Originally from Moscow and now based in Prague, Téa Wavesword is a producer, a co-owner of Lichen Records and a DJ with the skills she proved via 3-year residency at Propaganda, one of Moscow's finest clubs.
Having discovered clubs in the mid 2000s, Téa was hooked by electronic sounds at once and since then started to build her vast music collection and improvise behind the turntables. Her choice now often goes for emotionally charged sophisticated house or hypnotic and experimental techno, rooted in the mixture of years clubbing, her classical music training and constant excitement for analogue machines and new technologies. This brought Téa into studying sound design and creating her own universe of grooves and sounds, in collaboration with Onlee aka Boris Romanov, - their debut “Disturbed butterflies” EP was released on Lichen Records in spring 2015, followed by remixes from Anton Kubikov and Yapacc.

ADELINA LOPEZ, SERGEY A.M., IZHEVSKI, ANTON V., EGOR S, BATTY TRIP, MARTY CHERRY, HARD BRAIN, DAVIDICHEK, TONY VINE, SERGEY KRASYUK, SHALOM, ARTHUR KAZARIAN, DANY KOLE, FLOW INSIDE, JR RIVERS, IDENTICA, ELINA SHOROKHOVA, MANOVICH, SOVJAR, GREG AVAK, FEEL MY MEOW, MARIO TOMICH, ALTERLEO, TERNAVSKA

Live from the underground.

Releases on Rhythm Department Records, Another Rhythm, Polydor, 13th Hour Records, Slothboogie, Dansu Discs and Honey Butter Records.

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Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, Musthave has left his long story behind and started a new one on March 2014. Well experienced in musical subculture, Musthave made himself known as a hip-hop artist in 1992. It took him a couple of years to realize, that he rather enjoyed to spin records and watch people dancing. He played his first dj set in 1994. It was a mixture of styles with heavy syncopated beats and tough mixing. Trying himself with different kind of music, he felt the time had come to make some changes. Later on, a couple of promo mixes had been recorded under a new name Musthave. Turned himself up at such excited musical journey, Musthave moved his steps forward to express a new vision of sound production, appreciated by many dj's and music producers all over the globe.

Chicago born, London-based Kate Simko is a classically trained composer and electronic music producer. For over a decade now, Kate has been affirming her status as one of dance music’s standout artists. Her catalogue includes releases on Get Physical, Hello?Repeat, Leftroom, No.19 and most recently, Sasha’s Last Night On Earth imprint.

While studying music at Northwestern University in Chicago, Kate began DJing on WNUR radio and taking jazz piano lessons, which inspired a shift to composing. Kate recorded her first album in Chile with Andres Bucci in 2002, and has since released three albums, various EPs, and film soundtracks.

A classically trained pianist with roots in Chicago house, her diversity as a musician is apparent throughout her productions. Whether remixing Philip Glass to Guy Gerber, or touring with interactive audio-visual live sets, she excels throughout. Named one of Chicago’s “Top 10 DJs” by XLR8R Magazine, Kate has performed at some of the world’s leading locations such as Panorama Bar, Warung, fabric, the Montreal Jazz Festival, Movement Festival, MUTEK, Eleven, Verboten, and Millennium Park. 

Now London-based, in 2014 Kate completed a masters in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music and launched her genre-bending project London Electronic Orchestra, which has performed at iTunes Festival, LEAF festival, Latitude Festival, the National Gallery, and Heart Ibiza.  

In fall 2015 Kate will release an  album with Tevo Howard on Last Night on Earth, and her debut London Electronic Orchestra EP on The Vinyl Factory.  Melodic, driving, jacking and funky, Kate’s distinctive sound continues to inspire dance floors across the globe.



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.

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