Six-hour set by the patriarch of club culture François Kevorkian

DJ, Depeche Mode sound engineer, and renowned house producer François Kevorkian would like to live eternally in the year 1978. He will bridge the gap between that time and the present at the club Mio. Kevorkian is truly an era in himself, from the psychedelic group Gong and club Studio 54 to remixes of Björk and Moloko. Throughout his career, he has embraced all possible dance styles. Great people passed through his life like extras in a more important story that has not yet been told. François is not in a rush to write a book. He says he wants to create some interactive project - release a DVD or build a website where storytelling would be supplemented with video clips, music excerpts, and eyewitness comments. And Kevorkian has stories to tell, myths to dispel. For example, what he says about Warhol, a recognized disco icon: 'His role was that he drank a lot at night. I often saw him even before Studio 54 at the New York New York club. But in reality, all this art crowd - Andy, Bianca, Truman (Bianca Jagger and Truman Capote - ed. Bisquitgang) were never the defining figures of disco. What really mattered was what the producers did. Giorgio Moroder, Jacques Morali, Gamble and Huff - they are the true architects of the era.' In this case, Kevorkian can be called an engineer of the era. He is the one on whom the whole house stands, but whose name does not shine above the entrance. Interestingly, on the British version of the 'Violator' album, his surname is spelled as 'Kervorkian' and in England they persistently keep misspelling it. But he speaks clearly and very slowly. He pauses so long that any question to him sounds like an unappealable argument. This heavy, drowsy old man, resembling Bill Murray in 'Broken Flowers,' is so deeply rooted in the history of electronic music that his authority sometimes outweighs everything else. People of such status no longer necessarily talk to journalists. Sitting next to them is already a pleasure, akin to a good cigar, sipping an old cognac. Material prepared by Philip Mironov (TimeOut Moscow) and Ilya Voronin (Sensor)

November 17, Friday, starting at 23:00, club Mio, performing François Kevorkian, and also Alexey Krasnov