KALUMET
BIOGRAPHY
Kalumet is Zoltan Vajda from Hungary.
One of the oldschool master of storytellers of the psychedelic trance scene. He got involved in the mid 90's, early enough to see the spreading of trance worldwide, to witness its transforming through the 00's to our present time. Considering this kind of possession of psychedelic experience, one can never be in doubt to have a very special time when he is playing, be it live act or DJ set.
His musical history goes back to late 80's, when he grabbed his first accords on the guitar. The bass guitar came in a few years later, and his world of sounds slowly got a shape, influenced by Joy Division, The Clash, Suicidal Tendecies / Infectious Grooves, L.A. Style, The Overlords, U96, Kraftwerk, Front Line Assembly, Yello, Gabor Szabo, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Korai Öröm, Hardfloor, Emmanuel Top, the Ninja Tunes like Herbalizer and Coldcut, Morcheeba, then Green Nuns Of The Revolution, Quirk, X-Dream, Four Carry Nuts, the Matsuri, Dragonfly and Spirit Zone releases, Audio Active, Black Star Liner, Korsakoff, then in the beginning of the last decade, by early Iboga, ZMA, CreamCrop, Disham and Son Kite, and maybe most of all, the traditional / folk music of the whole world.
In the late 90's he formed Alapzaj Foundation (Basic Noise) with his friends and took part in throwing parties in Budapest with fog machines, strobes, a VJ, while acid house and acid trance was played.
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Having a wide musical culture like this, he never kept his imagination on a short leash. In fact, he is mostly known from his unmistakable manner of creating free-form fusion dance music. Since his first remix in 1998 until this 2015, he released more than hundred tracks on many labels from Chi Recordings through Kagdila, Psylife Music, BrainBusters to Horns And Hoofs, IRMA Records, Random Records or Sangoma, he represents a very wide range of styles.
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Under different names such as Ork Monk, Trevor McGregor, and Tiger Punch, he traveled through half of the world to perform in special places like a cinema in Donetsk, a laundry in Cologne, a bowling alley in Tokyo, in the catacombs of Buda Castle, in the middle of Kanchanaburi lake near Bangkok, the mountains of Transylvania and Bulgaria, the forests of Lithuania and northern Russia, the magical beaches of Koh Phangan, jungles of Brazil, clubs of Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, London and Moscow, main stages of Ozora, Lost Theory, chill out areas of Boom, Voov, … Currently living in Gozo, Malta.
His most significant releases are:
Burlesque album (2008, Halu Beats),
his compilation Freerunners (2011, Psylife Music),
The One Inch Punch album (2012, Random Records),
his Trevor McGregor EP called Flanger City Cowboys (2013, Horns And Hoofs Entertainment),
the Ork Monk EP Speaking Stones (2010, Ektoplazm)
the Sheer Liquid Wonderment minialbum (2013, Sangoma Records),
the Jungle Juice album (2015, Impulse Audio Records)
Kalumet And The Acid Ocean Sailing Club (2017, Mana Mana Records),
and his latest album: Transatlantic Locomotive (2019, Hawaii Bonsai Records)
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