Kris Baha

@kris-baha · Berlin

Time has passed since Kristian Bahoudian, known artistically as Kris Baha - the Australian born, multi-disciplinary queer artist of Egyptian-Armenian and Italian descent - swapped the parched red earth and searing midday sun of the Australian landscape for the brutalist buildings, communist-era apartment blocks, and slate-grey skies of Berlin. Now firmly embedded in his adopted city, Baha has become known for a mutant trademark production style inspired by sunbaked hallucinatory visions of the past-future, clandestine, concrete-clad industrial hum of the metropolis after dark. Kris is a fixture in Berlin’s industrial/ EBM, electronic punk/ techno club scene, playing at notable parties and venues such as Cocktail D’Amore, Tresor, Panorama Bar and RSO. His DJ sets dive deep into a realm of otherworldly machine music driven by emotion, mood, and energy. Baha also runs his own event series called ‘Wired’, which focuses on the immersive experience of live performances and DJ sets in the dark electronic sphere. The same ethos is applied to his performance-based live shows, initially inspired by his love for industrial and electronic punk artists like DAF, Front 242, Severed Heads, Hard Corps, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, New Order, Skinny Puppy, and Depeche Mode—artists with some of whom Kris has had the privilege of opening and sharing festival bills with. Kris’s touring career is as extensive as his discography with releases & appearances on labels like Pinkman, She Lost