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Solar X: Roman Belavkin is a founder of the Russian ArT-TeK Records label, bringing to the world some of the best artists from the post-soviet space. Recently, Ptuch, the main club culture magazine in Russia, has named Solar X as the most influential person in modern Russian electronic music. Now located in the UK he carries on this tradition by forming new networks and transgressing existing boundaries in club culture. Roman has been described by The Face magazine as "a stereotypical Russian genius", a statement that's hard to argue with, as apart from being Russia's own "aphex without a tank" (De-Bug), he has also achieved gold medals in martial arts championships in Russia and Europe, a MS degree in Physics, and he is currently pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Born in Moscow he started experimenting with some primitive Russian synthesisers during his school years in the mid 80's and he recorded his own break-dance tracks and ambient tunes. For a few years while studying at Moscow State University, Roman did not take his music seriously, as his sport career really took off: he became the leading sportsman of Russia's Wu-Shu national team, competing at the First World Wu-Shu Championship in Beijing in 1991. It was after the Championship of Europe in 1992, when a terrible car accident, almost costing Roman his life, imprisoned him to his flat without the ability to walk for two years. During this period Roman adapted his computer to sampling his cheap Soviet analogue synthesisers, and he recorded his first full-length album ÔOutrZ X MerÕ. He sent one tape to Dan Nigrin from The Glitch (R&S, Fax, Industrial Strength), whom he met through the Internet. Dan and his friend Bump liked the album so much that they immediately offered to release some of the tracks on their Defective Records in America. The OutrZ X Mer EP became the release of the week in ÔThe Front PageÕ and ÔTechno TodayÕ magazines. This was unprecedented for Russia at the time and the Solar X 12", that had been cut and pressed in Detroit, immediately put him at the center of attention of a new post-perestroika media. He soon he became an icon of Russian underground electronic scene making mind-blowing and sometimes controversial live performances from clubs in Siberia and nuclear reactors in Crimea, to trendy nightclubs in London and Vienna. His second album X-rated was re-released on CD in 1997, and it inspired ÔThe WireÕ magazine to pronounce the former Soviet Union as Òa goldmine of undiscovered TalentÓ. In 1998 Roman signed to London's label Worm Interface. His last album "Little Pretty Automatic" has topped many DJ charts and been received as Òone of the best albums in electronic music for many years!Ó. Solar X, DJ / Press Quotes: "This is a record to make you melt..." (Front Page, 1996) "...For anyone unfamiliar, Solar X is a single man hailing from Russia whom uses tons of Russian synths! Techno meets RDJ!..." "After listening to this intriguing album by Moscow's Roman Belavkin, I was going to pronounce the former Soviet Union a goldmine of undiscovered talent...The artist's hand never stays invisible for long, either: hi-hats flange, empty-stomach rumblings roll into the picture, machines fool around and are snapped into line." (The Wire, APRIL 97) "...Just opened up a package with the new one on Worm Interface and I've gotta say - it's dynamite." "Roman Belavkin, aka Solar X, as been described by one interviewer as "a stereotypical Russian genius". It's a statement that's hard to argue, as his "day jobs" include pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence programming... and teaching martial arts at championship levels..." "Q. What do you get when you cross the frantic head-fuckery of Aphex Twin's 'Bucephalus Bouncing Ball' and 'Formula', the sheer expansiveness of Autechre's 'lp5' and the gorgeous melodies of Boards of Canada's 'Music Has the Right to Children'? A. Solar X's 'Little Pretty Automatic'" "...the music is complex, confusing, and confounding the first time you hear it. You think, what is this guy doing? But listen again, and you will discover music that is both incredibly intelligent and incredibly warm. Belavkin has a great sense of humour as well as a keen music aesthetic..." "...not every astrophysicist blows off steam by cutting techno tracks, and fewer still do so with the skill and humour of Moscow's Roman Belavkin... even the simplified equations for Belavkin's paroxysmal breakbeats would probably fill several blackboards. His ascendant melodies drift with the grace and poise of Eno's Apollo, wafting around counter-melodies which crib admiringly from the same synthpop sources as Gianluigi di Constanzo (Bochum Welt)" "...what i have to say is that this is one of the best albums IÕve heard in ages" "Recorded in Moscow, 1998, 'Little Pretty Automatic' by Solar X is totally awesome, totally. What gives this album it's distinctive quality is neither the sounds, the rhythms or the arrangements...it is the way all the elements are fused into the whole with an almost classical sense of form, and the precision, and balance that results. The way the tension builds on such tracks as 'Russian Roulette' is reminiscent of Varese's 'Poeme Electronique' or Stockhausen's 'Gesang der junglinge' - an astonishing piece of work." "Solar X - Little Pretty Automatic = best I have heard for years...!!!" "I just heard some RA clips from a Solar X release on Worm Interface. It sounds like they are trying to make anti-minimalism ...so, let's pretend there's a genre called "maximalism", the opposite of minimalism." "I just got Solar X yesterday and drove around San Francisco to it all day before the 1999 DMC US Finals. Don't mean to gush, but I can't really think of a better "multi-style" cd in electronic music right now..." LIVE APPEARANCES: 2 June 2001, Leeds, UK. Live at Vector. 29 May 2001, Volksgarten, Vienna. Live at RA001 (Real-Audience). Line-up: modified genetics (at) live, erdem tunakan ( cheap/ at), p.dexter ( at), solar X ( ar-tek/ worm interface/ ru ) live, karo goldt ( de ) videoloops. 11th of May 2001, Carpet Night (Worm Interface / Ambient Soho), Free gig at The Herbal, 12 Kingsland Rd, London. Live: Solar-X, DJs: Rocket, Stayhome, Prophane + Ambient Soho DJs 6 of May, 2001, Manchester. Dynam_x 01 at Zion within the X-trax festival. Line-up includes: freeform, quinoline yellow, gescom, turk mastik, geiom, alan k, dave wheels, solar x. 5 of May 2001, The Herbal, London. Magma IDM bash night 1! live: Icarus (output), Solar-X (Worm Interface), Nish (Lo recordings) + Dj Django (Worm Interface), Stayhome, Phil Earle (LawandAuder),RyoCo.(melange), Mags Hall, Jim +special guests. 17 of February 2001, WMF club, Berlin. ArT-TeK at solitaire touring: Solar-X (live), Compass Vrubell (DJ set). 19 of January 2001, The Herbal, London. Live at Worm Interface / Ambient Soho night. 14 of December 2000, Batofar club, Paris, France. Live at ANTICLOCKWISE 12 with DJs Grant and Mike Dred (RePhLeX), and Yuri Lewitt (Elfcut, Berlin). 28 of October 2000, Ubu club, Rennes, France. Live at ANTICLOCKWISE 11. 19 of October 2000, Octopus Studios, London. Line-up includes Icarus, Solar X, Apache 61 and others. 15-17 of September 2000, Monastery of Sound 3 festival of electronic music in France. 24 of August 2000, Kazantip festival in Crimea. 18 of August 2000, ROXY, Aachener Strasse 2, Koln-Zentrum (Cologne, Germany).