Number 6 is a special one. The new Kri record goes back to the buzzing 1980s in Yugoslavia, where numerous art projects, including bands such as Laibach, were testing the censorship and unity of the Communist Party. One such project was a punk and later post-punk/industrial band called O! Kult which took a hard stance against bureaucracy, technocracy and alienation. Their test was successful as it brought censorship and surveillance by the state and media authorities.

O! Kult’s late industrial-ish period started in the second half of the 80s after Brane Zorman experienced the British Summer of Love firsthand. The track Zvestoba (Loyalty) has never been officially released until now. Kri Records are bringing the track to life after digging it out of the cult Radio Študent archives.

The track and its mystical vibe have been reimagined by Silent Servant, Christian Kroupa (1/2 of Black Dot) and 198319831983, adding fresh EBM, electro and melancholic techno edge to the record. We want to thank Brane Zorman for trusting us with O! Kult material, all the producers and the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia for the support with the release of KRI006.

A1. O! Kult - Zvestoba (Original)
A2. O! Kult - Zvestoba (Silent Servant RMX)
B1. O! Kult - Zvestoba (198319831983 ReKick)
B2. O! Kult - Zvestoba (Christian Kroupa Remix)
B3. O! Kult - Zvestoba (Christian Kroupa Naked Version)

Available as vinyl and digitally on the 19th of January 2024.

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@198319831983
@allegedwitches

KRI006 O! Kult - Zvestoba EP (snippets)

Co-founder + A&R at @kri-records
Ex @klubk4music resident
2025 dates I'm not ashamed of:
07.02. Tehnolom @ Channel Zero
07.03. Switch Club, Barcelona
08.03. 33 / 45, Barcelona
11.04. w. DJ Nobu @ Klub K4
18.04. Zorica
25.04. Zasilni izhod z gosti @ Channel Zero
16.05. Mechatronica x Kri x Keep In Mind preparty
20.06. w. The Hacker @ Keep In Mind festival
25.07. Space Burgers w. Ole Mic Odd & Alonzo
29.08. TBA
03.10. K4 TBA
21.11. TBA

2024:
19.01. Kri 006 Release @ Big Nose
24.02. MENT Festival @ Kino Šiška
09.03. Oldies Goldies @ Klub K4
29.03 bRave @ Surogat, Zagreb
05.04. Zasilni izhod @ Channel Zero
21.06. Kri x Keep in Mind Festival
26.07. Faktor Ch0
30.08. Kri label night @ Pekarna, Maribor
09.11. Analogue/Digital: KRI @ Mostovna
13.12. Temnica @ Klub K4
27.12. Praznični izhod @ Channel Zero

2023:
10.02. Zasilni izhod at Channel Zero
24.03. Zorica allnighter
26.05. K4 Bday w. Dasha Rush
17.06. Keep In Mind x Kri Records w. L.F.T. at Gala Hala
01.07. Zorica w. Lavka (Kri Records gofundme)
04.08. Kri night @ Channel Zero
06.10. Libertas Koper
17.11. Zorica allnighter
22.12. Zasilni izhod at Channel Zero
31.12. K4NY @ Klub K4

Techno, Electro, EBM, New Beat, C Vitamin, B Complex ...

Used to run a radio show X Machina at Radio Študent: radiostudent.si/glasba/x-machina

DIY EBM, Wave & Electro label from Ljubljana
A&R by @Schrauff & @Malalavka
Contact: speakup@krirecords.com

Discography:
KRI001 Black Dot (Christian Kroupa & LCN) - Worlds Connect (12" + digital)
KRI002 Trust the Rust Vol. 1 VA (Cassette + digital)
KRI003 Adrian Marth & Diana Berti - Crystal Ball Visions (12" + digital)
KRI004 Dj Nephil - Horizon Rising (12" + digital)
KRI005 R.Gamble - Dream Sequence (12" + digital)
KRI006 O! Kult - Zvestoba (12" + digital)
KRI007 Ole Mic Odd - Mythical Realm (12" + digital)
KRI008 The Spy - Halt and Hack EP (12" + digital)
KRI009 Trust the Rust Vol. 2 VA (Cassette + digital)
KRI010 Hayter - Everyday EP (12" + digital)
KRI011 No Hope, No Fear VA (12" + digital)
KRI012 Facets - Sonic Ocean EP (12" + digital)

Distributed by @bordellodistribution

Debauchery:

2025:
07.03. Switch Club Barcelona
08.03. 33 / 45 Barcelona
11.04. Kri Records at Klub K4 w. DJ Nobu
16.05. Mechatronica x Kri x Keep In Mind preparty
20.06. w. The Hacker @ Keep In Mind festival
25.07. Kri x Honest Work present Ole Mic Odd & Alonzo
03.10. Kri x K4: Broken English Club live

Past:
09.09. 2022 KRI x K4: Black Dot Live, TV.OUT, Lavka, Schrauff
17.06. 2023 KRI x Keep In Mind: L.F.T., Schrauff, Lavka, 198319831983
26.01. 2024 KRI006 release event w. Brane Zorman (O! Kult) @ Big Nose
24.02. 2024 KRI Records @ Ment Festival
29.03. 2024 Kri & Zasilni izhod @ bRave, Surogat, Zagreb
21.06. 2024 KRI x Keep In Mind festival w. Adrian Marth @ Metelkova
30.08. 2024 Kri label night @ Pekarna, Maribor
09.11. 2024 Analogue Digital presents Kri Records @ Mostovna

Black Gold Darkness

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BiMonthly on RBW for L͟͞u͟͞c͟͞i͟͞d͟͞ ͟͞G͟͞r͟͞o͟͞u͟͞n͟͞d͟͞
Upcoming:
21.08.25 TBA
14.06.25 TBA
25.04.25 intrnasformation.space
Past:
04.04.25 Aus der Tiefe Radio Rabe
01.03.25 CandlePulling SoliRave
13.02.25 Lucid Ground w/ INSEL
13.02.25 Frecciarossa Rössli
16.01.24 BonfireTales
21.12.24 Radio Bollwerk w/ Leef
22.11.24 Progr Bern
24.10.24 Radio Bollwerk w/ Cryptososo
21.09.24 Kapitel Bollwerk
30.08.24 OMU-Rave
10.08.24 Nachtzug Lunaria
28.07.24 NoSoNoSo
13.07.24 Privat
11.05.24 Radio Bollwerk w/ los pashminas
29.02.24 Radio Bollwerk w/ sellyourmania
17.02.24 TRNSTN x Radio 80k, Kapitel Bern
11.01.24 Roessli Reitschule Bern
31.12.23 Dachstock Reitschule
31.12.23 Cafe-Bar-Mokka Thun
25.11.23 Artfestival Interlaken

𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙫𝙞𝙖 𝘿𝙈/𝙈𝘼𝙞𝙡

1983 - Meaningful Correlations in Random Data
OUT NOW on @honestworkrecordings !
https://honestworkrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/meaningful-correlations-in-random-data

V/A - No Hope, No Fear (198319831983 - Trustno1)
OUT NOW on @kri-records
https://krirecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-hope-no-fear

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Contact: dj198319831983@gmail.com
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198319831983 is an alias of electronic music artist Jakob Bekš, whose early music trajectory traces a familiar arc: from the urgency and radical politics of hardcore punk to the immersive futurism of electronic music. Born and raised in Ljubljana, Slovenia (then Yugoslavia), Bekš came of age amid shifting political and cultural tectonics—formative tensions that continue to reverberate through his work.
 
A key figure in Slovenia’s underground scene, he co-founded the now-defunct but highly regarded Scienceofuse collective and label (2006–2016), and was instrumental in co-curating Gumitwist—a seminal series of club nights at Ljubljana’s Klub K4 that became a stop for global innovators like A Guy Called Gerald, Legowelt, Modeselektor, Morphosis, etc. His finely tuned sensibility behind the decks earned him residencies and regular appearances at key nights throughout the region.

From 2015 to 2020, Berlin became a base for further experimentation. There, he launched Imaginary Radio Stations, a boundary-blurring sound narrative and event project developed with collaborators CP-AK and Evano, hosted at club Maze. This cross-border platform embraced live performance, installation, and improvisation, folding experimentalism into the dancefloor.

Working across multiple aliases—including TPROACH and Age of Revolt—he navigates a wide terrain: from atmospheric electronica and deep techno to angular electro and leftfield club mutations. In 2021, he founded Honest Work Recordings, a boutique label inaugurated by his debut full-length album Microdosing Dystopia, a record that fuses finely distilled emotional snapshots with textural depth and rhythmic precision. Whether through releases on KRI Records, De/Fragment, Voiceless, or via his own platforms, 198319831983 delivers music that is restlessly aesthetic yet conceptually grounded, his work moves with sonic intent and lingers with emotional depth.

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Discography:

V/A - Chilli Space 4 (Stashman & The LSD Anarchist - Ode to orangebud) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2007 - CD
V/A - Chilli Space 5 (LSD Anarchist - SMUR 86) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2008 - CD
V/A - K4 Format '09 (Tha Disko Don - Protodisko) - K4 Format 2009 - CD
V/A - Chilli Space 6 (LSD Anarchist - The One) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2009 - CD
V/A - Chilli Space 7 (LSD Anarchist - Meditation Candy) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2010 - CD
V/A - Chilli Space 9 (LSD Anarchist ft. Lil' Chill - Snuggle Time) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2013 - CD
V/A - Chilli Space 10 (LSD Anarchist - Restless Souls) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2014 - DoLP
V/A - Chilli Space 11 (LSD Anarchist ft. Lil' Chill - 528) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2015 - DoLP
V/A - Sezam vol.2 (Tha Disko Don - Ingenuity)- Digital
V/A - Stiropor vol.2 (Tha Disko Don - Clairvoyant) Stiropor 2015 - Cassette
V/A - Chilli Space 12 (Balconia Q - Somango (w/ Stashman, Žiga Murko, Jan Gregorka)) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2016 - DoLP
V/A - Gibanica vol.2 (1983 - Continents) - Klub K4 2017 - CD
V/A - Electro City Ljubljana (1983 - Zero compromise) - Elektroliza 2018  - DoLP
Age of Revolt - Grasping at Hope - Age of Revolt 2018 - digital
Age of Revolt - Children of the Engineered Age - Age of Revolt 2018 - digital
TPROACH - Transmissions from Nonexistence - TPROACH 2018 - digital
TPROACH - Kinship and Harmony - TPROACH 2018 - digital
TPROACH - Detractors and Revisionists - TPROACH 2019 - digital
TPROACH - Utopia Postponed - TPROACH 2019 - digital
Imaginary Radio Stations - IRS C60 vol.1 (w/ Evano, CP-AK)- Imaginary Radio Stations 2019 - digital & cassette
V/A - V as Peace (IRS - Arp Way There, IRS - Bowel Movement, w/ Evano, CP-AK)) - Voiceless 2020 - DoLP
TPROACH - Omnibus 8 - Omnibus - digital
V/A - Diversenia EP (1983 - Give us back our future) - Origin 2021 - digital
1983 - Microdosing Dystopia - Honest Work Recordings 2021 - digital
V/A - Senzorama vol. 1 (1983 - Realignment) - ZARŠ 2021 - digital
V/A - Tehnopolis (TPROACH - Fear as Instrument) - Tehnopolis 2021 - digital
V/A - Tehnopolis XXII (Age of Revolt - Prolonged Isolation) - Tehnopolis 2022 - digital
V/A - Chilli Space 17 (198319831983 - Emotional Contagion) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2023 - CD, digital
TPROACH - Obscene Establishment - TPROACH 2023 - digital
V/A - Trust the Rust vol.1 (198319831983 - Long distance transportation) - KRI 2023 - digital & cassette
TPROACH - Memories in Exile - Honest Work Recordings 2023 - LP, digital
SunnySun & Moska - Milka (Looting Businessmen Money Grab) - Honest Work Recordings 2023 - digital
O! Kult - Zvestoba (198319831983 ReKick) - KRI 2024 - LP, digital
Age of Revolt - Fake Everything EP - Tehnopolis 2024 - digital
V/A - Chilli Space 18 (198319831983 - Longing for Another Realm) - ŠKUC Ventilator 2024 - CD, digital
198319831983 - ...and we thought it was all about PLUR ! - AAP001  2025 - digital, lathe cut
Age of Revolt - Polluting the Discourse - De/Fragment 2025 - digital
V/A - Prbit4Bizzy (198319831983 - Chaos Magick) - Prbit Records, digital
1983 - Meaningful Correlations in Random Data - Honest Work Recordings 2025, digital
V/A - No Hope, No Fear (198319831983 - Trustno1) - KRI 2025, LP, digital

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1/2 Black Dot w/ Le Chocolat Noir

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