Nina Kraviz

Nina Kraviz, a Russian producer, vocalist, and DJ, built her reputation on daring and vigorous DJ performances together with her hard-hitting, daring productions. She first surfaced via a run of straightforward deep house cuts before achieving wider notice with the 2011 single "Ghetto Kraviz," a Dance Mania-inspired track that turned into a major club success and featured on her 2012 debut album Nina Kraviz. Her wide-ranging DJ compilations, among them Fabric 91 from 2016, swing unpredictably across techno, acid, electro, and IDM. Via her Trip imprint she has put out some of her most exploratory work, such as the 2019 EP stranno stranno. neobjatno, while the 2021 single "Skyscrapers" highlights her pop leanings. She entered video game scoring with her contribution to Cyberpunk 2077, also released that same year.

Raised in Irkutsk, Siberia, Kraviz discovered house music on the radio in the mid-'90s. Several years afterward she relocated to Moscow to pursue dentistry studies and briefly joined the trio MySpaceRocket. That group issued a lone 12", the 2007 release "Amok," a spare house cut driven by a deep bassline and Kraviz's airy vocals; its B-side carried a version by U.K. DJ legend Greg Wilson. She then struck out alone and attracted attention in 2009 with releases on Efdemin's Naïf, Jus-Ed's Underground Quality, and Matt Edwards' Rekids. The next year brought further singles, among them a collaboration with Sascha Funke on BPitch Control. Her sole 2011 release was "Ghetto Kraviz," which paved the way for the self-titled Rekids album in 2012; the track remained a club staple and received numerous remixes over the following decade.

After additional singles on Rekids and Rosa plus the 2013 Mr. Jones EP, Kraviz launched the Trip label in 2014. Her installment in !K7's DJ-Kicks series arrived in early 2015, followed by Fabric 91 in late 2016. After issuing several forward-thinking compilations and releases by artists including Bjarki and PTU, Trip presented some of Kraviz's most abstract material on the EPs Pochuvstvui (2017) and stranno stranno. neobjatno (2019). She assembled the St. Vincent remix album Masseduction Rewired and supplied several mixes of her own. She also teamed with Chicago house producer Parris Mitchell on the single "Feel My Butterfly." Kraviz composed music for the action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 and appeared as herself in both the English and Russian editions; the soundtrack emerged as Cyberpunk 2077: Radio, Vol. 4 in early 2021. That same year she independently released the pop-oriented single "Skyscrapers."