Nikita Cano

Nikita Cano presents his emerging label that explores hypnotic and outsider sides of contemporary techno house music.

Södermalm

Recorded on the island of bohemian, alternative culture in Stockholm, Södermalm is an airy Nordic vision of hypnotic techno house where warm oak colours and cold neon blue lights are blended together in Scandinavian utopia.

Hygge

Nordic equanimity meets southern empathy in Nikita Cano’s new EP.

Boy Discipline Still Matters

We have all been very bad boys in 2017. This ravaged, blasted, vampiric electro techno blend of twisted fantasies and wicked narratives is our effective act of discipline.

Cementiri

After the gothic rave queer narrative from his recent EP, Nikita Cano returns with an unexpected and highly twisted offbeat single. Cementiri (cemetery in Catalan) features an outsider and hypnotic take on contemporary deep house, extraordinary quaint sampling included.

Gothic Rave Queer

How does it feel to be young and queer? Where are the borders between underground and mainstream? Is it possible to connect experimental techno with electro and gay synth-pop? Grindr hook-ups, emotional tensions, daddy-twink love stories, contemporary struggles, search of identity and discovery of authentic sound — all packed in 4 brand new purely electronic tracks by Barcelona’s gothic rave queer from discrepant Moscow Nikita Cano.

Darker Than Black

Named after breathtaking anime dystopia about a mysterious spatial anomaly that has taken place on Earth, Darker Than Black is a hypnotising kinky mix, constantly shifting complex of outsider acid techno, magnetic electro and experimental dark electronica taken straight out of Barcelona’s gothic rave queer’s hidden cave.

Ketamine Dream

Dark and groovy gothic techno song Ketamine Dream is the first single of DJ and sound producer Nikita Cano (formerly known as Pheoru) released under his real name. Trippy and tight minimalistic rhythm is joined here by homoerotic and dazed vocals making 9 minutes long hypnotic story about catching lights on dance floor in one of the best night clubs in Barcelona.

september, 2016

Now based in Barcelona

february, 2014

Relaunched as outlet for experimental intelligent electronic music

July, 2010

Founded in Moscow as label
for microhouse and minimal techno

Eight years ago I launched my own imprint with an intention to bypass commercial filters of existing record labels in order to release any sort of electronic music that I produced and wanted to give away without being told that I was out of the format or still too young to be taken seriously in the music industry.

Since 2010, my creative outlet for sound experiments (previously known as label.FM, miniFM and Stoned) has released more than 19 hours of hypnotic electronic music with minimalistic approach and aesthetics made by emerging sound producers from Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.

During these 8 years I’ve been constantly searching for brand new names in intelligent electronic music and with a massive help from my creative partners, sound production communities and platforms like Soundcloud and PromoDJ I have discovered spectacular and glorious contemporary techno house music by 8_four, Adam Dees, bdtom, Carel Essness, Craaash, Deepkey, Ekstendia, Haseman, J Toubas, Janno Kekkonen, Jiri Chvatal, Jorma Ois, Kreeman, Lavrov, Lem Bertch, lost-radio, Marokone, Martin Hatch, Melldu, Meloque, Micro G, Ohmikron, Ole-Ole, Olej, Oxoplus, PerfluXe, ShogunSpy, Sinawi, Stas Simonov, Strogova, Sydney, Tidlös, Tommy Young, Toricos, Until 33, Volodey, Zhe and Zoltan Solomon.

I disagree with the idea of seeing all these powerful and talented producers as label roaster; I treat them as a club, community, family and house instead. This is why our music is not solely released in traditional formats — singles, extended plays and long plays — as I’m convinced that crafting compilations from various sound producers that make music united by similar ideas and principles is one of the most convenient ways to help their fan bases grow efficiently.