Various publications from Russia and Ukraine today stress the significance of desire as a constant process. Spatial and temporal metaphors are used to describe an activity that never finds closure.
A number of new house tracks from Moscow, Kiev, and Perm show well the romance associated with that style. Not everybody, however, can imagine themselves in a TV commercial or a Spanish club...
These house DJs and producers have either worked or published together. What separates them, though, are the ways in which they view their workplace - either as a realm of competition or as a happier sphere of collaboration.
Continuing our investigation of Highway Records, we look at four of the label's other projects. These Russian musicians have spatial and stylistic connections that do much to advocate Highway's credo of "decentralization."
As Moscow's "Shanti" club continues to establish itself as a cultural venue of importance, several of the resident performers begin to form a shared outlook on the importance of music in a major metropolis
The music of Appleyard and Orlando15 uses samples from a wide range of sources: US jazz standards, recent cinematic melodrama, and post-WWII schmaltz. They all serve to celebrate the value of innocence
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...
For the second time this week, there is new music to showcase from the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, one of the nation's major powerhouses. For decades Dnepropetrovsk was a vital force in the development of Ukrainian manufacturing, both for industry as a whole and - more specifically - the f...
In some well-financed quarters, vinyl is starting to outsell CDs; the allegedly "warmer" sound of vinyl, the huggable dimensions of a 12" record, and the endurance of club culture have all helped to stave off the extinction of black, brittle discs.
The excellent jazz-funk outfit Uniquetun...
Mischa Delweeg (i.e., Del'vig) is a Moscow DJ who - through his studies - now enjoys well-established connections with the city of Dublin. This week he has released a new EP by the name of "Bregantina"; it can be downloaded for free courtesy of Substrakt Records.
He maintains productive...
