Nina Kraviz

Kraviz worked in a number of roles in the late 1990s before her music career took off, including fixing “cosmonauts‘ teeth”, hosting a local Irkutsk radio show and writing for a fanzine.^[1] She was accepted into the Red Bull Music Academy in Seattle in 2005, however couldn’t attend as she couldn’t obtain a visa, attending the following year in Melbourne instead.^[1] By 2008 she was playing a regular night at the Propaganda Club in Moscow.^[1]

Kraviz released her self-titled debut album in February 2012 through the Rekids record label, to mixed-positive reviews.^[3][4][5]

A video profile of Kraviz, Between The Beats: Nina Kraviz, was released in March 2013 and drew attention to her and triggered a discussion of feminism and sexuality in electronic music.^[6][7]

Kraviz started her own record label in 2014, named трип (English: Trip).^[8][9]

She mixed the forty-eighth DJ-Kicks mix album, which was released in January 2015.