Katya Ryba

Ryba (Ekaterina Lyasheva) has started her career in 1995 as a professional dancer and was part of the teenage rock-band as a lead singer in Moscow. In 2000 she became one of the founders of "Back Up Production" advertising production agency specialising in event organisation and promotion. During five years of work at the agency "Back up" organised and conducted numerous successful projects like concerts, music conferences , festivals and events dedicated to electronic music in Russia. Having passion for music all her life and working in the event production industry Ryba was looking for some kind of output of her own ideas and concepts next logical step was to perform and Katya started to Dj . Immediately gaining popularity and attention from public and Moscow clubheads . Katya started to tour in Russia , Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and US in 2009 where she performed at famous Amoeba record store in Hollywood. During this time Katya collaborated with world famous Russian duo SCSI-9 (Kompakt, Pro-Tez) recording artists. She recorded several songs with the Duo and provided vocals on the album by Scsi-9 "Line Of Nine" which came out on Kompakt in 2006. Katya and Scsi-9 toured together for some time as a part of Scsi-9 live act. Which led to her another appearance on the forthcoming “Easy as Down” album by Scis-9 released on Kompakt in 2008. Also at the same time she hoked up with Yapacc for a “White Blue Fire” on German Nuetonmusic Label. Another project was born in 2008 called "RYBALOVE" as result of long time friendship with talented musician out of Saint-Petersburg Korablove. Performing live together their shows are filled with energy and amazing groove. Their releases found way to Kgb Beats out of Chicago, Night Drive music and others. Ryba’s sets are carefully crafted with intelligent layer of electronic dance music Techno, Dub, House and everything in between.