Seqta: From Georgia’s Underground to the Global Stage

Georgia’s club culture was born in the dark - out of basements, police raids, and a hunger for freedom that couldn’t be legislated away. In that crucible, a generation of artists carved out a new sound, a new attitude, and a new identity. One of its standout figures is Seqta, a DJ and producer whose journey from Tbilisi to Berlin carries the grit, tension, and release that define Georgia’s underground.

For over 27 years, Seqta has lived and breathed music. He began in Kutaisi’s underground, cutting his teeth in hip hop before moving into Y2K-era punk bands that shook the local scene. From punk stages, he transitioned into electronic music, experimenting across genres and collaborating with local artists. This restless drive eventually led him to Berlin, where he spent a decade immersed in the city’s party culture. The Georgian sounds of his youth and the Berlin underground forged a style uniquely his own - gritty, warm, unpredictable - that resonates with listeners worldwide. During this period, Prague also became a second home. Meanwhile, his reputation as a producer and DJ grew steadily.

Nothing FM to Now: The Making of Seqta

Long before Seqta was commanding Berlin floors with his politically charged sets, he was a restless force in Georgia’s underground bands. His story doesn’t start with drum machines and clubs - it begins in rehearsal rooms, improvised jams, and the raw energy of post-punk and experimental collectives.

Between 2007 and 2011, Seqta fronted Nothing FM, his first trip-hop and experimental band. More than a side project, it was his laboratory: a place to test ideas, bend structures, and experiment with mood and atmosphere. The recordings from that era reveal an artist already unwilling to settle, searching for ways to stretch sound into something more than a genre box.

At the same time, he immersed himself in other projects that shaped his perspective. With Spandera Da Kompartia, a new wave/post-punk group, he dove into sharper textures and the urgency of guitar-driven rebellion. From there, he moved into Minda da Vtxri, a raw punk offshoot of Spandera Da Kompartia where he played bass around 2009/10. Those years gave him a direct hit of punk’s intensity - fast, loud, unapologetic - an attitude he would later translate into the tension and release of his electronic sets.

His curiosity didn’t stop with bands. Between 2012 and 2014, Seqta joined Audiotrack, an experimental live project led by Lado Oniani. Unlike structured bands, Audiotrack thrived on improvisation, with jam sessions that blurred the line between performance and exploration. For Seqta, it was another vital step: a chance to embrace chaos, collaboration, and freedom in real time.

While projects like Spandera Da Kompartia and Audiotrack were led by others, Nothing FM was his own — and it remains the clearest blueprint of his future path. From trip-hop melancholy to punk energy and freeform experiments, these years planted the seeds of the uncompromising style he now carries into Berlin. Seqta’s early chapters remind us that DJs don’t just appear fully formed; they arrive with scars, noise, and the echoes of the bands that came before.

Berlin and Beyond

Moving to Berlin changed Seqta’s life. It gave him space to blend his hip hop, post punk, and Tbilisi underground roots into something new. Although the transition wasn’t easy, Berlin became the place where he fully discovered himself as an electronic music producer and DJ. From his base there, he plugged into Europe’s wider circuit - clubs, festivals, and record shops - while remaining deeply connected to his Georgian roots. Several times a year, he returns to Tbilisi, where residencies at TES and performances at Bassiani, Mtkvarze, Left Bank let him test his Berlin-honed sound against the crowd that first shaped him. His sets fuse progressive trance, acid house, and sharp breaks into journeys that are both rooted and forward-looking.

Style Without Borders

Seqta refuses to be confined by genres. A single set can move from rolling acid to early-2000s breakbeats to downtempo, all while maintaining a narrative flow. His 2019 collaboration with Aghnie, House of Spleen, combined electro, Jungle , and punk spirit, marking him as an artist to watch. In 2024, his EP Dopamine Hunter on Fantastic Planet expanded his sound further, from the high-speed chaos of “Speed Racer” to the trance twists of “Riot in Alamut”, “Dopamine Hunter” and the eerie calm of “Train Amanita.” Later that year, he reissued 1312, recorded in 2018–2019 were pure outsider downtempo: lo-fi, spectral, heavy with atmosphere.. Most recently, on 20.08.2025, he released Spacesport23 with DJ Delorean on label x-ize - a futuristic, driving, and expansive track that continues his forward-looking evolution.

On Stage and In the Shadows

Live, Seqta is uncompromising. In Berlin, he has played everything from basements to festival stages, often alongside peers from his homeland who share his taste for boundary-pushing sets. In July 2024, he joined Hulter til Bulter, a Copenhagen-based rave series blending raw queer rave energy with theatrical chaos, where he found a home and fell in love with the city, its people, and its party scene. Several times a year, he returns to play his residency there with his best friend and partner in crime, Horns.

Back in Georgia, he treasures performing in Tbilisi, Batumi, and Kutaisi - clubs that stand as beacons of light and progressive hope in challenging times. He has also played the Ukrainian festival ICKPA, He first attended when it launched in Kyiv, and later played several editions when the festival found a temporary home at RSO in Berlin. For Seqta, ICKPA isn’t just another gig - it’s a gathering that mirrors the resilience and underground spirit that have shaped his own path.


The Road Ahead

For Seqta, clubs are more than parties. They are political, a form of protest, and safe spaces where everyone can feel equal. They are a fight for freedom, a sanctuary for marginalized communities, and a vital institution for preserving culture and progress. His music reflects that ethos - restless, genredefying, and alive with the tension of the world he comes from.

With Berlin as his base and a growing European presence, Seqta is on the edge of wider recognition. But it’s never about fame; it’s about keeping the pulse alive - for Georgia, for Berlin, and for anyone who believes a dancefloor can mean more than escape. Every return to Georgia, every festival set, every club night carries that energy: music that confronts reality, celebrates freedom, and keeps the fight alive, one kick drum at a time.