Kazakhstan on DJ Radar: Imanbek Leads a Five-Name Board Spanning Deep House to Drum & Bass

Kazakhstan has five DJs on the DJ Radar board. That's a small field, but it covers a lot of ground: deep house, house, drum & bass and two electronica acts. Five names sit at very different stages of reach.

The board slopes steadily from top to bottom. Credit scores run from 850 at the top to 206 at fifth, with clear gaps at almost every step. Only one gap is close enough to count as a contest.

Imanbek sits at No. 1 with a credit score of 850 from 8,303 votes. His main genre is listed as Deep House.

His platform numbers point the same way across the board: 8,791,921 Spotify monthly listeners, 297,763 Spotify followers, 337,456 Instagram followers, 181,000 YouTube subscribers and 442,945 Last.fm listeners. The ranking and the streaming data agree. On this board, he's the country's best-known name.

RejSende holds second with a credit score of 655 from 4,801 votes. That's 195 points behind the leader, which is a real gap. Still, his score is well clear of everyone below him.

His listed genre is House. On streaming he shows 228,404 Spotify monthly listeners, 5,357 Spotify followers and 108,485 Last.fm listeners. Taken with the second-highest vote total on the board, that's a solid base for a house act.

At No. 3, Command Strange brings the bass side of the scene. He's the only drum & bass artist on Kazakhstan's board, with a credit score of 517 from 1,554 votes.

His profile stands out for its festival count of 16, the only festival figure recorded for any DJ in this group. He also has 49,469 Last.fm listeners, 7,223 Instagram followers and 284 Resident Advisor followers. Those numbers fit a DJ whose reputation is built at live events as much as on streaming.

Places four and five both go to Electronica acts.

Viktor van River sits at No. 4 with a credit score of 454. He has 1,586 votes, slightly more than Command Strange's 1,554, yet ranks one place lower. Votes clearly aren't the only input to the credit score. The two are 63 points apart, the closest gap on the board. His platform figures are small: 413 Instagram followers, 758 Last.fm listeners, 87 SoundCloud followers, 66 YouTube subscribers and 5 Mixcloud followers.

dj ritualist completes the board at No. 5 with a credit score of 206 from 328 votes and 36 Last.fm listeners. The record lists no other platform data for him, so this profile is still being filled in.

Kazakhstan's DJ Radar board has a clear structure. A deep house artist with streaming reach leads, a house act follows, and the rest is spread across very different styles: club-focused drum & bass and two electronica acts.

For a scene with only five names on the board, that's real stylistic range. The places to watch are the 63-point gap between third and fourth, and whether the electronica pair can start closing on the top three.