DJ Tonika - the first Drum And Bass lady in Ukraine is the cofounder of the powerful Funk Masters formation, the Ukrainian electronic label dnbsession music and the internet resource www.dnb.in.ua, as well as the professional DJing school “ParaDek”.
2001 was the start of her professional career not only as DJ, but also as a promoter who realized a great number of successful parties in the city with many world-famous stars in participation. Later (in 2003) DJ Tonika became an ideological inspirer and cofounder of the Funk Masters dynamic formation (Tonika, MaxNRG, Derrick, Qsto).
Her achievements include performing at the biggest club events and festivals in Ukraine, as well as at the main scene of Kazantip festival (2004, 2005, 2006) and “Schastie” dance poll in St. Petersburg (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006).
Today, Tonika is one of the most ‘in-demand’ dnb DJs in Ukraine. Every year Tonika manages to visit more than 40 clubs in Ukraine (Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odessa), in Poland (Warsaw, Lublin, Krakow, Wrotslaw, Zakopane) in Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Moldova (Kishinev), Romania (Bucharest, Yashy), Belarus (Minsk, Brest, Vitebsk).
Throughout her career as a DJ , Tonika published 6 mixtapes: «Drum And Bass Session» together with FM (VIRUS Production, 2003) «Drum And Bass Juice» (VIRUS Production, 2003) «Sweet Drum And Bass» (VIRUS Production, 2004) «Drum And Bass Game» mixed by Tonika&Derrick (2005) «70 minutes of Happiness» (Energetika, 2006) «Drum And Bass Sista» (dnbsession music, 2007).
Tonika is the author of the “Tender Session” project. The concept of this project is live music accompaniment to her drum and bass set. At the moment these are successful and popular works with saxophone (Martyn Tverdun), flute (Igor Lomaga), violin (Maryan Lomaga), grunt-horn (Vitaliy Gava) with ‘Voskresinnya’ modern theater actors participating.
In 2007 – Tonika along with DJ Derrick, composed various successful tracks Derrick&Tonika "I Love You" and "Lhotse". The latest spring 2008 marks the publication of a Ukrainian product at the world scene as it is released by Defcom, the top British label!
By experimenting with break beats, Tonika earned the status of a Break Beat DJ, offering people the breaks music with drum and bass consciousness.
Preferable medium – vinyl.
DJ Tonika@FunkMasters Birthday (music: Derrick&Tonika "I Love You")
may, 2008
TV REPORT - DJ Tonika [Funk Masters] plays drum'n'bass with Piano player live! @ Tender Session (Lviv, Ukraine)
DJ Tonika [Funk Masters] plays drum'n'bass with Flute player live! @ Tender Session (Lviv, Ukraine)
DJ Tonika [Funk Masters] plays drum'n'bass with Horn player live! @ Tender Session (Lviv, Ukraine)
a lot respect and admiration for your work, you to recognize the talent of any dj and you have a lot, Your Music have feeling and quality Tonika, we are in contact.
you are my teacher, you are my titan and my colossus, you are my greatness and my paradise, you are my mozart and my Schumann of DNB, I surrender to your teachings and you music, I surrender before you rhythms and you feeling, you are only and it stops my there is not something better than you, for my alone one it exists, my lord Tonika, thank you to give me, you music's glory and the paradise of you talent.
"The fascination of dark ambient, electronica and minimal techno is finding self outlet here.The result is this such a fresh and modern sounding EP, which is hypnotising by the sphere combinated with such a explosive mixture of short, minimalistic percussive sound..."
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