AJ Pain is a waste disposal company in southeast London, as well as the music alias of visual artist and composer Stanislav Iordanov. The first AJ Pain performance, Enchained, took place at Ormside Projects in 2017. His album U-Heads issued on London label A Colder Consciousness in 2019. This was followed by a triptych video-release, AJ Pain Live at MOT Nov 2021. He has historical affinities with the band Hype Williams, Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band and John T. Gast. Since 2021 he has been part of German theatre collective BRUCH. He is co-programming the fourth iteration of Between at Kunstverein München in November 2022. At the moment AJ Pain sounds like lava or plasma.