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Jacek Szczepanek
Jacek Szczepanek, born in 1984 in Warsaw, listens to both people and sounds. He gained experience in ethnographic interview in Indonesia, Syria, Poland and Germany. As a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts in Berlin he watches the global dissemination of music production software. As a sound designer he is keen on field recording and sensitive to soundscape. His sound art is usually located in a community, as in Concert for Housing Estate Yells (Warsaw, 2012, 2013), made together with people from a high-rise residential area and played back on their streets. Having spent a fair amount of his childhood in the countryside he has always been exposed to disco polo. The genre has remained in his professional and artistic interest since 2012.
By Jacek Szczepanek on March 3, 2015
By Jacek Szczepanek on 3 March 2015 in
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In this second part of our short review from the Off Festival in Katovice, Poland, South African music producer John Wizards talks about his music and his producing process, geography and money.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Ableton, Africa, Auto-Tune, Cape Town, Emmanuel Nzaramba, Europe, Festival, Geography, Jacek Szczepanek, John Withers, John Wizards, Katowice, Kinarwandan, kwaito, MTV Base, Nigerian Pop Music, Nozinja, Off, Poland, Rwanda, RZA, Shangaan Electro, South Africa, South African House, Wayne Marshall |
By Jacek Szczepanek on February 24, 2015
By Jacek Szczepanek on 24 February 2015 in
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First part of a short festival review about Off, a three day long feast for lovers of alternative music, that takes place every year in Katowice in Southern Poland. Our author interviews DakhaBrakha, an ethno band from the Ukraine.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Bandura, Dakhabrakha, Ethnomusicology, Festival, Folklore, Iryna Gorban, Jacek Szczepanek, John Wizards, Katowice, Kyiv, Marko Halanevych, Off, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, Vinnytsia, WOMEX, World Music |
By Jacek Szczepanek on September 29, 2014
By Jacek Szczepanek on 29 September 2014 in
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It is importation to which disco polo, Poland’s domestic electronic dance music genre, owes most of its sound. It was the political system flip of 1989 that shaped its troubled fate within Polish society. Part two of Norient’s guide to disco polo: History.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Akcent, Blue Star, Bolter, Boney M, Boys, crash-course-disco-polo, disco polo, disco polo TV, Ełk, German number plates, Jacek Szczepanek, Marcin Miller, Marek Kondrat, Papa Dance, Poland, Polskie Nagrania, Rafał Jaworski, Sabrina, Sabrina Salerno, Sławomir Skręta, Sopot, Studio S4, The Soviet Union, Tomasz Sidoruk, Tonpress, Top One, Warsaw, Wedding, Wifon, Zenon Martyniuk |
By Jacek Szczepanek on July 15, 2014
By Jacek Szczepanek on 15 July 2014 in
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Disco polo became popular in the early 1990s. It is still doing well and growing. Norient presents this Polish electronic dance music culture in a series of four posts. Part one: Disco polo today.
Posted in BLOG | Tagged Avinion Dance, Białystok, crash-course-disco-polo, disco polo, disco polo TV, Explosion Club, Jacek Szczepanek, Piękni i Młodzi, Poland, Soleo, Warsaw |
