Obi Blanche: /guitar_vocals_electronics/ Experimental electronics, guitars, and broken vocals from Finland. Dirty transistor-distorted electronic beats and squealing no-wave guitar destruction are mixed together in his personal take on melodic popular music. Building his DIY guitar (known as RAKE) with the guidance of Dutch inventor Yuri Landman has been the culmination of his research into his sound: perfectly imperfect and raw. Guitarist at Thomas Azier, formerly Anika (Stones Throw) and Norman Palm (City Slang).
Kristina Tica [Tiz-za]: / bass_vocals/ playing a self-built bass called BRAKE by Obi Blanche. She resurrected from the Belgrade underground and brings minimal but heavy-on-low-end bass lines, mixed with her raspy, church-angry baritone voice. Her years of exposure to a variety of musical influences shape her playing: check her playlists.
collabs:
Muri Anda: /saxophone_electronics/ antifascist-impro-noise-jazz-punk/ is a Linz-based artist, noise maker, and bird nerd. Muri Anda moves freely through underground ecologies of sound, conceptual work, and improvised performance. Her work is grounded in dynamics and momentum, in the interaction between the organic and synthetic, in deconstruction and re-creation — a sonic cycle of chaos, order, and chaos again. Her performances are a visceral blend where free improvisation meets punk, meets obnoxious noise, always searching for new forms to emerge from the remains.
Bandcamp: https://murianda.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murii.anda/
Reinhard Zach: /drums_synth_vocals/ armed with an acoustic travel jazz drumkit, an electronic drum pad, and a monophonic synth, he has proved to be able to provide tight rhythms to different styles and improv until the morning. He's able to lose himself behind the set and often connects to his animal side (The Muppets). In the evenings, he plays melancholic songs on his viola and cello.
Photo: Seppe Durnez / DeKoer, Ghent 29/11/2025
dj sets:
It all began when Obi Blanche & Kristina Tica, two long-time music lovers, clicked on a surprise b2b DJ set at a bar. During that 6,5h set, they realized they could push and energize each other's selections and make people dance! They got together the next day to go through their crates and found that their often melancholic but high-spirited, driven music complemented each other's curation perfectly.
To showcase what their DJ-sets are all about, they put together “ice cream on leather mixtape24”. It’s an eclectic mix where a noise rock song can be next to a 90s-influenced techno track from Berlin.
Every song holds a special place in their hearts, and it shows how well this mix carries itself.
To showcase what their DJ-sets are all about, they put together “ice cream on leather mixtape24”. It’s an eclectic mix where a noise rock song can be next to a 90s-influenced techno track from Berlin.
Every song holds a special place in their hearts, and it shows how well this mix carries itself.
MIXTAPES