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His beginning steps in music were connected to the town of Herceg
Novi-Montenegro. Nikola has no formal musical education, but he always
felt the passion for the music with deeper emotional tone, whether it’s
post-rock, ambient, experimental, or modern electronic dance music. The
first musical influence on him has been made by the legends of
electronic music, such as Jean Michelle Jarre, Vangelis Kraftwerk and
many more. By the and of 90s he was obsessed with dance music, global
rave movement and artists like Jam&Spoon, Paul Van Dyk, Chicane and
many
more.In the beginning of 2000s he began producing dance (trance) and ambient – down tempo music.
He has been producing trance actively since 2003 till 2008 under artist
name “Krivi”, specially orienting himself on hard energetic and emotive
trance music. Debut track ‘Dreams’ was the first release of the label
Total Digital, and it has gained a huge support by top DJs in the world,
including Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren, Above&Beyond and many
more.
After ‘Dreams’, there was a plenty of tracks signed for other
international labels. ‘Sunrise in Boka’ is supported by Paul Oakenfold,
‘Surreal Skies’ is supported by Ferry Corsten, ‘Reliving those years’ is
played by Above&Beyond and so on.
Ambient tracks like ‘Adriatic’ (Shah Music, Germany) ended up on various
Ibiza and chillout compilations. Track Krivi – Adriatic is still big
success with nearly 40000 views on Youtube.
In the 2013. he started exploring different types of music and focused
himself mainly on ambiental and downtempo style. Playing with the local
post-rock experimental band Silence&Feedback he started
experimenting with music boundaries fusing different music styles
together, as well as composing his own pieces.
In april 2014. the first solo album “30″ under new artist name KRUSTY
including 9 ambient, mellow chillout tracks was released by the Clubland
records (Hamburg, Germany). Currently, he is planning to work on
scores, soundtracks and game music.
He occasionally works as a DJ and host, currently hosting monthly show
of Electronic Dance Music / Trance Session at the Youth Cultural Center
Herceg Novi, where he is also engaged as a Program Manager and
electronic music workshop facilitator.
Krusty offical webpage:
okchn.org/krusty/
Krusty on soundcloud:
soundcloud.com/nikola-krivokapic
Krusty on youtube:
www.youtube.com/user/nikolakrivokapic
