Martin “Muudu” Kuut

Born in Tartu, Estonia, Muudu found freedom in music. Growing up in Estonia, he was surrounded by friends from different subcultures, listening and exchanging contrasting music genres. The experience of over 20 years playing keyboards and guitar in various bands, composing, and DJing for more than a decade made him go after more and relocate to Berlin to pursue studies at Abbey Road Institute. He has found his signature style of resonating duality where contradictions are balanced and flow in harmony, where every element makes sense and sounds. “Who Let The Bear In The Studio”, released by Moodmusic Records, is his first LP. In the future, Muudu will be revealing some more as part of the BlackheadStudios and Moodmusic family, a studio and label led by house music mastermind, DJ, producer, and genius mastering engineer Klas “Sasse” Lindblad.

Alberto Pretto – Mastering Engineer (Blackhead Studios)

Alberto Pretto became interested in music at a very young age while listening to his father vinyl record collection. The  special bound with those black discs evolved itself quickly in very deep emotions while he was handling them, that much, that got him closer and closer to music and sound until he started mixing records in clubs when he was 16.

Being a Dj wasn’t just enough for Alberto, he wanted to produce his own music and that is what really made a significant turn in his career by eventually  having various releases after he moved to London in 2009.

The Italian born moved again in 2013 to Berlin and there he graduated in music production and sound engineering with a very distinctive result at the prestigious “Abbey Road Institute”. Abbey has been a very unique place for him where he met two of the most important mentors of his studies, like Klas Lindblad, which happens to be also his colleague and studio owner at “Blackhead Studios”.

Alberto’s finesse, focus and attention to details on sounds are the characteristics that got him noticed and also pushed his talent up in the rank of BHS engineers.

Since 2019 he’s established as engineer at Blackhead Studios, having the chance to master and collaborate with Klas for an amazing array of artists.

Klas Lindblad (Blackhead Studios)

Klas has been composing and producing music since the early 90s. Under his artist names Sasse and Freestyle Man he has released hundreds of productions from early 90s til today.

Since 2003 he runs BlackHead Studios in Berlin with the focus on mixing and mastering. He has worked with such talent as Fatboy Slim, Eats Everything, Henrik Schwarz, Rodriguez Jr, Michael Mayer, andme, Ewan Pearson,  Tracey Thorn, Hot Since 82 and Jonas Saalbach to name a few.

Klas lectured mastering at the celebrated Abbey Road Institute in Berlin from 2018 to 2020.

Maya Postepski is a Canadian musician and producer from Toronto, now based in Berlin. She has been making music for over twenty years, best known as drummer of the electronic group Austra (Domino). She co-founded, co-produced and internationally toured the first 3 albums with Austra- including the Juno and Polaris Prize nominated Feel It Break.

She is a multi-instrumentalist, prolific remix artist and DJ. In 2012 Maya co-wrote and produced the highly acclaimed, Juno nominated cult album TRST with Robert Alfons as TR/ST. The duo reunited to collaborate on the highly anticipated third album, The Destroyer, Part I and II. She was also featured as a vocalist on Egyptrixxʼs Chrysalis Records (Night Slugs).

In 2017 she stopped touring with Austra to focus on producing and DJing as a solo artist. Maya performs solo under the title Princess Century.
Her third solo album Surrender was released Oct. 2021. It was made at two polarizing geographic locations- Estonia’s acclaimed Narva Artist Residency at the Russian border, and in the Sahara Desert. It was mixed + mastered by fellow Riverside resident Julia Borelli. Julia and Maya also produced the explosive album Stand  by Dyan Valdéz.

Moving beyond the typical role of a DJ/Producer, Maya creates a vast array of music ranging from pop, to ambient and minimal techno. She is also actively involved in curating and consulting for dance pieces, fashion shows, installation work and film scores.  She produced the album Forever by Belgian’s superstars Soldout and Plastic Heart by Ghost Twin. She regularly collaborates with Berlinʼs Magic Island and Galya Chikiss and has a new duo, 6AM with seasoned Belgian producer Antilope.

Maya was invited to participate in the 2018 session of the Berlinale Talents program as a film composer, and scored Leonie Krippendorffʼs highly acclaimed feature film, Kokon, which premiered at Berlinale 2020. She also scored Stephen Dunnʼs Closet Monster which won Best Canadian feature at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Maya is also active as a DJ in some of the most renown international venues including Tresor, Paradiso, The Button Factory, Club Revier, Powerhouse Moscow, OT301, Suicide Circus, Razzmatazz etc. She also appears as a live performer and DJʼs regularly at festivals, queer parties, and has a regular slot at Brusselʼs Kiosk Radio.

She is currently playing live drums and synthesizers with Emel Mathlouthi and Peaches.

8Kays is artistic project founded in 2014 by Iryna Shvydka, the Ukrainian sound-producer and live act. Striving for the freedom of bringing the experiments into the sound, 8Kays is a space, where she could have her room for the sound realization.
When it comes to music, you’ll hear the call of the soul straight from 8Kays inner dimension. Her intriguing and undeniably particular sound has been the reflection of the artistic mind, full of authenticity and depth.
Hailing from Ukraine’s capital Kyiv city, Iryna Shvydka aka 8Kays has focused on producing as the vital and essential part of her human being.
8Kays current touring schedule includes the reputable festivals and clubs shows, as Tomorrowland (Belgium), OffWeek (Spain), Printworks (UK), Watergate (Germany), De Marktkantine (Netherlands), SOHO (UAE) and many more spots arond the globe.
Her ‘Morning After The Rave’ track released on Afterlife has hit hundreds of festivals and intimate club shows, setting a high claimed sound level for 8Kays as the one to follow. Releasing with such labels, as Afterlife, the iconic and renowned Renaissance Records, Booka Shade’s Blaufield Music imprint, Above & Beyonds’ Anjunabeats and Eleatics Records, 8Kays music is set to sound loud & clear.
There are certainly no borders in 8Kays sound if there is an attempt arising to describe it, though remaining at the point to keep the balance between melodic influence and the eager passion to the intense groove, Ira does what she can do the best – pleasing the audience
with sounds.Constantly seeking and developing herself as an artist, 8Kays is solidly set to present the music, which will leave its due memory for the years and decades ahead.

Andrea Viscardi is a music producer, pianist and composer from Italy. After studying classical piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, graduating in 2012, he has been introduced to electronic music, collaborating with renowned DJs and producers as sound designer and mixing engineer. He took part in releases on the most important international labels in the techno and electronic dance scene. Whether in classical or electronic music, Andrea showed the willingness to put his skin in the game and to find the road to success.

Experimentation and hard work have also been carried out with regard to filmscoring. In 2013, Andrea wrote the music for the documentary Cue the Muse, which won the prestigious Canadian Leo Award and received a nomination for the Emmy Award in 2014.

In 2019 Andrea starts his collaboration with IED University in Milan as a professor of sound design and music production with Ableton Live.

From 2022 he’s resident music producer at Riverside as AV Studio.