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Milos Kovalevsky – About:

I’m a Songwriting Producer, Project Manager and Record Engineer at my own residential studio project called "Neodoctrine Studios". My very first conscious experience with music was ignited by my mother who took me to Philharmonics, when I was just five and half years old. She continued to this experience until I was about seven, when I joined professional Classical choir group with focus on world touring and international representation of my home country of Poland. I was with the group between years 1991-1999 and started touring within its concerting group after the year 1994, to take part in a few multinational competitions, European tours and perform in the local opera of my home town Szczecin.

After reaching my voice mutation age I had to quit singing and as an alternative, I found new passion for vinyl DJ mixing. I was inspired by various experimental forms of Techno, House and Dance and other club music. But the beginnings were very difficult for me, since I had to organise all of the equipment by myself, being it a poor combination of trashed and unwanted bits and pieces from family and friends rather than the exclusive and professional equipment and brand new selection of records. I remember, even before I started to DJ - which took place when I was just 15 years old - I was resampling looped song phrases with double-deck cassette recorder, and even later, after I gained some experience with vinyl records, I continued to experiment with reel-to-reel recorder and a CD-ROM drive connected together through a pair of resistors attached to an amplifier to match the consistency in signal levels of the two distinctive recorded sound media carrier formats. In my situation, I had to learn it to practice that way because I couldn’t afford any type of mixer. I wasn’t then aware yet, that it would all turn into my passion for mastering and mixing for music and post-production sound.

A few years later - back in about my early twenties - I started performing as club DJ and also did some club work experience as a sound technician, which later flourished into live sound work. I was helping at setting up bands and rigging sound for local opera and theatre. It didn’t take much long to decide to - finally - leave the country and look for new opportunities within the UK. A few of beats and knocks came along the way in the new unknown world. My passion for becoming a DJ slowly started fading away. The new way of living wasn’t very supportive and the language barrier became my greatest liability. But even then, I didn’t completely give it up yet, so I managed to buy some more records, and decent DJ equipment – which I was hoping to use professionally – nevertheless, the music market was absolutely different, more than I might have expected. After joining and completing a two-day long ‘Radio Ops’ course with BBC in December 2009 and growing a collection of digital instruments, synthesizers, sound modules and a mixing console, I started to record DJ sets for a Dutch internet radio station in March 2011 out my studio flat in West End in Southampton, which helped me to build some social media contacts in the Benelux area. I even tried to work with my first client – a female songwriter – whilst in the same time I was attending a local music hub where I took my first steps on drums and an electric guitar. And everything was made with lack of experience and professionalism, so I continued to practice it as a hobby, which later turned into a solid business idea as I was progressing.

Through all that time, I learned a lot about record engineering, technology, music industry, law and the business. Being still working in the full-time employment – which is now history – I carried on researching the market and studying sound, film, photography, songwriting, business, investing, economy and pretty much everything related to what I always dreamed of doing – making music as part of my career path and being my own boss. This also pushed me into becoming a filmmaker, proudly dedicating to local film community in the South. After long years of working for somebody else, I finally figured it out that it would make perfect sense to bring all of my skills, knowledge and experience into one pot - forming a freelance business model that would consist of all of them. Always looking to work with the greatest people and taking advantage of the global markets, I persuade myself sustaining in happiness through travelling, constant learning and doing what is most satisfactory to me in my life. One of my two secret passions are making change and generating more wealth. I doubt I would ever want to return to the previous way of life. It took me a way too long to come up to this level of conscience.