THURSDAY/08.July
The day on which the music conference has began.In addition to the team that has realized this music conference,we are welcomed from PR menager of Exit festival and introduced to a program.After that has came the panel that was named Dance Music Forecast:Genre cycle and tech reality.Moderator of this panel was Filip Milosevic also known as Dj Flip and special guests of this panel were: Juha (Viral Radio),Nik Torrens (Resident Advisor) and Christine Kakaire (Resident Advisor).After debate and presentation of different views on electronic music in the world it came a master class given by Dj Juha (Viral Radio,Amsterdam)The name of the masster class was Hyperrhythm:Know your music and prepare to improvise.Juha showed us how he mix music and introduced us to the world of dubstep, musical direction, which is becoming increasingly popular in the world.After the master hours i had the opportunity to play in a hole which led to the main room where the conference is maintained.On the first day of Exit festival on the twenty-five stages it was performed a large number of artists including:Bad Brains,LCD Soundsystem,Dj Shadow,Dj Juha,Miike Snow,Rustie,Chromero,Crookers,Erol Alkan,Boys Noize,Jesse Rose & Henrik Schwarz and many more.
FRIDAY/09.July
The name of the panel was Artist Promotion:How to break through.The theme of this panel was very important to me because i live in a small environment where there is not much room for electronic music.In addition, it was very interesting to listen to stories of different artists and the way in which they break through, and presented themselves to the world and jokes that made Josh Wink.Moderator of this panel was Rajko Bozic and guest was: Josh Wink (Ovum Recordings),Femke Dekker (Journalist) and Jonty Skrufff (Dj & journalist).In this panel we can ask different questions that interested us and after the end of the panel we were able to meet with guests.After I met with Jonty Skrufff,he gave me a CD with his mix called "Nightstalker" which is in addition to being a good mix, good memorie to Exit and everything that happened in these four days.This time master clas was designed to be different than usual.It was called The Other Side Of Music and consisted of visits to Dance Arena,the second stage in a row at the Exit festival.There we meet a team of people that is responsible for the implementation of sound,video and other effects and the way how they do it explain to us Rastko Andric (Exit) and Marcus Dalmeida.On the second day of Exit performed:The Horrors,Placebo,Ida Engberg,Moderat,Bahemoth,Joker & MC Nomad,Jonty Skrufff & Fidelity Kastrow,Josh Wink,Ricardo Villaobos,Skip & Die and many more.
SATURDAY/10.July
Theme of the last day of the Exit music conference was Music As A Product.Moderator Sagor Meskovic and guest Laetitia Decouens (Decked Out) and Daneil Cole (Beatport) was clarify what it is in fact a product of music and explain to us the whole process of opening music label.Daniel has told us how actually works Beatport and Laetitia has explain to us what we need to do in order to attract attention of booking agencies.Master Class was given from Dj Ahmaad and he showed us some moves that was truly astonishing.After his master class,Catarina Aimee Dahms (Skip & Die) showed us how she mix video live with the music of other artists.The third day of the festival featured performances by the following artists:Klaxons,Royksoop,Riva Star,Laidback Luke,David Guetta,Dirty South,Solomun,Kultur Shock,Rui Da Silva,The Exploited,Brodinski,The Twelwes and many more.
After completion of the Exit music conference i do not rest nothing else than to enjoy the sounds of the performers who played on the last night of the festival and they were:The Chemical Brothers,Pendulum,Faith No More,Crystal Castles,A Trak,Busy P,SebastiAn,Foreign Beggars,dBrige & SP:MC...
All in all it was an unforgettable experience and a great success as for me and my music career.
