Zvøner (Yura Kostyukevich) is a Ukrainian producer and DJ. Starting his musical journey as a bassist in grunge and funk bands in Odesa and Lviv Zvøner later moved to the dark side of electronic music, working on a combination of genres, sounds, and instruments. Because art knows no bounds, and Ukraine knows no defeat!
M&Ms — “THE A.I. ORACLE”
Music simply fascinates me, its like an internal organ that you can’t live without. My musical influences were many and diverse: Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Supertramp, The Pogues, Sonic Youth, Buthole Surfers, Nick Cave, Diamond Galas, Mozart, Chopin, Rachmaninov, The Swans, Dead Kennedys, Joy Division, The Doors and so on, but my very first favourite Album was Neil Diamond’s “John Livingstone Seagull” that forever gave me a deep connection with Soundtrack Music. I would spend days recording my favourite tracks to cassetes and being very serious about the exact perfect order to build a story with them. It came to the point that some of them were made for different purposes like places and times of the day.
DJing come has something natural after returning from South America after a 7 year period doing volunteer work, then raising a family and working with bambo has a business around the year 2000, first mixing psy trance, and gradually slowing down into more downtempo psy chill and latter to ambient, psy/nu jazz, post-classic, acoustic and instrumental music and movies/games Soundtracks.
I have to say that i really love mixing different things in one set to again get that story going somewhere, sometimes Im sure where im going others the Music takes over.
By 2005 started a club in Lisbon with my brother called Tuatara, we held events of all sorts for some years, from psy-trance to D&B, Techno to Rock, but my interest was more into the many Chillout Sessions we organised.
My musical selections are always about the melody and its textures to create a broad emotional landscape, love the fusion between instruments and electronic input, but i like music to have soul, light and air from which we can all breath and nourish.
Carbon Based Lifeforms — New Year’s Gift
The campaign has ended. See the results below.
A real New Year's miracle for those who do good deeds. Victory Beats and the legendary Carbon Based Lifeforms have prepared incredible gifts for your support of Ukrainian volunteers.
In the period from December 14 to 25, make a donation in the amount of $5 or more for any organizationpresented on the site. Send your payment receipt to info@victorybeats.org and get a chance to win one of two unique prizes with autographs from the band members:
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| Vinyl copy of new album “Seeker” | The biographical book "The Path to Derelicts" |
Swedish band Carbon Based Lifeforms was created in 1996 and today it is one of the most prominent world bands that create music in the styles Ambient, Downtempo, Psybient, Chill out. Album Seeker is the band's eighth studio album.
The book “The Path to Derelicts” written by band member Daniel Vadestrid tells the history of the band from 1994 to 2019 and the events that happened around it.
So, just a few clicks are enough to get a unique New Year's gift.
- Choose any organization from the list of volunteers on the website.
2. Donate any amount from $5 that is convenient for you. 100% of donations go directly to organizations. You can make any number of donations!
3. Send the payment receipt to our email info@victorybeats.org and receive a unique number of raffle participants. 1 number = $5, 2 numbers = $10 UAH and so on. More donations - more numbers and more chances to win!
4. On December 26, we will hold a raffle among the participants and choose the winners using the random.org service. The results will be announced on this page and on our Telegram channel.
And the most important thing. Your donations turn into real help for those who need it most today. You make a New Year's miracle, you save lives and bring peace closer. Thank you for this! Tack för det!
Campaign results
Friends, thanks to you, we collected almost UAH 33 000 to help volunteers. Good support for all organizations represented on our website. It was nice to see among the donors people from the USA, Hungary, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia. Also, several people made a donation, but refused to participate in the draw. In total, we distributed 154 numbers.
Congratulations to the winners! We will contact you personally to clarify the delivery of gifts.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the promotion, new pleasant surprises are waiting for you soon. And we thank our volunteers for their great work. We will do our best to keep your support growing. Glory to the volunteers!
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Catan Cotie — Alignment
The remarkable mix “Alignment,” released by the Brazilian DJ Catan Cotie around 2012 is a real masterpiece and reveals the peculiar moment of the Dj Set project around his own oldschool moments in his career. The sound evolves distant styles inside this intense laboratory of Mashups and exotic mixes. A fine selection, revealing new producers and new experimentations on that period of time, composes and conducts through an alchemic and ethereal experience on this masterpiece.
It’s time to keep going. To see what is in front of us and still climbing the mountain. Patience and knowledge are always welcome in our lives. Alignment.