Dza

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Abstract hip-hop, Bitpop, Breakbeat, Chiptune, Dance, Downbeat, Glitch, Hip-hop, Hip-Hop Instrumentals, Instrumental, Leftfield, Lo-fi, Minimal, Post-Disco, R&B, Techno, Trip-hop, Wonky

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Sleepiness and Small Families: Kammerton, Dza, Feyorz, and T'chimu

Four releases this weekend, emerging from various cities around Russia, offer multiple ways to counter dull or disappointing actuality. They include sleep, recreational drugs, fatherhood, and a stubborn optimism.

Escapist Harmonies from Far Away: Rbe, Camel Crock, and Lingvisto

The "Free Crates" organization is establishing an impressive list of Russian and Ukrainian beatmakers. Many of these musicians come from small towns: the staff at Free Crates turn that apparent setback into a philosophical benefit.

The Endless Allure of Faraway Places: Dza, Sumeo, and BitterTV

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...

Pixelord, Dza, and Modul: Getting to Grips with Physical Experience

New recordings have appeared from three leading lights of Russian electronica. Representing their distant hometowns of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, and Krasnodar, they share some connections in their attitudes to digital music and physical experience.

The Beauty of Incompleteness: Dza and the Five-Finger Remixes

This week, Error Broadcast announces the publication of nineteen remixes, all based upon Dza's 2010 release "Five-Finger Discount." A limited number of copies will appear on cassette - for locally specific reasons

The Dramatic Evolution of "Rokapops": Mujuice and the Mumiy Troll Covers

The new album by Mujuice has been associated with aspects of '90s songwriting in Russia. In particular it is compared to the work of Mumiy Troll, whose catalog is currently reinterpreted by a major Moscow magazine

Safety in Numbers: Red Bull Music Academy, Bass Camp Moscow 2011

The Red Bull Academy just held its "Bass Camp" in Moscow. Twenty promising young artists were offered master-classes, roundtable discussions, and some pearls of wisdom from UK lecturers

Alien Hipsters and Other Outsiders: Lokiboi, Yolki, Push'n'Pull, and Glaz

New songs, texts, and instrumentals by these artists all concern an interplay of anonymity and elitism. They investigate the thin line between standoffishness and the public's total unawareness...

The Quiet Champions of Little Heroes: Appleyard and Orlando15

The music of Appleyard and Orlando15 uses samples from a wide range of sources: US jazz standards, recent cinematic melodrama, and post-WWII schmaltz. They all serve to celebrate the value of innocence

Elevating Russia's Musical Life to New Levels: "PlusPlusPlus"

PlusPlusPlus is a collaboration of artistic and managerial talents from around Moscow. It holds much promise as a new center of creative significance

Eleven Forms of Deconstruction: The Russian Beatmaker Compilation

The German label Mooncircle is about to publish a collection of eleven beatmakers from across Russia and Ukraine. How will the CD unify some very disparate tracks?

"Fly Russia": The Social Benefits of a Wonky Worldview

Fifteen new wonky tracks from all over Russia, brought together in celebration both of the genre and its philosophical underpinnings.

Dza and Mujuice: A Quick Move from Criticism to the Classroom

Last week, the Lithuanian net-project Mondayjazz released a new mixtape/set from Moscow beat maestro Dza. It's currently promoted, in Russian, as "a mash-up made from tracks by all kinds of hip-hop performers, both from Russia and further afield. Banging beats for ya ears!" Indeed. It come...

813: Coming to Terms with One's Physical and Fiscal Abilities... Online

On occasion we find ourselves brought (back) into the unpredictable release schedules of Moscow's How2Make records, which is always a surprise - and a pleasure. The label was formed six years ago by a couple of hard-working local musicians, Dza and Escapo, with the initial goal of publishing s...

The MIGZ Festival 2009: Deep-Seated Fantasies and Shallow Pockets

With the summer now behind us, some of the season's events have been pleasingly/productively summarized - by various people in different places. Visitors at all manner of functions have uploaded memorabilia in a haphazard fashion. Photographs will appear from one attendee, with a little video fr...