History: DJ PHONO (Maxim Sidorchuk), famous Moscow DJ, started DJing in 1996. In the beginning of 1998, he began to organize parties together with Ravenet Promotion. That was a series of techno-parties in the legendary club “Luch” in Moscow. At the same time, he helped to organized festivals like “Virus 1”and “Virus 2 Openair”, “Virus 3”, which represented techno/electronica/experimental music scene in CIS. He also worked together with the well known organization called “Greenpeace”. Openair “Save Our Seas” was an ecological action for the defense of seas. Afterwards DJ Sanches invited DJ Phono to the radio “Station 107FM”. In 2000 he organized a techno-party called “R.EVOLUTION – r.hythm evolution” in a newly opened Proton club. From there he played on a couple big summer festivals like “Kazantip 2001”, “Kazantip 2002” and “SportKazantip 2002”, which were on the coast of Black Sea in Crimea/Ukraine. During 2002 he played in clubs like Gorod, Tochka, Gerzen, RDV, Sooper-Pooper in Moscow and few times in St. Petersburg, Izhevsk. During 2003 he played on the parties "BreakTechnoSynthetic" organized by Underground Experience in the legendary St. Petersburg's techno-club "Tunnel". During summer 2003 DJ Phono takes part in popular open-airs “Pust vsegda budet techno 1&2” [short name PVBT] (“Let techno forever be 1&2”) and «Medgorave’03» (Kareliya, Russia). Also besides hard experimental techno Maxim played beautiful deep on series of parties “Deep & Minimal” in café “Stereo” and “Klon”.

Music: powerful, floor shaking, slamming experimental style of techno, also electro & deep techno. Favorites: neue heimat / hoerspielmusik / chan’n’mikes / nerven / mercurochrome / tresor / predicaments / feis / mutter / sativae / drought / null / noodles / michael forshaw / mark hawkins / subhead / cristian vogel / tobias schmidt / si begg / dave tarrida / neil landstrumm / tsr / mahatma / torsten kanzler / bill youngman...