Kontext

Some deep house and dub-tech recordings from various locations this week draw upon metaphors of silence and (unhurried) geology. All are used in order to advocate the charms of slow, silent, and collective activity; they are also used to counter a noisy maximalism outside.
Nocow and Kontext (aka Dissident) are St Petersburg musicians who've recently recorded podcasts for Gimme5. Both men turn to a psychedelic heritage in order to counter the crude, rude experience of daily life
A couple of years ago on this site, in July 2008, we expressed gratitude for the discography of one electronic musician in particular from northern Russia. "At times a specter of sameness threatens the world of Russian D&B, giving us cause to be grateful for the work of Dissident, aka Kontext...
At times a specter of sameness threatens the world of Russian R&B, giving us cause to be grateful for the work of Dissident, aka  St Petersburg's Stanislav Sevost'ianikhin. In his promo-texts he makes frequent reference to the proximity of the Baltic; his MySpace photos also include several...

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Audio

Kontext – Orbed and Bright (Weight & Treble)
Kontext – Gimme5 Podcast (18.1.2011)
Kontext – kontext16
Kontext – kontext15
Kontext – Toxic zombies
Kontext – Pron queer
Kontext – Worries
Kontext – Arctic spaceship
Kontext – Spare Senses