The Russian poet and Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky once gave a speech to the students of Dartmouth College on the philosophical benefits of boredom. "It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open. For boredom speaks the lang...
"Motor" is one of the pseudonyms of Moscow's Vadim Ugriumov; he appears in multiple projects and many places. The reason for this particular announcement, amid such frenzied activity, is that Mr. Ugriumov has just released a very appealing nine-track, 44-minute solo recording entitled "Tiger Tunes...
The music in this post, for all its modern wizardry, comes from one of the oldest towns known to Slavic culture: Uzhgorod in Western Ukraine, near the border with both Slovakia and Hungary. Uzhgorod dates at least to the ninth century, when the creation of a castle allowed safe and settled growth...
As we write, the national drum & bass tour "Pirate Station" (Piratskaia stantsiia) is winding down. The images in this post were taken from a wide range of Russian cities over the first three months of 2010; these concerts have grown steadily from a show on Radio Rekord that was begun by D&a...
Cubic is an outfit that values simplicity very highly. Its members - who remain virtually anonymous - are contained within the MixGalaxy project that operates out of St Petersburg. The label has thus far produced a couple of very interesting compilations, which are not in any way generically def...
Two new breakcore/D&B releases have appeared online from a couple of ancient Russian towns; these recordings give voice to an interesting conflict between the weight of history and flippant innovation. The two locations in question are Pskov - almost on the border with Estonia - and Odintsov...
Each summer, between late July and late August, the Kazantip festival becomes - arguably - the biggest dance-related event across all of Russia and Ukraine. Set on the sunny shores of the Crimea, Kazantip has long been an annual object of desire for more than 150,000 revellers. This year was no...
Late last year we took a look at the drum & bass outfit CMOS Killers from the southern beach resort of Sochi, shown above on a cloudy day. At the same time we noted a couple of things in their discography. Firstly, it was clear that the economic situation in the area was less than jolly (thi...
Sergey Sanches is one of Moscow's best-known DJs, with almost fifteen years of experience now under his belt. With deserved pride, he often advertises the fact that he has played not only in most clubs of Moscow and St Petersburg, but also in approximately 70 towns and cities around Russia. To t...
This week the Siberian net-label Heavy Mental has published some solid dubstep/breakcore from Sinter: six tracks under the collective name of "Crust." They can - happily - be downloaded for free.
Sinter is the stagename for Novosibirsk's Aleksandr Bubin (below) who has been involved in music...
