Usually when friends come to visit from other towns or even abroad, you want to show them the belgrade clubbing atmosphere. You often decide on the Mr. Stefan Braun night club. A club which many think is the ideal place to have a good time with your friends. In front of their residentures stand disk jockeys and offer quality sound to guests. We are expecting a new winter seasion in Braun, and what are the impressions from last season, we asked DJ Marko Radosavljevic.
Marko: I am really satisfied with the how the last season went. The owners are pleased too. The best season since club opening. It was uncertain whether it will stand out and jump up from all the other clubs or stay like the previous seasons. But it definetly jumped up in terms of events, quality time and choice of music. There were plenty of hits.
VSG: Who makes hits anyway?
Marko: DJ do. But it depends alot from the club itself. Every club has it’s audience. We often have bartenders promote a hit.
VSG: Wait, isn’t their job to make coctails?
Marko: He he he, of course. But they are also good at recognizing good songs.
VSG: How do they manage that?
Marko: They just feel the energy that a track has and support it fully. They animate people which is very important to us (DJ’s) because we get lots of feedback. You can just feel it on the set. Now, that does not mean the same track will make hit in other clubs.
VSG: What is the clubbing situation in Serbia?
Marko: It’s pretty bad. One of the problems is that radio stations don’t keep up with foreign and serbian club scene. Actually, the biggest problem is that their choice of music is monotonous. It’s all the same pattern.
VSG: Does our audience need a club radio?
Marko: Sure. There is no such in Belgrade at the moment.
VSG: What do you think a club radio should contain?
Marko: Above all, it needs to have a music editor who keeps up with the club scene globally and here. It needs to have as much shows dedicated to clubbing. Then, club DJ’s as guests who would play their own sets. Nowdays everything is backwards. When a radio station organizes parties, in order to save money, they bring their own sound crew to be DJ’s. I don’t mind those people, but the choice of music for a radio show and a club event can not be the same. When a club DJ wants to make a show on the radio they say: „Provide a sponsor to cover the air time expenses“. Have you ever heard of that?
VSG: Well, back home, he he he. What about the world?
Marko: Quite different. Famous DJ’s have their own shows and present new sound to their audiences in that way. For example, Roger Sanchez has a show that is bought by many radio stations and broadcasted. Novi Sad Radio AS also broadcasts his shows. Recently, Belgrade stations have begun to purchase broadcast licences from foreign DJ’s. That’s OK, but where are the serbian DJs? |
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VSG: Looking for sponsors, it seems. And can you boast for being an excellent cook besides deejaying?
Marko: He he he, well not exactly excellent, but enough to survive, he he he.
VSG: And when you want to impress a girl, do you first say that you are a DJ or that you are a great cook?
Marko: I would never go for that one. Every person who can appreciate their own qualities and hold more to themselves, will not say DJ first. At least not that ones that I know of. The DJ prefix is meant like a decoration. So, in this case the latter stands.
VSG: And what would you point out first?
Marko: I am by trade a graduated mechanical engineer, it is my title and I am proud of it. I think that higher education is very important in life if you want to do anything seriously. People you talk to look at you differently and appreciate you more. Still, I don’t even want to talk about jealousy.
VSG: And today we were also convinced that you did your job as a photo model very well.
Marko: He he he, considering it’s my first time, not bad.
VSG: Thank you for taking the time.
Marko: Thank you for having me. See you again. |
