Acryl was born & spend his childhood in Naberegnie Tchelni – one of russian motorcities where the main Russian trucks KAMAZ were producing. And the crime rate in this city in the 90s was probably not lower than in Detroit in its most criminal times.
In 1994 Acryl with his family moved on the Ural in Asian part of Russia. From 1999 he was living, studying, party moving & play music in Ekaterinburg – the main city of Ural. From 2000 to 2005 he plays his dj sets in different clubs, open-airs and dj-sessions of Ekaterinburg & in other Urals cities, delivered his owns view of drum'n'bass of 00s. The main character of his special point of view in music was orientation on ideals of origin jungle of 90s. That music was inflated with not tiresome rhythmic interlacing of sounds, amazing melodies, deep bass & positive energy. He made the opposition with 2-3 confederate dj’s who plaid jungle against techstep mainstream which became more brute & simply (in terms of art rhythm constructions). By the way Acryl was getting & sometimes playing instrumental hip-hop in parallel with drum’n’bass coming to end of this period of his musical creativity. It was quite abstract & intelligent music mostly English and American origin.
But there was techno from the beginning of his party life. And if telling about it’s mainstreams occurrence (for example KLF) were far before here. Acryl communicated well with some techno djs & used his plates for expirience during home parties & danced well high quality techno. Near to the 2005 he more often was met on techno dancefloor than drum'n'bass. Except if he stays at the turntables. Deep tech & interesting tech house were listened more often then drum’n’bass at his home. In this time the hero of this story bought his first tech plates, took his own actual pseudonym “Acryl†& started to play tech sets. In the summer 2005 he organized party by own original concept on the island of Verh-Iset pond, people were got this place by ship. On the December of 2005 Acryl moved in Saint-Petersburg.
Here he continues his dj way playing in different clubs, keep working on the sound, concept and technical of his mixes. His conception most of all consists of quite different music, united with set of some common emotional, acoustic and stylistic criteria. As a result of improvisation in the output of mixer there is a harmonious, dramatic built, an independent musical composition. The style is very broad: using the established terms there are deep techno, minimal, tech house and classic techno. He prefers to determine the style of his sets capacious monosyllable word "tech", but if going into the crux of the matter, we can say that this "new techno" has maintained its sincerity of origin techno and absorb the best and honest sides of other musical currents. The quality of music has always been much more important for Acryl than the time of its release. Usually Acryl takes approach playing different times music in his mixes – as old as modern music, although still dominated by new music. To talk about favorite labels, perhaps, it isn’t of importance - a lot of them in his collection are available only one or two plates: he has enough plates, which can be not typical for anyone label or producer. In addition, many years he is fervent strong ideologist of analog sound in itself, vinyl plates as artifacts and an analogue as paradigm. But it does not unthinking fanaticism - digital technology is used in conjunction with analog sound, where they are just the place: for quite a long time he uses effect processor during playing. Importantly, that stood under the multi-faceted onslaught of the great multitude of dancefloors (how much were they?). Being on both sides of turntables, he understands well the specifics of dance music. One of the main criteria for him in the construction mix is the most ideal combination of intellectual and dancing, along with improvisation of course.
Acryl continues his promo activities as ‘Sobre Camara’ label, from time to time organizes the event in a variety of interesting and unusual places. General of them is the novelty of sensations, multidisciplinary and innovative approach, which while based on many years of experience, and of course, high-quality music.
new mix (link in blog at top-right of this page)