Handmade Electronic Music

I’m Zhenya — I go by thecatrave. I’m from Minsk, Belarus. Grew up between brutalist blocks, foggy air, and the sound of Prodigy on cassette. My earliest musical memories were tapes of Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Limp Bizkit, Jamiroquai — break-heavy stuff that just stuck. There were also crazy PlayStation games jungle and dnb soundtracks, West Coast rap bleeding through from the other side, and the kind of slow, melancholic music that made sense in a gray post-Soviet world. Molchat Doma are from the same city — that should say enough.

My style moves between breakbeat, UK garage, lo-fi house, jungle, and IDM. I’m not trying to reinvent anything. It’s about chasing a feeling — tension, groove, emotion — shaped by all those early sounds and the way they’ve evolved.

Tracks I Produced

The playlist of my favourite electronic music

My second fav playlist