SHANTEL & BUCOVINA CLUB SOUND SYSTEM

Bringing The Full Energy of Club-Culture & Dance Party's Live on Stage. Listen to diversity. The Analog Meets the Digital. The East Meets the West. A Melting Pot of Styles a Vibrant Spectacle Where the Acoustic Will Be Remixed with Electronica & Beats Live on Stage. Celebrating The Liberty of Performance with Balkan Pop, Global Bass, Diaspora Beats, Turkish Psychedelica and Electro. With his international mega hit “Disko Partizani”, Shantel became the audible face of new music and dance culture worldwide. He was the first to miss out on a cosmopolitan sound to current pop culture due to his complex family roots. At Shantel, migration can be heard and danced. Musical gems from Southeast Europe, Greece and the Middle East appear in a new, complex context. Shantel sees his work as a musician as a creative preparation of an ongoing discourse between theory and practice. The audible, tangible and danceable results are always a product of his very individual engagement with music as a specific expression of a place's historical, cultural, social and political soundscape. His output as a DJ, producer and musician is right from the start in the area of tension between tradition + modernity and analog + digital.

Shantel's method does not follow a linear understanding of music as something that is statically, culturally and spatially confined. On the contrary: His own family history and the associated complex musical socialization made it clear to him early on that music has no limits. This basic idea of combining different musical forms is reflected in all of the artist's projects. The Club Lissania Essay in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel, which he ran in the 1980s, can therefore be understood as Shantel's own musical expression, not to reflect the mainstream electronic music scene, but to place the complexity of the new forms and techniques of making music in an overall global context even back then. Lissiana offered the various urban communities a space that was inclusive and diverse rather than a scene - as was the case with all other Shantel projects, in which music and club culture always became political practice.

In today's globalized world, in the urbanity in which we live, Shantel does not play and produce for one community the one sound that supposedly originates from it. Because in a complex world characterized by migration, digital exchange and a dynamic music scene that constantly spits out new creative products from seemingly irreconcilable musical backgrounds, this one geographically pinned, segregated, homogeneous sound no longer exists.