Biography
Crazy Astronaut is one of the solo artist identities of Moscow electronic musician Nikolay Golutvin. In a Shankra Festival interview Golutvin explicitly says Furious and Crazy Astronaut are not separate people but his pseudonyms: Furious is the freer experimental outlet, while Crazy Astronaut was designed as a more melodic, rave-oriented fusion drawing on drum and bass, acid and Psytrance. Insomnia Records independently identifies Golutvin and lists the Crazy Astronaut album Renegade among his projects. Developed from Nikolay Golutvin’s broader electronic-music practice after drum-and-bass production and the experimental Furious Psytrance identity. Exact first-use year of the Crazy Astronaut name remains less secure than the 2009 Renegade album milestone. Golutvin’s earlier psychedelic work under Furious emphasized non-melodic sound design and experimentation. Crazy Astronaut was intentionally developed as a more melodic and rave-oriented identity blending techniques from drum and bass, acid and Psytrance.
Renegade became the key early album through OSOM Music. Later work moved across high-speed Psytrance, rave, experimental electronic music and collaborations with Kindzadza, Waio and Montti, with releases through OSOM and HOW2MAKE. A major Russian Hi-Tech/high-speed Psytrance identity whose melodic and rave-oriented approach demonstrates that Hi-Tech is not simply Darkpsy made faster. Golutvin’s distinction between Furious and Crazy Astronaut clarifies that they are separate artist identities.
Active artist channels and festival promotion continue into 2026–2027; a March 2026 Instagram post and Spiritgust 2027 festival announcement indicate continuing activity.
Origins of Crazy Astronaut
Developed from Nikolay Golutvin’s broader electronic-music practice after drum-and-bass production and the experimental Furious Psytrance identity. Exact first-use year of the Crazy Astronaut name remains less secure than the 2009 Renegade album milestone.
Early career
Golutvin’s earlier psychedelic work under Furious emphasized non-melodic sound design and experimentation. Crazy Astronaut was intentionally developed as a more melodic and rave-oriented identity blending techniques from drum and bass, acid and Psytrance.
How the career developed
Renegade became the key early album through OSOM Music. Later work moved across high-speed Psytrance, rave, experimental electronic music and collaborations with Kindzadza, Waio and Montti, with releases through OSOM and HOW2MAKE.
Crazy Astronaut sound
Hi-Tech Psytrance with strong melodic, rave, acid and drum-and-bass influence. Crazy Astronaut generally takes a more melodic, large-scale and dance-oriented approach than Furious.
Place in psytrance history
A major Russian Hi-Tech/high-speed Psytrance identity whose melodic and rave-oriented approach demonstrates that Hi-Tech is not simply Darkpsy made faster. Golutvin’s distinction between Furious and Crazy Astronaut clarifies that they are separate artist identities.
Connections and influence
Connected to the Russian OSOM/Kindzadza scene and to the broader high-speed Psytrance network. Later work also reaches beyond Psytrance into experimental electronic forms.
Crazy Astronaut today
Active artist channels and festival promotion continue into 2026–2027; a March 2026 Instagram post and Spiritgust 2027 festival announcement indicate continuing activity.
How the sound changed over time
Selected releases in the archive
Festival connections
Shankra Festival
A Swiss Psytrance festival founded by Mahi and Madu Murugar in Lostallo in 2015, combining Alpine landscape, psychedelic music, art and community; its Swiss edition is rebuilding toward a planned 2027 return after repeated.
Related projects and collaborations
Artists with overlapping styles
Psykovsky
Russian producer Vasily Markelov, a singular figure in high-speed psychedelic trance whose long-form, polyrhythmic and compositionally eccentric work helped define the hi-tech underground.
Dark Whisper
Manuel Bellini’s dark, experimental psychedelic-trance project, associated with Alice-D Records and spanning Darkpsy, high-speed Psytrance and later Hi-Tech overlap.
Highko
German psychedelic-trance producer associated with the early development of ultra-fast night music and the hi-tech scene, both solo and through Highcosmos with Cosmo.
Cosmo
Slovak producer Peter Kubala, whose hyper-detailed, acid-heavy psychedelic trance helped bridge early darkpsy experimentation and the faster sound later identified as hi-tech.
Kashyyyk
Pablo Valdes’s high-speed psychedelic-trance project, rooted in Mexico City and strongly associated with the early development and popularisation of Hi-Tech Psytrance.
OxiDaksi
Israeli high-speed psychedelic-trance project founded by Nir Dak and Eliran Hasan, strongly associated with Hi-Tech Psytrance while later releases also explore broader psychedelic territory.