A collection of abstract hip-hop, bass, and techno recordings has just come from the Siberian webzine, "Big Echo." Compiled in honor of Counterculture Day, these tracks help to connect some very cold locations with... Santa Cruz.
Bass tunes and hip-hop instrumentals have arrived from Vladivostok, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev. Three of them imagine the emotional and mental benefits of intuitive composition. Our fourth artist is less sure.
Three beatmakers from St. Petersburg, Omsk, and Odessa all look to their soundscapes as a way of creating an audible sense of "home." As those compositions develop, they take on a social life of their own, we're told.
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.
New dancefloor material from Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Sochi expresses doubts about the social sphere it hopes to charm. At least two new hip-hop and house publications refer directly to anxiety and mental illness.
From various ends of Russia, three musicians produce new recordings that are all tied, in some way, to issues of distance. Broken beats and hip-hop instrumentals morph into psychedelic chill-hop as the composers' gaze stretches further...
Today we consider three of the newest artists on our FFM compilation: Thallus, Audiosynthes, and B*tchpleaze. They live in very different, distant towns - yet share a common passion for the kind of reverie that needs no hi-tech tools.
Yesterday saw the release of our double album, "Antique/Astral," dedicated to the work of thirty young beatmakers. Here we offer a little context to their careers and current efforts.
Several instrumental and abstract hip-hop releases from both Russia and Kazakhstan consider various aspects of emotional promise. Surrounded by adult disappointment and material goals, these musicians ponder various (distant) alternatives instead.
Various forms of disorder and decline are used by these artists in order to champion an escape from mercantile logic. Some favorite models of illogicality include sickness and Aubrey Beardsley
From St Petersburg's Yellowhead (and 56Stuff) comes a wonderful, wobbly celebration of Russian fantasy. It takes place in rundown kitchens - and therefore tries even harder to escape the here and now
Cream Child and Beat-Maker-Beat are both from St Petersburg. Their observations on the craft of remixing bear telling traces of a local - and revolutionary - heritage
Two recent EPs from Gleb Solov'ev (Moscow) and Cream Child (St. Petersburg) both play with audience expectations of D&B and hip-hop respectively. Their craft benefits, but their wallets may not
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