Any music that invokes the style of late '80s synth-pop will have a special resonance in the Russian context. Put mildly, a lot was happening in the country. That same sense of heady expectation is now handled with mild irony.
Several new darkwave and glitch-hop recordings share some related concerns. They ponder the decline and demise inherent in material existence. Fatalism and decadence go head-to-head in response.
A host of excellent glitch-hop recordings has appeared this week: all the way from the Pacific Coast to rural Lithuania. Many of them share an enthusiasm for metaphors of flight, fantasy, and family.
Various glitch and lo-fi recordings this week offer a nervous view of surrounding actuality. The brittle structure of these instrumentals speaks to a marked distance from confident self-statement.
Mako Records (Moscow) and Sub-Line (Yekaterinburg) are a couple of labels specializing in bass music, grime, and/or dubstep. Within those styles - and between the labels - a common worldview starts to take shape.
New recordings from the ancient towns of Moscow's periphery draw upon the retro-instruments of Soviet fantasy films. The tools once used to orchestrate science fiction are now applied to today's social challenges
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