The history of the NON idea begins back in the mid 90's. Formed by Tasos Anthopoulos & friends, NON started as an experiment of introducing a new sound to the city. With first attempts to put together two turntables, a small sound system and some good will for new & fresh ideas in small underground venues, NON efforts had an important effect and as a result, parties became bigger and stronger. Numerous events then took place mainly in Thessaloniki but also all over Greece with highlight, the coordination of a series of open area festivals taking place at the University area of Thessaloniki from 1995-2000 with the participation of the most promising young talents of that time and more than 5000 people participating & dancing for hours.
However, the past contains also a second name, as another co-operation emerged in the city. Elektronom was formed by Ison & Dj Solar, in order to focus on the Techno/Electro sound of that time. At the beginning there was no link between NON & Elektronom, but inevitably both sides were connected by mutual respect As a result it was not long before NON & Elektronom came into contact after their individual co-operation with the Art-House club in 2001 in Thessaloniki. There, NON coordinated their own series of events mainly hosting national artists, while Elektronom have started their series with international names such as Steve Bug, Juan Atkins, James Ruskin, Jay Denham, alongside Dj Solar and Ison.
This connection brought NON & Elektronom very close and as a result in 2002 Anastasios Anthopoulos, Ison and Dj Solar decided to join their forces together. Motivated by their passion for modern electronic music, the now reformed NON is based on a philosophy of organizing and realizing a series of events focused on the relationship between the sound and on the environment around. This mixture of ideas ended up in a successful session of events wherever there is will for new born ideas.
Since then NON are going from strength to strength, appearing to a rising number of events and contributing to various projects. By summer 2003 NON started a residency, under the name "Aesthetics", with the purpose to present a series of acoustic-visual pieces of entertainment a series of events which lasts until today. The premier symptom was a gig with Miss Kittin, alongside, Ison & DJ Solar with an audience dancing endlessly till 10 am. After that, events of Ison & Dj Solar alongside The Hacker, Hell, Ellen Allien, Dj Naughty, Zombie Nation, Tiga, Michael Mayer, Ricardo Villalobos, Monika Kruse, Thomas Andersson,Vitalic, Steve Bug, Ellen Allien, Electric Indigo, Acid Maria, Agoria, Paul Kalkbrenner, Stanny Franssen, David Carretta, Tobias Thomas, and many more have followed until today. Today NON aesthetics is hosted apart from Thessaloniki also to Athens, Kozani on a monthly basis as well as in other cities anually and today is considered the most consistent and known club night in Greece..
NON have also proceed to the launch of "Kontakt" series, & "the Polaroid Parties"mainly focusing in the introduction & implementation of various abstract electronic music movements to the city. So far many events took place mainly with the NOn artists but also guest artists Frank Lorber, Konrad Black, Kiki,Fairmont and Sonja Moonear..
The latest project of NON is the Reworks festival. Established in 2005 the aim of the REWORKS is to reconstruct and reprocess various ideas, in order to rebuild a unique aesthetic based on modern arts. Electronic music is combined with modern arts and artists from all over the globe with some of the most important artists of Greece, established or upcoming talents, have suceed to create a new era in the countrys art culture by all gathering together, on an effort of performing electronic music and fine arts in order to elevate, or even better to point out the really important relationship between sound, motion and picture.
This moment finds NON hosting apart from Ison & Dj Solar, also 4 very promising talents And.Id, Johnny Mass and Bubble One. With their unique style, the artists' purpose is to elevate from obscurity the most romantic flavor of electronic culture with plain and clear aims.
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