Audio Visual Concert

Audio Visual Concert

In addition to screening animated films, Animateka also boasts a music concert on the final night of the festival. After the award ceremony and the screening of the winning films, this will provide an authentic musical experience for our visitors and guests. The third group to be hosted by the festival is Srečna mladina from Ljubljana. By inviting the group, Animateka wishes to expand its festival concept by inviting bands to play a concert to an animated visual backdrop that is prepared in advance. The call to create the visual scenery for the music of Srečna mladina was answered by the following visual artists from Slovenia: Mina Žabnikar, Son:da, Urban Velkavrh, Mitja Manček, Domen Finžgar, Nina Lampič, Aljoša Rot, Boris Divjak, Tina Avšič in Matej Kovačič.

Srečna mladina first appeared in Ljubljana in 1993. They took their name from a song by the legendary Slovenian punk band Niet and started out playing punk music. They had over a dozen performances in 1994 and recorded their first demo recordings in the studios of Radio Študent. After a change in band membership in 1995, the band started to distance itself from its punk orientation and veered towards a more pop-punk-rock style. They recorded a demo in September and released it on cassette tape in January of 1996 under the title Eko alter (tenstan krumpir je kul); recorded and produced by Žare Pak. The band promoted the tape at venues all across the country. In 1996 the bands started to move away from its so called Eko-alter and the music became a sort of rap-psycho-jazz-metal fusion as they call it. In 1997 Srečna mladina finally played at the prestigious Novi Rock festival, where it was very well received and later that year they recorded their next album entitled đa Balkan Rasa. In January of 1998 the band had its first concert abroad in the Austrian city of Kirchberg and two months later received the Marš Gojzar award for best debut of the year. Their second trip abroad was in July, when they visited Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Slovenian representatives at the Skup rokera bivše Jugoslavije festival. The compilation of Niet covers Drž'te jih! To niso Niet!!! was released in October with the band having the honour of contributing a cover of the Niet song that gave them their name. Since 2001 the band has been practising intensively and creating new melodies and performed the live background music for the show Krst pri šestici by the theatre group Dejmo stisn't teater. In 2003 the group was busy doing gigs all over Slovenia. In June they were awarded a Bumerang award for best newcomers of the year. To commemorate their 10-year anniversary they began working on a new mini album in Studio 100 with producer Julij Zornik. In February of 2005 they recorded in Jork studio in Dekane with Grant Austin and released the new album Listen to Srečna mladina in April. The album is the soundtrack for the skate film made by Jaka Babnik under the same title. The new album was followed by a promotional tour around Slovenia and the countries of ex-Yugoslavia.