N-tchbl - SUBLIMINAL on friskyRadio - 21. March 2011
Bio blurb from SoundCloud:
Marija Nikolic aka. N-tchbl, born in 1984. and raised in Serbia. Through all of her childhood science and music were the main spots of her world, nothing was that interesting and played more of a role in her life. A teacher in primary school spotted her ability to 'catch by ear' and quickly reproduce the solo parts of the songs played on the classes of music education she attended, and soon forced her to start learning piano, but it lasted no longer than a couple of months cuz of the financial inabilities caused by the '90s atmosphere of the country she lived in. But she continued practicing her playing skills on the musical education classes in school and at home on Yamaha keyboards, oftenly playing piano on school celebrations and ceremonials. Then she fell in love with a guitar, again, easily catching the solos and chords from the songs and playing it with no tabs seen, just with a little help of a 'catchy ear'. But the guitar has stayed there in the past being only a hoby and a great love, even nowadays.
Then at the end of 90's she discovered electronic music, thanks to her brother and first rave parties happening in her town at that time. Prodigy and Kraftwerk raised her to the whole new world of something that was not that classical like piano or guitar were at those times. It was a pure inovation in the world of music for her. In the times of revealing the differencies betwen genres, names like Deep Dish, Satoshi Tomiie, John Digweed, Sasha, Dave Seaman and Hernan Cattaneo brought the feeling that progressive house with a soft spots of trance inside was something that suits her the most of all of the music left in this world. Collecting artists and their pieces of that kind, trying to catch every second of it, going to parties to hear how 'big names' are doing it live' she fell in love with it like with nothing else before! Progressive house was something she wanted to live' and love.
In 2006th she decided to try herself out at the first ever party of hers in a small underground club called 'BauHaus' in her hometown. A couple of parties more of that kind followed in next couple of months and then she stopped, being burdened by university duties and striving to finish those ones first. In march 2007th she hitted Belgrade for the first time, playing 5hrs set in an underground Belgrade clubs Infinity and Biro which was a great expirience, seeing people reacting unexpectedly extatic to the music she played. Being listened then by a couple of capital DJs and getting compliments and pursuasions for going forward and climbing the stairs of being a DJ, she gained confidence and continued doing it.
In 2008th she became a part of the "iFACE Agency" crew, together with her friends and collegues DJ Alexandar, Marko Nikolic, Ascaloon, John Deere, Danny Way etc. Played in all of the Serbian capital cities and also internationally in venues like Escape (Bulgaria), Cacao Beach (Bulgaria), Energija, Mamolo, Namaste, Compressor, Soda, Cubo, with names like DJ Tarkan, DJ Alexandar, Keekos, Pete Thompson, John Deere, Life4Funk, Pleta, Danny Way, Straw, Ascaloon, Marko Nikolic etc. In july 2010. she won the "EMC - EXIT Music Conference 2010" competition as one of the chosen DJs by the audience public voting to attend the EMC on EXIT Festival (Serbia) together with fellow DJs and leaded by names like Josh Wink, Tim Exile, Moderat and many more.
Her music was broadcasted on almost all of the worldwide popular radiostations, amongst other less known FriskyRadio, KissFM, PureFM, Proton, 16bit Moscow, Tribalmixes.org, Danceradio.gr, Eilo.org, EnSonic Radio, Insomniafm.com being a guest of many wellknown DJs in this area. In August 2009th she started her second monthly exclusive project called "DEVOTION" on Pure.FM, running also as a monthly podcast of the underground portal Beattunes.com. This has brought her the opportunity to present the whole new side of deep and dark progressive sounds, the female way, progressive sounds that made her fall in love with them back in the previous decade and let that sound never be forgotten
Visit www.n-tchbl.com for being up to date with all of the info.
