Jet Peks

UA

Big beat, Breakbeat, Dance, Drum and bass, Funk, Instrumental, Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jazz-funk

http://www.myspace.com/gpeks
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http://Jetpeks.promodj.ru/

Learning a Lesson from Mother Nature: Digital Kaos and Jet Peks

New recordings from Moscow and Uzhgorod (Ukraine) take a long look at the classic workings of drum and bass. Oddly enough, that same style then prompts some musings on social processes beyond the dancefloor

An Intuitive Love of Emptiness: Netslov, Nick Tremo, and Koan

Three recent ambient, dub, and chill-out releases have all addressed the theme of emptiness. They reflect both the metaphysical appeal of boundlessness and the paradoxes of online publishing - for nobody at all

Some Old School Advice from the Headmaster: Tapeaters and Jet Peks

The Tapeaters are known for carefully-crafted versions of '80s synth-pop; Ukrainian DJ Jet Peks leans more in the direction of '70s funk. Together those two projects raise some interesting questions about an "old-school" aesthetic

Nick Tremo: Samples, Loops, and the Slow Cycles of History

Nick Tremo is the stage name of a fundamentally anonymous musician/DJ from the ancient Ukrainian town of Uzhgorod. He has been responsible for a couple of releases this year, both offered through the net label/aggregator Qulture. More specifically, in mid March a one-hour, fifteen track instrument...

Jet Peks: A Modern Breakbeat Philosophy from Ancient Ukraine

The music in this post, for all its modern wizardry, comes from one of the oldest towns known to Slavic culture: Uzhgorod in Western Ukraine, near the border with both Slovakia and Hungary. Uzhgorod dates at least to the ninth century, when the creation of a castle allowed safe and settled growth...