C.A.2K.

Evgeniy Belov, known professionally as C.A.2K, is a Saint Petersburg–based electronic music producer and DJ working across drum and bass, breakcore, deathstep, gabber, happy hardcore, hardcore techno and new rave. He appears on both vinyl and digital releases and has issued solo material on Future Sickness Records and releases on Tech Cycle Recordings.

Belov entered the scene in Russia and earned early attention from Russian DJ Gvozd, who is credited with early recognition of his work. He has performed live at Therapy Sessions events and has played across Russia and internationally. His recorded output includes a joint Cooh & C.A.2K release and solo releases on Future Sickness; he has also produced remixes and collaborations with artists including Cooh and Absurd.

C.A.2K’s production style blends fast, chopped break edits with hardcore and gabber elements. He frequently programs tightly edited breaks — short, aggressive amen chops and layered snares — then processes them with heavy distortion, bitcrushing and resampling to push transients. On the low end his tracks use pitched, detuned sublines and distorted mid-bass growls rather than pure sine subs; modulation and LFO-driven filtering appear on bass patches to create wobble and stutter common in deathstep adjacent work. In his harder material you’ll hear four-on-the-floor kick patterns, pitched kick rolls and high‑gain saturation borrowed from gabber and hardcore techno, while happier, uptempo tracks use bright lead stabs and fast BPMs associated with happy hardcore and new rave.

As a DJ and live performer C.A.2K blends his production with DJ sets and live edits. He often mixes vinyl and digital sources, tightening transitions with tempo-sync edits and using live re-sampling to bring studio glue into a party context. His releases meet both vinyl collectors (pressings noted in his discography) and digital playlists; Future Sickness releases and the Tech Cycle appearance underline that crossover.

Documented collaborators and remix partners include Cooh and Absurd; the Cooh & C.A.2K release is a named example of his cross-collaboration work. Public biographical information is limited beyond these releases, performances at Therapy Sessions, the Gvozd endorsement and his Saint Petersburg base.