DTF Journal is launching an anthology about up to date Ukrainian tradition with a brand new particular subject — it’ll encompass printed points that can reveal a particular phenomenon. The fifth subject is devoted to the Ukrainian digital music scene, its key formations, occasions, folks and releases. We inform you extra about what’s inside the problem and how one can get it
What’s within the new print DTF Journal
The brand new subject 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, grew to become 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 turn into a peak yr for each Kyiv and the areas… The yr 2022 promised to be far more eventful. However russia’s full-scale invasion modified all the things’.
The fifth subject comprises the next:
— The listing of ‘30 Ukrainian digital music albums of the last decade’, compiled by the outcomes of the survey.
— Unique pictures of the development of essentially the most well-known Ukrainian membership on the earth — ∄ (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 folks with out whom it’s onerous to think about it.
— Interviews with digital musicians similar to Heinali, Maryana Klochko, Nastya Vogan and Roma Krymskyi.
— A photograph challenge concerning the romance of the dance ground within the works of Yana Franz.
‘This subject doesn’t write a chronology of the Ukrainian digital music scene. It discusses just some points of its life, which have been talked about above. It was vital for us to listen to the voice of the areas, so we invited its direct individuals to put in writing a sequence of essays. We needed to study extra concerning the backstage of among the most iconic tasks, in addition to reply the query: ‘What’s going to this decade be remembered for by way of music?’, so we performed the primary large-scale survey, compiling a listing of ‘30 Ukrainian digital music albums of the last decade’. This isn’t but a canon of Ukrainian digital music, however a step in the 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 subject you possibly can see the frontline photograph 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 provide voice to these heroes who’re defending Ukraine on the frontline at the moment. And we shut this subject with their phrases, ideas and feelings. We dedicate the fifth print subject of DTF Journal to all those that are combating. In reminiscence of all these whose lives have been taken by the struggle’, Volodymyr provides.
Kyiv-based design studio CREVV was liable for the design and structure of the fifth subject.
The challenge is applied with the help of the Ukraine Confidence Constructing Initiative (UCBI), funded by the USA Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID).
The place to purchase the print subject
You may place your order for the particular subject on-line at this hyperlink.
Value — 400 UAH. The copies will probably be despatched on June 17 — we will ship the journal via Nova Poshta on the recipient’s expense or you possibly can decide it up in Kyiv (Lviv Sq. and Golden Gate space, we are going to inform you 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 area (the place a brand new exhibition will run from June 22), in Kharkiv — in Ssweep retailer (from June 24).
In April 2023, the editorial workers of DTF Journal launched a collector’s print subject particularly for the Module of Temporality (MOT) challenge.
Just like the artwork area exhibition, the problem continued to discover the important thing theme of the exhibition — temporality, and to have interaction in a dialog with Ukrainian and international 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.
