Franzüss aka Yuri Lebjadkin
is a dj and musician from the south-eastern Italy, the Salento. Berlin based since 3 years, he spent most of his life between Rome and Bologna. After he learned drums, guitar and vocals, started to dj in 2003 for illegal hard-tek parties. During his career as drum..n..bass and hardtek dj in Rome, he started supporting queer and street culture co-producing successful party/projects like "Technical-Turntablism Master Series", "Queer Carnival", "Bitch!" for the roman squat Esc-Atelier. His estethical research is oriented to street culture, illegal free parties, queer, gender studies and turntablism. As dj and promoter collaborated with Rome Basstation, Linux and Esc. After he discovered the terrific Phag Off, and having met Warbear, Franzüss changed both sound and public starting to follow the most important party experience in the italian queer scene. He finally produces a very crowded "one night only" called Phag-Carnival at Esc Atelier, in which he starred with Cheveu, Kanja Tieffer, Maru and Nikky+Infidel. In 2006 he moved to Berlin to be a full time dj and promoter. In the same year met Fabio-Boxikus and they started producing together Sabotage Berlin, a queer party, open to emerging artists, far miles away from the usual mentality of glossy clubs and from the dj super star market. They created from nothing a party that in less than an year got a very huge audience and became the most popular queer party in Berlin, not just for people from the GLBTQ scene but for many other different kind of clubbers. In a time when the electronic scene was dominated by the most boring minimal ever, Franzüss has contributed to bring on the dance floor a huge and hypnotic techno sound, that sound that makes his performances and Sabotage itself recognizable and appreciated. His skills and the project grew up both successfully, giving him the opportunity to play in many different parties. Berlin is a very important school at an international level. Gig after gig Franzüss improved his technique..s skills, refining his own selections and becoming a very popular DJ, playing for Schwuz, SO36, Cassero, Golden Gate, Tacheles, Paloma, Dub Club, Barbie Deinhoff and many other underground parties. His sound ranges from hard techno to a very hypnotic tech-house, from nu-disco to electro. Vinyl freak, he just plays with vinyl giving a sort of real techno rides 6 hours long. As a true Turntablist, his mix is always clean and well structured, building steps and sequences played along by following the flow with a personal touch, something between a rough street battle dj and a cleaner, smoother club selector.
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Main Projects are: Sabotage Berlin, Technical-Turntablism Master Series, Nü Tech Soul.Actually resident on: Sabotage Berlin, Beware of a holy whore, Nü Tech Soul.Clubs: MIKZ, Raw Tempel, Tacheles Kunsthaus Mitte.
