"The young Serbian producer through the nterview and Klubikon Podcast reveals his space and unrest.

In a slow decaying world, that surely sinks into a state of irreversible apathy, it's hard to find someone appreciates music as a cure for the soul. Rarity is to know a person who still sincerely appreciates music and in it, there is a salvation from the darkness that rules, and the ability to turn that darkness into something creative and rising - into the cosmos of music. We are often witnesses of the minds and reasons of our friends due to the excessive use of various stimuli, but more often depression and sorrow over which the lives of our friends end up due to the hopelessness in which they find themselves.

Marko Ristić - Reestar is one of those who managed to turn his state of mind from the edge of the doom of his mind into his favor. His therapy - the refinement of his inner universe through sonic waves of dub techno. Perfect balance of warm emotions and unexplored spaces, it inspires him every day to explore the depths of his mind, and get better aquintanted with himself and others. Music itself is a medium that reveals many secrets about the artist himself, if you listen it carefully and follow the story.


How did your first rave look like? How and how much has changed your life?

I was fascinated by the rap and hip-hop culture, but one night I was pulled by my friends into a party with a strong bass, stroboscopes and kicks. Tehno completely changed me that night. Everyone was dancing, jumping, in a trance. It was all new to me, something unknown. I was simply amazed by the energy of this music. I always loved something different, and this was just that. I soon began to experience electronic music as a kind of emptying of anything negative that I have in me. Excessive energy. Hyper activity. Bad moments. Life situations. Perhaps I can say that rave is like some kind of therapy.

I started actively listening to electronic music after this party, but by nature I was also interested in more of it - I wanted to know how this music is being made, I wanted to try, to play, because I was burning with desire to create a good tape and thus show respect to the electronic music that changed my life and stayed with me when it really was difficult for me, when I barely recognized the borders of reality. This music taught me to look at life from a much wider angle than I even thought I could. It's just that, such people circulate through it, people of broad understanding and views.

How do you feel deep, techno and dub? What is it that moves you to this music? How do you imagine and experience the music you are dealing with?

When I was little, I was afraid to sleep in a completely quiet room. I always left the radio on, and there was some kind of soothing music on it. I do not recall whether it was Enigma or Deep Forest, but I remember the rhythm that put me to sleep. That left a mark on me: the night, the peace and the relaxing sounds that I am following until I get into a dream. That's why I like to say that deep music is the music for the night, because I think her charms are best experienced at night. Deep House always associates me with a good social atmosphere, hanging out, because I always like to play it when a good company is together, a little bit for everyone. Especially I like to listen to it while I'm cooking (I'm a big hedonist).

I love techno because of its sharpness, speed and fullness, and I think that this form of music can only be experienced in a hall full of people, who are hypnotized, dancing all rhythmically together. Magic. Trans. I often tell people that music is just one part of the party, and the other part is on them - to give themselves to musis, this may sound weird, they shouldn't pay much attention to music they should just give into it. Let their thoughts wander somewhere in the endless and sway with the rhythm.

Dub Techno is my perfect balance between deep and techno because of the mystery. Fog ... White noise effects combined with vinyl cracking sound, muddy chord stabs that echo in infinite space, while the atmosphere envelops them with its soft cover ... This always gave me that unique feeling of infinity and vastness. Often this sound encourages me to think deeply. How much a chord can echo, that much we can think, almost infinitely, to imagine, to wander off somewhere in the heartbeat. As I say in a joke, Dub Techno is wisdom. Possibilities are unlimited just as space is.

Who were your role models?

And they are still: Marko Furstenberg, DeepChord, Fluxion, GRIT, Evigt Mörker, Tom Dicicco, Prince Of Denmark, The Nautilus Project, Octal Industries, Martin Schulte, Heavenchord, Doyeq, Turing. Spacious Luigi Tozzi, who always delights me with his work, Boston 168, Polar Inertia, Developer, DVS1, Markus Suckut, Glos, Hush Sleep, 9beats, Regal, Keith Carnal, Slam of course!

Domestic names: Last of Me, Jelly For The Babies, Lag, Hybrid, Two-S, Twenty Three, SM Noize, our legend Boža Podunavac and his set with Advent can not be forgotten at all. These are all people who inspire me.

Today, there is a lot of talk about the problems of depression and anxiety. How much have they affected your life?

I would say that a lot of negative pushed me into the abyss in every sense. I got away from people, from music, I did not go out, I did not answer friends, lost contact with the outside world altogether. At some point, I thought it would be easier for me physically to hurt myself to ease the crazy thoughts that were rushing in my head, and even suicidal thoughts werent far away. With the help of my family, my friends and some trace of will, at one point I decided to go to the doctor, because I had to somehow end the all of this torture. It's a long fight, a lot of bad moments, but it certainly has something good in them, so to speak. I believe that today many of us feel gray and depressed. It is easy to fall under the influence of someone or something in this state.

You feel good or bad, you can always express yourself through music, you just have to be persistent. I did not allow myself to fall completely, but I started to turn all that negativity into something positive and create an alias called the Reason Unknown (Razlog Nepoznat). Funny thing actually.

On the day I was officially diagnosed with depression and anxiety, I had so much inspiration that I made the "Black Hearts I" strap under the Razlog Nepozmat pseudonym with the addition of the number 412, which is usually the code of my diagnosis in the health system (F412). I simply decided to turn all my pain and torment into sound, to "squeeze" as much as I can, and of course, now I have another alias under which I can work and I certainly say that this is one of the best things that happened to me, even when everything was black and when I did not see any exits.

That's how the "Social Anxiety" tape came into being - an angry techno that I did one day when I thought I would just flip out from my mind, but I got away with it. As I said, the fight is heavy. And I'm glad that more and more talk about depression and anxiety, because people have to understand how much mental health matters and that they are not alone in their problems. Do not worry, we're all broken (laughs).


You give a lot of your music. Why?

I really do not have an adequate answer to this. I would be honest to say that I do not know. I'm not saying that I will now put all the tapes to be downloaded for free, but we can always arrange something (laughter). Here's an example of my track "Echoing Thoughts" played on DuskDubs radio station a couple of times and it's completely free. People enjoy it and ask me what I did not release it. It's just not important for me to release so many tracks for strong publishing houses. I just like to share my work with people. To hear from someone that my music sounds great and that person enjoys it, it is more than enough. It's kind of nice to know that someone else is experiencing all the emotions I have invested in creating music. The feeling is ... Intimate. Then I know I'm not alone.

What idea is behind the podcast?

The idea is to introduce the music I like to people in the form of a mix of your favorite songs. I did not make podcasts many times, so I hope you like it."

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