Artbat is a Ukrainian DJ and music production duo from

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, consisting of Artur Kryvenko and Vitaliy "Batish" Limarenko. They produce music in various techno and house variations.

Career

Artbat's career began in 2014 when Kryvenko and Lamarenko, both experienced DJs, met in a Ukrainian club. After they quickly recognized musical similarities, they started producing music together. Just three months later, they had their breakthrough with the track "Mandrake". They received great support from the British DJ

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, who played the track in each of his sets for a year. In 2017, Artbat's track uplift was published as part of a compilation on Solomun's label Diynamic, followed by further EPs and tracks on the label. Their track taboo published in 2018 reached the top position of the deep house charts on the music platform

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and was able to stay there for eleven weeks. In 2019 they won a

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in the Breakthrough category. In the same year they became the best-selling artist on Beatport. In 2021 they founded their own label with the name Upperground.

Discography

EPs

* 2017: ''Trip'' * 2018: ''Planeta'' * 2019: ''Upperground''

Singles

* 2015: ''Mandrake'' * 2015: ''Walking'' (with YanQ) * 2016: ''Saltation'' (with Definition) * 2016: ''Chivvy/Momentum'' * 2016: ''Zing'' * 2016: ''Inside'' (with Definition) * 2017: ''Strap (feat. Haptic)'' * 2017: ''Tabu'' * 2018: ''Papillon'' * 2019: ''Apollo 11'' (with Matador) * 2019: ''Montserrat/ Closer'' (with

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) * 2019: ''Aquarius'' * 2020: ''For a Feeling (feat. Rhodes )'' (with

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) * 2020: ''Best of Me'' (with Sailor & I) * 2021: ''Flame'' * 2021: ''Horizon'' * 2022: ''Age of Love (ARTBAT Rave Mix)'' (with

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References

{{DJ Award for Best Breakthrough DJ Musical groups from Kyiv Ukrainian DJs Ukrainian electronic music groups Ukrainian musical duos Electronic music duos House music groups Techno music groups Musical groups established in 2014 2014 establishments in Ukraine