Хулиганская Электроника (aka ellectroniqa)

ellectroniqa (aka Хулиганская Электроника) is an Almaty-based dj/producer, designer of his own hardware sound devices. He performs wild electro/techno sets using hand-built equipment or a bunch of CDJs.

He has already built a catalogue of releases and years of performing across electro, techno and sonic experimentation — a long-standing background behind the decks as a DJ, alongside live performances using his own hand-built hardware.

He designs and builds synths and sound objects, using them both for his live performances and studio work. He leads workshops and courses in DIY electronics and sound art for institutions and communities, participates in exhibitions with his own technological objects and interactive installations, and remains closely tied to the local independent music and art scene. Based in Kazakhstan, his work is a direct line into Central Asia's electronic and underground sonic scene.

klad mineralov is an Almaty-based sound artist working with physical phenomena, DIY electronics and digital algorithms. Each of his live sets is an improvisation with a new system of hardware and program code he doesn’t fully understand himself.

Born in a small post-soviet town amid industrial landscapes and the ruins of high-tech research institutes, Vlad Generalov (klad mineralov) got into DIY electronics as a teen, all the while taking quiet aesthetic pleasure in concrete fences, power lines vanishing into the forest and 20th-century scientific instruments.

In this project Vlad steps away from conventional musical form and works in the territory of experimental circuitry, imperfect algorithms and probability, playing a black-box game with a machine. A machine created by him, but never really explored by anyone.

He is part of the team behind Şu Şaşu, a project focused on experimental sound, lighting and performance.

His own live performances these days often lean dark and ritualistic, yet they are always full of hidden humor and freedom.