In this impetuous flow it is very important for an artistnot to lose the guiding line that once was a start of a wonderful DJ’s andsound producer’s life. Precisely this distinguishes Spartaque among many names,and his name has been a matter of respect and admiration for hundreds andthousands of clubbers and other artists for many years.



It does not matter which city, whichtime zone, who are the people around him and what language they speak, whattime of a day, has Vitalii slept before or has been awake waiting for hisflight, he will come to the DJ place and perform his set as if it is the bestparty of his life. Exactly for this quality, for this shine in his eyes and forthis true energy lovers of club music are waiting for his performances. Perhapsthat is why Vitalii has one of the most busy tour schedules of all DJs of theCIS. And certainly this is the reason for full dance floors on his parties.



Back in 2007 the unknown Spartaquefirst gained access to the big stage, performing at the first major festival inUkraine - Global Gathering. Having conquered the audience with his energy, hebecame a resident of this event, every year delighting people with hisexplosive sets. And this festival was not the only one for him - people at suchiconic events like Love Parade, Kazantip, MayDay, and many other big events onboth sides of the Atlantic could see personally that Spartaque knows his onions, as he leaves a piece of himself on thedance floor every time!



But don't forget that the real successhas many components, and it is influenced by many factors. It's not a secretthat one of the most important elements of an artist’s popularity, and inparticular a DJ, is his regular podcasts and radio shows. Spartaque succeededin this - Supreme radio show first appeared on the radio station in 2007 on thewaves of Kiss FM, at that time a cult radio station not only in Ukraine butalso in the CIS. It has become a guide to the world of Minimal Techno for truedance music lovers in the post-Soviet territory. Years were passing, popularitywas increasing - in 2009-2010 Supreme became the best mix show in Ukraineaccording to TOPDJ.UA. Since 2011, this nomination has been removed from thelist, but it does not prevent the podcast in gaining its popularity. Supreme bySpartaque has been holding his position as the most demanded radio show aboutthe techno culture in the CIS for the past 5 years according to the results ofa prestigious interactive rating PromoDJ.ru. Its army of fans is growing aroundthe world and since 2012 it has got into the distribution network Syndicast UK- the world's leading provider of techno podcasts from Britain, whose clientsare such icons of the genre, as Carl Cox, Umek, Marco Bailey and many otherprominent DJs. Also in 2012 mix show changed Ukrainian production on theBritish, and jingles for podcast since then has been recorded by some of thebest English-speaking voices of our time.



Currently Supreme is a real machine,locomotive, carrying the unrestrainable energy to techno fans from all cornersof our planet. More than 50 radio stations from around the world are rotatingSpartaque's shows on their waves. Performed podcast has about 10,000 listenersusing various resources in the first day after downloading to the network. Butmost important is the fact that, regardless of how the trends are changing,each Supreme from the first to the most recent episode has always itstraditional feature - the uncompromising selection of the tracks for the show.Perhaps the principle that each episode should contain the freshest and mostqualitative material has become a key moment in the rapid popularization of thepodcast and continues to lead it and its creator to conquer new heights.



An important point in the developmentof any DJ is the fact of composing music. We have passed the time when thesetwo professions were separate, and now an electronic musician without DJing anda DJ without his own tracks and remixes simply can't exist. Many DJs, realizingthis fact, grabbed their sequencers in panic. Spartaque's situation was exactlythe opposite. “When I was 15-17 years old, I just wanted to compose music andbe an electronic musician, occasionally performing at venues. And only when Iwas 18 I realized that I can feed myself working in this area, if I startDJing. That is how a career of DJ Spartaque has begun", - says Vitalii inone of his interviews.





Indeed, beingcompletely unknown, but very ambitious young artist, writing his own tracksbrought a lot more fun than walking with friends and flirting with peers.Friends, sometimes, even against their will were compulsory critics andlisteners of extremely many-sided Vitalii’s art, who was scattering them thecassettes with another new track, written earlier in the morning. Neverthelessthe dream of becoming popular seemed distant, until one cold November day infar 2005, Vitalii had received a call from the CEO of the largest company inthe Ukrainian club culture Virus Music, Dmitry Feliksov. It was a proposal torelease the track “PassWord” on the disk TOPHIT TOPDJ, as well as arecommendation to come to Kiev from Kharkov in order to shape the track up in aregular studio office. It is not necessary to explain how much remarkable eventwas the very first trip to Kiev for a 19-years old Spartaque. Very difficult toexpress in word those emotions experienced by the musician, holding theofficial CD with his work released for the first time.

Over the years muchhas changed: now Spartaque has more than 300 releases on 80 labels, remixes forthe world's top artists, including the legendary Moby, 3 own labels behind andthe preparation of the new one. It is not so much free time to catch a muse, asmuch more time is needed to spend on management than on creativity, hereby theboard of aircraft has become the main place of writing tracks. But the mostimportant is remained, and this is the sincere belief that the DJ is, first andforemost, a musician.

Touching upon thelabels, it should be noted that in 2008 thanks to DJ Bruno and Spartaque,Ukraine saw the first independent imprint Perfect Groove Foundation. At thattime it became the real breakthrough and the stronghold for slightlyinexperienced performers of Ukrainian dance scene. The experience gained whileworking with this experiment, which lasted for a year, became invaluable forSpartaque. After a couple of years together with Egor Boss an exceptional ideato create a new label had arisen, and the decision to tie it up to the festival“I AM TECHNO” was collectively made. At the same time one of the mostrecognizable logos had been created, which became the symbol of Techno musicfor many on the territory of the former Soviet Union, and far beyond itsborders. After successful festivals, series of parties in the popular Kiev clubForsage had been organized, that consequently became a cult franchise. At themoment, active preparations to launch another label together with indefatigableUkrainian sound producer Konstantin Yoodza are conducted, which aims toactively promote commercial techno sound involving a wider audience in thisculture.



During his activework Spartaque was many times awarded and nominated for various prizes ratedTOPDJ.UA:

2007 - Breakthroughof the Year rated TOPDJ.UA and victory in Kharkov in the top DJ's competitionJeans DJ Parade;

2008 - third place inthe category of "DJ" and first place in the category "Track ofthe Year";

2009 - first in the nomination"DJ", the first and second place in the category "Track of theYear", the first place in the nomination "RadioShow";

2010 - first in thenomination "DJ", nomination "Track of the year" Kiss FMAwards and the first place in the nomination "RadioShow";

2011 - first in thenomination "DJ", as well as in the category "Techno" ratingSHOWBIZA.NET.

Situation repeats in2012: Spartaque again reaches the highest grade in the ranking TOPDJ.UA. Forfour years in a raw holding the first place in the ranking TOPDJ, in 2013Vitalii yields it to a worthy opponent - Omnia, taking second place in thenomination "DJ". But he confidently maintains his leadership positionin the interactive rating PromoDJ.Com, entering the top five leaders of CIScountries for the past 5 years.

During Spartaque’scareer his name has been overgrown with interesting stories and legends,retelling which would have taken several chapters or even an entire book.However the essence remains the same - it's hard to imagine the club culture ofCIS countries and the world techno without this performer.

So ambitiouslystarted his way with a performance in front of 30 thousandth audience in thecentral square of his native town Kharkiv in 2005, Spartaque goes forward,following his main principles - to increase the speed constantly, not to beafraid of daring ideas, to set unachievable goals and to reach them withoutnoticing the obstacles. And of course be incredibly grateful to those whoappreciate his creative work and support his undertakings, as without thissupport nothing would exist.