DTF Magazine releases new print issue

DTF Journal is launching an anthology about modern Ukrainian tradition with a brand new particular difficulty — it’s going to include printed points that can reveal a particular phenomenon. The fifth difficulty is devoted to the Ukrainian digital music scene, its key formations, occasions, folks and releases. We inform you extra about what’s inside the difficulty and learn how to get it

What’s within the new print DTF Journal

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

‘The digital music scene, particularly the Kyiv scene, grew to become an actual phenomenon of post-Maidan Ukraine. It was greater than an area 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 grow to be a peak 12 months for each Kyiv and the areas… The 12 months 2022 promised to be way more eventful. However russia’s full-scale invasion modified every little thing’.

The fifth difficulty incorporates the next:

— The record of ‘30 Ukrainian digital music albums of the last decade’, compiled by the outcomes of the survey.
— Unique pictures of the development of probably 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 Jap 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 akin to Heinali, Maryana Klochko, Nastya Vogan and Roma Krymskyi.
— A photograph challenge in regards to the romance of the dance flooring within the works of Yana Franz.

‘This difficulty doesn’t write a chronology of the Ukrainian digital music scene. It discusses just some facets of its life, which have been talked about above. It was vital for us to listen to the voice of the areas, so we invited its direct individuals to put in writing a collection of essays. We wished to study extra in regards to the backstage of among the most iconic initiatives, in addition to reply the query: ‘What’s going to this decade be remembered for when it comes to music?’, so we performed 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 the direction of its formation’.

The difficulty 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 difficulty you possibly can see the frontline picture story by DJ and producer Raavel ( take a look at 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 provide voice to these heroes who’re defending Ukraine on the frontline at present. And we shut this difficulty with their phrases, ideas and feelings. We dedicate the fifth print difficulty of DTF Journal to all those that are combating. In reminiscence of all these whose lives have been taken by the conflict’, Volodymyr provides.

Kyiv-based design studio CREVV was answerable for the design and structure of the fifth difficulty.

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

The place to purchase the print difficulty

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

Worth — 400 UAH. The copies will probably be despatched on June 17 — we are able to ship the journal via Nova Poshta on the recipient’s expense or you possibly can choose it up in Kyiv (Lviv Sq. and Golden Gate space, we are going to inform you 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 employees of DTF Journal launched a collector’s print difficulty particularly for the Module of Temporality (MOT) challenge.

Just like the artwork house exhibition, the difficulty continued to discover the important thing theme of the exhibition — temporality, and to have interaction in a dialog with Ukrainian and overseas 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.