MiKKa

Mihajlo Obrenov aka miKKa is a Serbian musician, sound engineer and film director. His main work consists of experimentation with sound and exploration of weird ambient noises. As of 1998, he was a sound engineer and producer for many underground and alternative bands, such as: f.O.F, War Engine, Tamerlan, dreDDup, Odvojena Stvarnost, MRT, CPR, Crna Barbi, Drop Dead, 3D Rošava Pipe, CutNpasTe... His music career as a singer and guitar player started in punk bands Klef and Mind Control in 1996. Since 1997, MiKKa is the leading man behind industrial rock band dreDDup which gained a cult underground following in Serbia and region. From 1998 until 2002, he was a vocalist and guitar player in a hardcore punk band called Mefisto. Mefisto released only one album 'Bili smo ponosni ratnici' and had several concerts in local clubs. In late 2002, Mihajlo begins to study film making at Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, under the worldwide praised Serbian director Vlatko Gilić. He directs his first theater play Footfalls written by Samuel Beckett. In 2003, Mihajlo gathers an experimental jazz project Prozor which performs several concerts in Novi Sad and releases 3 albums. In 2004. he starts to write for online web-zine Helly-Cherry and starts industrial metal project CuTnPasTe which goes on to release 3 albums. In the following year he directs another theater play 'In the small castle' written by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

For Michael Holbrook Penniman, Jr, see Mika (singer).

miKKa
Birth nameMihajlo Obrenov
OriginNovi Sad, Serbia
GenresIndustrial Rock, Crossover, Punk, Electronica, Industrial, Hardcore, Experimental music
InstrumentsVocals, Guitar, Bass guitar, Drums
Years active1996–present
Associated actsdreDDup
MRT
cUtNpAsTe
Mefisto
Prozor
Mind Control
Accelerator
See: Producer/engineer
sections for other associations

In 2005. Mihajlo starts a punk band called Lignjoslav with Nikola Banjanin a.k.a. Frenky. Lignjoslav gains cult underground following, releases 9 studio albums and disbands in 2008. In the same time, Mihajlo starts an online community and a music label 'Crime:Scene Records' which becomes involved with only ex-Yugoslavian dark music. The label itself signed more than 200 artists and organized over 200 happenings including concerts, art exhibitions, movie projections and lectures. As of 2008. miKKa starts DJing career playing music in local clubs under the moniker DJ Inquisitor. The same year he starts an industrial project MRT which involves in a lot of sound experimentation. MRT goes on to release 9 studio albums and starts performing live with poet Dalibor Radovanac on vocals. From 2008 until 2010, miKKa is the co-host of 'Total War' radio show about underground music in Serbia and region. The show started airing at 'RockTheBalkans' radio in France. The following year, Mihajlo becomes a main editor of an 'Adrenalin' magazine which deals with alternative music. The same year he starts another project called 'Grotesque on film through history' and 'Film making 101', a set of lectures for young audiences and movie lovers. As a composer Mihajlo did music for many documentaries and theater plays starting with a theater play The Last Krapp's Tape in 2002. Besides music, Mikka is involved into movie making - shooting underground films and music videos for alternative bands. He shoot his first feature movie 'Život uspavanih sećanja' back in 2005 and he directed his first dystopian movie entitled Araneum in 2010. In 2017, he finished a massive documentary about underground music scene of his hometown Novi Sad entitled "Contact". Cinema City (film festival) premiered the movie in September 2017. In 2018, Mihajlo worked as a music composer on documentary "Enkel" directed by Aleksandar Reljić about Eva Mozes Kor, a holocaust survivor and Rainer Hoess, a grandson of Auschwitz commander, who symbolically adopted him as her own grandson. He is currently working on 'Contact' television series.

Movies
  • Kontakt (2017)
  • Araneum (2010)
  • Industrial Renaissance (2008)
  • Heart in junk (short) (2007)
  • Život uspavanih sećanja (2005)
  • Susret (2003)

Selected videography
  • dreDDup – "Dark Street Boys" (2020)
  • Odvojena Stvarnost - "Dosta!" (2019)
  • Downstroy - "Don't Hide Away" (2019)
  • dreDDup – "Designed to Die" (2019)
  • Northern Recval – "Old Sparky" (2019)
  • dreDDup – "Ctrl Alt Death" (2018)
  • dreDDup – "The Last Dance" (2018)
  • Northern Revival – "Mr Rabbit" (2018)
  • dreDDup – "ReMorse Code" (2018)
  • MRT - "Traumm" (2017)
  • dreDDup – "Zelia" (2017)
  • Samhain Festival Commercial (2017)
  • dreDDup – "Venom" (2017)
  • Proleće - "Bezobrazluk" (2016)
  • Northern Revival – "Over The Edge Life Consumer" (2016)
  • dreDDup – "Marquis De Novi Sad" (2016)
  • Northern Revival – "Heavy Deliver Man" (2016)
  • Neprijatelj Prelazi Zeku – "Pseto" (2015)
  • Kritična masa video spot (2015)
  • dreDDup & Subform – "Rage Disease Desire" (2015)
  • Scena Fest commercial (2015)
  • MRT - "Cyclopa" (2015)
  • MetakUmetak – "DB" (2015)
  • Samhain Festival Commercial (2015)
  • dreDDup – "TamTamTam" (2014)
  • Proleće - "SO" (2014)
  • Kritična masa video spot (2014)
  • dreDDup – "Pussy Control Panel" (2014)
  • Franja Kluz - "ButtSeeRoad" (2014)
  • Treći talas commercial (2014)
  • Insurrection Drafting commercial (2014)
  • Concrete Sun - "The Galley" (2014)
  • Samhain Festival Commercial (2014)
  • dreDDup – "Fire Up the Planet" (2013)
  • dreDDup – "Two of Us" (2013)
  • Satan Panonski - "Iza zida" (2012)
  • MRT - "Esplendor Satanistico" (2012)
  • dreDDup – "Garden of Dead Friends" (2012)
  • Mad Goya - "Divizija Piva" (2012)
  • Treći talas commercial (2012)
  • dreDDup – "Cold Eyes" (2012)
  • Samhain Festival Commercial (2012)
  • Tona - "Atreid" (2011)
  • dreDDup – "Machine" (2011)
  • dreDDup – "When Dead Come Home" (2011)
  • MRT - "Zipper" (2011)
  • Samhain Festival Commercial (2011)
  • dreDDup – "Footfalls" (2011)
  • Tdss - "Odbegao Experimenat" (2010)
  • dreDDup – "Orbit" (2010)
  • Ivan Čkonjević - "Lokomotive Nose Tvoje Ime" (2010)
  • dreDDup – "God of FM Stereo" (2010)
  • Samhain Festival Commercial (2010)
  • dreDDup – "Invisible Tears" (2009)
  • ZANAos - "Gde si ti?" (2009)
  • dreDDup – "Oregon" (2009)
  • dreDDup – "Last One" (2009)
  • ZANAos - "KKK" (2009)
  • MRT - "Joca's Wet Dream" (2008)
  • Masque of Betrayal - "Masque of Betrayal" (2008)
  • dreDDup – "Return of the TV" (2008)
  • dreDDup – "No More fingers" (2008)
  • Samhain Festival Commercial (2008)
  • Lignjoslav - "Furbo Tolk" (2007)
  • dreDDup – "When You Know That It's All Wrong" (2007)
  • dreDDup – "Inside Out" (2007)
  • Lignjoslav - "Himna pivu" (2006)
  • Lignjoslav - "Moja pašteta" (2006)
  • dreDDup - "Redeemer" (2006)
  • Lignjoslav - "Pozerka" (2006)
  • Lignjoslav - "Trauma" (2006)
  • dreDDup - "Plastica" (2006)
  • Lignjoslav - "Raspala se država" (2006)
  • Prozor - "Nadrkani peškir" (2005)
  • dreDDup - "Mr Borndead" (2005)
  • Prozor - "Tepiha mi" (2004)
  • dreDDup - "Paper Cutz" (2002)
  • dreDDup - "Problematic Memories" (2002)
  • dreDDup - "Got to Got to Get" (2002)
  • dreDDup - "3010" (2002)
  • dreDDup - "FIN" (2002)
  • dreDDup - "Power Up the Horse" (2001)
  • dreDDup - "Found Myself in Veins of a Virgin" (1998)
  • dreDDup - "Step in Step Out" (1997)
  • dreDDup - "Generation Devastation" (1997)

Selected discography

2018

  • dreDDup 'Soyuz'

2017

  • MRT 'Sneep'
  • Kosovo... Nazdravlje!.. Gëzuar! OST

2016

  • dreDDup 'DeathOven: Rebels Have No Kings'

2015

  • MRT 'Cyclopa'
  • Radar: Auschwitz, Jugoslovensko sećanje OST
  • Enkel OST

2014

  • dreDDup 'I Dreamt of a Dragon'
  • MRT 'Grnda'
  • MRT 'Kingdom for a Whore'

2012

  • MRT 'exTERRiOR'
  • dreDDup 'Nautilus'

2011

  • MRT 'inTERRioR
  • CUtNpAsTe 'Kill 'Em All and Come Back Alone'

2010

  • MRT '3'

2009

  • MRT 'Friends'
  • dreDDup 'El Conquistadors'

2008

  • Humans OST
  • dreDDup & Figurative Theatre 'The Great Industrial Comeback'
  • MRT 'Love After Eath'

2007

  • dreDDup 'Future Porn Machine'

2006

  • Cats OST
  • dreDDup & Kenji Siratori 'Pituitary Nighmate'
  • Lignjoslav 'Lignjoslav protiv Emoslava'

2005

  • Lignjoslav 'Lignjoslav'
  • Smetno 'Smetno'

2004

  • Prozor 'Surovi propeler i dete kreten'
  • dreDDup 'Mr. Borndeads Feast'

2003

  • Prozor 'Treći'

2002

  • Mefisto 'Bili smo ponosni ratnici'

1999

  • Mefisto 'demo'
  • Moki Llok 'Moki Llok'
  • dreDDup 'Transfusion 219' (ep)

1998

  • dreDDup 'Abnormal Waltz'

1997

  • Mind Control 'Mind control'

1996

  • Klef 'Back to life'

See also
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