Marko Milosavljevic was born in 1983 in Trstenik. Absolutely one of the busiest domestic electronic music artists who constantly experiments and explores all forms of electronic and alternative music. He is a passionate vinyl collector and fan of synthesizers, pianos and rhythm machines. As a kid, he did not read comics but did read magazine, and he managed to get releases like Groove and Raveline.
"The main culprit" for the beginning of his career was the piano and a lower music school in Trstenik, which he enrolled at the age of eight. In that period he soon met electronics, began to collect cassettes and discs from local DJs. At the age of 12 he went to the local party, and soon began to travel outside the city and listen to the DJs that performed in Belgrade, Nis and Kraljevo. In the early '90s, local pioneers were buying high quality records, and he immediately began to follow everything and create his own musical taste. For him, everything is connected - a techno scene dominated by Advent, Beltram, Mills, Surgeon and Luke Slater, followed by a minimal techno that was led by Maurizio, Baby Ford and Theorem through the house artists. He especially noticed the work of Green Velvet. On the one hand, he loved listening to softer sound, and on the other, harder sound as well. Situation is the same even today. By chance, he spent a lot of time in Berlin where he connected with several record stores and that is how he was getting the music he wanted. He ordered the records over a fax machine and called them by telephone after a few weeks to check if they found something on the list, and then his sister went to the store for orders and sent them to Trstenik. He didn`t buy records in Serbia, except few editions of jazz music.
At the age of 16, he started seriously dealing with DJing. So far, in-demand performer of electronic music who constantly flirts with house, techno and pure electronic, has performed in every major club and at all leading festivals all over the country (he performed at the Exit at Dance Arena in 2007), the region and the whole Europe. The performances in Spain, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania brought him popularity that even took him to Canada.
Teshka Mashineria brought him an invaluable experience. He became part of the project in 2004. Many events, festivals, small and large parties, residencies, various afters, radio shows, released editions for several labels and a large amount of unreleased material marked the project in which he has participated for more than ten years. It is a period that cannot be forgotten ever. After a long period of time outside the school, he returned to graduate and moved to deal with production at a slightly more serious level than before. The production debut was recorded on the compilation B92 "Belgrade Coffee Shop" in 2006, followed by the Dutch labels "Luxaflex" and "Shadowfax" and "Jeus loved You" and, of course, the concentration on production work for mother labels. He does not hide the great influence of Marko Nastic and Dejan Milicevic who he worked with on a radio show "Music For Body & Soul" at radio B92.
During 2009, he became Burn ambassador, Burn Audio Tool lecturer and Burn Residency Regional judge. Together with Dejan Milicevic, he organized many parties, lectures and workshops where they convey knowledge and experience to all interested DJs and producers. The Burn Residency competition allows the local winner to showcase his knowledge at the global competition that takes place in Ibiza. Lea Dobricic used her chance the best possible way - she won the competition, stayed all summer on Ibiza, later, she joined Mark and Dejan and since then, they have been representatives of Burn DJ Team in Serbia.
Marko is the owner of the most famous label from Serbia, Recon Warriors, with daughter labels Traffica and Recon Light, which have published 50 editions so far. As a Recon Warriors manager, he leads many jobs regarding one publishing house - listening to demos, a plan and a programme for publishing, press records, digital publishing, promotion, extensive paperwork, constant contact with artists ... from the idea to the final product. After many years of experience in this position, he realized that things in this business did not work the way he thought at the beginning. There were also major distribution problems, among other things, but he learned the true meaning of the word business in the music world. For a long period, he has only dealt with his own label and artists who published for him. Such a job requires full commitment, which, together with the performances, did not leave enough time for production. When it all started, he thought that it was possible to devote himself to everything in its entirety, but that was not the case in reality. He paused, in the meantime, he learned a lot of things, experimented with a lot of new and old analogue equipment. Lately, he has been focused on a new material and a live set without a computer.
When it comes to music he, as a DJ, plays, he sincerely hopes that he will never have to come into the position that the audience recognizes him only by one genre. Many DJs find themselves in one genre and stick to it in their releases and their sets and that is ok, but Marko is not such a DJ, nor does he want to be. He thinks that the constant research of electronic and alternative music that dominates his sets makes them quite different, and the mentioned experimentation greatly influences him in the form of collecting the new positive energy he wants to broadcast through his sets. He often makes sets that are fusion of electronics, house and techno with finesses of various elements in one short, yet dynamic music set - little bit for listening, little bit for dancing.
He listens to a lot of things all related to electronic music, almost everything, especially Third Ear, Delano Smith, Norm Talley, City Drum Ensemble, Soulphiction, Kink, These Days, Rush Hour, Moodyman, Omar-S and many more. He thinks that there is still great music today, you just have to do a lot more research than before. He respects the work of people who were popular at the time of his first steps, and are still active today. For example, DJ Sneak, who during 1997/98 was making excellent songs and today he makes an excellent house. He also separates Rob Acid whose single Junkfood was among his first records he bought. Though since 2000, he has been releasing as Robert Babicz and has changed his musical genre, he still makes great music. Marko honors artists who have not lost enthusiasm and are able to adapt to new trends.
Marko Milosavljevic advises people to listen to music and everything else will be ok.
