Max Tau

Masha XII (aka "Masha Dvenadtsat'" or Masha 12) is a young poet and lyricist from Moscow. Her texts, often delivered personally, are used for a wide range of trip- and hip-hop tracks scattered around the web. As DJ Max Tau recently remarked in his Vrashchenie podcasts, she is less of a solo perf...

Several days ago we documented the recent work of Max Tau (above), conducted in support of burgeoning Russian trip-hop. Part and parcel of his efforts over the last few years have been the appealing and well-informed podcasts known as “Vrashchenie” (i.e., “Rotation/Revolution”), designed...

The two musicians on display here, Delete and Wialenove, are both associated with Liminal Records, a netlabel whose artists we briefly touched upon last August. At that time, we noted that the project had published an early manifesto, in which it declared an intention to foster “ambient works,...

Max Tau is a Moscow-based musician, whose real name is Maksim Il'iakhov. Born in 1988, he is one of the capital's most discerning champions of downtempo, trip- or hip-hop, and the art of turntablism in general. What is surprising is that Il'iakhov charts the development of his broad professional...