ABOUT MATUS GAJDOS - BLACKOUT AGENCY Blackout Agency is a subsidiary of Bajkonur company that was founded in 2000 and focuses its activities on supporting of Slovak artists and their presentation to local and foreign audience. We encuorage theese supporting activities within our own internet magazine Bajkonur which has over 300 thousand entries a month. There can be found a separate section for artists who want to go public and present their outputs to the world. According to fact, that internet coverage in Slovakia is not as reasonable as this music would deserve, we started to publish a magazine of our own named Partypeople but the publishing costs were too high, therefore we had to stop publishing it after six months. However, we created separate sections in magazines for teenagers Kamarat and Maxisuper, Inspire and czech Xmag. One of our activities is music production. Over 4 years we compile music content for Orange Slovensko, a.s. and Slovak Telecom CDs. At the upcoming time, we plan to set off our own label called Blackout of which main project would be debut album of Slovak duo Soundspeakers and Hip hop project Rendezska-Sk. The audience´s reaction to them was highly positive on such a big events like Summer of Love (CZ), Pohoda (SK) and Hodokvas (SK) festivals. The last but the most important activity of Blackout Agency is organising concerts where the artists are given a chance to present themselves. Since the very first event, our decision to support young artists was proved right by the counted number of attending visitors which was high. We cooperate with similar agencies from Japan, U.S., Singapore and whole Europe, as well (see more in our portfolio), plus, we support appearence of our artists abroad (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland etc.). As we want to prepare our events better and even more interesting we keep searching for ways how to solve not very optimistic matter of money in Slovakia. This is why we are looking for new suitable partners who would help us to organise our projects which are often financially abmitious. In the past it was the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, British Council, French Institute and commercial brands Dexia Bank, Orange, Red Bull, Tommy Hilfiger, who supported us. Considering the fact, that this event (May 1) came out of a post-comunist holiday that specially touched the four counties of Visegrad we turn our request to you…
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ABOUT MATUS GAJDOS - BLACKOUT AGENCY
Blackout Agency is a subsidiary of Bajkonur company that was founded in 2000 and focuses its activities on supporting of Slovak artists and their presentation to local and foreign audience.
We encuorage theese supporting activities within our own internet magazine Bajkonur which has over 300 thousand entries a month. There can be found a separate section for artists who want to go public and present their outputs to the world. According to fact, that internet coverage in Slovakia is not as reasonable as this music would deserve, we started to publish a magazine of our own named Partypeople but the publishing costs were too high, therefore we had to stop publishing it after six months. However, we created separate sections in magazines for teenagers Kamarat and Maxisuper, Inspire and czech Xmag.
One of our activities is music production. Over 4 years we compile music content for Orange Slovensko, a.s. and Slovak Telecom CDs. At the upcoming time, we plan to set off our own label called Blackout of which main project would be debut album of Slovak duo Soundspeakers and Hip hop project Rendezska-Sk. The audience´s reaction to them was highly positive on such a big events like Summer of Love (CZ), Pohoda (SK) and Hodokvas (SK) festivals.
The last but the most important activity of Blackout Agency is organising concerts where the artists are given a chance to present themselves. Since the very first event, our decision to support young artists was proved right by the counted number of attending visitors which was high. We cooperate with similar agencies from Japan, U.S., Singapore and whole Europe, as well (see more in our portfolio), plus, we support appearence of our artists abroad (Czech Republic, Germany, Poland etc.).
As we want to prepare our events better and even more interesting we keep searching for ways how to solve not very optimistic matter of money in Slovakia. This is why we are looking for new suitable partners who would help us to organise our projects which are often financially abmitious. In the past it was the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, British Council, French Institute and commercial brands Dexia Bank, Orange, Red Bull, Tommy Hilfiger, who supported us.
Considering the fact, that this event (May 1) came out of a post-comunist holiday that specially touched the four counties of Visegrad we turn our request to you…
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