"Pack" is a new 25-minute instrumental release from two Ukrainian musicians: v4w.enko and .at/on. Local authorities, probably less enthusiastic about the lower-case characters, know these individuals as Evgeniy Vaschenko (from Kiev) and Anton Holota (from Kharkov). "Pack," just published by Belgiu...
VTOL is an engrossing, multifaceted project overseen by Moscow resident Dmitry Morozov. Arguably the quickest, most dramatic introduction to his work can be found at Vkontakte, though he fills out the site's questionnaire with such repetitive insistence that an automatic caveat is generated at the...
Two new recordings of interest have appeared from various ends of the Russian-speaking world: one comes from an outlying corner of the Moscow region - Elektrostal' - and the other from Sumy in northern Ukraine. Both authors of these net-releases have been the subject of our attention before, so...
The gentleman whose surname is displayed on the artwork of this mini-album is Dmytro Nikolaienko. Born in 1984, he works not only as a musician, but - in more public contexts - as a DJ and graphic designer, too. Residing in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaienko has, in previous years,...
Kotra is Dmytro Fedorenko, the founder of Ukraine's Kvitnu Records and a man whose aesthetic can be summed up in two words: "Ear Needles." That pithy, dramatic phrase appears in several of his online venues and expresses quite clearly the kind of insistent scratching or screeching that brands hi...
When electronic musicians from Belarus are interviewed, they tend to make at least passing observations about the health of their chosen genre nationwide. Wishing to draw attention both to their own work and the efforts of colleagues, they are keen to engender a sense of shared activity - and re...
Central to these recordings are the waters of Russia's White Sea, cradling the city of Arkhangelsk, which is a hugely important port for these northern climes - since everything else is frozen solid. The waters of the White Sea are more suitable for submarines than ships, perhaps. According to t...
Over the last week or so, new releases have come to us from several young electronic musicians whom we've championed at least once before. The three figures in question are Little Nastya (aka Stas Uvarovskii), Enko (aka "Artem" [above]), and Moscow drone exponents, AAGSF. What has become especia...
Applecore is a one-man, virtually anonymous outfit from the unforgiving Moscow suburb of Liubertsy, shown below on a typically miserable day. This part of the Russian capital, at least in recent memory, has been associated with two core phenomena. One of them is the well-known, macho-yet-middl...
Three months ago, Dutch video artist "GL" (aka Geerard) uploaded a kinetic interpretation of the track "Antarktik" by Moscow electronic outfit Milinal, itself a stage- or nickname for Moscow musician Valentin Iakovlev. The five-minute film, shown below, has thus far generated one especially in...
