{"id":3691,"date":"2026-09-19T21:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ar.krivkastudio.cz\/artist\/smetacek\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:14:08","slug":"smetacek","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/artist\/smetacek\/","title":{"rendered":"Smet\u00e1\u010dek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"product\"><div class=\"product\"><p>\u0160t\u011bp\u00e1n Smet\u00e1\u010dek is a&nbsp;drummer, musician and producer. He was born in Prague into a&nbsp;musical family (his father Pavel was a&nbsp;jazzman, his mother Marta a&nbsp;musicologist, his grandfather V\u00e1clav Smet\u00e1\u010dek a&nbsp;conductor). He studied percussion at the Prague Conservatory with Milo\u0161 Vesel\u00fd. He started out in the metal band \u0158et\u011bz and was named drummer of the year in the \u017deb\u0159\u00edk poll in 1992 and 1993. He plays with the bands Wanastowi Vjecy and Krausberry and pursues his own projects (New Orchestra of Dreams, \u0160S &#038; friends, Old School band). Since 1988 he has taken part in more than forty recordings, several of them gold. With Michal Nejtek and double bassist Petr Tich\u00fd he forms the NTS trio, whose album Zapporno (2017) was released on Ampli\u00f3n Records. Besides playing, he teaches and works as a&nbsp;music director, producer and mixing engineer. More at smetacek.com.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":3894,"template":"","artist-taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-3691","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amplionrecords.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist-taxonomy?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}