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FriMusic enthusiast and UI Club owner Vasily Yurchenko and festival co-curator Michail Stangl (a.k.a. Opium Hum) open proceedings in Krasnoyarsk with the first in a series of talks open to the public.
A driving force in Berlin’s ever-expanding club scene whose musical tastes run the gamut from drone and doom metal to grime and avant-garde electronics, Stangl also works closely with the Leisure System label, the hugely popular online music platform Boiler Room, and until recently Red Bull Music Academy.
Vasily Yurchenko is a long-term independent music enthusiast and one of the key people on the Siberian up-and-coming scene. He's a DJ and vinyl collector, the owner of UIClub, Krasnoyarsk.
Opium Hum aka Michail Stangl – CTM co-curator, one of the people behind Boiler Room Berlin, co-organiser of the Leisure System parties and label, and all round progressive force on the Berlin club scene – nourishes his DJ sets on sombre, hazy drones and fantastical soundscapes permeated by deep and shifting rhythms to create what can only be called a wide-awake dream.