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Name: Katarzyna Kretek Currently lives in: Poznan, Poland DJ Style: Techno, Progressive Diana the Queen of East-Europe. A beautiful, sensual, seductive woman, but as well extremely talented.Tricky and gently she try to win a public favour. Her style its an unique mix of pumping techno and tribal, but at present in her energetic sets clearer and clearer you can hear fascination of progressive. Sounds coming out from speakers, when charming Diana stands behind the decks, imperceptibly win audiences favour gradually leading the dance-floor to ecstasy. Her music its a huge dose of energetic rhythms, which without any difficulties spin everyone to the end of its tether. Her music style cant be pigeonhole, because in her sets hard sometimes even aggressive beat alternates with often soft vocal, trance melody and enthusiastic tribal interlude. Skilfully she manage to smuggle into the technical music progressive house tones. Her rise to fame starts in the day that she discovered the dance scene. It transformed her into an instant party animal and to remind herself of wild nights out, she soon decided to purchase some decks and try a djing. She was taking her first steps on club scene in 1997 in Amsterdam, where she left bored of lifes monotony in her home town Bytom. She quickly wangled into a music world, she met a lot of famous Djs , who showed her tricks of the dj trade. She made her debut in Amsterdam clubs Roxy and Sinners In Heaven. One day she packed her clothes and records in one suitcase and she flew to Ibiza, where she decided to continue her adventures with turntables. Self - confident she went to one of the clubs and she announced to the manager that she wanted to play there. He sent her away empty-handed, but Diana didnt give up. Thanks to help of couple of friends she landed in KM5 Club, where in short time she became the Sundays evening star. Ibiza came to like Dianas hot and energetic sets, thanks to whom she became a resident of several parties in the best clubs on the island: firstly in Pacha Zenith and later in Amnesia. After dj adventures in Spain Diana came back to Poland. She lived in Poznan, where she set up an artistic agency Flying House Communications and she started to organize serial parties with foreign djs on the 18th floor of the Academy of Economics. At the beginning club audience from Poznan and later from entire Poland came to love her for skilful building of music tension, innovative, technical, hard and inspiring to dance sets. Diana quickly turned up in the top of the best national djs, becoming inseparable part of Polish club culture. She played with such celebrities like Carl Cox, Timo Maas, Paul van Dyk, Sven Vth, Chris Liebing, Marco Bailey, Rush, Marco Lenzi or Marco Nasty. Its worth to mention that any essential techno festival in Poland, like famed Creamfields, cant take place without her. Lots of Polish Djs can envy Diana representing Poland on international arena, among other things in Hungary, Czech, Croatia, Holland, Spain and Slovakia and as befits a woman always gracefully and always at the highest dj form. She is a resident on Mayday festival, also abroad. At the beginning of April 2004 Diana as the only one Pole played on Mayday in Budapest for the second time. In 2005 she performed also on German edition of Mayday and will play in the Nature One Germany and Poland. Clubs and Events: Mayday Poland 04/05 Mayday Germany 2005 Creamfields Tschechosla Pacha Ibiza Amnesia Ibiza Mayday Budapest 04/ 05 Roxy Amsterdam Sinners in Heaven Amersterdam Nature One Poland 2005 Nature One Germany 2005 Abaton Club Praha House of Summer 2005 The Venue Edinbourgh VIVA Club - Sopot DJs she played together: Carl Cox, Timo Maas, Paul van Dyk, Sven Vth, Chris Liebing, Marco Bailey, DJ Rush, Marco Lenzi Marco Nasty, Tomcraft, Dr. Motte, Adam Beyer, Moguai, Angelo Mike, Carla Rocca, DJ Titan (Felipe), Takkyu Ishino, Kai Tracid, Ron van den Beuken, Michael Burian, Lucca, GUS GUS, Ronski Speed etc. Soundcloud