IJO / 300 Degrees / Audrius Vaitiekūnas

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.

Blikmuzik is a micro-label based in Brighton (UK), but with strong connections to the Lithuanian D&B/dubstep scene. So much so, in fact, that the project's raison d'être can be traced back to a Baltic land- and seascape.

Four ambient and dub releases from Siberia and Lithuania consider the appeal of escape, either to endless forest or further still. The "revolutionary" appeal of that nothingness, however, invites some negative examples from history.

Two new Russian ambient EPs of interest have recently appeared from Smolensk and Moscow, showcasing the work of musicians who moved to these noisy locations from elsewhere: Red Tunnel and PageAttack. The first of the projects, Red Tunnel, was actually founded last year in Vancouver by a rather m...