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...
One of the most joyfully messy bands in Moscow are The Sqwishy. They claim in some promotional materials to have formed in 2007, but several of their recordings date from 2006; that's a good indication of how much common sense to expect. On one social network site they declare the main inspira...
Drum & bass has never enjoyed much love or respect from primetime radio in the West: its slightly feistier, antagonistic overtones sit awkwardly with advertisers' remits. Selling cars is difficult if someone's slapping your ears at 180bpm. In Russia the style has played an enormously importa...
Barto are a very young Moscow band who made a splash recently with quite possibly one of the rudest songs recorded in the Russian language. Participating in a 2006 talent contest, the band was spotted by music journalist Artem Troitskii who who suggested they ponder releasing an album. With his help...
This album has been a long time coming, but is very gratefully received. Otomoto are from St Petersburg and their MySpace profile lists them as being 108 years old. This seems unlikely.
Equally unlikely is the definition they currently have posted of themselves: Indie / Experimental / Healing and...
