MERAK

Merak has been devoting himself to music since childhood and, most of all, enjoys its diversity, and that is why he does not stay with one genre only. As he likes to say - “there are only two kinds of music – good music and bad music”. He composes not only the hard dance dubstep, drum & bass, breakbeat, but also the calmer acoustics downtempo and chillout tracks. The beginnings of his creative work date to the wild 90’s, when he would experiment with instrumental downtempo, in addition he also applied himself to the study of piano and composing on his first synthesizer Korg Poly 800. In 1998 he co-founded Paranoja Sound System and took part in the first domestic tekno festivals. The freetekno scene of the 90’s firmly shaped his musical taste. At that time he started with DJing and liveset performances - it was mostly a matter of various subgenres of hardtekno. He was one of the first pioneers of liveset in the Czech Republic. In addition to his solo projects, he also appeared with the project C.M.L., systems Machine Works, Strahov, Komatsu, Tsunami, Oktekk, NSK, and took part in organizing parties such as livesetbattle.cz, 3teknadně, Paroubtek etc. In 2000 he became a member of the Prague sound system AKA.IO. In cooperation with IO.SYS he issued his first tekno vinyl AKA.IO 01. Two years later he founded an independent digital label and studio, IO.Lab Records. This incited his interest in sound post production (mix, mastering) which led him to work on various projects, such as the Dubstar Records, Prague Nightmare, Case Records, LXR Records, Heldenkellerz etc. In 2004 he was the origination of a website aimed at the free tekno community in the Czech Republic, freetekno.cz. One year later he co-founded a non-commercial internet radio station which plays independent electronic music, radio23.cz, and to this day he takes part in its operation. Until 2007 he performed live with his own liveset performance, then he returned to DJing and devoted himself mostly to bass music. In 2011 he founded, with the Prague producer PKarel, the project WhiteCream, in which he explores the magic of pop music. In addition, he played the keyboard in the indie rock group Project Insane, with which he placed first on the local hit parade of Radio 1 and as second in the Jack Daniel’s talent competition. His music is typical for its dark atmosphere, sophisticated composition and elaborate rhythm. His work can be heard on the labels of Play Nasty Records, Big Boss, Breakdrum Recordings, WestAve Productions, Elemental Music, Meanbucket etc. One of his most successful tracks, “The Dog that Bites” (“Pes kterej kouše”) had stayed in the first place for 14 days in the top ten most sold tracks on junodownload.com. As a DJ he plays vigorous hard dance music of many genres, dubstep, drumstep, 2step, future jungle, electrohouse, breakbeat, trap, uk garage or drum&bass. He appeared, and still keeps appearing, at many festivals, parties and clubs along with names such as Prolix, Datsik, 16bit, Kriptic Minds, Goth-Trad, Wilkinson, Megalodon, Soloman... Professionally he also devotes himself to graphic design, illustration and advertising. A man of many interests, producer, DJ, mastering engineer, liveset performer, graphic designer, member of io.lab records, radio23.cz, dubsteblog, drumandbass.cz.