Biography
Slovenian DJ and producer Uroš Umek, performing under the name Umek, first surfaced in the early 1990s. A native of Ljubljana, he initially gravitated toward acid house before shifting to techno and cultivating a raw, forceful style in the process. Numerous 12" singles and EPs have appeared on a broad range of labels, several of them founded or co-founded by Umek himself, including Consumer Recreation, Recycled Loops, Astros Discos, and 1605. Key albums and commercial DJ mixes in his catalog comprise On Monoïd (Monoïd, 1999), Neuro (Tehnika, 2002), Umek? Hell Yeah (Hell Yeah, 2009), Responding to Dynamic (1605, 2010), and the 2010 and 2013 volumes of Toolroom Knights (Toolroom). He has also supplied remixes for tracks by Space DJ'z, Speedy J, the Advent, and Depeche Mode. Umek reports completing more than 100 performances worldwide each year.
Albums
Driller
2020
Percussionix EP
2018
Sneaking Unnoticed
2017
Itz My Time
2016
Portrait of a Peculiar Cat
2015
Roko Mal
2015
Maqaram
2015
Toolroom Presents: UMEK
2014
Rhythmia
2014
Carbon Occasions
2013
It Is Simple but It Works Like Fcuk
2012
Fire Fight Ep
2010
Responding to Dynamic
2010
Difolvon E.P.
1999
Singles
U-Virus
2026
Echoes in My Mind
2025
Machina Motus
2025
We Got the Fire
2025
Until Morning
2025
Unlockable Formations
2025
Kingdom
2024
The Protagonist
2024
Voxar
2024
Shanti
2024
Don't Give Me Lip
2024
No Sleeping
2024
Robocop
2024
In the Dark
2023
Enter the Rave
2023
Hypnotizing
2023
Aktivate
2023
Trouble so Hard
2023
Footmachine
2023
Mind of One
2023
Exodus
2023
I Just Can't Believe
2023
Once Again
2023
Persona
2022
Control
2022
Dark Market
2022
Frequency Differ
2021
Watchers of the Sky
2021
Cryptic Speech
2021
Navigating
2021
Dreams
2020
Message
2020
Intricately
2020
Predator
2020
Evolution / Feels Like a Tunnel
2020
Cybernetic Implant
2020
Vigilance
2019
Ravaged
2019
Vibrancy
2019
19119
2019
Environs EP
2018
Collision Wall
2018
Certain Trace EP
2018
Transmogrification
2017
Are You into My Groove
2017
Pursuer EP
2017
Work It Out
2017
Squadmates
2017
Asiiiid
2017
Concrete Jungle
2017
Fonon
2016
Different Routes Can Be Equally Successful
2016
Mechanical Blade
2016
The Drum
2016
Flang-O-Matic
2016
To Keep You Engaged
2016
Inhumane Visions
2016
Incinerator
2016
Revisit the Preposterous
2016
Culminate
2016
Delirium Is Family 2
2016
Hush Hush Church
2016
I Gotta Keep On, You Gotta Keep On
2016
Sirenator
2016
Double the Lust
2016
Lord Slovak Deadwood
2016
2nd to None
2016
Console Generation
2015
Dichotomy
2015
Collinearity
2015
The Interceptor
2015
Air of Fatalism
2015
Derelict City
2015
Magnetosphere
2015
Karate Biceps
2015
Live The Life (feat. Jameisha Trice)
2015
Bring the Lights Down
2015
Everybody Seems to Be Having Fun
2015
Shake That Ass
2015
Jingo
2015
Cheezin' (feat. Waka Flocka Flame)
2015
Profile Lost
2015
Twisted Route
2015
Everybody Get Up
2015
All I Want
2014
Burnfire (feat. Jay Colin)
2014
Sweet Harmony
2014
Unlock My Synth Vein
2013
Rock It Out
2013
Carbon Occasions (Dee Marcus 2k13 Remix)
2013
Cause And Effect
2013
Spank!
2013
Eternity
2013
Korea
2013
I Need You
2013
Kuzla Prevarantska
2012
You Get Used to All the Madness
2012
Corridor To Jungle
2012
Slicing and Dicing
2012
Wombing
2012
Point to Consider
2012
This Sound
2012
Crossing the Lines
2012
Freak It Out
2012
Split
2011
Heroes of the Night
2011
Beograd
2011
Zagreb
2011
Slap
2011
Get Sucked
2011
On the Edge
2011
She Never Wants to Come Down
2011
Freaks on the Floor
2010
The Price of Freedom
2010
Popgirls
2010
Gatex 2010
2010
Responding to Dynamic
2010
Circles of Hell
2010
Individual Breath
2010
Work This Data
2009
Hablando
2009
Curved Trajectory
2009
Blinking Indicator
2009
You Might Hear Nothing
2009
Mindflexes / Pravim Haos
2009
Destructible Enviroment
2009
Print This Story
2007
Gatex
2002
Kilevox E.P.
1999
Prepidil
1998
Sample Rate EP
1997