DJ Lixx - Summer Music Lunch 005 - 2008

Biography of DJ Lixx

DJ Lixx, real name is Michal Sekera, comes from Trnava, the town in the west part of Slovakia. As a teenager, he got in contact the first time with electronic music at the end of 1990s. Prodigy, Baby D, Jam&Spoon or U96 and, by that ime, for him a new, unknown energy in their production made him and his friends force listening to the music also to his classmates at every suitable occasion. Devoting to rave, hardcore and trance styles, he met people who stayed behind alternative music scene in Trnava. He watched DJs on techno and house parties and in the meantime, at home, also thanks to Goldie, he started to discover a new music style for him.

He was fully ravished by drum&bass sometime in 2000, after watching one of the first live performances of Bad Company. At that time, he got from the passive listening to the other side of turntables and at the same year, he made his first performances in his home town. He felt like a fish in water when standing behind turntables and playing on the second stages of techno parties ultimately led to co-operation with the group of local drum&bass enthusiasts. Together with them, at the end of 2001,in a new bar called 'Rozkoš', he founded the local drum&bass party Beatz, which is well-known today.

During that period, he met famous people of Slovak drum&bass scene and alongside DJs like Gabanna, Galagha, Blupcat or Larry+, he got an opportunity to play on well-known drum&bass parties all over Slovakia. The most important for his next drum&bass life was the performance on Doubledecker party, alongside with D.Kay. When the performance was over, he got an offer for co-opearation with Drumatique, who was a well-known drum&bass booking in Slovakia at that time. He has got pleasant memories at that period of his life also thanks to a fantastic man, DJ Gabanna. At the time, when his name often appeared on flyers of Bratislava’s clubs U.Club and Duna, his party Beatz grew larger and a small bar space became insufficient. Therefore he moved Beatz to the new place in Trnava, K-Klub, today known as Art Klub.

In the following years he continually improves mixing skills and besides many playings for Slovak audience, he heade for several clubs in The Czech Republic. In 2002, he won the second post in the mixing competition Jim Beam Wanted.

In 2004, he started to co-operate with the group of producers, DJs and video graphics Signall, which have resident drum&bass parties in many Slovak clubs at that time. Subsequently, he becomes their member. Together with L Plus and Kukurica, he travels to play in Austria and neighbouring Poland and so he has more and more skills with playing alongside the big names of drum&bass, for example: Calyx, Teebee, Ed Rush, Optical, Mathematics, Matrix, Optiv and many more. He performed on various festivals like Pohoda, Nocné Vlny or Hodokvas and maybe in all more known clubs in Slovakia. He has also some experience with radio performances, recently he played live set in the radio show at Sity Radio Bratislava.

'Drum&Bass is about energy, feelings, but mainly about fun!' And his mixes are exactly about those topics. At the beginning, he preferred dark and hard drum&bass, but step by step by his musical growing, his style range highly increased. In his mixed sets designated for dancefloor, positive energy from liquidfung to hardstep is predominated. As he says: 'The Biggest reward for every DJ is certainly a full dancefloor of ingenuously happy people enjoying themselves!'

He is dedicated to drum&bass practically every day in various forms, but besides this, he likes breakbeat as well (more and more thinking about it as a DJ), minimal house, psytrance or 'ninja-tune' hiphop. Year 2006 is mainly about multi-genre ideas and new projects. He becomes a member of Foolcut, which is the one-man NuJazz project, and after his first night on NuJazz Days, he performs as a scratching DJ with his Live-act.