ТИСК (TYSK)

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" A melting pot of relevant electro, breakbeat, grime and hip-hop "

TYSK’s music is something of a melting pot, a burning cauldron in which they mix electronic music, breakbeat, grime and hip-hop. Released over 2023 and split in two parts, ‘BEFORE’ and ‘AFTER’, their debut album has only cemented their sensational success on the local scene. Alex Pervukhin (the producer) and Anton Nazarko (the MC) are stars of local music communities in both the West and East of Ukraine. The crew behind TYSK (yes, it’s actually more than two people, but a big team of like-minded artists) reimagine the best examples of British underground music, expanding it with references to the cultural code of the Ukrainian electronic and recitative hip-hop scenes.

TYSK’s success has been marked by showcases in the most famous communities and clubs in Ukraine: they played at Closer, Night Ambassadors, and HVLV and gave a big performance at Brave! Factory festival. They have also been recognised by the most influential Ukrainian music media outlets, such as rap.ua, Megogo, and Don’t Take Fake, and toured with English dubstep pioneer Plastician.

Their songs, filled with fresh, up-to-date electronic sounds, cover the topics of war, pre-war life, and a future vision of Ukraine. But this crew’s art is not only about music, as they work on bringing back light with their sound from the concrete, figuratively speaking, but also literally: during the winter of 2022-2023, they went on tour with an audiovisual performance, the ‘TYSK. Experience’, across Europe and all over Ukraine, shrouded in pitch darkness, and held the first rave since the start of the full-scale war in devastated Kharkiv. 

A powerful way to showcase Ukrainian avant-garde culture abroad.