Independent Electronic Music Project
Cidenko
"Jiu-jitsu taught me how to hold emotions in. Music is where I let them out."
Cidenko, Portrait
"Jiu-jitsu taught me how to hold emotions in. Music is where I let them out."
A driving, cinematic progressive house track built around a clock-hit anchor and a road that keeps unspooling west. Real guitars, strings, and vocals layered over hardware synths, remixed and mastered by Austin Leeds.
A slow-build pulse made for headphones and afterhours rooms.
An emotional, slightly dark progressive house piece. Hardware synths and live instrumentation woven together. Lyrics in Ukrainian and English. Cinematic, restrained, weighted with memory.
Cidenko is the work of Vitali Chadrine, built the same way the original house records were: in a bedroom studio, not a commercial one. The difference is scale. Guitars, bass, strings, and vocals come from musicians scattered across the world, each recording in their own space, then mixed and produced by hand alongside vintage hardware synths.
It's still bedroom production. The bedroom just spans the globe.
This is alternative progressive house with a pulse of its own. Vintage hardware grit meets live instrumentation, real guitars, strings, and vocals woven into synth-driven foundations. Patient builds, cinematic weight, and song structures shaped around story instead of the drop. Slow-build energy, emotional gravity, dance music for people who actually listen. Made for headphones and afterhours rooms, for the moment when the night turns honest.
Still progressive house at its core: long builds, hypnotic rhythm, cinematic arrangement. The difference is what fills it out. Strings, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, brass, reeds, and real vocals sit alongside the electronic foundation, not replacing it.
Proceeds from "Letters in My Rucksack" support humanitarian aid in Ukraine through trusted partner organizations including ednist.site, private pet shelters, and the Intelligence Jiu-Jitsu Sport Club in Kyiv.
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