Novika
Encyclopedia
Novika is a Polish
vocalist, DJ
, and producer. She plays a blend of electro music, deep house
, deep techno
, and dubtronica
.
She is known for her numerous collaborations with Futro, Smolik, Fisz
, Vienio & Pele, Adamus and others, all of whom appeared on her album "Feat. Novika" (Sissy, 2004). In Radiostacja she hosted her show "Radio Lazy Sunday" for 5 years. Then she moved to Jazz Radio for a while and ended up in national radio for young people - BIS. Here she serves lazy and experimental electronic sounds and presents new local talents. She supports Polish artists and DJs also through compilations (Radio Leniwa Niedziela, Sissy 2002; Polskie Leniwe, Kayax 2005).
Novika has founded a DJ collective and record label
called Beats Friendly.
She has performed at major Polish festivals (Astigmatic, Heineken Open'er
, Era New Horizons
), in Paris (Closing of Polish Year in France) and Japan (Expo).
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
vocalist, DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
, and producer. She plays a blend of electro music, deep house
Deep house
Deep house is a subgenre of house music that fuses elements of Chicago house into the 1980s jazz-funk and touches of soul music. In the early compositions , influences of jazz music were most frequently brought out by using more complex chords than simple triads which are held for many bars and...
, deep techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
, and dubtronica
Dubtronica
Dubtronica is a neologism that has been used to describe electronic dance music that evidences the influence of dub. The origin is thought to be either the experimental English dub of On-U Sound Records and Mad Professor in the 1980s, Note that the term is not universally accepted by both artists...
.
She is known for her numerous collaborations with Futro, Smolik, Fisz
Fisz
Bartosz Waglewski born 19 March 1978 in Warszawa, Poland is an award winning Polish rap artist. He is the son of musician Wojciech Waglewski and older brother of Emade . Studied in Europejska Akademia Sztuk ....
, Vienio & Pele, Adamus and others, all of whom appeared on her album "Feat. Novika" (Sissy, 2004). In Radiostacja she hosted her show "Radio Lazy Sunday" for 5 years. Then she moved to Jazz Radio for a while and ended up in national radio for young people - BIS. Here she serves lazy and experimental electronic sounds and presents new local talents. She supports Polish artists and DJs also through compilations (Radio Leniwa Niedziela, Sissy 2002; Polskie Leniwe, Kayax 2005).
Novika has founded a DJ collective and record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
called Beats Friendly.
She has performed at major Polish festivals (Astigmatic, Heineken Open'er
Open'er Festival
The Heineken Open'er Festival is a music festival which takes place on the North coast of Poland, in Gdynia. The first edition of the festival was organized in Warsaw in 2002 as Open Air Festival. The main organizer of the festival is the concert agency Alter Art, but the performance took its name...
, Era New Horizons
Era New Horizons Film Festival
New Horizons Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in July in Wrocław, Poland. It has been organised since 2001.- Festival programme 2009 :* Opening gala – Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon...
), in Paris (Closing of Polish Year in France) and Japan (Expo).
Futro
- Lovebit (single, 2001)
- Futro (album, 2001)
- Wyspy (single, 2001)
- The New Polution (single, 2002)
- Spacer po Miłość... (single, 2002)
- Nic poza Nami (single, 2002)
Solo career
- feat. Novika (2004)
- Finally (EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, 2006) - Tricks Of Life (album, 2006)
- singiel Tricks (feat. Sqbass) (+teledysk)
- singiel Depend on You (+ teledysk)
- Lovefinder (album, 2010)
Compilations
- Radio Leniwa Niedziela (2002)
- Polskie Leniwe (2005)
- Friendly Beats (2006)