In 2018, Boiler Room visited Kyiv. In collaboration with the Ukrainian music project СХЕМА, our club scene was presented to the world with sets by Stanislav Tolkachev, Voin Oruwu, Nastya Muravyova, John Object, A-Body, Wulffius, Potreba and Vladimir Gnatenko. “I want people from different countries who sit in front of the screens and watch the program to realize that youth in Ukraine are doing well, no worse than in Berlin, and that the music is just as incredible,” Boiler room said curator Michael Stangl in an interview with Ukrainian media at the time. After that, the music platform came to Ukraine twice more, once in 2019 and again in 2021.

In the late 2010s, the integration of the Ukrainian electronic scene into the global scene reached a productive stage with a whole galaxy of international stars hailing from Ukraine. ARTBAT, Miss Monique, The Organism, KOROLOVA and SAGAN rose to fame in the dance music field. Woo York, Koloah, Vera Logdanidi, Bejenec, Yan Cook and Poly Chain had a firm place in the techno scene. Silat Beksi, Joss and Yansima conquered the tech house scene. Heinali became a respected name in avant-garde electronic, while Kurs Valüt made a name for themselves in EBM and Go-A and GANNA in folk electronic. Hundreds of Ukrainian artists had international bookings and releases on well-known record labels.

At the same time, Ukrainian artists are increasingly appearing in Mixmag‘s The Lab, Boiler Room, Cercle Streams and more. ARTBAT, Nastia and Miss Monique all performed at Pete Tong’s BBC Radio 1. Of course, now there are more and more collaborations between Ukrainian and European stars: Alina Pash & Brodinski, ONUKA & Deep Forest, Shanti People & Frank Deka, Soft Crash & Ready in LED, Miss K8 & Angerfist. Even Massive Attack remixed Okean Elzy’s song “Обійми”.