Klub K4
Kersnikova 4, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Phone386 (0) 41 889 882
Founded byK6/4 Institute
Managed byZmešaj si d.o.o.
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Continuously running since the mid-eighties and long known as a nexus of progressive music culture in Slovenia, [[Klub K4]] is a legendary nightclub set in Ljubljana. It is focused on presenting non-commercial electronic dance music, but its programme (which is mainly taking place on weekends) is also allowing for regular ventures into hip hop, dub and various live gigs. A gay-friendly venue, it is traditionally throwing monthly events for the LGBT community, called ''K4 Roza'' (K4 Pink). | Continuously running since the mid-eighties and long known as a nexus of progressive music culture in Slovenia, [[Klub K4]] is a legendary nightclub set in Ljubljana. It is focused on presenting non-commercial electronic dance music, but its programme (which is mainly taking place on weekends) is also allowing for regular ventures into hip hop, dub and various live gigs. A gay-friendly venue, it is traditionally throwing monthly events for the LGBT community, called ''K4 Roza'' (K4 Pink). | ||
| − | As of 2015 the club is led by a company that handles several other nightclubs in Ljubljana, among them [[Plac 33/45]], [[Centralna postaja | + | As of 2015 the club is led by a company that handles several other nightclubs in Ljubljana, among them [[Plac 33/45]], [[Centralna postaja Ljubljana|Centralna postaja]] and the [[Cirkus Club]]. Nevertheless, as has long been its tradition, the musical agenda of K4 is in part still set by a varied cast of DJ crews. |
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*[[DrumWise]] | *[[DrumWise]] | ||
*[[ŠKUC Association]] | *[[ŠKUC Association]] | ||
| + | *[[Centralna postaja Ljubljana|Centralna postaja]] | ||
| + | *[[Cirkus Club]] | ||
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Revision as of 15:06, 29 June 2016
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Programme guidelines
Klub K4 is Ljubljana's only nightclub specialised in contemporary, non-commercial clubbing music, regularly inviting prominent foreign DJs and producers from the fields of drum'n'bass, techno, house, psy trance, nu rave and other styles. This programme is augmented by special events like the Hočmo nazaj dinozavre ("We want the dinosaurs back") evenings, dedicated to styles such as old school hip hop, happy hardcore, eurodance or skate punk; the K4 Roza evenings, where everything from Eurovision nights to the "Next Best Drag Queen" competition can take place; the K::RAP hip hop nights; and also with special features like DJ workshops.
Some of the crews organising events at K4 are Synaptic and DrumWise (both of them active here for about 15 years), the 1605 Music Therapy (a department of a techno record label founded by UMEK), and several others.
Since the club has gotten new management in 2015, it has hosted such acts as Martin Buttrich (DE), Johannes Heil (DE), London Elektricity (UK), Mike Servito (US), Jus-Ed (US), DJ Hito (JP), Fumiya Tanaka (JP), the hip hop crew High 5 (HR), Valentino Kanzyani, Jimmy Barka Experience, Your Gay Thoughts, etc.
History and background
Unofficially run by ŠKUC since the mid-eighties, K4 was formally established in 1989 in the basement under the former K6/4 Institute. A home for underground music and sub-cultural movements, the club has always had a stylistically diverse programme. Initially focused on hard core, punk, grunge, alternative rock, hip hop and techno, it hosted the likes of Henry Rollins, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Asian Dub Foundation and Atari Teenage Riot. It was one of the first venues to introduce techno parties, it used to hold rap free-style battles (even organising a state competition), and was the venue of choice by numerous producers, among them the Druga godba Festival.
The club was the starting point for many Slovene musicians (for example Aldo Ivančić, of Borghesia), rappers (like Ali-En and Klemen Klemen), and DJs (among them DJ Umek and Valentino Kanzyani).
In 2001, with the so called Restart season, the club had almost exclusively focused on electronic music. Open for several nights per week, it hosted forward thinking artists from the fields of techno, drum'n'bass, psy trance, IDM, experimental electronica and beyond. It functioned as an open platform for new, unconventional Slovene musical talents, and had literally dozens of crews co-creating its programme (among them were RDYO Djs, ŠKUC Buba Booking and Promotion, Don't Make New People, and Sindikat).
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The troublesome years
A branch of the K6/4 Institute (now called the Kersnikova Institute), the club was financed and owned by the Student Organisation in Ljubljana, which for various reasons and for the first time in its history closed it down in March 2013. This provoked immense disapproval from the public, as did the new, more commercially oriented programme that soon followed and that immediately got boycotted by many visible protagonists of the clubbing scene. The musical concept was thus soon reshaped and the long-running collaboration with several crews was set up once again.
In 2014 the Zavod Štirka [Štirka Institute] was established to run the club which in May 2015 once again announced a temporary stopping of its activities. In September 2015, the private company Zmešaj si took over the running of the club. Toning down its experimental dimension, it nevertheless retained its main musical orientation.
Past guests
In the past, every event in K4 had a specially designed flyer. Here is a partial list of notable artist names written on them: DJ Krush, DJ Marky, Stamina MC, Marcus Intalex, Ellen Alien, Kenny Larkin, Stanton Warriors, Bonobo, Roni Size, Goldie, Mouse on Mars, Kid 606, Josh Wink, Jazzanova, Derrick May, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Swayzak, Freddy Fresh, Eat Static, Oscar Mulero, Dan Deacon, Sutekh, Mike Shannon, Penta, Black Sun Empire, Legowelt, Emptyset, Alexander Kowalski, Surgeon, Terry Francis, Andreya Triana, Oneohtrix Point Never, etc.
See also
External links
- Klub K4 website (in Slovenian)
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