Music Kollektiv is a Moscow-based organization, often dedicated to minimal and deep/dub techno. We look at some of the St. Petersburg members in MK and their search for grand significance within spartan structures.
Three Belarusian friends and colleagues have new releases on display. Their enthusiasm for techno or a related strictness emerges against the backdrop of some awful unpredictability in local history.
Four new recordings from bass and hip-hop producers touch upon the issue of standards. Worried by the growing popularity - and falling quality - of much bass music, these artists ponder a need for new values or virtues.
Various publications from Russia and Ukraine today stress the significance of desire as a constant process. Spatial and temporal metaphors are used to describe an activity that never finds closure.
We look at the remaining attendees of Sochi's Red Bull "Bass Camp." Although these young men operate within the very public domain of sonic performance art, the role of introspection and imagination is uppermost.
Three Baltic instrumentalists look back upon audio-visual phenomena of their childhood. What results is a new respect for simplicity in adult experience - set to an equally simple, occasionally nostalgic soundtrack.
These house DJs and producers have either worked or published together. What separates them, though, are the ways in which they view their workplace - either as a realm of competition or as a happier sphere of collaboration.
Santi Touch (Vytautas Sarapinas), Bogdan Taran, and Max Lomov operate between the cities of Kaunas, Riga, and London. That list alone is enough to suggest some considerable levels of effort - in the name of entertainment.
Тohuwabohu Music is a label based in Tallinn, Estonia, focusing upon house, techno, and synth-pop from around the country. Even within that small realm, however, a great deal of networked activity is taking place.
A number of remixes, compilations, and samplers this month show the power of collaboration. Not only from a creative point of view, but also as a way of overcoming commercial and cultural disparities.
