Two new albums from Ukraine and Kazakhstan have just been released in ways that link trip- or abstract hip-hop to the slow and comfortable workings of nostalgia. // "Современный инструментальный хип-хоп – вещь тонкая, требующая особого подхода. Казалось бы, сэмпл лупом, бит, бочка – и произведение готово, а рунет покорен." Вот антидот...
Nick Tremo is the stage name of a fundamentally anonymous musician/DJ from the ancient Ukrainian town of Uzhgorod. He has been responsible for a couple of releases this year, both offered through the net label/aggregator Qulture. More specifically, in mid March a one-hour, fifteen track instrument...
Subwise Records is an independent netlabel, based in St Petersburg, to whom we've turned on numerous occasions - for a wide number of reasons and releases. Now, as when the label began, it specializes in electronica from new or little-known artists, often from northern Russia.
The project’s...
In the early 1980s, a electro/funk single was released by Afrika Bambaataa (and colleagues) called "Renegades of Funk." Thanks to the bold production work of Arthur Baker, it would go on to become not only a major dancefloor hit, but also an enduring social statement. The track, in short, suggests...
The Siberian netlabel Electronica has just published a 24-minute downtempo, very wistful EP by St Petersburg's Nocow, aka Aleksei Nikitin. Available for free, it maintains the high standards long established by Sasha Khizhnyakov's web project. Entitled "Koona," the EP is accompanied by a diminut...
A little over one month ago, we found ourselves with a copy of Pixelord's super new EP, "Lucid Freaks" and paid it due attention. A couple of weeks later, another recording popped up from Pixelord's alter ego, Gultskra Artikler: that, too, was showcased on this site. And now, with almost startli...
Last week, the Lithuanian net-project Mondayjazz released a new mixtape/set from Moscow beat maestro Dza. It's currently promoted, in Russian, as "a mash-up made from tracks by all kinds of hip-hop performers, both from Russia and further afield. Banging beats for ya ears!"
Indeed.
It come...
Starting with the basics, we should point out that Moscow's Hyperboloid Records is - in the simplest of terms - an electronic music label operated by Dmitrii Garin and Alexei Devianin. The project's most recent release appeared a couple of days ago: a debut LP by Acid Mafia called "Surrogate." T...
The central figure amid the various projects listed in this article is Siberia-born DJ Aleksei Devianin, aka Pixelord, who's perhaps best known under the pseudonym of Gultskra Artikler. That strange moniker is used to encapsulate a long-lived project described to Russian audiences as “melodic,...
On occasion we find ourselves brought (back) into the unpredictable release schedules of Moscow's How2Make records, which is always a surprise - and a pleasure. The label was formed six years ago by a couple of hard-working local musicians, Dza and Escapo, with the initial goal of publishing s...
