NickBee

Nikolai Bogomolov (born 1991), known professionally as NickBee, is a Ukrainian producer and DJ from Dnipro working primarily in drum and bass and neurofunk. He has been releasing music since the late 2000s. His recorded output includes the LP Empty Your Mind (2014) and EPs such as Animal Rage, and he has released on or been featured by labels and outlets including Eatbrain, Dispatch and Invisible. He has also collaborated with Billain.

Public records show NickBee began releasing material in the late 2000s and moved into full-length work with Empty Your Mind in 2014. Beyond those release dates and credits, personal biography and detailed timelines are limited in public sources; the verifiable through-line is his steady presence as a producer of neuro-leaning drum and bass from Dnipro and the catalog items named above.

Musically, NickBee’s productions sit where drum and bass meets neurofunk. On Empty Your Mind and the Animal Rage EP he favours tight, processed drum programming and heavily designed basslines: dense midrange work layered over a controlled sub. His tracks often contrast compressed, distorted lead bass patches with a solid low end, and they use automation and resampling to create evolving textures rather than one-note loops. Atmospheric pads and short, cinematic FX passages appear across his releases to add space between punchy hits and bass drops.

In terms of production technique, NickBee’s work demonstrates careful attention to transient shaping and stereo placement. Breaks on his releases are usually chopped and re-sequenced rather than left raw; you’ll hear pitch edits, time-stretching and layered percussion to sharpen attack and create rhythmic variation. Bass design relies on layered synthesis and distortion stages with selective low-pass filtering to keep the sub clean while the midrange carries grit and motion. Mixes on Empty Your Mind show a focus on clarity in the low end and a compact, aggressive mid-spectrum typical of neuro-influenced DnB.

Career highlights recorded in public sources include the 2014 LP Empty Your Mind, the Animal Rage EP, releases or features on Eatbrain, Dispatch and Invisible, and a collaboration with Billain. Those label connections and the Billain collaboration tie NickBee into the tech- and neuro-focused side of the scene: Eatbrain and Dispatch both program forward-facing, sound-design-heavy drum and bass, and Invisible has been linked to bass-oriented outlets. NickBee’s credited role across these entries is as producer; he is also listed as a DJ in available profiles.

Specific influences are not widely documented in public interviews, but the collaboration with Billain and releases on labels such as Eatbrain position NickBee alongside producers who emphasise complex sound design, aggressive mids and punchy, engineered breaks. The concrete public record for his work remains the Empty Your Mind LP (2014), the Animal Rage EP, the label appearances on Eatbrain, Dispatch and Invisible, and the Billain collaboration — those releases are the verifiable reference points for his production style and contributions.