Biography
Pasha Technik is a unique event and discovery in the world of domestic rap. More recently, his name began to appear more and more often on the Internet, and his songs began to gain popularity among young listeners. The guy has a shocking image; at concerts he hides his face behind a monkey mask. Most of his tracks have themes of drug use, sexual intercourse, everything that appeals to modern youth. After all, forbidden things are more attractive.
The musician does not hesitate to use profanity in writing lyrics. Despite this, he received his moment of fame in a short time. Duck, who is he? A brilliant performer or a crazy avant-garde artist? Listeners are divided into two categories: some revere and consider his work a masterpiece, while others, on the contrary, criticize him for being immoral and meaningless. How did he achieve wild success? To answer this question, we will study his biography in detail and go back in time, where we will meet a still young boy.
Let's start our story from the moment of his birth - on the Fourth of July 1983. The guy is a native Muscovite, his real name and surname is Pavel Ivlev. The future hooligan’s mom and dad were far from the world of music and creative activity and struggled to maintain optimal financial condition. Quite a bit of information is available about his childhood; for a long time, viewers did not even know his real name. Only gradually the veil of secrecy began to open.
The young man's childhood years were spent in a dangerous and criminal area of Moscow - Lefortovo, which in those years was famous for its gangster situation. This left a serious imprint on the development of a musician, because he constantly had to adapt to the appropriate conditions on the street in order not to get in trouble from caring hooligans. From an early age, he set out to conquer the streets and disappeared there from morning to night, despite the critical statements of his parents. This is how our hero became acquainted with an immoral lifestyle, constant partying, alcohol and other prohibited substances.
A native Muscovite in one of his interviews said what he associates with his childhood – football, school and glue. The young man was fond of sports, was an avid fan and often went out onto the green lawn. He often had to participate in brawls and street fights with fans of another football club.
While studying in high school, Pasha became interested in rap; his idol and favorite artist at that time was Bad Balanse. It was at this moment that he began to imagine himself on the big stage as a popular performer.
He did not have good grades and studied poorly. He was interested in something completely different - everything that was outside the window, his comrades and street life. As a result, due to poor performance, he was left for the second year. The guy could not pass the transition exams to the 11th grade, so he remained in the tenth. But this did not bother the guy much, after which the future musician left school of his own free will and entered the local technical school.
This became a turning point in his biography. In the new educational institution, the young man finds like-minded people, fellow rap lovers MC Blev and Maxim Sinitsin. Gradually, friendly relations developed between them, and they decided to form their own musical group. The team was named "Container". New lyrics and musical compositions began to appear in large numbers, the main themes in their songs described drugs and promiscuity. Modern youth really liked this image and style. Gradually they began to gain popularity.
In 2008, our hero was arrested and imprisoned for possession and distribution of drugs. At the court hearing, a decision was made - imprisonment for a period of 5 years.
As a result, the musician disappears from the radar of listeners for a long time. The guy went to Karelia to serve his sentence. But this blow of fate did not hurt the performer at all, and after his release he again began to conquer the domestic rap scene. Now he continues to amaze his subscribers on the popular YouTube video service with his shocking antics.
Pasha Technik did everything not to become famous - but became a star
The persona of Pasha Technique is shrouded in a large number of myths and legends - and it is still difficult to understand where they end and the real person begins. When does it go beyond the image - and does it go? Does this image even exist? Therefore, it is best to talk about Pasha, remembering the stories with which his biography is rich and of which every person who spent at least a couple of hours with him has many.
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“Actually, I was very fat. Straight, bitch, hog. But, surprisingly, I took part in swimming competitions, even inter-age ones, but still took first place. Maybe this doesn't seem all that surprising to you, but that's only because you didn't have the pleasure of seeing this bundle of overeating. I only took third place once, and that was only because I developed otitis media. Then art school, then all sorts of sections - taekwondo, basketball and so on.”
This paragraph, which reads like an excerpt from Limonov’s story, is a post from Pasha Tekhnik’s LiveJournal, entitled “Memoirs.” The text, in addition to the complex history of his mother’s relationship with the Lyubertsy bandit, describes a difficult childhood: ketamine syringes, “the road of the gloomy from the Ice Cube cassette,” the first “departures,” and so on.
It is not possible to verify the authenticity of the story - the Technician is usually reluctant to talk about his childhood. So it is better to perceive this autobiography as a work of fiction, especially since the mythology that has gathered around the Technician has always been no less important than his real person.
Among his rap influences, Pavel named the usual groups for Moscow teenagers of the 90s: Bad Balance, DOB, Slaves of the Lamp. At some point, the love of rap led 13-year-old Technician to the basement on Taganka, where the Rap Recordz office was located. Dmitry “Dime” Nechaev, who ran the label at that time, recalls that at first Pasha came there as a buyer of cassettes, and then he began to bring his own material. His band was called Da Tape Konteyner. Later the name was shortened to Kunteynir.
The technician said that he started recording in 2000, focusing “on all sorts of pussies like Anticon” - it sounds comical, but it shows Pasha as a music lover: not everyone in those years knew about this American indie rap label. The group consisted of two people - the Technician himself and his friend, the rapper Smeshnoy. The latter quickly withdrew from rap, and his place was taken by the second participant, Blev MC. According to legend, they lived in the same building. The technician met him on the staircase, got him high and offered to record a rap - this became Blev’s first musical experience.
The obligatory lo-fi approach to recording is part of Kunteynir's aesthetic. The first album, “Edward Hands Paper Scissors,” was recorded at home using a cheap microphone. Most of its beats were made by Raj, a member of the Canadian expat group DaBro. Dime corrects that Raj didn’t “make” the beats specifically for the Technician, they just somehow fell into his hands - and that’s how they ended up on the album.
In form, Kunteynir’s debut work is an underground boom-bap with vinyl hiss, over which flies the accelerated thought of the Technician, who wrote verses to all members of the group in one sitting. Absurd funny rap, a barely rhymed stream of consciousness, and even ugly recorded - in that era, many were surprised that this could be published on a CD and sold in stores (Dime, however, does not recall sales figures with pleasure: 500-600 copies ). The cover of the disc was also good: printed on expensive business card cardboard, it depicted a pink stamp.
“The music was strange, but there was a lot of pleasant madness in it, and not outright thrash, as in later work,” recalls The Flow editor-in-chief Andrei Nikitin, then a journalist for the website Rap.ru, about the first Kunteynir album. He also conducted his first big interview with the Technician.
It still reads like countercultural prose. Pasha boasts that he “gets stoned like shit before performances,” lists the types of marijuana that must be consumed in order to understand his album, and utters a prophetic phrase (remember, we’ll come back to it later): “If the whole club pokes us at us, it will be the most awesome show of our lives.”
Reality did not adjust to expectations for long: at the presentation of the Smoke Screen album in the same 2004, the opening act Kunteynir was given a cold reception. A recording of their concert has been preserved: when Pasha hands a microphone to a listener in the crowd, she joyfully yells: “Fuck you!” (1:47 mark).
“The hip-hop.ru crowd knew them, but they were not famous,” recalls Slim, one of the Veil members, who later also recorded a feature with Kunteynir. “It was such experimental hip-hop, in any case, it was interesting to me. I really liked the musical component. At that time I was still releasing albums, trying to create something like a label - I wanted to release their third album, but they didn’t come to an agreement. As a result, the owner of the 2-99 label, Georg Korg, gave them a “fix” of $300, and they were released by him.”
The technician in those years loved to stage stage performances to piss off people who came to listen to terrible rap. He especially appreciated freestyle battles (Pasha’s rap was and remains freestyle): watch the recording of the group’s performance at one of them at the Kommuna club and be surprised at how much Technik stood out from the rest.
One of the organizers of Kunteynir’s early concerts was Ruslan Munnibaev, now the concert director of Kasta and the author of The Flow. At that time he worked as a bartender at the Third Way club. “I wrote the Technique myself and suggested doing a concert. I separately asked him to perform the song “Faggots, raise your hands,” but it seems that this did not happen. A lot of people came to the concert, but I remember that it lasted about 20 minutes.”
Photographer Anton “Scut36” Volkov recalls how Pasha, in his constant monkey mask, warmed up the American rapper Jeru The Damaja in “Commune”. “Pasha jumped in front of the not very high stage of the club and tried to snatch the microphone from the hands of the surprised rapper. After that, backstage, he took off his mask, grabbed a beer glass standing next to him and took a savory sip from it. The glass, as it turned out, served as an ashtray.”
Later, Volkov undertook to make a website for the Kunteynir group. The technician sent the following specifications: the site should have two sections: “Pukeshka” and “Rooks”.
For the group’s next album, “Into the Shit” (2005), Technik already wrote almost all the beats himself. Musically, everything became more interesting: extremely underrated as a beatmaker, Technician decorated the songs with an experimental IDM sound. Listen to the six-minute acid-jazz instrumental “Chishirsky Mix” or play it to your friends at a house party and ask them to guess the author - it’s unlikely that any of them will even guess that this is not an artist from the Warp label, but the person who launched the phrase “San, dick” among the people suck.”
Having once called himself “the king of the underground,” Technician, although he stood apart, was friends with other musicians of the then underground wave. He could be seen at the concert of Andrei Bledny's group Ezekiel 25:17, with another group, the art-rap project Krovostok, he was even going to write a joint album:
Dime recalls:
“He calls me and says that he met the guys from Tekstilshchiki, the main one is called Shilo. And I knew that they had an “Anti-tank grenade” project. They released tapes with their own money and sold them, and then “Afisha” wrote about them. It was a dubious work, but hints of early Krovostok can be heard there. Well, Pasha says: “This is awesome, this is a gap! They made the Krovostok project! Let's release a double album - Kunteynir and Krovostok!” Unfortunately, at that time such a release was technically impossible. In the end, either the Technician did not deliver the disc to me, or I did not listen to it, but did not appreciate it. And a couple of months later, the Krovostok boom began among the office plankton.”
The technician always had a soft spot for battles - he just understood them very differently. Many have seen the legendary video where he flies into the freestyle jam of Dunya and Noize MC like an alien element. Few people know that in 2004 he participated in the 5th Official Battle on hip-hop.ru, where he dissed Drago and Steam, as well as a user named Strike, now known as Zamai. The track can still be listened to.
Another battle (5 Unofficial) The technician judged - and after he came up with the theme “My clitoris is bigger than yours” for one of the rounds, many participants refused to send their tracks.
The next albums of the Kunteynir group - “Weight” (2006) and “Blevburger” (2007) - continued the sound aesthetics of the album “Into the Shit”, only over time the absurd humor disappeared, and in its place came naturalism, sometimes completely repulsive. But the group's releases spawned a wave of followers who loved the idea that rap could bypass the song form; that it is not at all necessary to write texts in advance, but it is more fun to compose them right in the process; that everything can be recorded and mixed as lo-fi as possible.
Pasha’s image was also captivating: he sometimes recalls, not without pride, that he taught rappers to wear “apparent” fan clothes - Thor Steinar, Stone Island, CPCompany. Here is a quote from Maxim Sinitsyn, the third member of Kunteynir: “Previously, the rapper had pipes and a cap, tailored to the American style. We were one of the first to jump off this topic.”
The Moscow collectives Black Economy / Market Relations, the project from Bratsk Buchenwald Flava and the Petrozavodsk group the Chemodan Clan, whose early work was strongly inspired by the Technician, fed on the ideas of Kunteynir. “It started a whole boom of weird home DIY rap,” Dime recalls. “And he eventually drove people to rap concerts who, just a decade ago, were the main antagonists of rap culture as a whole. No matter how strange this fact may be, it still counts towards the culture as a whole.”
In the second half of the 2000s, the Technician himself became the object of the “subway” cult. He was even brought to television: the St. Petersburg Channel Five showed a report by Kirill Ivanov (now you know him as the frontman of the group SBPC) about the underground rap of that time, the heroes of which were Bonch Bru Bonch, Mikhail Krasnoderevshchik and Pavel himself. Pavel here poses against the backdrop of Khrushchev and speaks literally two sentences - but in the second the word “dudka” appears.
You can learn about his adventures of that time from LiveJournal: Pasha goes on trips for Dynamo, performs at national concerts with the same underground groups, and participates in crazy parties.
It is better to read the posts from there as literature, keeping in mind that hyperbolization and reduction to the absurd are the main artistic techniques of Kunteynir. “Three Hudson taxi drivers carry Blyov out at a stop near the Semyonovskaya metro station, and he salutes with his right hand and tears up his shoulder straps.” “Yesterday, instead of a ball, riot police soldiers took the dude and I onto the bus. Not only is it fucking bad to hang out with assholes in little pants in nothing but bunk shorts, but also 100 rubles for admitting us to the sobering-up center.”
In 2008, Technician went to prison under Article 228 - not surprising for a man who once said: “Drugs don’t play any role at all in our music. But in life it’s the main thing.”
The Technician gave many interviews about his stay in the Karelian zone: he recalled how he made boots for pigeons from bread crumbs and how prisoners sewed their mouths shut as a sign of protest. There is also a touching detail that well reveals the Technician’s relationship with the fans of the “first wave”: one day he received a package from a certain Valentin, which he was surprised by. It turned out that the “warm” was sent by Dirty Louie from the Chemodan - it was even preserved
, which Technician wrote in response.
During the prison period, Pasha’s cult only developed and strengthened: the album “5 Years”, released before his imprisonment, is memorable for us with the music of beatmaker Jackson Chrome, who later made a name for himself on the electronic scene under another pseudonym - Lapti. At his instigation, Technician even appeared on the main music resource in the world, the Pitchfork website: there he appeared in an article about Russian beats electronics, where the Kunteynir group was immediately called legendary, and the album “5 years” was called a masterpiece.
After serving four years, Technician was released from prison in 2013 and did several things. Once - he performed at a club for several hundred teenage football fans who, as it turned out, were waiting for his arrival. Two - released an album on Central Administrative Okrug Records, which was then headed by Ptah. Three - gave an interview to Afisha, where he outlined his course: “I personally just want to get money from this. I think we deserve it already.”
Four - went to Versus.
The performance of the Technique at the first offline battle of Versus cannot be retold, it’s easier to watch (fortunately, the entire battle lasts about 20 minutes). According to the recollections of critic Dani Pornorap, who selected the artists for that season, Pasha agreed almost immediately, but asked to give him “a woman or a disabled person” as his opponent. The option of pitting MC Anyuta against him was considered, but in the end they chose Brol, a St. Petersburg MC with an underground past. The Technician arrived at the event in an altered state.
“We’re late,” Danya recalls. “I lead him through the crowd to the stage, he whispers in my ear: “Bro, I’m on acid.” The crowd sees the Technician, and everyone starts yelling: “Pasha, Pasha!” And he says to me: “Fuck, bro, I crap myself.”
The rest is history. At some point in the battle, the Technician turned all the battle rap fans who came to watch Oxxxymiron fight Dunya against him. He took off his pants, showed the audience his penis through his underpants, and they - as Pavel foresaw in that very first interview in 2004 - began to shout: “Fuck it! Fuck it.” As a result, the victory was given to Brolu, but this performance laid the first foundation for the future Internet popularity of Technician.
In the first years after his release, Technician managed to become a grassroots Internet star: he recorded feats with everyone for $50, filmed congratulations and video messages - the peculiarity of which was that they almost always insulted the recipients - and made funny advertisements for clothing stores. He was a star on MDK, willingly gave interviews and flooded YouTube with videos “Pasha Technician watches / tells / congratulates / chooses a girl.” The man born to become a YouTube star, the genius of the flourishing “reaction” format, seems to have finally waited for his finest hour.
The technician found fans in the most unexpected environments. If we can explain the fan love of Feduk (who, for a moment, began his performance on Versus with the phrase: “I came here to avenge Technique”) and the respect of LSP (who once long ago recorded Kunteynir-like rap as part of the TO Lopata group), then Technician’s fraternization with Pharaoh or Face’s enthusiastic reaction to his video: “Pashok is a legend!” It’s already more difficult to comprehend.
In the second half of the “tenths,” Technician managed to get married, travel around the country with concerts, shoot a video with Epifantsev, and even record the viral underground hit “Need Xanax.” It’s sad, but it was he who actually became the ambassador of the drug alprazolam, which was invented to treat severe depression and panic attacks, but is used by rappers for other purposes. Romanticized the drug, you say? Watch the video where the freshman Lizer comes to meet the Technician, who is experiencing severe “departures” at that moment. I'm sure no one would want to feel the same.
Pasha also always spoke openly about his pharmaceutical addiction, calling himself a “pharmacy cowboy,” calling Xanax “the devil’s toy,” and recalling several years lost from life because he overdid it with the “pharmacy.” There is, for example, the following quote: “He fucked up Polkhaty, kicked out Karina (Pasha’s wife - The Flow’s note) for some reason, lived with one mephedrone pussy. In general, I don’t like to remember that moment.” There were also absolutely terrible stories about how he almost died after falling asleep in the bathtub - his wife helped, breaking down the door, taking him out of the water and putting him in rehab.
As a person who filmed several video interviews with the Technician, where they also talked about drugs, I can note that his relationship with drugs was most likely built on the Marilyn Mans principle “I don’t love drugs, but they love me.” During the filming of the first “Vpiska” with him, our entire group went into the Lefortovo forest park, and the first thing that greeted us there was a bookmark with stamps, which ended up under the feet of one of Pasha’s friends. The further fate of the find is unknown to me.
When did Pasha’s fame in “grassroots YouTube” grow into All-Russian fame? When YouTube received a massive request for crazy and mocking content. In 2020, Medium Quality, a digital production company of TV producer Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov, launched Big Russian Boss Show - a Russian analogue of the Eric Andre show, where guests were cheerfully humiliated. The technician became a guest of his third season - and looked there as if he had come to his home; Many people remember that project because of the releases with his participation.
In 2020, Medium Quality began filming its own show, Technician - it was released irregularly, and the episodes were either successful or unsuccessful (it depended mainly on the state of the presenter). This didn’t add anything to Pasha’s image; in fact, all these years he created one big show out of his life, where the audience watched how a person cheerfully and horribly engaged in self-destruction. How much cynicism there is on both sides in this is an open question.
All that was left was to monetize the image. Pasha also succeeded in this: by becoming the face of the bookmaker company and the Zaryazhenka energy drink, he earned millions. Now the underground hero spends one and a half million a month because he loved “going to eat oysters in restaurants,” and complains about financial losses from the coronavirus of 3-4 million rubles.
Perhaps the story of the Technician should be told as a story of victory over circumstances - on the other hand, it is the story of one big illogical contradiction. I remember Pasha’s performance at the “Pain” festival several years ago: throughout his entire set (as always, in extreme improvisation mode), a man in a monkey mask threatened someone, called the audience a “fucking scam,” and invited the invisible enemy to come out “one at a time.” and “taste some dick.” At the end, he affectionately said: “What are you talking about, these are jokes, I love you all - how many of you are here? I’m not that much of an asshole.”
Andrei Nikitin recalls how at the same “Bol” several punk bands refused to participate in the festival with Technician because they considered him a right-wing artist: “In antediluvian times, the Dynamo hooligans told me that when Technician began to come to the fan sector , they initially mistook him for an anti-fascist and were going to beat him. Here's the irony: for the right he was antifa, for the punks he was a fascist, for some he was a trash man from YouTube, for others he was an underground rapper in a monkey mask.
“But it seems to me that no one really knows what he really is.”
“Analysis: the rapper earned 10 million for the label, but he didn’t even receive 3 million - how can this be?”
Is Karina Pasha’s girlfriend or wife?
There is no exact information about the personal life of our hero; the young man tries to avoid tricky questions about his lovers. But it is difficult to hide from fans the facts that are hidden behind the performer’s stage image. According to the latest data, Pavel was married to a girl named Eva Karitskaya for two years, but after that the lovers began to move away from each other and finally went their separate ways.
Despite the ups and downs of fate, after the breakup, photos of the musician together on vacation often appeared on the musician’s Instagram. Moreover, the former spouses looked happy. But unfortunately, they never resumed a serious relationship.
Quite recently, rumors began to circulate that Pasha had found a new girlfriend. The girl's name is Karina, there is no more information about her on the Internet or in the media. Later, in an interview on the well-known YouTube portal, he said that his beloved was in an interesting position. This means that the scandalous performer will soon become a dad. According to the musician, he does not really like children, but he will not spare anything for his child and will try to provide him with everything he needs.
He also shared that in the future he would send him to a football section; he said the reason for this choice was that there is a lot of money in this area. We can only wait to see how Pavel will show himself in the new image of a conscientious family man. Still, it is not clear whether Karina is a new girl or is it still the same wife, Eva Karitskaya. After all, in 2020, our hero spent a joint vacation with her in Mexico, where they had a great time together.
Among our hero's hobbies, football occupies the main place, as in his childhood. He enjoys watching matches and directly participating in amateur games. In addition, he maintains his own channel on the popular Instagram network, where he posts new photos from his daily life.
Most recently, Pasha appeared on screens with a cast on his arm. An unpleasant situation occurred at one of the concerts. During his wild courage, he decided to jump onto the stage into the crowd, but missed and fell right on his hand. As a result, a fracture awaited him. The guys immediately pulled up to him and asked him to urgently go to the hospital, but initially he did not understand anything and wanted to continue the performance. The bone was damaged and displaced; the traumatology department had to set it back in place. The bone has not healed properly and he currently cannot fully straighten his arm.
Another hobby of the young man is tattoos; almost every part of his body is decorated with a pattern or design. Moreover, new works of masters are constantly appearing on the skin.
Pasha Technician and his girlfriend
The musician makes no secrets about his personal life, as well as with whom he lives. According to him, he was married for two years, but a close relationship with his wife did not work out, and the marriage broke up. At the same time, joint photographs with Pavel constantly appear on Eva Karitskaya’s social network page. Thus, it is not entirely clear whether to believe the rapper’s words about a broken family or not? Wikipedia talks about the life and work of the rapper, and there are also active accounts in contact and Twitter.
Pasha Technician and his Wife
Pasha on YouTube
At first, our hero often appeared in various projects on the popular YouTube project as a special guest. But more recently he decides to create his own channel “Technician”. In the first video, he talked with the famous blogger Amir from the show “Diary of a Khach.” Pasha took advice from him on creating quality content. After this, various viral videos and parodies of domestic performers began to appear.
He began to develop his own format - reactions to the work of other performers and commenting on them in a humorous manner. On the channel, he shares his opinion on serious events in the country, for example, his latest videos talked about the latest matches at the Russian Football Championship. Every day the number of subscribers is only growing; viewers are attracted by the free format of his mini-show.
Do not forget about the unusual actions of our hero. Most recently, he posted intimate photos of Oksimiron online. It is unknown where he got them from, but the fact remains a fact. The popular performer did not comment on Technician’s similar prank. Soon he recorded a stinging diss against the feduk, but after that he hastened to apologize and justify that this was just a game for the camera and no insult. In addition, episodes of the program “In Search of Easy Money” appear online, where he also shares his thoughts.
Another scandal surrounding the person Technika
Technik began a new page in his creativity by participating in rap battles. The first was a performance at “Freeway Battle”, where Nikolai Dolzhansky became the rapper’s opponent. More famous is the battle between Pasha Technique and Brol at one of the public events Versus battle. With his performance, Pasha Technik gave rise to many memes.
Then Ivlev was supposed to fight Roma Zhigan, but Pasha’s controversial comment on Twitter led to a loud scandal. Later, the Technician explained that he wanted to stand up for the honor of the Pharaoh, but accidentally hurt Zhigan’s feelings. As a result, Pasha apologized to Roma, and the incident was over.
In February 2020, the performer again hit the top news of rap portals, where they talked about a daring, unprecedented attack on Ivlev. It turned out that after the rapper’s performance in Voronezh, ardent fans of the group “Flock” decided to punish Technician for impudent statements addressed to Misha Mavashi. Finally, the offenders took away his talisman - a monkey mask.
In the summer of 2020, Pasha shared with his fans a demo version recorded together with Guf. Dolmatov did not understand the rapper’s action and spoke obscenely at him.
The Technician’s popularity gradually fell; to stay afloat he presented the album “Goose Statistics” . Its release did not arouse much interest. The rapper began to look for other ways to attract attention to himself. Soon, a video appeared on the YouTube channel “Vpiska”, where Pasha introduces subscribers and fans to his chosen one, shows a modest apartment, and shares his plans.
In August 2020, Technician presented his next album, “Ru$$ian Tre$mvn,” which included the track “I Remember.” A few months before the release of the album, the rapper uploaded the track on his personal page on the Vkontakte social network. In a recent interview, the rapper said that he would soon undergo a complex rehabilitation course to get rid of drug addiction.
Also in 2020, Pasha tried himself in a new role - the rapper began blogging “In Search of Easy Money” on YouTube . In three months, four issues were published with such famous personalities as Amiran Sardarov, Masha Minogarova and Timur Karginov.
Songs and career Technique
The creative path of our hero begins from a simple vocational school, where he finds like-minded people and puts together a group with the simple name “Container”. Three ordinary guys find inspiration in drugs and alcohol. Thus, texts filled with profanity began to be born. Musicians often appeared at battles held in Moscow. Later, Pasha offers to write beats and record high-quality tracks.
Gradually, the material accumulated, and they released their first full-length album, Edward Scissorhands, at which point he puts on the monkey mask. The guy chose her because he thinks the facial expressions of primates are smart. The collection was a success among a small category of listeners. Then new collections began to be published, every year - “Into the Shit”, “Weight”, “Blevburger”. In 2008, Pavel was taken to prison on charges of using and distributing drugs, but this only strengthened the musician’s success.
After four years, he is released for good behavior and again takes up creative activity. The team is being revived and releasing a new album, “5 Years,” which featured songs that were written before their imprisonment. The collection had a higher quality sound compared to the previous ones, and received great success among listeners. After this, the guys go on a tour of the cities. At the same time, the group releases several videos and its own merch.
2020 saw the peak of their career, with today's youth becoming fans of the team's unique style. But in the end, the guys decide to go their separate ways, each took up his own solo project and the “legendary” group ended its existence. The artists themselves remained good friends.
The next period of creativity, our hero performs in various battles, but soon he gets tired of this format. Almost every show required performing according to a specific script without the possibility of improvisation. So he decides to record his solo collection, which will be released in the summer of 2020 and is called “Goose Statistics.” The new record is filled with the performer’s specific humor. The album instantly spread across the Internet, some listeners were delighted with Technika’s new project, while the rest began to criticize for the immoral content of the lyrics.
In addition, it included recordings in a duet with famous rappers - LSP, Goody, with whom he created the track “Bad Santa”. In addition to the collection, the release “Sounds of the Streets - Making Noise” was released, in which he performed a song together with the dinosaur of domestic rap Guf. Later the composition “I sting like a bee” was released, he performed it together with Desone.
Don’t forget the performer’s participation in the popular Versus battle format, where Brol became his opponent. There is complete chaos on stage; if the experienced rapper freestyled from his preparations, then Pasha completely surrendered to improvisation. In addition, the guy performed while intoxicated and during the confrontation he took off his pants. After this, the Restaurateur tries not to invite the Technician to his events as a participant.
A funny battle took place with the former inadequate participant in the House 2 project, Nikolai Dolzhansky. It looked truly epic, a confrontation between two scandalous personalities of the modern Internet. The musician wrote on his Twitter that he respects the young rapper Pharaoh, for which Zhigan made threats against him. In 2020, at one of his concerts, he spoke offensively towards Misha Mavashi. After the concert, unknown people cut off his car and dragged Pasha out for a showdown, during which they hit him several times with a dildo and forced him to apologize.
During a performance in Krasnoyarsk, riot police were unleashed on him, and during a check and search, traces of amphetamine were found in his blood. For which he was imprisoned for five days, but soon the conflict was settled, and Pasha was released. In 2020, a new release “Russian Tresmvn” was released.
Pavel Ivlev and his career
In 2014, under the auspices of the rapper, he completed work on his next studio album, Osnova. In the same year, the presentation of the EP “Bunny” took place, on which KAFE and Rivers also worked. The following year, the premiere of the collection “Blewburger” took place, and in 2020 the EP “The Last Record” took place. The latest album featured rappers such as SD aka SaDist, the Chemodan, Ptah, Princip ZM, Pra (Killa̕Gramm) and Intigam Milk as guests.
At the beginning of 2020, it became known that the creative association headed by Pasha Technik was ceasing to exist. The rapper decides to plunge into solo performance, and in June of the same year he presents to the public an album consisting of two parts, called “Goose Statistics”. A little earlier, namely in May, the premiere of the single “Sounds of the Streets - Making Noise” took place, on which rap artist Guf worked together with Pavel.
Pasha technician and Guf
Why was Pasha Technician imprisoned?
All fans know very well that in 2008 the Technician went to prison. He was charged with possession and distribution of narcotic drugs. As a result, the court sentenced him to 5 years and sent him to a colony in Karelia. Fans began to collect money for a lawyer and seek a speedy release from prison, but this did not help. Four years later he is released on parole. Our hero served his entire sentence with dignity and came out with greater popularity than he had previously. Now he doesn’t like to remember those difficult four years. According to the latest reports, he said that he signed up for a drug addiction treatment clinic, but given his character, this could be another prank among fans.
The biography of Pasha Technik is full of many interesting events; during his life he had to serve time in prison, but despite this, he managed to climb out and reach the pinnacle of fame. Now he has a huge number of fans who are looking forward to the musician’s new shocking antics and new tracks.
Resumption of creativity of the group “Container”
The group organized by Pavel resumed its creative activities with the same composition. But soon, instead of Blev, a new member entered it, who is known to listeners under the pseudonym Squid.
In honor of their creative revival, the guys made an album with good sound quality - “5 Years”, which, however, does not present new tracks, but those that they recorded before Ivlev was convicted.
After the release of this disc, the group began touring the country. During their touring concerts, the guys tried to promote compositions in the style of experimental hip-hop, similar to the foreign underground.
Under the influence of prison, Pavel's creative consciousness underwent changes. In everything related to concert activities, he wanted change, renewal. He longed for fruitful development.
The rapper group began filming videos. Its participants tried to engage in commerce by selling clothes and accessories.
But things did not always go well, and gradually their activity began to decline. Each of them sought to implement not a common project, but each his own. The consequence of this was the collapse of “Container”.
In 2017, the group ceased to exist, but its members managed to maintain friendly relations.
The technician began solo activities.
It was marked by the release of the album “Goose Statistics”. The compositions included in it mixed Ivlev’s specific humor and so-called freaky rap.
This is interesting! Recently, at one of the concerts, after spectacularly jumping into the crowd, Pavel broke his arm. As a result of a displaced fracture, the bone healed incorrectly, and now one arm is limited in movement.
There are many tattoos on the performer's body
Subsequently, three more disks saw the light:
- “Sounds of the streets - making noise”;
- “I sting like a bee”;
- “Ru$$ian Tre$mvn.”
The theme of most of his tracks is related to the use of drugs, promiscuity and everything that appeals to a certain part of modern youth. The musician himself claims that his tracks are for those young people who find forbidden things attractive. In the lyrics of his songs, he quite often uses profanity. Many criticize his work for being meaningless and immoral.
Further activities
After his release from prison, a new chapter began in the biography of Pasha Technique. He continued to rap, and the themes of his songs remained the same. The fact of serving in prison complemented the image of a nonconformist.
The technician is releasing a new album and regularly tours Russia and neighboring countries. He records feats with underground performers Vitya SD, Raskolnikov, Gnoyny and others. In 2014, he was invited to take part in the most popular rap battle in Russia - “Versus”.
Technician’s opponent was rapper Brol, who thoroughly prepared for the fight and wrote a text for three rounds, full of witty insults and incrimination of his opponent. However, the battle was remembered not for the texts of the participants, but for the behavior of the Technician. Pavel remained true to his image - he went on stage in a monkey mask and began to read an abstract, incoherent text, full of obscenities and insults to everyone present. The performer threw various objects into the crowd and took off his pants. However, Technician’s well-known phrase “who stands behind the underground” was greeted by those present with a roar of approval.
Discography[ | ]
Studio albums[ | ]
Year of issue | Name | A comment |
2004 | Edward Hands Scissors Paper | As part of Kunteynir |
2005 | In g#vno | As part of Kunteynir |
2006 | Weight | As part of Kunteynir |
2007 | Blewburger | As part of Kunteynir |
2013 | 5 years | As part of Kunteynir |
2014 | Bunny EP | As part of Kunteynir |
2015 | The basis | As part of Kunteynir |
2016 | last record | As part of Kunteynir |
2017 | Goose Statistics, Part 1 | Solo album |
2017 | Goose Statistics, Part 2 | Solo album |
2018 | Ru$$ian Tre$hmvn | Solo album |
Mini-albums[ | ]
Year of issue | Name | A comment |
2019 | Freckles | In collaboration with Conductor MC |
2020 | In blood | Solo album |
2020 | Sechka | In collaboration with Metox |
Singles[ | ]
Participation[ | ]
- 2007 - Market Relations - “Top Girls” (feat. Kunteynir)
- 2007 - Black Economy - “Bounce on the Root” (feat. Kunteynir)
- “Crystals” (featuring Sasha Skul)
- 2007 - Semi-soft - “For Krasnodar” (with the participation of Pasha Technique)
- 2008 - Black Economy - “Perhaps fagots” (feat. Kunteynir)
- 2014 - Tragedy of All Life - “In Only Topsiders” (with the participation of Kunteynir)
- 2016 - ZAMAY, Glory to the CPSU - “Spring” (with the participation of Pasha Technik, MF Doc, Ovsyankin)
- 2017 - LSP - "Tiktonik"
- 2018 - Morceau - “Fartu Suit” (with the participation of Znx Gng & Pasha Technique)
- 2018 - Adalwolf - “Back on My F**k S**t” (featuring Pasha Technique)
- 2018 - GOODY - “Bad Santa” (with the participation of Pasha Technique)
- 2018 - Adalwolf - “Swagshit” (featuring Pasha Technique)
- 2018 - Jewelxess - “Drying” (with the participation of Pasha Technique)
- 2018 - MORGENSHTERN - “City of Benchmarks” (with the participation of Pasha Technique)
Videography[ | ]
- 2014 - Pasha Technician - “Do you want to be strong”
- 2014 - Pasha Technician - “Who is the underground behind (versusbattle)”
- 2017 - Pasha Technician - “Buckwheat”
- 2017 - Pasha Technician - “Need Xanax”
- 2018 - Pasha Technician - “I’m dropping trends (FACE cover)”
- 2018 - Pasha Technician - “The color of mood is blue”
- 2018 - GOODY with student. Pasha Technique - “Bad Santa”
- 2019 — AVEGA x PASHA TECHNIK x GRADY — “PASS IT ON (PROD. GRA$H)”
- 2020 – CMH & INSTASAMKA & PASHA TECHNIK – “RPG”
Last news
About a year ago, the musician announced that he was going to a drug treatment clinic to recover from addiction. Perhaps this was just a publicity stunt before the release of the artist's latest album.
Max Barskih Max Barskih on Instagram on Instagram - official page and photo
Pavel recently had a child, his new photos together with Eva Karitskaya and the child often appear on the Technician’s Instagram page (official website). Pavel and Eva live together, but it is unknown whether they registered their marriage.
Childhood and youth
The biography of the future Pasha Technician, and then Pavel Ivlev, began on July 1, 1984 in the capital of Russia. The boy’s childhood was spent in the criminal Lefortovo district; he later admitted that 3 associations came to him that described his early years: school, football and Moment glue.
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Pasha Technician in his youth
The native Muscovite became interested in rap from his school days. Then Pasha liked the group Bad Balanse. The young man did not do well at school, and in the 10th grade he was left in the 2nd year altogether due to poor grades. But Ivlev did not go to study the program again, but went to study at a vocational school.