Dmitry Vinokurov, also known as DJ Tactics — DJ, sound producer, and cultural figure from Russia, Moscow. His career has started in the late 1998 as a DJ and sound producer. His scene name comes from the parallel to the ways of using different tactics in approaching particular styles and genres, it sends a message of diversity that can be applied to mixing, recording and scratching. His style is described by
Rolling Stone magazine as “Addicted to phat beats and making the crowd head nod over the beats”.[1] His main styles are Hip-Hop, Electronic, Funk/Soul and Turntablism.[2][3][4][5][6]
Career
In 2001 at the age of 14 he began experimenting with scratching (turntablism), that led into working with Vestax company that invited DJ Tactics to organise a first
Vestax Extravaganza championship in Russia to send a first ever Russian champion to the World Finals. In 2002 he organised and judged Vestax Extravaganza Russian Finals that led to the world finals in London’s Fabric Club.
Established, in 2013 he co-founded Flammable Beats —a DJ- and Promo-group in Russia, specialising in hip-hop, funk, soul, reggae and electronic music genres that played a role in popularising these music genres on a Russian club scene in 2000x.[7][8]
In 2020 a movie director Tatyana Chekhova filmed and released a documentary movie about the group and their impact on the Russian club scene in 2000x — Box of matches.[9]
His music career was always followed by the extreme sports events, he performed on the most of extreme events in 2000x including snowboard, skateboard, BMX extreme sports events in Russia.[10]
In 2007 a
New York Times wrote in the article about Moscow club scene — "One way to measure the heat at a private club in Moscow is to find out whether DJ Tactics is in the house."[2]
Flammable Beats also hosts a self-named radio show on 100.1 FM radio
Silver Rain and releasing podcasts every month.[11]
Tactics has worked with various Russian acts like;
Basta,
Timati, Sergei Voronov, The Cross Roadz, Guf,
Ligalize, Slovetski, Slim, Krip-a-krip, Strizh, DC MC, Dunya, Jamal, and TGK.
In 2009 he started touring with Russian hip-hop group CENTR as a tour DJ doing 100 different cities allover Russia.
In 2012 he was invited to work with the Russian pop/rock legend, music composter and vocalist Grigory Leps.
In 2015 Tactics was nominated as DJ of the Year on Jägermeister Awards.[citation needed]
In 2012 he launched his author show on YouTube — Tactics of Sound.[13] The show about teaching the knowledge of music production and DJing.
Show featured guests like; Afrika Bambaataa, George Clinton, DJ Zinc, Kid Koala, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, DJ Nu-mark, DJ J Rocc, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Neil McLellan.
Tactics has also worked and endorsed a number of brands like: Vestax, Digidesign, Urei, Denon, Universal Audio, Skullcandy, Ultrasone, ADAM, Serato, Pioneer DJ, DC Shoes.
In 2019 Tactics was invited by the
Tele2 communications company to feature on their special projects, where people could send a voice message to their social networks inboxes and specialised bot will propose them to use one of 3 beats from DJ Tactics to put their voice messages on and send back the mixed result.[14]
During his career he released a number of mixtapes, self-releases and featured on various releases, as well as composed soundtracks for movies and advertisements.
Pipomixes website reviewed his release Cold Blood Chillin' Vol. 2 as "This might be the best mix I've heard this year. All sorts of acapella's blended over funky breaks and other diverse tracks. Highly Recommended."[15]
Non music career
Throughout his career he organised various DJ and dance related events;