Solar X (Roman Belavkin) is the founder of the Russian
ArT-TeK Records label, which brings to the world some of the best artists
from the post-soviet
space. Now located in the UK, he carries on this tradition by forming new
networks and transgressing existing boundaries in club culture. He has also
achieved gold medals in martial arts championships in Russia and Europe,
a MS degree in Physics, and he is currently pursuing a PhD in Artificial
Intelligence. An icon of the Russian underground electronic scene, Solar
X makes mind-blowing and sometimes controversial live performances as staged
in clubs
in Siberia, in a
nuclear reactor in Crimea or in fancy night clubs in London and Vienna.
His music is complex, confusing and confounding the first time you hear
it.
But listened again it reveals its sophisticated structure and bewildered
warmth. Belavkin has a great sense of humour as well as a keen music aesthetic.
