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Wanda & Nova deViator
12+ albums
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Wanda & Nova deViator are an electro-funk duo from Ljubljana, Slovenia, creating bold hybrids through beats, noise, video and performance. The collaboration between an electronic musician and a contemporary dance performer and choreographer takes influences from breakbeat, trip-hop, dub, idm, electro, noise and other bass genres while with each project researching new sonic and performative stage languages. In early 2009 Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič created a performance called “Une façon d’aimer”, a duet that explored violence, love, sexual identities, and power relations through a fragmented mixture of various media – among them, also, a lot of music. That is where a punk rendition of proto-feminist You Don’t Own Me and sexually/bdsm-charged Domina’s Doll songs emerged. The former got quickly picked up by a local initiative K4format and published it on their compilation. The duo reinvented themselves as Wanda & Nova deViator to extend their reach on concert stages and dancefloors and continued to work on new tracks. They premièred a new performance “Frozen Images”, which delved even deeper into a “new media concert” form, utilizing real-time manipulation of video, songs with heavy breakbeat and electro-influenced beats, and lyrics exploring the contemporary life of consumerism, pornification, over-sexualisation, digital piracy, and the condition of contemporary subject. The performance lingered on an uneasy margin between theatre and dancefloor, between contemplation of t
