9.20 周五 • Kris Baha - 未来低语

Much time has passed since the Queer Australian/Italian-Armenian, Kris Baha (Kristian Bahoudian) 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 East Berlin. Now firmly embedded in his adopted city, Baha has become known for a mutant trademark production style inspired by sun-baked hallucinatory visions of the past-future clandestine, concrete-clad industrial hum of the metropolis after dark.  

Kris is a fixture in Berlin’s Industrial EBM & club scene, playing at notable parties and venues such as Cocktail D’Amore, Tresor & Panorama bar, RSO and Urban Spree where he dives deep into the void, to deliver extended sets of otherworldly machine music driven by emotion and mood aswell as running his own live and dj focused party night, Wired. The same ethos applies to his performance-based live shows, which were initially inspired by his love for the pioneering gigs of the first industrial music era.  

When not channeling the musical spirits to inspire dancers, Baha can be found lurking in the shadows of his studio space. There, he performs remix duties for the likes of celebrated artists & bands such as Boy Harsher, Boys Noize, Kontravoid, Qual (Lebanon Hanover), Inhalt, Patriachy, Hercules & Love Affair, Red Axes +++ . There has also been a noted collaboration with fellow Aussie outcast Dreems as Die Orangen. Yet it’s his own skewed, mutant productions for which Baha is undoubtedly best known. Inhibiting their own sound space between industrial, EBM, wave, post punk, early ‘90s IDM and krautrock.  

In 2021 Kris released ‘Into The Dark’ , delving into the live music sensibility of Kris’s production skillset, coming full circle to his former songwriting background. ‘Into the Dark’ mirrors the feeling of late 80’s / 90’s musical transitional phases in the Industrial/ Wave scene and in some way is reflective of Kris’s current musical direction as he presents himself in a different shade of dark.