For the first episode of Scary Beautiful - the audiovisual project created by DJ Nastia in collaboration with Ballantine’s, the renowned DJ traveled to the Morozovsky Quarry to play a DJ set. The 6km long abandoned coal mine is located near the city Oleksandriia in Ukraine and its natural resources were mined at the location up until 2009, yet once the enterprise could not handle its debts, all work had to be stopped and employees cut loose, so soon after the quarry quickly filled with groundwater.

As part of the Scary Beautiful project and following Ballantine's with its notion of 'True Music' , Nastia has been pre-selecting unreleased tracks by producers from all over the globe, some of which you can hear in the episode’s DJ mix - later, some of these tracks will become a part of an LP that is going to be released via Nastia’s label NECHTO.

What makes the Morozovsky quarry so overwhelmingly impressive is not just the size and scale of the coal mining technology of the not so distant past, but also its juxtaposition with nature that surely and steadily takes back its original and stunning form.

As the world has to adapt to a new pandemic reality, Nastia DJ is looking for new ways of supporting the global music community and club music through exposing fresh and upcoming talents. Scary Beautiful is aimed to not only support new artists, but also holds an objective of discovering our world anew and seeing it from a perspective that is so frightfully enchanting.