Producer, DJ, label owner and promoter, Onlee aka Boris Romanov has been intensively involved in electronic music for the last two decades. It all started in early 90s when Boris opened one of the first record stores in Moscow that represented a wide range of electronic music. Three years later he started to run Thursday night at Propaganda club - it soon became synonym of high quality underground music. The night has seen over thousand of international DJs and Live acts such as Steve Bug, Tigerskin, Booka Shade, Guido Schneider, Derrick May, Marco Resmann, Joe Claussell, John Tejada & Arian Leviste, Octave One, Jori Hulkkonen, Alex Under, Maya Jane Coles, Richard Dorfmeister and many more.
As a DJ, Onlee debuted in 1997 and since then has played all over Russia, Europe and US at such places as Robert Johnson (Frankfurt), Berlin’s Weekend and Watergate, Moog and City Hall in Barcelona, Noveau Casino (Paris), Weekend (Madrid), Gare (Porto), Muna (Germany), La Ruche (Lausanne) and even at Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
For 7 years Onlee had weekly DJ residency at Propaganda’s Saturday night which was not accidentally named “Origin”.
Having always being inspired by never-ending evolution of electronic music, in 2006 Boris launched his label Lichen Records with releases from russian and international producers including Tigerskin, John Tejada, Chizh, Mike Shannon and Remote.
Onlee recently moved to Prague and teamed up in the studio with Téa Wavesword - their debut EP “Disturbed butterflies” will be out on Lichen Records in spring 2015.