Moa Pillar, Dafu, and I-Tone all work in Moscow, yet have connections to Siberia... and even Russia's Pacific Coast. Those distant locations have a direct impact on how these men view the present day
Abracadabra Recordings are based in the city of Voronezh, where the project nurtures a number of young talents. Most of them struggle with the "benefits" of isolated, often lonely creative work
The band "A Headphones" first came into our purview in September 2008; at that time we paid close attention to the vigorous ways in which the ensemble tries to shun all manner of generic or promotional conventions with a devil-may-care outlook. This attitude was best encapsulated in one of their g...
Moscow's National Center for Contemporary Arts was yesterday host to the important and impressive NetAudio Festival, designed to showcase web-based activity in the realm of dance, idm, and electronica. In its own words, the festival "presents to the Moscow public all the Russian music projects - b...
Now that the summer has come to an end, Moscow's RusZud label has cast a glance back over a season of break- and hardcore compositions, not only from Russian and Ukrainian DJs, but with a few French and Italian cuts, too. The result is a dual LP, modestly titled "RusZud #12," yet emblazoned with...
On September 19th, 2009 the Rusty Pop label, based just outside of Moscow, will be celebrating six years of concerted effort with a Festival of Independent Music, operating under the title "13:30." To set the stage for the event - at least in terms of mood and general outlook - the folks at Rust...
Microbit Project, as we've noted before, is essentially the brainchild of Moscow musician and artist, Evgenii Kharitonov. His endeavors are found with (almost excessive) frequency over a large range of music portals, but on this occasion he has produced something special, together with the Frenc...
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...
The RusZud label recently released an intriguing new breakcore compilation, entitled "Moscow Breakcore Masscare." It features 18 new tracks from almost as many artists and has - as we see - a rather bizarre cover, too. Front and center is a well-known statue of poet Vladimir Maiakovskii (18...
A couple of months ago we covered the small electronic outfit from Barnaul, Siberia known as The Kirbi. The project now centers primarily on the solo efforts of Denis Fomenko, shown below. In that earlier post we focused on the recent leanings of Fomenko towards a more ambient sound, somethi...
