DTF Magazine releases new print issue

DTF Journal is launching an anthology about modern Ukrainian tradition with a brand new particular challenge — it should encompass printed points that may reveal a selected phenomenon. The fifth challenge is devoted to the Ukrainian digital music scene, its key formations, occasions, folks and releases. We let you know extra about what’s inside the problem and how you can get it

What’s within the new print DTF Journal

The brand new challenge captures the final decade of the Ukrainian digital music scene, which began actively creating after the occasions of the Revolution of Dignity, its heyday and subsequent adaptation to the encompassing situations and turning factors — coronavirus pandemic and full-scale conflict.

‘The digital music scene, particularly the Kyiv scene, turned an actual phenomenon of post-Maidan Ukraine. It was greater than a neighborhood phenomenon — Kyiv declared itself as one of many key facilities on the membership map of Europe, — Volodymyr Voloshchuk, editor-in-chief of DTF Journal, says. — The 12 months 2021 has turn out to be a peak 12 months for each Kyiv and the areas… The 12 months 2022 promised to be rather more eventful. However russia’s full-scale invasion modified every part’.

The fifth challenge incorporates the next:

— The record of ‘30 Ukrainian digital music albums of the last decade’, compiled by the outcomes of the survey.
— Unique photographs of the development of essentially the most well-known Ukrainian membership on the earth — ∄ (Membership on Kyrylivska), and an interview with its architect.
— A uncommon interview with Slava Lepsheiev, founding father of Japanese Europe’s largest rave Cxema.
— A quick historical past of Kyiv rave as a phenomenon.
— Six essays and reflections on the regional digital music scene by folks with out whom it’s exhausting to think about it.
— Interviews with digital musicians equivalent to Heinali, Maryana Klochko, Nastya Vogan and Roma Krymskyi.
— A photograph mission in regards to the romance of the dance flooring within the works of Yana Franz.

‘This challenge doesn’t write a chronology of the Ukrainian digital music scene. It discusses just some elements of its life, which have been talked about above. It was necessary for us to listen to the voice of the areas, so we invited its direct members to write down a sequence of essays. We needed to study extra in regards to the backstage of a number of the most iconic initiatives, in addition to reply the query: ‘What’s going to this decade be remembered for by way of music?’, so we carried out the primary large-scale survey, compiling an inventory of ‘30 Ukrainian digital music albums of the last decade’. This isn’t but a canon of Ukrainian digital music, however a step in direction of its formation’.

The problem ends with tales of representatives of the digital music scene, who from the primary days of the full-scale conflict stood up for Ukraine. So, within the fifth challenge you may see the frontline photograph story by DJ and producer Raavel ( try his combine for DTF Journal right here), in addition to the diaries of Nikita Kozachinsky, the founding father of Dnipro membership Module.

‘We strived to offer voice to these heroes who’re defending Ukraine on the frontline right this moment. And we shut this challenge with their phrases, ideas and feelings. We dedicate the fifth print challenge of DTF Journal to all those that are preventing. In reminiscence of all these whose lives have been taken by the conflict’, Volodymyr provides.

Kyiv-based design studio CREVV was liable for the design and format of the fifth challenge.

The mission is carried out with the help of the Ukraine Confidence Constructing Initiative (UCBI), funded by the US Company for Worldwide Improvement (USAID).

The place to purchase the print challenge

You may place your order for the particular challenge on-line at this hyperlink.

Value — 400 UAH. The copies will probably be despatched on June 17 — we will ship the journal by way of Nova Poshta on the recipient’s expense or you may choose it up in Kyiv (Lviv Sq. and Golden Gate space, we are going to let you know the precise place).

It is possible for you to to purchase the journal offline from June 22: in Kyiv — in Syndicate retailer, in Lviv — in MOT artwork house (the place a brand new exhibition will run from June 22), in Kharkiv — in Ssweep retailer (from June 24).

In April 2023, the editorial workers of DTF Journal launched a collector’s print challenge particularly for the Module of Temporality (MOT) mission.

Just like the artwork house exhibition, the problem continued to discover the important thing theme of the exhibition — temporality, and to interact in a dialog with Ukrainian and international artists. On the core of the journal are works by Ukrainian artists mixed with essays, interviews and diaries to current the artwork and reflection of these people who find themselves in a state of temporality and uncertainty.