Faux Cabaret: Alexander Zaloopin, fake_trailers, Uvazhaemiy, Teenage God, DJ Musicborya

FAUX CABARET in Paris

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• Alexander Zaloopin

Alexander Zaloopin is a masked statement singer and performer who emerged in the mid-2000s as a provocative response to the dominance of prison chanson culture in Russia. By subverting its narrative form and taboos through irony and theatricality, he developed his own radical take on the genre, often described as “queer chanson.” His 2009 album Sweet and Nasty became a key milestone, combining chanson storytelling with punk attitude and genre-crossing experimentation. Known for his brutal, hoarse voice and extravagant costumes, Zaloopin blends post-punk, breakbeat, dub, witch house, IDM, minimal wave, and house into a distinctive artistic language. Fans call him “Maestro”, praising his songs for communicating tolerance and offering emotional release.

• fake_trailers

fake_trailers is a project by Leonid Kotelnikov. Over the years, Leonid has developed several of his own projects, most of them operating on the edge of theatre, actionism, and music. With fake_trailers, he explores a deeply fractured, almost schizophrenic dismantling of musical canons, pop culture paradigms, and human emotion. Familiar structures collapse under his cut-up approach, while the unknown becomes unsettlingly close — almost tangible. His performances are driven by sound, moving through postmodern sampledelia and channeling a sense of spiritual unrest. The songs resonate strongly in the context of the ongoing war, placing the lyrical protagonist in a state of permanent confusion, fear, and pain.

• Uvazhaemiy

Uvazhaemiy is the solo experimental music project of Vitalii Zimin, a Berlin-based musician and founder of the independent label Crunch Tapes. The project blends sharp irony with raw emotional honesty. Built around distorted guitars, funky beats, minimal electronics, and intentionally theatrical, absurdist vocals that shift between styles, Uvazhaemiy plays with contrast: irony and sincerity, simplicity and tension, humor and discomfort. Sonically, it moves freely across genres — from naive electropop to happy hardcore — embracing a playful, multi-genre approach without losing its emotional edge.

• Teenage God

• DJ Musicborya

Thursday, 23 April 2026
Au café de Paris (158 Rue Oberkampf, 75011 Paris)
Doors: 19:00 | Party: 20:00

Line-up: fake_trailers

Arrangör: Crunch Tapes