Obi Blanche & B.O.B
obi blanche: guitar_vocals
kristina tica: bass_vocals
muri anda: saxophone_electronics
reinhard zach: drums_synth_vocals
Obi Blanche: 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 the research towards his sound: perfectly imperfect and raw. Guitarist at Thomas Azier, formerly Anika (Stones Throw) and Norman Palm (City Slang).
Kristina Tica [Tiz-za]: playing a self-built bass called BRAKE by Obi Blanche. She hails from the Belgrade underground and brings minimal, but heavy on the low-end bass lines mixed with her worn-out baritone voice. Her years of knowledge of a variety of music influences her playing, check her playlists.
Muri Anda: guitar, saxophone, vocals, 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: 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 : Obi & Kristina
Obi Blanche & Kristina Tica is a collaboration between two long-time music lovers who clicked on a surprise b2b DJ set at a bar. During that 6,5h set, they realised that they can push and energise each other's selection and make people dance! They got together the next day to go through their crates and found out that their often melancholic, but high-spirited driven music accompanied 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:
https://www.mixcloud.com/ObiBlanche/obi-blanche-kristina-tica_ice-cream-on-leather-mixtape24/
https://www.mixcloud.com/ObiBlanche/obi-blanche-kristina-tica_turntable-tennis_live-dj-set-at-stwst/
https://www.mixcloud.com/ObiBlanche/obi-blanche-kristina-tica_turntable-tennis_live-dj-set-at-stwst/
finnish obi blanche and serbian kristina tica met in austria at a surprise b2b dj set
and began sharing music due to their common interest in self-built instruments, minimal beats, and catchy melodies.
in july 2024, obi blanche and kristina tica launched a music collaboration under the concept of #postdigitalpunk.
so far, they have independently released three singles, with more expected this year. having started to perform live, their collaborative project has grown, as the duo is ocassionaly joined by multi-instrumentalist reinhard zach on drums and synth (yes, simultaneously)!
currently, muri anda is joining obi and kristina with saxophone and electronics,
as a group, they perform under the name
obi blanche and the b.o.b. (beaches of belgrade).