ALEX KASSIAN
Labels: (Love On The Rocks, Utopia, Planet Sundae)
Alex Kassian is a producer, DJ and artist from Kyoto, now based in Berlin, where he splits his days equally between making music and astral projection.
Alex’s sound is sophisticated and precise (he previously worked on soundtracks for contemporary dance and theatre); it’s also lush and organic, cinematic and uplifting, bursting with optimism and energy, informed by spontaneity and improvisation and specifically designed to promote the kind of out-of-body experiences demanded by discerning ravers across the universe.
As a solo artist, Alex has released on a number of labels here on Earth including Paramida’s Love On The Rocks and Alex Bradley’s Utopia Records. Together with Hiroaki OBA, he is also one half of Opal Sunn, who operate their own imprint Planet Sundae since 2017, through which they self-released a number of EPs, catching the attention of and support from dance music luminaries such as Andrew Weatherall and DJ Sprinkles.
In 2018 they released their first EP Parallax on Nick Höppner’s label Touch From A Distance, and in 2019 and early 2020 took their live show on tour around Europe and Asia, with stops everywhere from Field Maneuvers festival to The Observatory in Saigon and PanoramaBar in Berlin. Their second release, Laika, came out on Touch From A Distance in 2020, shortly followed by Alex’s first solo outing on Love On The Rocks, Oolong Trance.