Managing Toronto's Bravestaion

https://soundcloud.com/bravestation

Email - nick@ledastraymusic.co.uk

Alec Chizhik was raised by a family of musicians, and their collective talent was imbued in his mind, body and soul by both nature and nurture. There was no escaping the music for this young talent.
His musical education proper began at the age of 5. He began 
his fascination with electronic music around 1994, when he started to join the dots between his love of Michael Jackson, stripped-down hip-hop, Detroit techno and progressive house 
music. 
He began producing his own music aged 15, pooling these disparate influences and uniting 
them through tribal rhythms, leftfield experimentalism, funk-driven basslines and atmospheric 
textures. Indeed, these are all key elements of his sound to this day – a heady, ethereal 
and soulful vibe running through his myriad productions. Back to the story though, and soon 
Chizhik is meeting like-minded music freaks and playing live keyboards in clubs alongside 
other machines and musicians as well as developing a taste for DJing.
Fast-forward to 2003 and Chizhik was applying his keyboard skills to the techno productions 
of fellow Munich inhabitants, and it wasn’t long before featuring on releases as a co-producer. 
In 2005 he graduated from the University of Munich with an impressive Honours degree, with 
producing now his raison d’être. 
Alongside his day job - working first for Universal and later Sony - the last few years have 
seen him produce official remixes for Kool & The Gang, Amy Winehouse and Jean Claude 
Ades, and release on some of Europe’s biggest tech labels like Great Stuff Recordings, Kling 
Klong and Electronic Petz. As his DJ career began to blossom in tandem, he landed gigs at all 
of his hometown’s best-loved clubs – including Harry Klein – and has made his international 
debut in New York too.
His sound is one rich in melody and atmosphere, fusing the age-old principles of machine 
techno and human soul, with an intelligence running through his productions that elevates 
them above the dreary, brainless glut of releases that fill the download stores of today. There’s 
a real sense of the genre’s history in his music, eschewing uber-modern over-technical 
showboating for a humanistic, warm and organic feel. Intelligent techno at its best.

I am a Songwriter, Composer, String arranger and Violin player. My music has been used for a wide array of TV and advertising. I write songs with many talented singers and producers and have had releases in Europe and Asia, as well as children's songs for Sesame Street and CBeebies. I have arranged and played strings for many bands and artists including Nick Cave, Caro Emerald, Fink and the Stereo MCs.

A DJ originally from Japan, based in London.

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