Ventolin

Live / DJ 

Ventolin is a live electronic music project by David Doubek. The live performance is its essential aspect. Ventolin plays with real harware instruments and sequencers, there is no computer involved except for the recording in the studio where its used as a spoiled tape machine. The music takes from many sides, early electronic experiments, disco, acid, techno but also pop and punk.
The project started accidentally in 2007 as just a fun act for one night but it quickly moved into the center of David’s focus as it really connected with his performative interests and it has been much fun too.
In 2012 Ventolin released his first LP record Totem where he started collaboration with visual artists The rodina who created a hit video Totem for the eponymous single, where Ventolin established specific audiovisual face that represents another layer of his creative output besides the energetic live shows. It was followed by the video and EP Supersonik in 2015 and collaboration with the mysterious Polish collective RSS B0YS on split LP „the game YS R0TTYN“ in 2016. By that time Ventolin played hundreds of shows mainly in Czech republic and Slovakia but also across Europe and Japan.
In 2017 the breakthrough album Vitajte was released featuring the video and single Disco Science that has now more than two and half million views on Youtube. The record was more song oriented and Ventolin created live show that worked very well with audiences It all brought many new fans, two and half years of almost endless tours, self confidence but also growing feeling of alienation. And then the pandemic came. „The puffy cloud of fame on which I was flying dissipated suddenly and there I was looking who I am and who I became and what I forgot about“ says Ventolin. It brought softer and more fragile record Dneska se vyčasilo in 2021 that followed more in the song structured direction. The pandemic pause also brought reinvented and more energetic liveshow with which Ventolin toured intensely until December 2023.
Currently, Ventolin is working on new material for new record.

Discography:

Mžitky (2009)
Totem (2012)
Playbour (2015)
The Game YS ROTTYN / split w RSS BoYS (2016)
Vitajte (2017)
Dneska se vyčasilo (2021)