Native name Russian Genres Male Genre Hip-hop/rap | Birth name Dmitry Vinokurov Occupation(s) DJ, Producer, Musician Record label Flammable Beats Records | |
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Also known as Tactics, Lofi Rumba, Benny Owls Instruments Turntables, Synths, Samplers Albums Good Times (Instrumentals) Similar Anik Khan, Oleg Kostrow, Igor Vdovin | ||
Dj tactics freestyle on pioneer shure booth on exhibition
Dmitry Vinokurov (born September 8, 1986), also known as Tactics or DJ Tactics, is a Moscow-based musician, producer, composer and turntablist. Tactics hosts and produces his own video show about music production and DJing — ‘Tactics of Sound’.
Contents
Other projects
Tactics x Dazz-La (Tactics and mc Dazz-la, UK)
Mean Barbados (Tactics and Sergei Voronov, RU)
Lofi Rumba (avantgarde, lofi, hip-hop)
Biography
Tactics started his music career in 1998 using recently released Fruity Loops software. Closer to 2000 Tactics was influenced by scratching recorded in indie hip-hop compilation Soundbombing. In 2001 he started collaboration with Vestax dj equipment manufacturer and in 2002 organised Vestax Extravaganza Russian Finals DJ Championship which resulted in the first Russian competitor at Extravaganza World finals. Lo-Fi Rumba — an underground musical project combining lo-fi sound and heavy electronics, EP was recorded around the same time. In 2003, together with dj Pirumov, dj Vinilkin & dj Chagin, he founded Flammable Beats — a dj crew. In the second half of the decade he went under the turntablism flag. Tactics became a head of ITF Russia (International Turntablist Federation) for 3 years, starting in 2006; participated in Nokia Soundboard Russian Tour; together with Dj Chagin produced a soundtrack for Denis Simachev Autumn/Fall 2006 fashion show at Milan Fashion Week. In 2007 he appearanced on Battle for Respect for 2 seasons. He performed at the Nokia World Snowboard Championship and Nokia Soundboard Russian Tour, Rap.ru All stars and Hip-Hop.ru All stars. Next year he started with international affairs, Tactics becomes a head of DMC (Disco Mix Club) Russia and organised DMC DJ Championship — Russian Finals. Performed at Nokia World Snowboard Championship, Flayering World Championship, Splash! festival Russia, Rap.ru All Stars and many other great gigs. Year ended with Playboy Anniversary party and warm up set before DJ Todd Terry. And decade ended in heavy touring with critically acclaimed Russian hip-hop band CENTR. Later next year recorded scratch features for Basta and Guf a number 1 selling rap artists; warm up for Wu-Tang Clan, Method Man & Redman show and Matisyahu. Co-organised DC Sky Wars. Performed at Snickers Urbania a 30 thousands people event and Russian Street Awards. To 2011, Tactics together with Dazz-La MC creating a project Tactics x Dazz-la. In the same year Tactics also produced a soundtrack for ‘Gorki City’ — the main residential complex of Sochi Olympic Village, performed with Kremlin Chamber Orchestra. He recorded a scratch featuring Ligalize and Timati and produced the main theme for Russian snowboarding movie CHTO ETO?; Along with Alex Fetcov and crew creating a ‘Tactics of Sound’ — video magazine about music production, djing and music related.
Songs
10th WonderGood Times (Instrumentals) · 2017
Captain of the SeasGood Times (Instrumentals) · 2017
Zero Ducks GivenGood Times (Instrumentals) · 2017