Releases
Baseline Distortion
Tracklist and credits
- 01Sapphire4:31
- 02Link State5:58
- 03Ray (feat. maxy force)5:29
- 04Recursion Error4:56
- 05<<RWD (feat. mutedbirds)4:12
- 061,74B COP5:05
- 07Pixel (im)perfect4:39
Seven pieces written after the most basic settings of how I perceive the world had shifted: UK grooves, order, clarity and attention to texture.
Music by Andrii Sokolov. Mixing and mastering by Yurii Bulychev. Modular synths and Octatrack on <<RWD by Mykyta Troiepolskyi (mutedbirds). Guitar on Ray by Maksym Borovyk (maxy force). Cover: the painting “LOST” by Roksolana Deineha, design by Andrii Sokolov.
Interrupted
Mixmag Ukraine—top albums
Tracklist and credits
- 01It’s so real5:38
- 02Faith & deterrer4:54
- 03Trapped5:58
- 04Move back4:48
- 05Beyond disappearing (feat. SI Process)5:30
- 06Wyciczone ptaki (feat. mutedbirds)4:15
- 07Trapped (Remix)4:00
- 08Wyciczone ptaki (Remix)4:44
A rupture, or an ending the mind is never ready for: plans fall apart faster than they come true, and the future breaks off without warning.
A joint track with mutedbirds. Beyond disappearing reworks SI Process’s “Disappear”. Remixes by Potras23 and toucan pelican.
Mixing by Arkadii Lenov, Andrii Sokolov, Illia Masko and Kyrylo Potras. Mastering by Yurii Bulychev. Cover by Andrii Sokolov and Roksolana Deineha.
Now We Have Pain
Mixmag Ukraine—No. 16 of 2023
Tracklist and credits
- 01Rush5:17
- 02Headlights5:56
- 03When the Smoke Fades5:56
- 04Gore5:57
- 05U Hopeless5:44
- 06Slave6:01
- 07Now We Have Pain4:45
The pain stays when the smoke clears: it won’t let you hide in illusions, it brings you back to the present and reminds you that you’re alive.
Music by Andrii Sokolov. Mixing by Makso Hrusevych and Arkadii Lenov. Mastering by Yurii Bulychev. Cover by Andrii Sokolov and Roksolana Deineha.
Unplugged
SLUKH—editors’ pick
Tracklist and credits
- 01These Days5:19
- 02Malicious5:51
- 03Eradicate4:18
- 04Breathless5:37
- 05Dust from My Eyes5:16
- 06Camino De La Verdad5:49
Six pieces recorded on battery power on the seventeenth floor of a blacked-out Kyiv apartment block in winter.
Music, mixing and cover by Andrii Sokolov. Mastering by Yurii Bulychev. Management by Yevhen Honcharov and Yevhen Hordieiev.
Video
Festivals and projects
- Live score for “Pozdorovliaiu z perekhodom” (1932) (opens in a new tab)
- Film “I Did Not Want to Make a War Film” (opens in a new tab)
- Performance “Misto Marii: The Siege Diaries”
- Live score for the archival film “The Right to a Woman” (opens in a new tab)
- Live score for the archival film “Arrest Warrant”
- Performance “Safe Space” and the “Kontur” tour (opens in a new tab)
- Music co-curator of the Bakota Hub residency (opens in a new tab)
- Fantazery, GogolFest, Gogol Train, V’YAVA, Brudnyi Pes (opens in a new tab)
- Dnipropop on air, Dnipropop Under Ground, Check-in Dnipro, Dnipropop show tour
Live scores and audiovisual performances
Music written for the piece and played live at the screening. From archival films of the 1930s to large-scale stage performances—with a choir, theatre and video art. Have a film, a show or an idea?
Discuss a project
Press and recognition
- Review and interviewA Closer Listen (opens in a new tab)
- Top albums of 2024Mixmag Ukraine
- No. 16 of 2023Mixmag Ukraine
- Radio featureResonance FM · London (opens in a new tab)
“Much of the production is remarkably lucid”
- walakos ~ baseline distortion (opens in a new tab)
- Ukrainian Field Notes with walakos (opens in a new tab)
- Ukrainian Field Notes XXVIII: music, the scene and audiovisual practice (opens in a new tab)
- A new album by sound producer walakos is out on Dnipropop (opens in a new tab)
More mentions
- Premiere: Baseline Distortion (opens in a new tab)
- Music of the Dnipro region: a playlist (opens in a new tab)
- Songs you may have missed: Unplugged (opens in a new tab)
- What’s out: Baseline Distortion (opens in a new tab)
- August in 10 songs: Link State (opens in a new tab)
- walakos releases his second album (opens in a new tab)
- New music of the week: Interrupted (opens in a new tab)
- Ukrainian Field Notes XXIX: Now We Have Pain (opens in a new tab)
- “Misto Marii: The Siege Diaries”: an interview with the director (opens in a new tab)
- Walakos releases a new album, Interrupted (opens in a new tab)
- Releases of the week: Now We Have Pain (opens in a new tab)
- Artyleriia’s releases of the week: Baseline Distortion (opens in a new tab)
- A 1932 film with a live score at Critics’ Week (opens in a new tab)
- Releases of the week: the single When the Smoke Fades (opens in a new tab)
warнякання
A documentary and therapeutic duo with Anton Slepakov: “short films” in sound about living through the war, around a hundred benefit concerts in Ukraine and Europe, and Album of the Year at the LiRoom Golden Star awards.
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About
Andrii Sokolov is an electronic musician, sound producer and sound engineer with roots in Dnipro, now based in Kyiv. Broken beats, IDM and dark, lyrical electronics: instrumental tracks where samples, field recordings and synth lines add up to a story.