DJ SLON (a real name Oleg Azelitsky, was born in 1970) – FAMOUS figure in the world of Russian Techno Music. Legend, the expert, the tireless experimenter, the enthusiast of electronic music and the master of unique and temperament execution of DJ sets, practically in any style of the Techno, combining long-term glory with spirit and the letter of a musical underground.
The history of one of the most well-known DJ in Russia has begun on a boundary between 1980..s and 90..s in Petersburg. It was nice time: The underground Leningrad rock musicians were national pop stars by few years already, Russian artists were bought up by the western collectors, and the youth, after progressive bohemia, was involved in the whirlwind of a new reality, equally terrible and attractive. Music was stunning: from cassettes and vinyl, with which all time someone pottered, powerful and surprising, electronic rhythms of a new epoch has sounded. At that time there was no DJs yet, but among those who has become interested in a new sound and new profession was Slon. He was the first, who has shown to Petersburg the real pure and hard Techno sound. In 1994, DJ SLON has based promo-group «Underground Experience».
Today in «Underground Experience» DJs participate: SERGEY DEMIDOV, KOMA and KRANKISS. Also DJ SLON writes the music under names: MASS FATALITY and ZCHUTKY LAZER. For support and popularization of Russian Techno musicians, DJ SLON created annual festival of electronic music «Experience». Since 1995 DJ SLON conducts programs on radio. His present radio program - "Inhabitancy" weekly sounds on radio "D-FM" 103,4 MHz Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
As the leader of the Petersburg sound and an embodiment of the Russian techno culture, DJ SLON has undertaken two great Russian tours – in 1997 and 2000. DJ SLON was one of the main characters on Russian platform on Berlin Love Parade and in Finnish rave Club Lux in 1999. Went on tour with the project of Russian electronic musicians "PutInOut" in Vienna in 2001 and then played in legendary club "Ultraschall" in Munich. Year after DJ SLON has already acted on the main arena of Scandinavian electronic festival "Koneisto" in Helsinki. And in 2003 – in the well-known Berlin club "Tresor".
In 2007 DJ SLON has written and published his book "RAVE-o-lution: how it was at reality" -about origin of electronic culture in Russia. Today – DJ SLON - is the star of big rave-parties all over Russian Federation. And organizer of absolutely especial parties in his native city - Petersburg – DJ SLON is the guarantor of quality in all, that concerns rest together with electronic music!
Discography:
Zchutky Lazer - Underground Experience - UE/Plast rec - 97
dj Slon – There was the black light, at first… - UE/Golos Solntsa - 97
dj Slon/PCP - Clockwork - Perforated Rec/UE - 98 (LP)
dj Slon - Minimal Point - UE/Mobil Art - 99
dj Slon/dj Kisloid - Razor Shock v.1. - UE - 01
dj Slon/dj Kisloid - Razor Shock v.2. - UE - 01
dj Slon - BreaksTechnoSintetic - UE/United dj*s - 02
Mass Fatality & Friends - UE - 02
dj Slon - Techno mix - UE/Tunnel rec - 02
Zchutky Lazer /Textile - 11 years of “Tunnel” club - UE/United dj*s - 04
dj Slon - Follow me - UE/KDK - 04
dj Slon – Technique of Youth - UE/United dj*s - 04
dj Slon/dj Angela Schulzenko - Biohazard - UE/United dj*s - 04
Mass Fatality - Secretletering - UE/Tunnel rec - 05
dj Slon - Breaks'n'Roll - UE/United dj*s - 05
dj Slon - Birthday Party mix - UE/KDK - 05
dj Slon/dj Quest - KaZantip - R'n'B Cafe Cadillac/Provansal - 06
dj Slon presents Optica project - Fatal Bonus - UE/KDK - 06
dj Slon presents Textile project - Minimalizmatic - UE/KDK - 06
dj Slon presents Zchutky Lazer project - FrienDship - UE/KDK - 06
dj Slon presents Ganja Fighters project - Kataklizm - UE/KDK - 06
dj Slon presents Experience project - Fantom - UE/KDK - 06
dj Slon - BreaksTechnoSintetic05 - UE/Macrovision – 07
DJ Parade - Mobil Art - 98 (dj Slon - Jijo)
Mass Fatality & Friends - Solaris Rec - 01 (Mass Fatality)
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