Nikolaienko - Muscut - Record Label

Dmytro Nikolaienko (UA)

Nikolaienko is a Ukrainian sound artist currently living between Tallinn and London. Dmytro works mainly with outdated musical gear, which he uses to produce tape and cassette loops as a base material for his sound collages, like in his recent album “Rings” (2021), released on Jan Jelinek’s Faitiche label. He also has releases and appearances on such labels as 12th Isle, Graphical, Porridge Bullet, Kvitnu, Nexsound, Muscut and others. At the same time, Dmytro Nikolaienko is also a founder of Muscut (est. 2012, Kyiv) – a label focused on modern avant-garde Eastern European artists (Chillera, Pavel Milyakov, Mlin Patz, Bryozone, Indirect etc.) and a co-founder of Shukai – an archival label focused on bringing back to life the lost tapes from the underrated artists persecuted by censorship of Soviet period (Valentina Goncharova, Volodymyr Bystriakov, Shapoval Sextet etc.)

DISCOGRAPHY (SOLO ALBUMS/EP)

2024 "Meta" LP, Muscut (Cassette, C-40)
2022 "Nostalgia Por Mesozoica" LP, Muscut (12" vinyl)
2022 Amphibian Man II EP, Porridge Bullet (12" vinyl)
2021 "Rings" LP 12", Faitiche (DE)
2020 CAA—46, 7,5", Cyland Archives
2015 "The Sounds Of Pseudoscience", Muscut/GRAPHICAL (12" vinyl, LP/DL audio)
2010 "Loops & Cuts Soup", Nexsound, 2010 (DL audio)

DISCOGRAPHY (COLLABORATIVE WORKS)

2022 "Sunda School II" with Tapes, Porridge Bullet (7" vinyl)
2020 "Nostalgia Por Mesozoica" single with Arthur Mine, Muscut (7" vinyl)
2016 "Ode To The Sea" album with Indirect (UA), Muscut (12" vinyl, LP/DL audio)

DISCOGRAPHY (CONTRIBUTIONS)

2024 "Even the forest hums" Light In The Attic Records (US, LP, CD), Producer, curator
2023 "Test Pressing IV" (UA) (track Ambianta VI)
2023 "Seasonal Diary II: Lush Abundance" VA, Objects & Sound (BE) (track Ambianta VII)
2021 "A Collective Memoir" VA, LP, Urvakan (track Antenaa)
2019 "Inkosi" VA, 12th Isle (UK) (Track "April Echo")
2017 "M2" track with Nicola Ratti (IT) and Mads Emil Nielsen (DK), Mikroton (DL audio)
2013 "Advanced Music From Ukraine", The Wire (UK) (DL audio)
2011 "The Signals Of Shimanowsky" track, Adam Mickiewicz Institute / Kvitnu (CD audio)

VIDEO WORKS (SELECTED)

2023 "Dark Archeo"
2022 "Muzak for Mesozoic Showreel"
2020 "Two Rings"
2017 "Ostrova Bezi" by Chillera
2016 "Miracle" Indirect Meets Nikolaienko
2015 "Under The Integral"
2010 "Blue Soup N2"

SHOWS/FESTIVALS (SELECTED)

2024 SHAPE x Construction festival showcase at MurMur Amsterdam, NL
2024 Dialektik (Meta album release day concert), Valencia, ES
2023 Muscut x Faitiche labels showcase at Silent Green, Berlin, DE
2023 Tallinn Music Week, EE
2023 Live at KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM, Den Haag, NL
2022 NTS Radio live show with Sagome, UK
2022 Sagome at Cafe OTO, Longon, UK
2022 Alternativa festival, Prague, CZ
2022 RAAA Festival, Brescia, IT
2022 UH Fest, Budapest, HU
2022 Unsound festival, Krakow, PL
2022 Fonomo festival, Bydgoszcz, PL
2022 Sõru Saund festival, Hiiumaa, EE
2022 Fête de la Musique, PTX, Athens, GR
2022 Radio Vilnius birthday at "1986_gallery_", Vilnius, LT
2021 Üle Heli festival, Tartu, EE
2021 Sõru Saund festival, Hiiumaa, EE
2021 Muscut x Dublab.de takeover, <a href="https://dublab.de/collections/muscut-9-years-takeover/" target="_blank">Online</a>
2020 Space Textures festival, Riga, LV
2020 IDA Radio off air, Tallinn, EE
2020 Sõru Saund festival, Hiiumaa, EE
2019 Muscut x TIGHT stage, Brave Factory festival, Kyiv, UA
2019 Lesnoy Prichal: Sunday Epilogue, Kyiv, UA
2019 Brave Factory festival, Kyiv, UA
2019 Construction Festival, Dnipro, UA
2019 Frotee records showcase, Tallinn, EE
2019 Muscut showcase, London, UK
2019 Muscut showcase at Acephale, Cologne, DE
2019 Muscut showcase, Düsseldorf, DE
2018 Mezzanine, Kyiv, UA
2018 Easterndaze: Care Of Editions x Muscut at arkaoda Berlin, DE
2018 Üle Heli festival, Tallinn, EE
2018 SeaNaps festival, Leipzig, DE
2018 Kauplus Asia, Tallinn, UA
2018 Brave Factory festival, Kyiv, UA
2018 Meakusma Festival, Eupen, BE
2018 Synesthesia Festival, Kyiv, UA
2018 Strichka Festival, Closer, Kyiv, UA
2017 Am I Jazz festival, Closer Kyiv, UA
2017 ШЩЦ, Plivka, Kyiv, UA
2017 Construction festival IV, Dnipro, UA
2017 Muscut Showcase, Echo Buecher, Berlin, DE
2017 Arbitrary Live, Copenhagen, DK
2016 Indirect / Nikolaienko live, Master Club, UA
2016 Nico Antwerp / Nikolaienko live, Hackney Attic, London, UK
2016 NextSound Festival, Closer, Kyiv, UA
2016 Onesxtnth Festival, Plivka, Kyiv, UA
2016 live at Standards gallery, Milano, IT
2016 live at Koch Areal, Zurich, CH
2015 NextSound Festival, Kyiv, UA
2013 NextSound Festival, Kyiv, UA
2012 Muscut live at Tarilka, Kyiv, UA
2012 "Music Box Outpost Kyiv", Mystetsky Arsenal, Kyiv, UA
2011 Kvitnu showcase, Planetarium, Kyiv, UA
2008 Em-Visia, Mystetsky Arsenal, Kyiv, UA
2007 Unsound on Tour, Cinema, Kyiv, UA
2006 Detali Zvuku, Cinema, Kyiv, UA

LECTURES / WORKSHOPS / RESIDENCIES

2023 Shape Platform artist 2023-2024, EU
2021 IDA Radio residency: Tape Loops workshop, Tallinn, EE
2021 Psuhoteek festival: "Working with state archives" lecture, Tartu, EE
2020 VCRC Nachtkultur/Нічна культура, “Working with Musical Archives” lecture, Kyiv, UA
2016 Muscut label at Independent Label Market, London, UK
2010 How To Make Festival, Dnipro, UA

PUBLICATIONS (PRINT)

2022 The WIRE #466, UK
2022 The WIRE #464, UK
2017 The WIRE #395, UK
2016 The WIRE #384, UK
2016 Harpers Bazaar, UA
2013 The WIRE #358, UK
2013 The WIRE #357, UK