MALINADE / RAGANOVA

BIOGRAPHY
jan-living in bratislava-is coming from beautiful historical town called bardejov (unesco 1990) located in the north-east of the slovakia -country where traditions and political situation have strong influence to all aspects of his cultural living and musical career. raganova is not musically educated,but all feelings for music and sense of rhythm comes after his grandfather probably,who was a squeeze box player. his fusion with electronic music began in early nineties via mtv and slovak & german radioshows.few years later he feels fancy to perform dance music as a dj. but the most important influence to his musical development has got an internet access and all music coming for free from mixpages and netlabels. during that time he summon up courage to imitate some music coming from that sources using a software sequencer. he takes house as music,where he can display most of all feelings applying deep,minimal and techno influences. night drive music has released his first net-lp in april 2005. in 2006 he bought domain sologroove.com, for placing his musical productions. influenced by netlabel philosophy,he is in the search for slovakian dance music makers. hereby is based first official slovakian netlabel and jan is devoted to releasing/promoting eps. since april 2007 is raganova a member of the leporelo booking crew.in summer 2007 has jan performed almost every weekend in slovakian festivals or clubs, live or as a dj..

PLAYED WITH
tom ellis,mikael stavostrand,dualism,andre kronert,margaret dygaz,db,mark henning

RELEASES
ses003-va-slovak_jewels
or_001-va-unterhaltungselektronik
3rdwm_022-shades_of_gray
3rdwm_020-it_schweeks_ep
3rdwm_016-my_decision_ep
ndm_net_cd_016_bugelaar-lp
ndm_net_cd_012_heavy_metal_lp
ndm_net_ep_028-va-new perspective_remixes
ndm_net_cd_005_mardi_gras_lp
clever_011-pitka ep