Songpot · Amsterdam Dance Event 2026

Under his own name, Milyakov leans away from straight club tools into slow-moving electronic pieces, drone pressure, and electroacoustic detail. Expect organ, saxophone, fielded space and damaged synth texture, with the church setting likely pulling the set toward the long-form and resonant rather than the peak-time.

More about Pavel Milyakov

He came up in Moscow’s underground and co-founded Johns’ Kingdom, a label that pushed an anonymity-first, anti-ego approach to Russian dance music. His solo work runs through Berceuse Heroique, The Trilogy Tapes, Muscut and PSY X, and his collaborations with Yana Pavlova, Alex Zhang Hungtai and Bendik Giske place him in the international leftfield ambient/experimental circuit.

A story

His label Johns’ Kingdom was built around anonymity, with releases framed as 'untitled united'. In their own words

Playing

• 2026-10-23 20:30 · Minimal Collective x Oude Kerk: Post-Space - Friday · Oude Kerk Amsterdam

Labels

Start here

• La Maison De La Mort (2019) · Berceuse Heroique
  Solo LP, all fog and pressure.
• Blue (2021) · PSY X records
  Best entry to the Pavlova collaborations.
• Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske (2021) · Smalltown Supersound
  Sax-and-electronics duo with real weight.

Worked with

• Yana Pavlova collaborated on Blue · source
• Bendik Giske duo partner · source
• Alex Zhang Hungtai featured on Blue · source

Sets to hear

• RA.631 Buttechno (2018)

Read

• pmxper - pmxper Resident Advisor, 2023
• Buttechno - badtrip Resident Advisor, 2019
• Various - Gost Zvuk 5 Years Resident Advisor, 2019
• Pavel Milyakov - La Maison De La Mort Resident Advisor, 2019

For fans of

Alex Zhang Hungtai, Beatrice Dillon, Bendik Giske, The Trilogy Tapes

Official links

BandcampSoundCloudInstagramRASpotifyDiscogsWebsite

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