Math Geek

"7x8" is a new collective recording made by several members of St Petersburg's 56 Stuff project. It hands traditions of authorship over to social enterprise in ways that epitomize the appeal of digital creativity

This week the Siberian net-label Heavy Mental has published some solid dubstep/breakcore from Sinter: six tracks under the collective name of "Crust." They can - happily - be downloaded for free. Sinter is the stagename for Novosibirsk's Aleksandr Bubin (below) who has been involved in music...

Here's a wonderful and easy chance to familiarize yourself with an important netlabel, home to a wide range of impressive artists.  Yesterday the Heavy Mental network announced a new, free compilation dedicated to the explorer Fedor Koniukhov, shown in the middle of the post, sporting considerabl...

Having said a few things yesterday about the mild schizophrenia of provincialism, it seemed appropriate to mention an artist for whom geography is truly of no consequence, since he was - and remains - knee-deep in creative activity. Math Geek, aka Artem Stepanov, was born in Moscow while his...