In 2015 I started to create a series of mixtapes,
each one of them having a concept, exhibition or a personal experience behind and hopefully will touch people’s lives.

If you didn’t had the chance to listen to them, check the links below for an audition.

2015 Summer Transform

2016 Be your own

2017 Mathematrix

The name of the mixtape Summer Transform came from a question or a curiosity I had (and defenitly many of you that love hip hop culture) about the song Summertime by Will Smith & Jazzy Jeff.

The idea of the mixtape was to provide the perfect vibes for reminiscing over the summer stories with good friends. As I was trying to create the playlist with songs that I collected over the time, I realised that the name it had to include the word summer and then I remembered the song Summertime by Will Smith & Jazzy Jeff and went on to listen to the track but I realised it didn’t match the sound I was already created for the mixtape.

Then I thought to digg for a remix of the song and so I found the Soul Power remix ’98 that included a sample used by Gang Starr as well (You know my steez), so it was the perfect match for the sound I was working on for the mixtape. While I was listening to the song I remembered that I had this curiosity for a long time if the lyrics were written by Rakim or Will Smith was inspired by him as the style and patterns were very similar to Rakim’s. As I was listening to the song ..here it is the groove slightly transformed” it hit me. The name of the mixtape had to be – Summer Transform.

Years later the answer came in.

Summer still far from here but this is still one of the best parts in the Summer Transform mixtape. Chris Rock always mad funny!

The music speaks by itself.

The mixtape Be your own came from a personal experience, as well as the name and the cover for the mixtape. I will get back with info about the mixtape and the name, for now I will tell you more about how the cover came out.

In 2015 I visited Mumok museum in Vienna and as I was going up stairs for the exhibition I was thinking that if you look at art only by what you know already, you won’t be able to understand and feel more about what art itself has to offer as you will be limited by information that you already know and sometimes we are to qucik to judge from this point of view.

But what if there were some blank canvases at an exhibition, so you won’t be limited to judge the art by what you know, so you will be left only by the knowledge and feelings the art has to offer. As I entered the exhibition “Monochrome Paintings”  by Stephen Prina in the group exhibition “To expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer” and still thinking about this idea.. I was in shock.

All the paintings in the exhibition were green!

Different titles and different gradients of green. Had to be a huge coincidence or how you want to call it, but the next thing I know it inspired me to create the “Be your own” mixtape.