Kris Baha

Much time has passed since the Queer Australian/Italian-Armenian, Kris Baha 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 East Berlin. Now firmly embedded in his adopted city, Baha has become known for a mutant trademark production style inspired by sun-baked 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 & club scene, playing at notable parties and venues such as Cocktail D’Amore, Tresor & Panorama bar, RSO and Urban Spree where he dives deep into the void, to deliver extended sets of otherworldly machine music driven by emotion and mood aswell as running his own live and dj focused party night, Wired. The same ethos applies to his performance-based live shows, which were initially inspired by his love for the pioneering gigs of the first industrial music era.

When not channeling the musical spirits to inspire dancers, Baha can be found lurking in the shadows of his studio space. There, he performs remix duties for the likes of celebrated artists & bands such as Boy Harsher, Boys Noize, Kontravoid, Qual (Lebanon Hanover), Inhalt, Patriachy, Hercules & Love Affair, Red Axes +++ . There has also been a noted collaboration with fellow Aussie outcast Dreems as Die Orangen and Jack Freeman (Jagwar Ma). Yet it’s his own skewed, mutant productions for which Baha is undoubtedly best known. Inhibiting their own sound space between industrial, EBM, wave, post punk, early ‘90s IDM and krautrock.

In 2021 Kris released ‘Into The Dark’ , delving into the live music sensibility of Kris’s production skillset, coming full circle to his former songwriting background. ‘Into the Dark’ mirrors the feeling of late 80’s / 90’s musical transitional phases in the Industrial/ Wave scene and in some way is reflective of Kris’s current musical direction as he presents himself in a different shade of dark.

In 2022 Kris was asked by Hercules & Love Affair to remix a single off their new album titled “Grace” featuring Budgie from Souxie and the banshees on drums. The remixes are scheduled to be released later in 2022 on major label BMG UK. Later in 2022 Kris was invited to tour with Boy Harshera for their European tour to promote their latest album & movie, “The Runner”. Followed by Kris’s own 26 show tour in the USA during October 22.

Kris’s latest output starts this May 2023 in collaboration with his new band moniker, Ghosts In the Machine. GITM is a sci-fi inspired concept that is set in 2 timelines, a future looking back to the now and how we could have corrected our society before the AI take over and strip away our souls, becoming Ghosts In The Machine. The single, ‘Nothing is Real’ is a cyber body music odyssey about social media’s influences on society, priming us before the AI machines take over.

To date, Kris has built a loyal fanbase of followers in the electronic music scene over the last 13 years from Australia, to Berlin and now beyond due to his extensive career bending the lines of Artistry.