“Everything Is a Remix” expresses the idea that artists almost always draw on one another: they borrow from earlier ideas and established conventions, reshape these materials, and turn them into something that feels both new and made from what came before. This is also how culture and art have worked for millennia. No one creates from nothing. There may be differences in talent, capacity, and speed, but anyone who makes something depends on the enormous body of past work—through careful, often disciplined practice and hard labor.
Crucially, we create from within culture. From birth onward, we are surrounded by cultural forms and patterns, so creativity inevitably repeats, borrows, recycles, and remixes. That can happen with sounds, images, thoughts, ideas, lyrics, structures, melodies, and chord progressions—always into new combinations, and always through an ongoing back-and-forth between repetition and difference.
Image Snatchers is a technoburlesque project by The Feminalz collective. It is staged as a performance that brings together critical thinking and humor, using body performance, dance, and song. Through metaphor, it satirizes and comments on today’s dystopia, and it does so by “snatching” from the imaginaries of contemporary popular (often mass) culture. The project recontextualizes images, words, sounds, and memories into unusual mixes—producing aesthetic experiences that are meant to be thought-provoking as well as engaging. In these events, the audience participates affectively, viscerally, and spontaneously, becoming part of a shared space: a “comm-unity of diff-erence.” Remix and reappropriation are central to the show’s method of recontextualizing the known. Popular songs are remixed and reworked, then placed on stage through performance practices that reshape how the audience remembers them—turning recognition into embodied commentary.
A small number of local flinta electronic-music producers—already comfortable with beat-making and with underground club-oriented electronic music—were invited into this context and into the project’s approach: remixing existing musical works into new, electronic versions. Since the goal was to create an actual new track, several paths were possible. One was to take a Slovenian popular chanson and sample/remix it to varying degrees. Another was to start from a cue taken from within the Image Snatchers show itself—either a piece that was unfinished or a material that needed an update—and build outward from there.
We organized the process as a workshop called Igralnica “ozvočevalke tatvin” (“snatching sounds playground”). The group met around four to five times. The first sessions focused on the methodologies for working with music inside the Image Snatchers project, and later meetings functioned as check-ins—reflecting on progress, sharing what was working, and supporting next steps.
A few years ago, a music review noted that Slovenian popular music heritage is rarely remixed in underground club-like ways. The reviewer contrasted this with the UK scene, where UK Garage or electro-house remixes, along with sampling vocals from genres like soul and R’n’B, have been used in UK dancefloor electronic music. That observation definitely added to the motivation for this compilation. The project can be seen as a small offering in that direction—and as an invitation for more.
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G04T [ g04t1.bandcamp.com ] combines the rhythms of contemporary post-club music with glitch elements, fragmented structures, and experimental sound layers in their production. ▁ Track ‘viagra boys’ is a reimagining of “Viagra Boys – Creepy Crawlers (Shrimp Sessions 3)”, which in turn was an inspiration for ‘Lizard People’ act by Vazelina within Image Snatchers. ▁ ‘sivi zidovi’ samples a track by Irgolič Rafko which appears on ‘Festival Slovenske Popevke Bled 1962’ compilation
msn gf (Ustanova, Nimaš Izbire) [ soundcloud.com/msn_gf ] stays committed to the bitersweet drama of forgotten pop ballads, spiced up by contemporary production, despite the genre variety in her selections. A regular at Ljubljana’s club circuit, she has also performed DJ and live sets at local festivals such as MENT, SONICA, Tresk, Grounded and Spider. You don’t know her, she goes to a different school. ▁ Track ‘čuk’ samples song Čuk by Ditka Haberl (and Mojmir Sepe) from ‘Slovenska Popevka 71’ compilation.
Prince Lucija [ prin.lu ] is a gender-queer artist exploring computer sound and artistic expressions of technofeminism and corporeal desire through composition of time, language, software, community, and machines. ▁ ‘küšni me’ is a remake of Cobrah’s track “Brand New Bitch” and was created for Leon Marič’s dance solo “Küšni me” (Kiss Me). ▁ ‘tresing 2’ is a rework of an original composition created for Maja Delak’s stage piece “Izrekanja (Declarations)”
Raketa (Veronika Černe) [ soundcloud.com/rak3ta ] is a Slovenian DJ and producer of UK bass genres with a ghettotech twist. She delivers her eclectic sets in an energetic manner, infusing flavors of footwork, grime, ghettotech, jungle, and more. ▁ ‘muca maca’ is a remix of Neca Falk’s song, created for a birthday occasion. ▁ ‘uspavanka za evo’ is a remix of a song by Andrej Šifrer from album “Hiti počasi” from 1990.
Mitwirkende
veröffentlicht am 26. Juli 2026
Luka Prinčič · mastering, liner notes, graphic design
Maruša Hren · printing
Luka T. Zagoričnik, Luka Prinčič · executive production, promotion
City of Ljubljana & Ministry of Culture Slovenia · financial support
Produced by EMANAT – emanat.si
Released by KAMIZDAT – kamizdat.si
cat.no: KAM084
