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Ivan Logos

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Founder of the Gamma Festival and m_division, Ivan Logos stands as a pivotal force in shaping Russia’s modern underground scene, his ideas transmuting local culture into a global phenomenon. Over 17 years ago, following his debut track and DJ sets, he embarked on a quest to craft the “perfect night” — a musical odyssey that continues to evolve today. With his m_division collective, Logos transformed industrial landmarks like the Krasny Treugolnik factory, Ludwig Nobel plant, Stepan Razin and Arsenal factories, the Petrovskaya Spit shipyard, and the Skorokhod facility into sacred spaces for “industrial-musical journeys,” pioneering a concept now adopted by promoters nationwide. Rejecting the term “rave,” his philosophy champions a fusion of music, media art, and architecture, where techno serves not as entertainment but as a manifesto. Every m_division event unfolds as a multilayered narrative: heavy basslines intertwine with light projections on industrial monoliths, while sound unravels like an intricate mechanism, saturating every crevice of space.

In 2016, his vision crystallized into the Gamma Festival — a universe uniting techno, experimental electronics, media art, and the Gamma_PRO forum for cultural dialogue. Amid gasometers of the Obvodny Canal or the workshops of the Stepan Razin plant, iconic artists like Surgeon, Orphx, Ancient Methods, Oscar Mulero, Dax J, Byetone, DVS1, Zadig, Varg, Takaaki Itoh, Murcof, Hauschka, Answer Code Request, Abdulla Rashim, I Hate Models, Cio D’Or, and Mike Parker have performed, while installations blurred the lines between technology and art. Hailed by DJ Mag, Groove Magazine, and Fact Magazine as a top-10 global festival, Gamma transcends mere venue status, emerging as a “living organism” where St. Petersburg’s industrial heritage converses with avant-garde innovation.
Logos’ musical signature merges physics and metaphysics within a single rhythm. His sets, refined over 17 years, traverse techno’s epochs — from Berlin’s minimalism to Detroit’s roots — enriched by ambient textures and industrial dissonance. Behind the complex structures and “tense soundscapes” lies his unwavering belief in music as a conduit for ideas. “Dancing in a club is one thing; dancing in a factory, where every beam of light and synth crackle becomes part of the collective unconscious, is another,” he reflects in interviews. For Logos, sincerity is not an abstraction but a necessity: tracks must carry stories, each listener interpreting them through their own consciousness.

Today, m_division is an ecosystem uniting musicians, visual artists, and thousands of devotees for whom every event is a ritual reimagining reality. Ivan Logos remains a guide, proving that even in an age of digital consumption, music can be a manifesto — unflinching, uncompromising, and eternally inspiring.

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Ivan Logos @ Gamma Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5tBHg2SWYo&t=2530s 

Ivan Logos @ Ombra Festival
https://youtu.be/KzhXI2Oz8zE?si=A0L9HTx26GE6ujzJ

Ivan Logos @ Delta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTC_K9Yhz4A&t=13s 

Ivan Logos @ Monasterio Factory (Be-at.tv)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqeOiR21DJs&t=2520s

Ivan Logos @ Tag-Nacht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxh5WRxvtFs&t=1623s

Ivan Logos @ Vinyl Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHkdh7EGcmk&t=898s