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Matic

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About Me

Born on 11th February 1980 in Kranj, raised in Kamnik, where I finished primary school, went to High school for tourism in Ljubljana, where I was among the best.My life changed there - in 1996 I met Helena Mak, started dating her and with an interesting rollercoaster ride we married on 15th October 2005 and on 5th January 2007 we become produ parents of little boy Taras (which means rebel in greece).After high school I went to Faculty for management and organisation in Kranj, where I'm still writing my degree.In 2002 I started wiritng for music web portal ,,VPL, where I wrote almost 1000 articles about music (CD and concert reviews, articles, interviews,...) and then I went working on Dallas Records in October 2004.It was fun working with many artists I worshiped, wrote about them. I took over PR for Tinkara Kova,,, Leeloojamais and Katalena, for which I'm really proud of and some others, that are... well, I won't even mention them. Beside three huge Slovenian music stars I also covered PR for entire EMI / Mute / Virgin / Parlophone / V2 / Blue Note catalogue, that included Robbie Williams, Norah Jones, Laibach, Nick Cave, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, Gorillaz and many others.Tinkara Kova,, performed twice in Cankarjev dom in this time, Leeloojamais once and Katalena twice. Nick Cave was in Ljubljana in Kri,,anke and I organised great press conference for him. Joe Cocker came, The White Stripes came and one of my last things at Dallas Records - Placebo / Depeche Mode concert at Be,,igrad stadium. I've handed gold record awards to members of Depeche Mode and had an awful experience with superego Brian Molko. Placebo are still unwanted!!!In October 2006 I left Dallas Records at came to MTV Adria, where I still work as PR manager. My first assignment? MTV EMA 2006 in Copenhagen. Great experience and a very memorable one also. 2007 was great year with recieving Viktor for popularity as most popular cable TV station in Slovenia, with great competitions such as Art Break and Catch the Frequency and the search for new VJ's, called Postani Faca. And the EMA's of course.. this year in Munich... it was a bit more relaxed, even more confused, but once again - fun!I'm wiriting articles for several magazines in Slovenia, but since I write under very different names, I'll keep this as my little secret.2008? Future... I know, that my son will be one year old and that he'll start walking any time now. And everything else is a thing to wait.

My Interests

Family is number one, music is number two and then everything else comes.

I'd like to meet:

A lot of people and sadly many are dead. Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley, John Bonham, Keith Moon, James Dean, John Lennon, Bob Marley... among others.A list of musicians is very long and luckily I've at least heard some live and probably will again in the next year - AC/DC, Metallica, Pearl Jam... waiting for Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bob Dylan. It would be really great to just shake their hand and let them know, how much they've done for me in all these years.Many, many great Slovenian bands...And there are other intersting people I would like to meet, but the ist is just too long and I won't bore you with it.

Music:

Mostly rock, especially old school and all other subgenres, from hard rock, punk, blues, heavy metal and others. Jazz and world music are great to listen, sometimes even jazz doesn't bore me too much and you can find some hip-hop artists, worthy to listen.

Movies:

Huh... I don't like modern movies as I don't like modern music. There are some excepetions, but it's hard to find an interesting movie this days. List of mvoies, that I like - Lord of the Rungs, La vita e bella, A beautiful mind, Memento, The Godfather... stuff with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, many movies with Russell Crowe, Monica Bellucci... the more it makes you think, the better.

Television:

Watching TV shows with my wife, some sports, maybe documentaries. And of course music channels...

Books:

I used to read a lot, but now I don't have enough time. I read to music biographies or interesting fiction books... My own personal bible is Hesse's Steppenwolf...

Heroes:

Musically Jimi Hendrix, in sports Dra,,en Petrovi,,, in life... trying to write my own story.

My Blog

Various Artists - Make Some Noise: Save Darfur

RAZLICNI IZVAJALCI MAKE SOME NOISE  SAVE DARFUR (WEA / Nika Records, 2007) Tribute albumi so vedno tezavni& sploh, ce naj ne bi bili tribute albumi, ampak predvsem pripomocek za zbiranje sredste...
Posted by Matic on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:11:00 PST

Matchbox 20 - Exile on Mainstream

MATCHBOX 20 EXILE ON MAINSTREAM (Atlantic / Nika Records, 2007) Matchbox 20 so ena tistih odlicnih ameriskih zasedb, ki se je soocila z bridkostjo in surovostjo evropskega trga, saj ji kljub nesp...
Posted by Matic on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:05:00 PST

Manu Chao - La Radiolina

MANU CHAO LA RADIOLINA (Radio Bemba / Nika Records, 2007) Manu Chao, ki je ze za cas zasedbe Mano Negra poskrbel za latino obarvano glasbeno revolucijo v Evropi, svojo uspesno pot in preverjeno g...
Posted by Matic on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:59:00 PST

Gibonni - Acoustic: Electric

GIBONNI ACOUSTIC: ELECTRIC (Dallas Records, 2007) Na Gibonnijevo novo studijsko plosco Unca Fibre je bilo potrebno cakati kar nekaj let in sam se vedno trdim, da tega cakanja ni bila vredna. Pa c...
Posted by Matic on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:53:00 PST

Babyshambles - Shotters Nation

BABYSHAMBLES SHOTTERS NATION (Parlophone / Dallas Records, 2007) Babyshambles imajo samo eno veliko tezavo  Petea Dohertyja. Ustanovitelj, kitarist, pevec in tudi glavni pisec skladb za skupino...
Posted by Matic on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:46:00 PST

Recenzije

No, tako, pa sem prisel do tocke, ko bom zacel malo izkoriscati tale MySpace... zalostno je, da v Sloveniji se vedno nimamo splosne glasbene revije (pa smo se trudili) in da so vse ostale zadeve podvr...
Posted by Matic on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:07:00 PST