Stanislav Tolkachev

Stanislav Tolkachev is a Ukrainian techno composer, producer, live performer and sound artist, active since the early 2000s and regarded as a pioneer of Ukrainian underground techno. Long tied to Berlin, he later made the city his base. His music joins industrial and Detroit techno with atonal structures, algorithmic sequencing, modular synthesis and electroacoustic composition, and it has appeared on Pohjola, Subsist, Panel Trax, Semantica, Geophone, MORD, Krill Music and his own Rudiment, from the Against Incidents EP to Catacomb Saints and Vira. He has performed at Unsound, MUTEK, Rewire and Boiler Room x CXEMA, and also builds multichannel and audiovisual work and teaches sequencing and production. His live debut at Dekmantel Festival in 2018 was gloomy, heavy and experimental.