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Next Mechanical Breakdown Guest set is by Kris baha (live set):
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Time has passed since Kristian Bahoudian, known artistically as Kris Baha - the Australian born, multi-disciplinary queer artist of Egyptian-Armenian and Italian descent - swapped the parched red earth and searing midday sun of the Australian landscape for the brutalist buildings, communist-era apartment blocks, and slate-grey skies of Berlin. Now firmly embedded in his adopted city, Baha has become known for a mutant trademark production style inspired by sunbaked hallucinatory visions of the past-future, clandestine, concrete-clad industrial hum of the metropolis after dark.
Kris is a fixture in Berlin’s industrial, electronic punk, and techno club scene, playing at notable parties and venues such as Cocktail D’Amore, Tresor, Panorama Bar, and RSO. His DJ sets dive deep into a realm of otherworldly machine music driven by emotion, mood, and energy. Baha also runs his own event series called ‘Wired’, which focuses on the immersive experience of live performances and DJ sets in the dark electronic sphere. The same ethos is applied to his performance-based live shows, initially inspired by his love for industrial and electronic punk artists like DAF, Front 242, Severed Heads, Hard Corps, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, New Order, Skinny Puppy, and Depeche Mode—artists with whom Kris has had the privilege of opening and sharing festival bills.
Kris’s touring career is as extensive as his discography with releases & appearances on labels like Pinkman, She Lost Kontrol, Cocktail D’Amore, BoysNoize, Zone, Fleisch, X-IMG, Artoffact, BMG UK. His performances and music have also aired on BBC6 - UK, KEXP - USA, NTS, Rinse FM, Boiler Room, Arte.TV & documentary coming in September 2024 titled ‘Electronic Body Movie’, with his influence extending beyond the streaming ether, resonating through clubs and festivals worldwide. Baha has toured globally, supporting acts on tour like Boys Noize, Boy Harsher, and Drab Majesty, and has headlined numerous dance and live music events across continents.
When not channeling the musical spirits to inspire dancers, Baha can be found lurking in the shadows of his studio space as a prolific producer and remixer. There, he performs remix duties for celebrated artists and bands such as Boy Harsher, Boys Noize, Qual (Lebanon Hanover), Ultra Sunn, Kontravoid, Hercules & Love Affair, Red Axes, and many more. There has also been a notable collaboration with fellow Aussie Dreems as 'Die Orangen', as well as various projects launched over the years with his latest in 2023 being 'Ghosts In The Machine', a future sci-fi concept moniker based around a story written by Kris that delves into the perils of artificial intelligence and humanity. The self-titled album was released on Zanias’ imprint Fleisch Records, home to releases from Schwefelgelb, Kontravoid, Linea Aspera, and many other seminal artists. Yet, it’s his own skewed, mutant productions for which Baha is undoubtedly best known, seamlessly blending techno, electro, breaks, trance-induced psychedelia, and inhabiting their own sound space between cyber industrial, EBM, wave, post-punk, and 90s IDM mutations.
In 2024, Kris returned to the dancefloors with ‘Cyber Body Music v1’ released on Kindcrime, poised as a new music genre he created using the EP title that takes futuristic parts of techno, EBM, electro, drum & bass, trance and smashes them together in a hadron collider, racing from speeds of 125-150 bpm and discovering a new sonic territory for Kris. Kris backed up this release in June 2024 with a 4-track summer-ready dancefloor smasher called ‘Breathe’ that was released on his rebooted label Power Station, which featured a seminal release from notable Aussie expat, Jensen Interceptor, in 2018. Baha was also featured in the only EBM documentary titled, Electronic Body Music.
In 2025 Kris returned with a new single and EP release under his own label called Livewire - a 3 track EP that marks the beginning of his next evolution: a collision of late 90s tribal-psy trance, techno breaks, and progressive grooves, romancing the chaos and dust of a Spiral Tribe doof.
In a way, Kris’s discography has been a testament to his ability to redefine the boundaries of his own craft that are not just heard but felt. Perhaps this is why Kris’s music has been championed by some of the world's most in-demand artists, from Boys Noize playing his tracks to arenas of thousands at the Nine Inch Nails Peel It Back tour to Hector Oaks' layering ‘Jonathan’ under techno to create a new metaphor. Kris's unique ability to blend the lines of artistry, crossing over to different musical factions either on the dancefloor or in live music to create something new with each release, which is why he has built a loyal fanbase of followers over the last 13 years from Australia, to Berlin, and beyond.
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Upcoming Mechanical Breakdown Mixes:
December - Kris Baha (LIVE set), DayVentura
January - CarrieonDisco
