Regis

Montenegro-born, Paris-based experimental sound artist Relja Cupic, or Regis, composes and produces music using a blend of vocals and acoustic instruments, creating film scores and installations and performances for various environments, including art institutions, galleries, and more-commercial [music] venues. His work has been inspired by soundsystem music culture, which is evidenced by his early association with Mystic Stylez, a Belgrade-based music collective, commenced in the 2010s, that revolutionized the bass driven dance music scene in Southeastern Europe. He performed alongside artists such as DJ Rashad, Scratch DVA, DJ Lag, Marfox, X-Coast, and MCMLXXXV, Bitter Babe both on stage and radio shows, including Rinse, NTS, Radar, Dublab, and BBC 1Xtra. Regis, hailing from a small and relatively isolated Balkan nation, brings to the global music scene a sonic palette that is as diverse as it is distinct. The full-heartedness of his music is a result of his early influences, such as dirty south rap, afro house, slow jams, trance, turbofolk and krautrock, to name a few. A multimedia sound artist and composer, he has also achieved significant popularity as a contemporary hip-hop and R&B producer on his home turf. In both segments of his work, Regis explores the boundaries of what sound can be and how it interacts with other mediums, constantly pushing the limits and challenging conventions, blending the traditional with the new.