Pavel Ambiont

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Ambient, Ambient Dub, Clicks, Deep, Downbeat, Electronic, Glitch, Hard IDM, Idm, Industrial, Leftfield, Lo-fi, Minimal, Techno

Electronic artist from Belarus. Real name: Pavel Niakhayeu (Belarusian: Павел Няхаеў, Russian: Павел Нехаев). Born in 1978 in Orsha (Orša). Was DJing in 1998-2002. Makes his own sounds and rhythms since 2003.

Music shapeshifts from deep & dubby to trancey or more agressive techno, tech dub, electro, tribal rhythms or ambient. It's not style that is important, but a general feel or character of sound flow that can be summed up as 'hypno' or 'liminal techno' - techno that borders or merges with other genres.

Currently works with several Belarusian promo-groups, including Foundamental Network, Euthanasia.name, Organic Family, 12" Promo. Cooperation with Unsound Festival has led to collaboration with UK Dubstep producer Pinch and to playing with multi-instrumentalist Artem Atrashevsky (B_twisted) in a Dub/Downtempo duo Nerdy Dubz.

Other projects: Nieviadomy Artyst, Calciumfresser

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http://foundamental.net/
http://soundcloud.com/pavel_ambiont
http://www.myspace.com/pavelambiont

Ecology and Emptiness: I/Dex, KVLTIK, Haapa, and Summer of Haze

The Belarusian ambient/glitch artist I/Dex has published a long and meditative series of instrumentals. Their complex harmony is dramatically countered by some equally recent drag and witch-house releases.

The Considerable Advantages of Minimalism: Music Kollektiv 2012

Music Kollektiv is a Moscow-based organization, often dedicated to minimal and deep/dub techno. We look at some of the St. Petersburg members in MK and their search for grand significance within spartan structures.

Three Constructive Principles: Pavel Ambiont, Sfourds, and Gran+

Three Belarusian friends and colleagues have new releases on display. Their enthusiasm for techno or a related strictness emerges against the backdrop of some awful unpredictability in local history.

The Benefits of Anonymity: Bop, Keda Kid, and Nieviadomy Artyst

These recordings from St Petersburg and Minsk share an interest in small-scale or even anonymous creativity. Within systems of loud, well-funded banality, minimalism has huge appeal

Foundamental & "Mental Contact": A Manifesto for Belarusian Electronica

When electronic musicians from Belarus are interviewed, they tend to make at least passing observations about the health of their chosen genre nationwide. Wishing to draw attention both to their own work and the efforts of colleagues, they are keen to engender a sense of shared activity - and re...

Sanytch: A Microhouse between Minsk and Prague

Sanytch is the pseudonym/nickname of Aliaksandr Niavolin from Belarus. Educated both in his homeland and Russia, he now resides in the Czech Republic, where he works simultaneously as a web designer, DJ, photographer, and musician. Niavolin has been employed in the field of graphic arts since 1997...

Pavel Ambiont: The Peace Dub EP

Pavel Ambiont is a musician and sound designer in his early thirties from Belarus, with more than ten years DJ-ing experience under his belt. For the last six or seven years, however, he has increasingly turned his hand to conceptual projects, involving not only more fluid soundscapes - a long...