A long-running connection,finally made public.

Musical foundation

Introduced to Metallica by his mother at five, Siddhant grew up in a musical world where rock, metal, pop, disco and Bollywood rarely stayed separated—Elvis Presley, AC/DC, Queen and Metallica alongside ABBA, Michael Jackson, Bryan Adams, Britney Spears and the peak Bollywood sound of the early 2000s.

That breadth established an early instinct: music mattered for what it could make you feel—melody, aggression, rhythm, tension and release—not because it belonged to a category.

Sidallica

Sidallica began as a childhood gamertag around the age of nine.

It remained part of Siddhant’s identity across online spaces long before it became an artist name—so when the project finally needed a public identity, inventing a new persona felt unnecessary.

Electronic music at scale

At ten, Siddhant attended an Edward Maya performance in the rain—his first experience of electronic music as atmosphere, spectacle and collective energy rather than tracks alone.

Around the same period he began learning guitar, opening the door further into guitar-driven music through artists such as Green Day and Linkin Park while electronic discovery accelerated in parallel.

Electronic expansion

Skrillex belonged to the earliest major wave of electronic discovery, connecting naturally with existing metal roots through aggression, distortion and sound design—alongside Avicii, Hardwell, Swedish House Mafia, Martin Garrix, Daft Punk, David Guetta, Tiësto, KSHMR, Major Lazer and others defining that expanding landscape.

The palette widened through bass, festival electronic music, trap, trance, psytrance, house and techno.

Live electronic culture

Seeing Skrillex live in Gurgaon made the scale of the culture tangible, while broader Indian, South Asian and global electronic approaches continued widening the possibilities.

Among those discoveries was Charlotte de Witte, whose sets became one of Siddhant’s earliest meaningful gateways into techno.

Formal DJ training

Siddhant began formally learning DJing at Infini Music Academy, establishing the technical foundations behind an interest that had already been developing for years.

University of Waterloo

Undergraduate years in Canada widened the palette further—house, progressive and melodic electronic music grew increasingly important alongside techno, trance, bass and harder styles.

An elective centred on The Beatles and the foundations of rock and roll, including deeper exposure to Chuck Berry, reinforced a lasting idea: genres evolve through influence, collision and reinterpretation rather than isolation.

VELD

Attending VELD Music Festival reinforced set architecture and crowd journey from another angle—moving between stages, artists and genres rather than remaining locked to one sound for an entire day.

Return to India

Returning at the end of 2023 placed Siddhant inside a rapidly expanding Indian electronic scene around Delhi NCR, with international artists arriving more frequently while the domestic ecosystem deepened.

Local scene

Through Techno Takeover India events—including Those Who Know They Know in 2024 and 2025—Siddhant became more closely connected to the local ecosystem, including Indian artists such as Houdini and Almost Human.

His own listening moved deeper into psychedelic, acid and harder techno, while experiencing artists including Arjun Vagale, DotDat and others reinforced the depth developing closer to home.

Samantha Togni · the decision

Siddhant attended a Techno Takeover India masterclass with Samantha Togni and met her afterwards.

The experience helped crystallise a decision that had been building for years: to take the next step more seriously. Afterwards, he decided to join TakeOver Music Academy to sharpen his craft and deepen his understanding of the scene.

TakeOver Music Academy

Following the masterclass, Siddhant joined TakeOver Music Academy, where further training helped fine-tune his mixing, improve his understanding of the industry and develop greater familiarity with contemporary club-standard workflow.

The environment also helped him form relationships within the scene while moving from occasional DDJ-400 practice onto current club-standard CDJ-3000X players and the DJM-A9 mixer.

Sidallica public launch

Sidallica launches publicly from Delhi NCR as a focused artist project—debut recorded set BLOOD RAVE, bookings and a floor-first approach shaped by years of listening, training and immersion.

Genre is the Palette. Set is the Story.