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Udyan Sagar, who performs under the stage name Nucleya, has introduced a new kind of music to Indians. And in a country dominated by film music, that has been a challenge. “The music we wanted people to listen to wasn’t Bollywood enough to be considered mainstream, and it wasn’t indie enough to be considered cool,” he says. “It kind of fell in this weird middle-ground where it was kind of its own genre.” 

The co-founder of the Bandish Projekt in 1998 with fellow musician Mayur Narvekar. Having started his musical career by performing at various music gigs across the country, including at the Bacardi Weekender in 2011, he subsequently performed at music festival around the world including Glastonbury, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Lille 3000 and the Electron Festival.

After leaving Bandish Projekt, Nuclyea ventured on his own and he started producing bass-heavy music. The musician who regularly featured on BBC Radio 1`s playlist opened for David Guetta at the Eristoff Invasion Festival in 2012

Although his early days as a DJ in Ahmedabad were a struggle, Nucleya has become popular enough to draw packed audiences to concerts. In 2013, he launched his first EP ‘Koocha Monster’, which became a hit in colleges across the country because it was free to download. In 2015 he launched his album Bass Rani and in 2016 Raja Baja, both which have become extremely popular; the track ‘Aaja’ (from Bass Rani) alone has about 18 million views on YouTube. Some of the tracks from his new album (‘Tota Myna’, 2018), such as ‘Mirza’, have already been watched 1.7 million times on YouTube.