KALUMET BIOGRAPHY
Kalumet (Zoltan Vajda, Hungary) started his musical career in 1993 as a bass player
in a school band. One year later he attended his first electronic dance party
and his interests turned toward contemporary electronic music.
When his band splitted up, he got a computer and started to create his own sounds with acoustic and electronic instruments such as guitars, percussions, synths, and of course the computer. His first tracks were trance, dub, breakbeat and jazzy jungle tunes.
In the same time he and his friends founded a party promoter and dj collective project called Alapzaj (Basic Noise). The group was a significant point in the underground techno scene of Budapest.
The firstly released track (a remix of the famous Hungarian band, Korai Öröm, 1998) was soon followed by others on several compilations.
By this time he had deepened in psychedelic trance and concentrated on producing quality psychedelic music.
In 2000 he gave his first live act in an open air party in Hungary, in the same year he released a dub track on the first professional label, Chi Recordings. In the next year he went to Austria to play his first performance abroad.
His unique style was highly appreciated so he become a well-known artist in Hungary. More and more realeses and gigs came, and that time he realised that making musical fusions are the most important things in creating new sounds so he started to mix genres in a tasty manner.
His first international big success was his live act on legendary Boom Festival in 2004 in Portugal, where 20 000 people gathered to see the best trance artists of the world.
He is always busy with different projects: making riddims for ragga mc's, playing bass and guitar on a hip hop recording session, composing music for films and theater pieces, running side projects like Rezzonance Dogs, Tupoliev, Monotonists, Ork Monk, Trevor McGregor, etc...
In 2006 he joined an online music magazine (psylife.net) where he writes articles, reviews and translations of different materials.
Debut album 'Burlesque' is coming February 2009, by Para Halu's label, Halu Beats.
www.kalumet.hu
www.myspace.com/kalumetindub
www.myspace.com/trevmcgregor
www.myspace.com/orkmonk
www.psylife.net
www.beefrecords.net
Discography:
1998
Korai Öröm - Tuvai (Kalumet "Tavalyi" rmx)
V/A - Recycled (Vad Pálmák Records)
2000
Kalumet - Galagonya
V/A - Dub Local (Chi Recordings)
2001
Kalumet - Liquid Forest
V/A - Heart Tribe (Deep Smile)
2003
Kalumet - Aquaflash
V/A - Psytrance of Hungary (Freee Magazin)
2004
Kalumet - Never Stop
V/A - Finest Songs of Cökxpon Ambient (Cökxpon)
Kalumet - Homeland
V/A - Ambient Planet vol.1. (Vagalume Records)
Kalumet - Chaos Blues
(promo live recording for party.origo.hu)
2005
Kalumet - Koyote
V/A - Beat Om Beat (MindSound Rec.)
2006
Trevor McGregor - High Way (Beef Rec.)
2007
Ork Monk - Mirage
V/A - Psychedelica Hungarica (Psybaba Rec.)
Alic - Evil Fairy (kalumet remix)
digital EP (Digital Diamonds)
2008
Kalumet - Time Killer
V/A - Halu Beats vol.1 (Halu Beats)
Tegma - Night In Cairo (kalumet remix)
V/A - Halu Beats vol.1 (Halu Beats)
Kalumet - Bong (Halu Beats vol.1.)
V/A - Halu Beats vol.1 (Halu Beats)
Ork Monk - Benjamin Dropland
V/A - Dropland (Kagdila rec)
Trevor McGregor - Hand in hand with the sound
digital EP (Looq records)
Kalumet - Pandora's fox (Horns and Hoofs rec)
V/A - Unconventional
Absolut & Blade - Crash (Trevor McGregor rmx)
Crash remixes (KumQuat Tunes)
Kalumet - Cabbagement (digital EP, Halu Beats)
featuring Deto's remix
Kalumet - Blaxun (V/A "Digital Family", Digital Diamonds)
upcoming releases:
Kalumet - Acid (digital EP, Halu Beats)
Kalumet in Dub - Downswim (digital V/A 'Tranqiulo', Psylife Music)
Kalumet in Dub - Yo Guru (digital V/A 'Tranqiulo', Psylife Music)
Kalumet - Burlesque (Halu Beats) DEBUT ALBUM!!!
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