DJ Necto Lucas played at the second Amsterdam Vinyl Club on 18 September 2025. DJ Necto Lucas has shared the stage with some of the biggest DJs in the world, so it was a thrill to have him play at our second show.

Meet DJ Necto Lucas on SoundCloud:

• electronic

• disco, funk and more

An interview with DJ Necto Lucas

Where does your DJ name come from?
Necto Lucas is a Russian transliteration of the name of the hero from A Certain Lucas – one of the last books by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. At the dawn of my DJ career, my life was filled with surrealism, much like Cortázar’s hero. When I left the house, I could never predict where or how my day would end!

Tell us about your experience as a DJ – have you been playing for a long time?
I started playing records at the beginning of 1995 in Odesa, Ukraine, and the places where I played were artists’ workshops or abandoned basements and buildings. We weren’t welcome in regular clubs with that kind of music back then.

Tell us about some of the famous DJs you've shared a stage with.
Are you ready for some huge names? Carl Cox, Ken Ishii, Mister C, Tom Clark, Alex Flatcher, Terry Francis, Herbert, Saamy Koviko, Todd Bodine, François Kevorkian, Moby, Paul Oakenfold, Dave Clark, 808 State, DJ Linus, Roni Size, Ryan Halifaxe and more! I’ve been quite a well-known DJ.

What sort of music do you normally play as a DJ?
That’s the hardest question! I started out as a psy-trance and techno DJ, then eventually moved into tech house and deep house, with plenty of lounge and Balearic on the side. Over the last ten years, I’ve been more focused on early disco, raw electronic music and post-punk sounds. So it’s quite a wide range. These days, what I play mostly depends on the place and the people who will be there – at some venues I can play hard dance music, while at others I’ll play an ambient set.

When did your obsession with music first begin?
It all started in my early childhood. I graduated from music school, majoring in violin, then played bass in a rock band. When I first saw a real DJ behind the decks, I knew that was for me!

Tell us about your vinyl collection. Do you have a lot of records?
Well, the collection I’m currently building in Amsterdam is my fifth!

My first collection started in high school and was mostly Soviet and Western rock and metal (Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden and so on).

Then I moved into more alternative and industrial music (Happy Mondays, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Coil, Einstürzende Neubauten), so I sold almost all my previous records to buy new ones.

Then I moved to Moscow. Of course, I couldn’t take all my records with me, so once again I sold many of them and gave others as gifts to friends.

From 2000 until 2010 I worked in Moscow a lot as a professional DJ, buying around 10 to 15 records every week – mostly electronic.

In 2019, I moved back to Odesa and left most of my collection at a friend’s studio in Moscow. That was more than 2,000 releases, so I had to start collecting again.

After the war in Ukraine started, I moved to Amsterdam – without a single record, of course – and now I’m working on a new collection. I stopped counting the number of records I own a long time ago – now I measure my collection by the space it takes up on my shelves. Today I have around 2.5 metres of records (approximately 750 to 800 records). But I keep moving forwards – soon it will be 1,000, I hope!

What is it about vinyl that makes it irresistible to music fans and collectors?
The magic of vinyl comes to life when you get your salary, go into a record store “just to take a look”… then, 30 minutes later, you walk out with a couple of records and not a cent left in your pocket!