Born in 1976 in Kharkov / Ukraine and started his musical activity in 1991 as a singer and composer in a rock band. Active in fields of electronic music, since 1996 as a radio dj in weekly radio show "Vilna Zona" dedicated to techno music. In 1997 he was a cofounder of weekly TV Show "Vilna Zone" and later was working as a dj in local Kharkov's "Deep" club. In 1998 he began making electronic music under "
Sidhartha" moniker and in 1999 started "
Nihil Est Excellence / NEX" band to explore interplay between analogue and digital music. However the music of NEX is shifting to musique-concrete, electroacoustic and drone genres. In 2001 Andrey starts
Nexsound records. Since 2002 he is making music under his own name and exploring the microscopic sound design and post-digital production as well as minimal techno music. So far, under all aliases he released 16 albums on labels such as
Ad Noiseam,
Zeromoon,
DTA Records, Retina-Scan,
Thinner/
Autoplate,
Notype/
Nishi, [Invalid Label], FGLC, WAN,
Tiln,
Nexsound and has over 20 compilation appearances on labels such as
Electroshock Records,
Cheburec Records,
Databloem, NN rec,
Luumu Recordings, (re)Aktion and others; collaborations with
Francisco Lopez,
Kim Cascone,
Jonas Lindgren,
Jeffrey Surak,
Kotra,
Mantichora,
Moglass, The etc., remixed by
Frans de Waard,
Brian Lavelle,
Scanner,
Marcus Maeder and
833-45, nominated as "the best Ambient artist" by DasMusik.net in 2002. In 2003 together with Jeff Surak and Jonas Lindgren created
Critikal project.