Updated 4 months ago
b. 1987 – d. June 1, 2023
Russian crypto enthisiast and DJ. Obsessed with Hunter S. Thompson.
Update June 12, 2024
Good day to you! I am a fellow Psytrance/EDM scene fellow, and I stumbled upon this lovely site whilst doing a little research and reminiscing about the good times – you know how it goes. More directly, it was your Memorial for Dimitri Klimov that pointed me this way, and I want first to give you my thanks for putting up this record of Who Was Here. I stayed on your site and looked around at a few more good friends gone, and am compelled to make one of those annoying Internet Comments where it might seem like I’m putting on my ‘Karen’ sash and just fixing for a fight if I were to critique – So please, know first and foremost you have my profound appreciation for the work being done on behalf of the Scene, the People, and therefore, the whole dang World. Thank you!
BUT, I hope you don’t find it distasteful if I feel compelled to add some commentary towards some content on here, as I have a unique position of being a participant in several events that were spoken of. I was there when Alice D passed away at Tier Na Nog festival in Saratoga Springs in Sept 2015. I was one of the 4 people who put on that little festy — I took the ride with her to the hospital, then had to make the heartbreaking decision that there was little I could do there and returned to my duties finishing setup (Corey kept vigil)… boy, what a black cloud… I was seriously concerned that perhaps some of the substances that follow the Scene might have played a part in her departure, but alas, it was Nature doing what it does. First Bruce Lee, then Alice D. Stupid brain aneurysms.
I was there at the Never Never Land event later that month to lend some love and support to the Scene, and try to keep Corey’s spirits up… I remember him crying, asking “Why’d she leave me? I hope I get to meet her again in the next life”. Cest la vie.
I was also there shortly after Corey passed away. I mean, like, very shortly. I got a call from a Russian associate of both mine and Dimitri’s, who informed me that someone had possibly overdosed at Dimitri’s apartment in Kensington. Dimitri (and the other person in the house) were obviously a wreck. I arrived at their place Jan 1 at about 11pm and was the one who called the Police and talked to them about what happened.
And I was there the morning of and the day after Dimitri was shot by the Police. Dimitri and I had been friends and business associates for nearly 20 years. I lost my little brother that day.
This brings me to the reason I am writing to you. I read through the memorials you made for my friends, and it gave me a similar sense of remembered familiarity that one might expect to inhabit when visiting their loved ones at a cemetery. Your Digital Grave Stones served well. BUT, I did sense a feeling of anger towards Dimitri and the ambiguity of his final days with Corey, and his final days with himself.
Would it be appropriate if I were to request an update to Dimitri’s memorial page, what with this being the 1-year-since marker and all? I could write a couple paragraphs myself, or give you some pertinent details and let you incorporate them as you see fit. I feel it particularly important to shine some light on what happened to Corey. Don’t take this literary criticism as a denouncement of your judgement; far from that, I read everything with an open mind seeing with eyes as an impartial observer, but there are a few factual errors that I feel are important to be spoken of correctly.
I’ll amend this wall of text that I am building by saying that if you are willing to give this your attention, then please reach out to me and let us discuss what details are in error. I have a handful of facts about the scene that Dimitri and Deirdre discovered when they found Corey lying motionless in their living room and feel that would allow for a more reasonable conclusion to what happened. For one, I know for a fact that Corey was not abandoned like an animal nor dragged through a hallway. He laid peacefully in their living room where he passed on for anywhere from 2-4 hours before he was discovered by Deirdre when she awoke to use the bathroom. There was no point calling for an Ambulance when he was discovered, rigor mortis had already begun to take affect An hour later the police were present (there was no point calling for an Ambulance when he was discovered, rigor mortis had already begun to take affect) and shortly after a medical team was on scene to take the body. As far as Corey’s property, the Philadelphia Police went through Corey’s backpack looking for anything suspicious (as well as the rest of the apartment) and THEY took Corey’s phone, his wallet, his pipes, his baggies, and his laptop. Perhaps they felt it may have been pertinent if further investigation were warranted. They also noticed that Corey’s body had a glass pipe rigor-ed in his hand, and an empty baggie in his pocket of suspected heroin. Yay, Kensington. As for the being left to rot in the morgue, the police officers that were on scene were given the names and phone number of Corey’s parents, and they assured us that they would reach out and inform his family, and we three discussed whether we should do that ourselves or leave it to ‘the trained professionals’. Breaking the news to a mother that her son has passed away is one of the hardest things to do. I know, I was the one who called Dimitri’s mother Olga and told her that this time I wasn’t calling her with a message of ‘don’t worry, Dimitri is Ok, but there has been some trouble’. My heart still hurts from that. If we had known that his family was left in the dark and worried for that time, we would have called ourselves.
So that is the scene that I would ask you to consider when speaking of the Karma of Dimitri getting shot by the Philadelphia Police. There is a bit more to that story as well, with the story of police being amended from “Man Killed, Officer Shot” to “Police opened fire on someone who presented no immediate danger to them”. This is probably an irrelevant detail, but Philadelphia Police Sergeant Michael Spicer who led the march into Dimitri’s apartment that night has a VERY sordid history of being indicted multiple times in his past for exactly what he did to Dimitri. I would hope that there is a tasteful way to bring some awareness to the Philadelphia Police Murder Rate without ignoring the ills of drug abuse.
There lies a second part that I feel could use some more clarity, and that is Dmitri’s “dark path” of wheeling and dealing. In the many years that I was Dimitri’s friend, I would many times have conversations with him regarding the ethics of his choices, and feel that there is some misconception towards the role that Dimitri played. His moniker of Asha’man (A Shaman) reflected his deep concern with being a diligent “Doctor”, in particular to Do No Harm. Harm Reduction was actually a very big concern of his. It’s hard to rationalize someone ‘slinging meth’ as being OK, but as much as I despise the stuff, I could at least understand the idea that he was always diligent about testing things for adulterants and purity so as to be positioned as a procurer of “clean substances’, especially when compared to what could be found on any street corner in Kensington where he lived. He honestly felt he was doing people a good deed there. He also never ‘sold’ heroin, instead spending many many hours and days getting a steady supply of Kratom, Suboxone, and Methadone to help anyone who was caught in the grips of Opiate dependency and looking for a way out. I was there for DOZENS of success stories of Dimitri and Deirdre taking in the burnt out husks of humans that would wander their way and offering them a place to stay and a rigorously tested 7 day regiment of Methadone/Benzo/Subutex that miraculously got people over the grip of Opiates without the torment of a body screaming out in pain.
This is what I hope could be reflected as well in Dimitri’s memorial. Rather than casting the light as a merchant of death, profiting on others pain, I really do believe that Dimitri procured his ‘medicines’ in hopes to have an opportunity to help people through the some of the swamps that surround the Scene. To put it in perspective, Dimitri used his prowess with computers to run a moderately successful DarkNet Market Vendor account where he sold ONLY Kratom, Suboxone, DMT, LSD, MDMA, and Psilocybin Mushrooms. Those are all substances that have a well documented ability as a much less harmful way to ‘self medicate’.
There are some other details that may not be pertinent to any message that concerns the Psytrance Community, but I’ll just throw this one out there, Dimitri’s personal abuse of substances had a pretty clear correlation with his personal relationships — he would dive deep down into the waters that were swallowing someone else in effort to show the path back out. I witnessed him fall many times for a lost girl showed no hope of changing, only to pull both of them back out. Misguided for sure, but not malevolent.
If it matters, (which it kind of does, because the Scene should promote well being) I have always been an advocate for Adderall in moderation instead of Meth (for those with the neurochemistry that benefits from Serotonin antagonists), and never, for any reason, should Heroin be used medicinally.
Check out the Kulture Cru Facebook and Instagram, we do some kickass Underground Raves in the Philly area
Update: Memorial Service Tuesday June 6
Funeral service info for tomorrow. His mom Olya is going to play psytrance there. Tuesday June 6. No flowers . Kimble funeral home from 12 to 3 https://www.thekimblefuneralhome.com/ (same place actually that dealt with his dad’s funeral 25 years ago) and then Lawrenceville cemetery https://goo.gl/maps/RLRCoD6w5mCnwE639. spread the info if i forgot someone
Kimble Funeral Home : Princeton, New Jersey (NJ)
Update: Friendly Fire, More Details, Video
A Fitting Closure to the Deaths of Corey and Rebecca Felsman
Music above: “Crawl Space” from Breaking Bad OST, the title of which is eerily prescient with Dima’s death.
His name “Asha’man” apparently came from the Wheel of Time fantasy book series: “An asha’man was a man who defended truth and justice and right for everyone. A guardian who would not yield even when hope was gone.”
Not to be confused with the producer “Psyberia,” aka Felix Nagorsky, aka TIME LOCK, was born in Russia in 1978. Today he lives in Israel in the northern city of Carmiel.
Dima was once a little innocent child, with (presumably) caring parents. He had a great life ahead of him with some technical skills.
So much promise in America, free from the modern hellscape that is Russia, free from getting drafted into a kill zone.
Sadly, he turned to meth, and heroin, bringing a lot of suffering and tragedy to others in his life, being present at both Corey & Rebecca‘s deaths, and possibly directly responsible for Corey’s demise.
About Kensington
Kensington, aka “Kenzo,” is an area famous for drugs and homelessness. Fittingly, it “was the birthplace of the K&A Gang, an Irish American organized crime association known for their distribution of methamphetamine in the 1980s… The neighborhood has gained nationwide attention and great notoriety because of extensive press coverage of its thriving narcotics drug scene, often described as the largest on the east coast.”
Philly’s Kensington Is A Zombie Apocalypse
“the last thing i texted to D before i removed my signl was “maybe you should sober up… maybe you should stop”
to which he responded, “I never intended to stop.”
Speculation and Judgement
This happened a few days after he DJ’d at a party in upstate New York, where at least one person was involved that has a well-known history of heavy meth use. Presumably, Dima got high at the party, and days later, spun out in Kensington, in an eerie semblance of Corey’s death.
Dima’s story is, in a way, similar to another dead Russian techy meth head who attended psytrance parties – Ontanca, who managed to die without bringing others down with him. See also: Sasha Chislenko and Vladimir Voevodsky. This calls for a new trance archetype: the Methalomaniacal Dead Russian Techie. Just what it says.
A perusal through Dima’s crytpo links shows a steamy underbelly in the peak of the crypto bubble.
All meth and heroin roads lead to ruin. Meth and heroin has no place in psytrance. Take your death spiral elsewhere.
For better or worse, for this man with so much unfulfilled promise, it is all over.
Another life ruined by drug abuse.
https://6abc.com/philadelphia-police-officer-shot-today-in-hand-kensington-shooting/13325633/
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