Qetsy is the project of the Paraguay born and based musician, producer and DJ Alejandro Silvero Viedma, also known as DJ CHEESEBREAD. He founded Pohañaná Records in 2015has released albums and compilation releases on labels such as Mega.rec (Barcelona), spinneret (New York), District160 (Minneapolis), and many more.
Now he’s back with a new album called Makhnovia which is out now via Milan based label Antistandard Recs. Check the full streaming and read the full story below.
According to the press release, Makhnovia, also known as Free Territory, was a temporary stateless state that aimed at an anarchist utopian society during the Ukrainian Revolution between 1918 and 1921. It carries a strong evocative imagery, and each track of the EP is named after a concept that has directly resonated with Qetsy’s life experience throughout 2020: resistance, pandemic, violence, judgement. Such words are vividly and aptly transposed into sounds: starting with a surprising spoken word in Italian, its core is footwork/juke mixed with a milkshake of techno, breaks, vocal samples, hoover bass and eski grime. To complete the journey, two wonderful remixes: an even deadlier bass affair by Gyro (Main Course / RVBRA), and a balearic downtempo vision by FPOM.