Vanja Tadic a.k.a. DJ Vanja S-Cream was born 1975 in the city of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In mid 80's he started collecting record and working as light jay, music becomes a part of his life and at age of 13 (1988) begins his career as the youngest DJ in Ex-Yugoslavia at the time. Under alias DJ Vanja S-Cream he performs in clubs, such as "Hollywood"-Split, "Grotta"-Makarska, "Europe"-Sarajevo, he became resident DJ of club "Boa" in Sarajevo, and "Mladost"-Jahorina. In year 1991 he forms "Funky Beat" band, records demo Hip Hop songs, works as resident in club "Stella", organising his first events: "Disco nights on roller skates", Free style dance competitions and becomes licensed member of D.M.C. (Disco Mix Club)-London.
In 1992. the war prevents him to compete in the D.M.C. of DJ's in Kranj -Slovenia, and he cancels his tours around other cities in Ex-Yugoslavia. While Sarajevo burns, Club "Stella" is bunt down, along with 500 LP's, and 200 Maxi Single's from his collection. Some of his first Vinyl's which he still possesses, and not mentioning the ones that got destroyed during war, are: Stevie V - "Dirty Cash" Remix, Percussions and Additional Production by David Morales, Inner City - "Good Life" and "Big Fun" produced by Kevin "Master Reese" Saunderson, Tone Loc - "Wild Thing", "Funky Cold Medina", LL Cool J - "I Need Love", RUN DMC - "Mary Mary", Soul II Soul - "Back To Life". Nevertheless, his enthusiasm for music kept him going. He produced 3 singles: "Wolf's", "Not Like That" and "Salvation Is in Love", that was performed on the "Miss Surrounded Sarajevo" beauty pageant contest in 1992. During The War Siege, from 1992 to 1996 he steps out as a DJ and organizes the first Techno and House events in clubs "UN", "Sloga", "Simpson's", "Cocktail" and Cinema "Radnik" in Sarajevo.
From 1999, besides his appearances in clubs, he organized themed events, amongst which are: "Club 21", "Trance For Peace", "Bajram Party", "1. May Show", "That's It", "Sarajevo Electronic City", "Sexotic Dance Studio". In 2003 he publishes CD "In My House 2" and his remix, "Retro '88 - '03". He organized an Electronic Music Festival for promotion and unification of Bosnian DJ's - "Music United BiH" and starts DJ workshop. In 2004, Vanja registered agency for promotion of electronic music "DISC-TEC", produced remix Dino Dvornik - "Ti si mi u mislima 2004", played with David Morales, Sven Vath and Funk D'Void.
Following years he organized party's in: "Atlantic"-Doboj, "Music Club Sloga", "Buddha Bar", "Labirint", "Kuk", "Holiday Inn Club", opens "DJ CLUB" in which guests from BiH, Slovenia, Croatia and England performed. He had several performances in Germany - Konstanz, Croatia - Makarska as in BiH: Sarajevo, Neum, Doboj, Banja Luka, Zenica, Bihac, Prijedor, Kozarac, Konjic, Ljubuski, Visoko, Mostar. Realised 3 promo mixes "0005", "2006 Summer Memories", "Electrolution", established cooperation with "Media Services NYC" and remixes songs: HouseBros and Britalics feat. Joy Malcolm - "Love What You Feel", Houselovers - "Feel Da Riddim (T and A Miami Grime)", C-C Music Factory - "Everybody Dance Now", Mostar Sevdah Reunion - "Cudna jada od Mostara Grada", and produced "Hajde uzmi me", "Sarajevo", "Turbo folk nije muzika".
Since 2006 he works as DJ and host of "DJ Party" which is broadcasted on FTV BiH. In 2007 he performs on Skenderija plateau on central city "Ney Year's eve" celebration, along David Morales - "Skenderija hall", "Dom Mladih" and clubs "Labirint", "Peggy-Jahorina", "The Bar", "Cinemas"-Sloga, "Oxygen"-Mostar, "Cabaret", "Voodoo", "Opera", "Buba"-Makarska, "Jez", "Barka".
In his performance he prefers musical variations of Tribal, Latino, Progressive, Disco, Retro and Electro Sounds, to create his style known as "Full Throttle House".
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