AUTUMNIST. Formerly known as ABUSE. A hypnotic blend of up-to-date electronica with genre crossing as its manifest. In its wide-spectral electro/acoustic mix AUTUMNIST combines ambient with soundwalls of breakbeat and hip-hop beats, dub dephts with high frequencies of glitches, hi-tech courses with lo-fi pop, bizzare movie-like atmospheres with extraterrestrial folklore. The master of this project, Vlado Durajka, known before as ABUSE from the EPs 4th Floor Thinking (2001, Kurare Records) and Sleepfields (2002, Deadred Records) as well from remixes for Mimetic, Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Veneer, Khoiba, Nierika and many others. His highly acclaimed first album The Great Outdoors was released in 2004 (Deadred Records / Starcastic Records). Second studio album, first under the new monicker Autumnist, was released in 2009 (Deadred Records / Starcastic Records). Brand new studio album called Sound Of Unrest (Deadred Records / Starcastic Records) has been released on 06/06/2013. AUTUMNIST is now a five-piece band with electronics, drums, guitar, bass and turntablist/scratches visually supported with on-stage VJ-ing. In past seven years they successfully performed in United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Austria and Hungary even played several shows in USA including one at well known SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. They locally supported bands Recoil, Laika, The Cinematic Orchestra, DJ Matt Black of Coldcut, Pest… Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.