Mako Records (Moscow) and Sub-Line (Yekaterinburg) are a couple of labels specializing in bass music, grime, and/or dubstep. Within those styles - and between the labels - a common worldview starts to take shape.
Moa Pillar has just released a remix of equally new material from Modul. His reasons for doing so form an interesting parallel with other beatmakers this month - both from Russia and Latvia
New recordings from Moscow and Uzhgorod (Ukraine) take a long look at the classic workings of drum and bass. Oddly enough, that same style then prompts some musings on social processes beyond the dancefloor
The artists under consideration here are from Mogilev and Tomsk. Despite the distances between them, they both show how the rumble of D&B has morphed into quieter, more contemplative forms
The Tapeaters are known for carefully-crafted versions of '80s synth-pop; Ukrainian DJ Jet Peks leans more in the direction of '70s funk. Together those two projects raise some interesting questions about an "old-school" aesthetic
Several tech-house and breakbeat releases have recently appeared from three men of different ages and reputations. The styles they choose say a great deal about their views on growing older
Cheese People, from the city of Samara, have been one of the success stories of Russian pop music, crossing over from obscurity into the mainstream in a very modern way: through ads and TV
Fifteen new wonky tracks from all over Russia, brought together in celebration both of the genre and its philosophical underpinnings.
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...
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.
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