs:
KurKliošas – 2001 (Somewhere in Lithuania) – dj;
drum&bass @ Tasty – 2001 (Vilnius, LT) – dj;
Vault – 2001 – 2005 (Vilnius, LT) – club/dj;
Gravity Club – 2002 (Vilnius, LT) – live electronics / dj;
Young Jazz Stars @ NewOrleansClub – 2002 (Vilnius, LT) – club/dj
NewYorkClub – 2003 (Vilnius, LT) – sound engineer, operator, producer. Quitted in 2006
Helios club – 2004 (Vilnius, LT);
Luminarium – 2004 (Nida, LT) – live electronics, dj, producer;
I'mPulse – 2005 (Manila, Philipines) live electronics / double bass;
Depo – 2005 (Riga, Latvia) – club/dj;
Bukareštas 1968 – 2005 (Vilnius, LT) – composed music for theatre;
B.O. Club – 2005 - ... (Kaunas, LT) club/dj;
Laukinė moteris – 2006 (Vilnius, LT, Riga, LV) – composed music for theatre;
ELIA performances – 2006 (Tilburg, Holland) – live electronics;
Ostija movie @ AXX – 2006 (Vilnius, LT) – soundtrack, post-production;
ELIA performances – 2006 (Gent, Belgium) – live electronics / dj;
Network administrator for Distant Learning – 2006 (LAMT, Vilnius, LT).
There was some playing, composing, performing around. Not everything is for the media. There were private parties (LT, LV, PL, DE, RU) and so on.

2006 still studying double bass (masters degree - LAMT).

Psyooze

Deeper interest in music begins a few years ago. About 1999 I started listening a wide culture of hip-hop. At first when I was listening to rap music it was difficult to say what are the differences between rap and hip-hop, but later i realize that. My first hip-hop audio cassette I bought was Onyx, album called „Shut ‘em Down”. I didn’t knew artists very well at that time, but later a sign Onyx was well known for me. My first disk I most liked was “All Times Greatest Hits RAP”. There was Fu-Schnickens, N.W.A., Naughty By Nature, House of Pain, Run-DMC and others.. Maybe of variety of artists I liked that cd and listened to it often. In year 2000 I started interesting in music videos. Then it was popular Dr. Dre with his promoting album “Still Dre”, Q-Tip and „Vivarant Thing”, Dr. Dre feat. Eminem „Forgot About Dre”. That clips I liked. About that time in school where I was learning someone had cd with polish hip-hop, later I had it at home. There was such artists as: 52 Dębiec, Ascetoholix, O.S.T.R., DonGuralesko, Grammatik.. Hip-Hop on native speech I liked even better and I wanted to know about it more. Later I was discussing that with my friend from Poland. Later I started to listening Russian hip-hop, later French rap. After listening different kind of hip-hop, I made a conclusion and chose underground. Started from: Atmosphere, Non Phixion, Screwball, Son Doobie, The Alkaholiks and that from what polish hip-hop begun: Kaliber 44, WWO..

My first lyrics I started to write was at year 2004. At first it was written only for myself, but then i started to rap it for my friends, they liked. So I wrote and did my first track about people i do not like, it called „O Nich“. Then there was other tracks and that way I became a MC. Everything I see, what‘s happening around me, you can hear in my lirycs. Speaking about the wish to rap, I have it even more. I rap mostky for myself & my friends and if people like it, it‘s the most pleasure for me. So as long I would have strenghts, I‘d rap.

At the moment I‘m listening only underground hip-hop, no matter if it‘s in polish, english, russian or french, because in my opinion only underground sounds the way that should sound the real hip-hop. Speaking about other styles of music, I like reggae and massive culture of Drum’n’Bass in which I am as a MC and more I’m in to it, more I like it. In my opinion you must take from life everything that life gives to you, also rap is my hobby, that’s why I like to rap on DnB and having fun from it.

Nekyia

On the early stages of my life I was surrounded by art: my parents used to take me to various art exhibitions, and there were Pink Floyd, Jimmy Hendrix, The Doors and other vinyls of the Age of Hippy playing on the old Soviet gramophone. I used to hate school and experienced the feeling of emptiness in an isolated world for a long time. At that time, my desires couldn’t find an object. Mixed with Surrealism, philosophy entered my world in a form of explosive substance, which at a short period of time managed to blow all the authorities. On the other side of my persona, talks and acts there was a shell created by the works of Jung, Schopenhauer, Dali, Tangey, and many others. I tried drawing, later I tried painting: individualistic world of oils became a studio of my inner feelings; I tried to capture the always-hallucinating nature of my imagination and to freeze it in a static form.

I lived mostly in the inside, the philosophy functioning as a protective mantle, changing the routine into a filtered image. Nevertheless, this resistance was many-sided: later I became interested in psychology and started with the works of Freud. It was then that the feeling of emptiness in music became more distant: John Cage’s piano made me turn away from rock, metal and pop, which I used to listen before. I was given SND, Anima by Vladislav Delay; in a few days’ time I got Viral Sonata by Millar and Druqks by Aphex Twin. I thought of a school as a conventional institution, which I attended nominally, but I concentrated on different issues: I organized 2 personal artwork exhibitions – Psichodelinis (2002; Magistral House/J.Stauskaite’s Art Studio) and PERSONALITA SIUREALISTA PINTURA (2003; J. Vienožinskis Art School).

Suddenly, macrograph entered my life: I created an installation and took a photo of a visionary situation, which determined my further experiments. I documented coffee bubbles having a diameter of less than 1mm, non-existing snowfields, infinite plots of moss, polar lights, 4D architecture and gigantic sculptures in the invisible microscopic part of the reality. The lens became a mystic sampler, reconstructing the structure of perception, and the photos hovered in the hyperspace: the objects photographed were dozens of times smaller than their images. Then I organized 17 ACID WORKS (2004; J. Vienožinskis Art School), the slogan of which was Using Telescopes is Strictly Prohibited: images of virtual lights, atomic explosions, hallucinations and flying ice were exhibited.

Visual sampling allowed me looking for realms with sound engineering and real sound sampling. At present, I am working on a primary video material which was taken creating an imaginary situation according to the techniques used in the macrograph.

Monte

"Computer brain"

2007/10/16

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