Q.Where are you from? Where are you based now?

I was borned in the town Kotovsk at the south of Ukraine. I didn't have computer and internet till the 2006, when i entered to the Philosophy faculty in the University of Odessa. A part of present time i stay in Minsk, Belarus, from where is my wife from. Other time i am Staying in Ukraine at my mum's place. It was harsh times in my youth, my dad was robbed and shooted in 2000, so i was needed to grow up quickly.

At all i think that 2000 was very hard year. We had a cataclysm in i our city, it was frozed. I left without electricity for 3 months. I remember those times very well. At weekends there were massive discotheques with generators. May be few thousands people were coming and that were real moments people's unity in the hard times.

Q.What is the most enjoyable memory you remember as a child?

My parents were training and treating dogs. Quite often we have a lot of snow the winter in our area , I remember the snow fun and how the dogs sleigh me on a sled in a harness.

Q.Since when are you interested in music?

My father was a drummer and that's why i grew up in the music atmosphere and partially on the scene. Once my dad presented me a cool new tape player Panasonic with EQ and then my mate gave me to listen few tapes of Prodigy. Since that time i got into Rave music totally. So i immediately started my experiments with tapes (record, rerecord, stretching, gluing and etc.). Next i got into jungle, hip-hop and Hard Rock.

(Story about cassets and burned stall. Once it was a massive fire on the central market, wich burned totally and i took a box of a cassettes from the music stall in the corner wich was burning too. The most of boxes melted but tapes were save so i pulled out them. So i got a lot of tapes with different music and I just switched tapes to another boxes.)

I started to organize parties in the school with my friends and later i started to work on the town discotheque in Kotovsk. On those times speed garage, rave, pumping and ofcourse poo music were popular. Usually there were only 2 djs, so we were needed to play full nights on weekends. I was enjoying very much and also a big bonus was that i could earn some money already.

2020.03

MDC Interview#38 "Fat Frumos"