Yonatan Rukhman is an electronic music artist from Tel Aviv. His wild journey through music took him around the world and had him touch a very wide range of musical genres. He currently produces and releases Deep House & Nu Disco as “Yonatan Rukhman”, Downtempo & Organic House as “Rukhman”, and Tech House as part of the duo “Alternate Perceptions”.
Born in Israel, he has travelled a lot around the world with his father, a classical pianist. His first approach to music was through classical piano music, very orderly but foreign to his chaotic and wild imagination. He spent the nineties as a punk/metal head, then studied sound engineering, eventually moved to Italy and became a resident sound engineer in one of the major studios in Northern Italy. Here he became a producer for some well known Italian rock bands.
The first approach to electronic music was through the electro sounds of the 2000’s, then later Techno and Deep House, leading to various releases under various aliases and formations, many of them with his long standing collaborator Kooki Salinas. Those years were characterized by a continuous back & forth from Bergamo (Northern Italy) and Tel Aviv, where he played in all major clubs such as the legendary Cat & Dog, Michatronix, Kuli Alma, Sputnik. He also participated in the growing underground scene of Bergamo & Milan as well as the Bergamo Street Parade event.
His latest release has been charted on Beatport’s Best NuDisco & shortlist charts, selected by Traxsource as “Now Trending” as well as various other charts, staying in the top 100 for NuDisco for about two months peaking at position 21.