DTF Journal is launching an anthology about modern Ukrainian tradition with a brand new particular concern — it is going to include printed points that can reveal a particular phenomenon. The fifth concern is devoted to the Ukrainian digital music scene, its key formations, occasions, folks and releases. We let you know extra about what’s inside the difficulty and how one can get it
What’s within the new print DTF Journal
The brand new concern captures the final decade of the Ukrainian digital music scene, which began actively growing after the occasions of the Revolution of Dignity, its heyday and subsequent adaptation to the encompassing 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 12 months 2021 has develop into a peak 12 months for each Kyiv and the areas… The 12 months 2022 promised to be way more eventful. However russia’s full-scale invasion modified every part’.
The fifth concern 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 this planet — ∄ (Membership on Kyrylivska), and an interview with its architect.
— A uncommon interview with Slava Lepsheiev, founding father of Japanese Europe’s greatest 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 comparable to Heinali, Maryana Klochko, Nastya Vogan and Roma Krymskyi.
— A photograph undertaking in regards to the romance of the dance ground within the works of Yana Franz.
‘This concern doesn’t write a chronology of the Ukrainian digital music scene. It discusses just some facets of its life, which have been talked about above. It was essential for us to listen to the voice of the areas, so we invited its direct members to write down a collection of essays. We wished to study extra in regards to the backstage of a few of the most iconic tasks, in addition to reply the query: ‘What’s going to this decade be remembered for when it comes to music?’, so we performed 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 problem 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 concern you possibly can see the frontline picture story by DJ and producer Raavel ( try 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 this time. And we shut this concern with their phrases, ideas and feelings. We dedicate the fifth print concern 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 format of the fifth concern.
The undertaking is carried out with the assist of the Ukraine Confidence Constructing Initiative (UCBI), funded by america Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID).
The place to purchase the print concern
You’ll be able to place your order for the particular concern on-line at this hyperlink.
Value — 400 UAH. The copies will likely be despatched on June 17 — we will ship the journal by 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 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 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 employees of DTF Journal launched a collector’s print concern particularly for the Module of Temporality (MOT) undertaking.
Just like the artwork area exhibition, the difficulty 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.
