Biogrāfija
AI-VA sākās deviņdesmito gadu pirmajā pusē ar lenšu atskaņotājiem, Pumpuru vidusskolu, Asaru kultūras namu… deviņdesmito gadu nogalē AI-VA līdzās laikabiedriem Ozolu un Gustavo aizsāka pirmo modernā hip hop ballīšu vilni Rīgas klubā Jim Beam; vēlāk AI-VA piedalījies Latvijas deju grīdu ritmiskajā attīstībā turpat visur Latvijā - Nautilus, Fashion Club, Pulkvedim Neviens Neraksta, Meta Kafe, Piens, Grands, Tonuss, Multiklubs, PMK, Zebra, 4L&$, Amber Night un c… Igaunijā klubos Illusion, Prive, Hollywood, Riff… Lietuvā ilglaicīgi klubā Pacha, Gravity, Global, Gangsters, Combo…
AI-VA ir arī viens no dažiem latviešu diskžokejiem, kurš reāli piedalās turnejās citur pasaulē - dīdījis deju grīdas Zviedrijā, Norvēģijā, Spānijā, Francijā, Somijā, Vācijā, Lielbritānijā, ASV un Kanādā; Oslo kā regulārs viesis diskžokejo hip hop klubos; since 2004 - Rīgas klubu dzīves monstra - Essential hip hop un modernajam R'n'B veltītās zāles rezidents; papildus since 2008 - kluba Pulkvedis rezidents...
tostarp darbojoties kā menedžeris lielai daļai veiksmīgāko Latvijas "pilsētas ritmu" muzikālo komandu un solo mākslinieku, kā koncertu un festivālu organizators (ārzemēs saka - promoter), 2005.gadā AI-VA kopā ar domubiedriem atklājis pirmo oficiāli reģistrēto, privāto mūzikas skolu Ritma Institūts; skolā māca apgūt dažādas ar moderno mūziku saistītas prasmes - kompaktdisku, vaska un radio diskžokeja specifikā, mūzikas producēšanā, vokālā…
AI-VA jau kādu laiku sevi neierobežo žanriskos rāmojos - spēlējot hip hop, funk, soul, r’n’b un regeju/dancehall, viņa priekšnesumā ievijas arī breakbeat, rokmūzika, electro, džezs, favela, indie… AI-VA ir aktīvs spēlējot arī šobrīd visu pasauli pāršalcušo fenomenu Baltimore club - Baltimoras klubu mūzika, būtībā… apvienojot kaut ko no vēsturiskā Miami bass, house mūzikas, hip hop, nereti pievienojot arī rečitatīvu… un visu beidzot AI-VA specializējas mash up jomā, veidojot tam veltītas miksslentas (mixtapes) un īpašus setus.
spēlējis ar/iesildījis
Busta Rhymes
Jazzy Jeff
DJ Premier
Maxi Jazz (Faithless)
Akil The MC (Jurassic 5)
Louis Logic
Digitalism
Kid Loco
GZA
Slum Village
Onyx
Guru (Gang Starr)
Young Buck
DJ Cash Money
Wu Tang Killa Beez
Killah Priest
Lord Jazz (Lords Of The Underground)
Juice Aleem (Big Dada/Ninja Tunes)
Akil The MC / Jurassic 5
Shortee Blitz (UK)
Vanilla Ice
Mattafix
Adam Ficek (Babyshambles) UK
Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) UK
Gary Powell (Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things) UK
Ty (UK)
DJ Pogo (UK)
DJ Quest (EE)
Paul Oja (EE)
DJ Mista (EE)
Mamania (LT)
Def One (LT)
Critikal (EE)
Confuze (SWE)
Fidgit & Bunzi D (UK)
Mark Devlin (UK)
Chedda (Finland)
Chizzy (Kenya)
Admiral P (Zambia)
Daniel Lion (Norway)
Soulshock (Portugal)
El Axel (Chile)
Seth Skizzo (Norway)
Android (Norway)
Gaute & Henrik (Norway)
K Gee (UK)
RCola (Canada)
Jay Colin & DJ Skillz (Netherlands)
DJ Flava (Netherlands)
Cortez (Germany)
Asha (UK, USA)
Hix (UK)
Teddy Touch (Norway)
Winchester (UK)
MoMa (UK)
Juice Aleem (UK)
Adam Tensta (Swe)
NOE (USA)
DJ Scratchator (USA)
utt…
festivāli
Ung08 Festival Stockholm 2007
MTV B-day 2007
Positivus Festival 2009, 2010
Fono Fest 2010
Laba Daba 2010
Piens Fest 2010
Cosmo Bikini Bash 2010
Tele2 Baltic Beach Party 2007, 2008
Moonlight Party 2007, 2008, 2009
Zaļumballe Festivāls 2009
The City Festival 2009
Baltic Graffiti Festival 2006, 2007, 2008
Hip Hop Awards Latvia 2006
MTV Latvia Grand Opening 2006
Dance Summit 2007, 2008
Re:Loud 2006
Hip Hop Festival 2002 – 2006
…
ieraksti:
www.soundcloud.com/djaiva/
www.draugiem.lv/djaiva
AI-VA netā:
www.myspace.com/djaiva2
www.twitter.com/djaiva
www.facebook.com/djaiva
E:
dj_ai_va@yahoo.co.uk
txt: Elvi & Ai-Va
ENGLISH VERSION:
For DJ Ai-va, the number one priority is musicality. Drawing his influences from Soul, Funk, Rock, Reggae, HipHop, Breakbeats and Electropop, DJ Ai-va extracts the essence of all these styles, blending and arranging them in a way that’s captivating and entertaining to his listeners. After a few years’ practice at home, in 1991 DJ Ai-va started playing at schools’ parties, small clubs and bars.
In 90s DJ Ai-va plays magnetic tapes, later he switches to cd format. In late 90s together with Ozols and Gustavo, he is one of the first and very few hip hop party DJs in Latvia. At the same time, he is starting to organize various events and hip hop parties in various clubs in Riga – “Pulkvedis”, “Jim Beam”, “4 Love & $”, “Ultra”, etc. Has been organising many hip hop events such as Hip Hop Fest LV (2001-2006 so far), Baltic Graffiti festival, tours all over Latvia for local hip hop acts, first ever in Latvia Hip Hop and Extreme Sports Awards (check: HipXHop.lv), warm up for: Slum Village, Onyx, Guru, Lloyd Banks, Wu Tang Killa Beez, DJ Cash Money, and for many local hiphop live acts. Has also played numerous sets in popular Latvia and Baltics night clubs, bars and parties (Nautilus, Fashion Club, Pulkvedis, Grands, Multiklubs, Tonuss, etc). Currently (for about 4 years) a resident in Latvia’s biggest and the most popular night club: „Essential” (www.essential.lv/dj/).
Plays hip hop, r`n`b, funk, soul, breakbeats, rock, electro, etc.
As a travelling party rocker, he has played in many countries including neighbouring Lithuania and Estonia, as well as USA (Chicago, NYC, California), Canada (Toronto), Sweden, Norway and Germany. Now he has started a new international 2006/2007 tour with a new program: Converse Your Life - based on hiphop and all that includes (hiphop meets rock meets soul meets funk meets breaks meets reggae meets classic, etc)!
Since 2000, DJ Ai_Va has been managing and promoting various Latvian hip hop artists, producing weekly hip hop radio show (Radio Naba), managing hip hop label Riga Records, which has so far released 14 albums. Recently has opened a music school (Rythm Institute) - www.ritmainstituts.lv - where young people from all over Latvia can learn how to become cd, vinyl or radio DJ, music producer, emcee, etc.
Has released various mixtapes such as:
Mass DNM mixtape 2006,
Eastern Block 2003,
Beats of the year (2002 - 2005),
European Urban Hiphop 2004,
Converse Your Life (nov 2006), etc
Supports-
Busta Rhymes
GZA (Wu Tang)
Slum Village
Onyx
Guru (Gang Starr)
Vanilla Ice
Young Buck
Lloyd Banks
DJ Cash Money
Wu Tang Killa Beez
Jazzy Jeff
DJ Premier
Digitalism
Kid Loco
etc
Events-
Resident/Host - MTV B-Day (Krastmala) 2007
Resident/Host - Dance Summit (Ragga hall) Kinostudija 2007
Resident/Host - Baltic Beach Party (hip hop stage) 2007
Resident/Host - Undercover Moonlight Party (hip hop stage)2007
Resident/Host – Hip Hop Awards Latvia 2006
Resident/Host - MTV Latvia Opening 2006
Host - Ung08 Festival, Stokholm 2006
Resident/Host – Re:Loud 2006
Resident/Host - Hip Hop Festivals 2002 – 2006 (hip hop culture contest)
Resident/Host – Open Street session 2006 (hip hop and extreme sports street session)
Host – various open air party’s in Riga and Latvia 2000 - 2006
Has made edits and remixes for various artists.
He favourites these artists: THE ROOTS QUESTLOVE JURASSIC 5 STEVIE WONDER MUSIQ BIG L DJ NEIL ARMSTRONG BILL WITHERS ANTHONY HAMILTON COMMON JOHN LEGEND NAS A TRIBE CALLED QUEST PETE ROCK MOS DEF PARLIAMENT RICK JAMES TALIB KWELI DJ PREMIER BEASTIES HI TEK LOOPTROOP PROMOE DILATED PEOPLES and the list continues...
AI-VA ir arī viens no dažiem latviešu diskžokejiem, kurš reāli piedalās turnejās citur pasaulē - dīdījis deju grīdas Zviedrijā, Norvēģijā, Spānijā, Francijā, Somijā, Vācijā, Lielbritānijā, ASV un Kanādā; Oslo kā regulārs viesis diskžokejo hip hop klubos; since 2004 - Rīgas klubu dzīves monstra - Essential hip hop un modernajam R'n'B veltītās zāles rezidents; papildus since 2008 - kluba Pulkvedis rezidents...
tostarp darbojoties kā menedžeris lielai daļai veiksmīgāko Latvijas "pilsētas ritmu" muzikālo komandu un solo mākslinieku, kā koncertu un festivālu organizators (ārzemēs saka - promoter), 2005.gadā AI-VA kopā ar domubiedriem atklājis pirmo oficiāli reģistrēto, privāto mūzikas skolu Ritma Institūts; skolā māca apgūt dažādas ar moderno mūziku saistītas prasmes - kompaktdisku, vaska un radio diskžokeja specifikā, mūzikas producēšanā, vokālā…
AI-VA jau kādu laiku sevi neierobežo žanriskos rāmojos - spēlējot hip hop, funk, soul, r’n’b un regeju/dancehall, viņa priekšnesumā ievijas arī breakbeat, rokmūzika, electro, džezs, favela, indie… AI-VA ir aktīvs spēlējot arī šobrīd visu pasauli pāršalcušo fenomenu Baltimore club - Baltimoras klubu mūzika, būtībā… apvienojot kaut ko no vēsturiskā Miami bass, house mūzikas, hip hop, nereti pievienojot arī rečitatīvu… un visu beidzot AI-VA specializējas mash up jomā, veidojot tam veltītas miksslentas (mixtapes) un īpašus setus.
spēlējis ar/iesildījis
Busta Rhymes
Jazzy Jeff
DJ Premier
Maxi Jazz (Faithless)
Akil The MC (Jurassic 5)
Louis Logic
Digitalism
Kid Loco
GZA
Slum Village
Onyx
Guru (Gang Starr)
Young Buck
DJ Cash Money
Wu Tang Killa Beez
Killah Priest
Lord Jazz (Lords Of The Underground)
Juice Aleem (Big Dada/Ninja Tunes)
Akil The MC / Jurassic 5
Shortee Blitz (UK)
Vanilla Ice
Mattafix
Adam Ficek (Babyshambles) UK
Chris Geddes (Belle & Sebastian) UK
Gary Powell (Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things) UK
Ty (UK)
DJ Pogo (UK)
DJ Quest (EE)
Paul Oja (EE)
DJ Mista (EE)
Mamania (LT)
Def One (LT)
Critikal (EE)
Confuze (SWE)
Fidgit & Bunzi D (UK)
Mark Devlin (UK)
Chedda (Finland)
Chizzy (Kenya)
Admiral P (Zambia)
Daniel Lion (Norway)
Soulshock (Portugal)
El Axel (Chile)
Seth Skizzo (Norway)
Android (Norway)
Gaute & Henrik (Norway)
K Gee (UK)
RCola (Canada)
Jay Colin & DJ Skillz (Netherlands)
DJ Flava (Netherlands)
Cortez (Germany)
Asha (UK, USA)
Hix (UK)
Teddy Touch (Norway)
Winchester (UK)
MoMa (UK)
Juice Aleem (UK)
Adam Tensta (Swe)
NOE (USA)
DJ Scratchator (USA)
utt…
festivāli
Ung08 Festival Stockholm 2007
MTV B-day 2007
Positivus Festival 2009, 2010
Fono Fest 2010
Laba Daba 2010
Piens Fest 2010
Cosmo Bikini Bash 2010
Tele2 Baltic Beach Party 2007, 2008
Moonlight Party 2007, 2008, 2009
Zaļumballe Festivāls 2009
The City Festival 2009
Baltic Graffiti Festival 2006, 2007, 2008
Hip Hop Awards Latvia 2006
MTV Latvia Grand Opening 2006
Dance Summit 2007, 2008
Re:Loud 2006
Hip Hop Festival 2002 – 2006
…
ieraksti:
www.soundcloud.com/djaiva/
www.draugiem.lv/djaiva
AI-VA netā:
www.myspace.com/djaiva2
www.twitter.com/djaiva
www.facebook.com/djaiva
E:
dj_ai_va@yahoo.co.uk
txt: Elvi & Ai-Va
ENGLISH VERSION:
For DJ Ai-va, the number one priority is musicality. Drawing his influences from Soul, Funk, Rock, Reggae, HipHop, Breakbeats and Electropop, DJ Ai-va extracts the essence of all these styles, blending and arranging them in a way that’s captivating and entertaining to his listeners. After a few years’ practice at home, in 1991 DJ Ai-va started playing at schools’ parties, small clubs and bars.
In 90s DJ Ai-va plays magnetic tapes, later he switches to cd format. In late 90s together with Ozols and Gustavo, he is one of the first and very few hip hop party DJs in Latvia. At the same time, he is starting to organize various events and hip hop parties in various clubs in Riga – “Pulkvedis”, “Jim Beam”, “4 Love & $”, “Ultra”, etc. Has been organising many hip hop events such as Hip Hop Fest LV (2001-2006 so far), Baltic Graffiti festival, tours all over Latvia for local hip hop acts, first ever in Latvia Hip Hop and Extreme Sports Awards (check: HipXHop.lv), warm up for: Slum Village, Onyx, Guru, Lloyd Banks, Wu Tang Killa Beez, DJ Cash Money, and for many local hiphop live acts. Has also played numerous sets in popular Latvia and Baltics night clubs, bars and parties (Nautilus, Fashion Club, Pulkvedis, Grands, Multiklubs, Tonuss, etc). Currently (for about 4 years) a resident in Latvia’s biggest and the most popular night club: „Essential” (www.essential.lv/dj/).
Plays hip hop, r`n`b, funk, soul, breakbeats, rock, electro, etc.
As a travelling party rocker, he has played in many countries including neighbouring Lithuania and Estonia, as well as USA (Chicago, NYC, California), Canada (Toronto), Sweden, Norway and Germany. Now he has started a new international 2006/2007 tour with a new program: Converse Your Life - based on hiphop and all that includes (hiphop meets rock meets soul meets funk meets breaks meets reggae meets classic, etc)!
Since 2000, DJ Ai_Va has been managing and promoting various Latvian hip hop artists, producing weekly hip hop radio show (Radio Naba), managing hip hop label Riga Records, which has so far released 14 albums. Recently has opened a music school (Rythm Institute) - www.ritmainstituts.lv - where young people from all over Latvia can learn how to become cd, vinyl or radio DJ, music producer, emcee, etc.
Has released various mixtapes such as:
Mass DNM mixtape 2006,
Eastern Block 2003,
Beats of the year (2002 - 2005),
European Urban Hiphop 2004,
Converse Your Life (nov 2006), etc
Supports-
Busta Rhymes
GZA (Wu Tang)
Slum Village
Onyx
Guru (Gang Starr)
Vanilla Ice
Young Buck
Lloyd Banks
DJ Cash Money
Wu Tang Killa Beez
Jazzy Jeff
DJ Premier
Digitalism
Kid Loco
etc
Events-
Resident/Host - MTV B-Day (Krastmala) 2007
Resident/Host - Dance Summit (Ragga hall) Kinostudija 2007
Resident/Host - Baltic Beach Party (hip hop stage) 2007
Resident/Host - Undercover Moonlight Party (hip hop stage)2007
Resident/Host – Hip Hop Awards Latvia 2006
Resident/Host - MTV Latvia Opening 2006
Host - Ung08 Festival, Stokholm 2006
Resident/Host – Re:Loud 2006
Resident/Host - Hip Hop Festivals 2002 – 2006 (hip hop culture contest)
Resident/Host – Open Street session 2006 (hip hop and extreme sports street session)
Host – various open air party’s in Riga and Latvia 2000 - 2006
Has made edits and remixes for various artists.
He favourites these artists: THE ROOTS QUESTLOVE JURASSIC 5 STEVIE WONDER MUSIQ BIG L DJ NEIL ARMSTRONG BILL WITHERS ANTHONY HAMILTON COMMON JOHN LEGEND NAS A TRIBE CALLED QUEST PETE ROCK MOS DEF PARLIAMENT RICK JAMES TALIB KWELI DJ PREMIER BEASTIES HI TEK LOOPTROOP PROMOE DILATED PEOPLES and the list continues...
