Ponjke a.k.a DJ PonK (Dragan Ponjevic) is hardly an unfamiliar name
in the electronic music in this area. The interest for active music
making dates from the 1990's, and the first group he was a member of
and that introduced him to the microphone in 1993 was in the domains
of rap music… at the same time he made his first steps towards
producing and arranging on a then well known Atari computer, using
Cubase software, analogue samplers, and keyboards.
PonK and his crew release their debut album named Non Plus Ultra in
1998, where he acquires his new experience in contemporary music
production and arrangements with Nebojsa Arezina (one of the most
famous producers in Serbia today). Soon afterwards, he starts working
as a radio and club DJ that promotes some less familiar sounds to
Serbian audience at the time, which later becomes the most listened
club music – house music. The first tracks that PonK played on radio
stations date from 1996. Those were very popular hits in house music
that was experiencing its own renaissance, both on the global and the
local scene.
His utter commitment to music was crowned by a lot of lyric writing,
composing numbers for a lot of rap bands and performers, and songs
that he himself, or as a member of a team, produced and arranged. Some
of the famous names from the rap scene he worked with include: Juice,
Fullmoon, M.A.X, C-YA , etc.
In 2001 he meets one of the most famous Serbian musicians, Sanja
Ilic, who was well into preparing his material titled Balkanika. Ilic
recognizes the great talent possessed by this young man, and soon
includes him in his tours where he participated in the production of
this band's live shows. In 2001 PonK does the remix for a Delta
Project single Traffic, named 2001 House Mix, and was written in 1983
by Sanja Ilic. PonK officially showed that he as an individual has a
modern approach to sound, and the understanding for the style and
advancing of dance music in the world. This cooperation in Sanja
Ilic's studio sky-rocketed his vast knowledge of music production to
an even higher level.
Additionally, he also has experience as a teacher in the field of
computer science called "Digital Sound Editing". In 2006 he became a
member of a group gathered around to build a modern radio station in
Belgrade – TDI radio. He was elected a production editor, and hence
responsible for the very sound of the station, as well as for the
style of music that is still broadcast by this radio station,
especially in the evenings when current club music frequents the
playlists. He was an author and a host of some of the radio's shows.
In 2008 he became a part of the team of the national radio station
Radio Index, where he was invited to develop a program and set a new
data base of music tracks, which will be broadcast from this radio
station in future.
Since 2007, he has set off again into "night ventures", and activated
himself as a club DJ. Local DJ's who he has a regular cooperation with
are: Dj Kizami, Meex, Mirko, Oysha, Goran Starcevic, Paki. Presently,
he is a resident of Club Baltazar in Belgrade and Novi Sad.
