Pixelord

RU

Abstract hip-hop, Acid breaks, Adult contemporary, Baroque Pop, Dance, Downbeat, Dubstep, Funk, Glitch-Hop, Grime, Hip-hop, Hip-Hop Instrumentals, Instrumental, Post-Disco, Turntablism

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A Hyperboloid Night: Valta, Saburov, NVG, Acid Mafia, and Pixelord

A forthcoming show, hosted by Moscow's Hyperboloid Records, will bring together some luminaries of the bass music scene. They will arrive from Kiev, Melitopol, Tyumen, and - most notably - the streets of London.

Looking for Good News: Modst, Ovrkl, Cream Child, and Koloah

Bass tunes and hip-hop instrumentals have arrived from Vladivostok, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev. Three of them imagine the emotional and mental benefits of intuitive composition. Our fourth artist is less sure.

Stepping Out: Kinnel, Pixelord, Vadim Griboedov, and Last Night Flavor

New chip-tune, bass-, and hip-hop recordings investigate the appeal of difference and distance. How much variation guarantees satisfaction? Deviance, it eventually transpires, has a limit. Liberties reach a dead-end...

Drag and Dreams: Pixelord, K1llRGVP, Timely Aiah, and Summer of Haze

Sounds emanating this week from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tambov, and Tapa (Estonia) share a common concern. How does innocence fare over time? And what ominous noises emerge from its failure...?

In Praise of a Healthy Elitism: Koloah, 813, Malefique, and Depto-3

Four new recordings from bass and hip-hop producers touch upon the issue of standards. Worried by the growing popularity - and falling quality - of much bass music, these artists ponder a need for new values or virtues.

DS9: Wols, Pixelord, 813, Oh!Dee, Htrspltn, Mix-Toor, and Az Matter

We look at two new compilations from Mad-Hop and Dystopiaq. Both involve Russian beatmakers, yet are international in design. Those growing spaces lead to some popular sci-fi references - and talk of distant planets...

From Laziness to Liberty: Jekka, Jazz Gangsters, and Piper Spray

This week sees the appearance of lo-fi indie pop and jazz-inspired turntablism from Moscow and St. Petersburg. The rococo intricacy of these recordings is designed to celebrate similarly involved thought patterns.

Fluttering Hearts: Valotihkuu, 813, and the Taprikk Sweezee Remixes

Various examples of new bass music from around Russia this week deliberately employ lo-fi media. These most fragile tools recall a time when tape flutter was a sign of music played endlessly - and with much love.

Hyperboloid Records: NVG, Damscray, Vikhornov, and Colleagues

Hyperboloid Records is a discerning Moscow label dedicated to some of the best bass-, 8-bit, and "brain-music" practitioners of the present. What, therefore, appears striking is the label's use of prior decades for inspiration.

Brittle Beats and Old Cassettes: Pixelord, Monokle, and Nipple Tapes

New recordings from these three projects have their roots in some distant, romantic locations: Novosibirsk, Arkhangelsk, and Irkutsk. Perhaps as a result, a pattern of natural, elemental metaphors overshadows any technical chutzpah.

Pixelord, Dza, and Modul: Getting to Grips with Physical Experience

New recordings have appeared from three leading lights of Russian electronica. Representing their distant hometowns of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, and Krasnodar, they share some connections in their attitudes to digital music and physical experience.

The Beauty of Incompleteness: Dza and the Five-Finger Remixes

This week, Error Broadcast announces the publication of nineteen remixes, all based upon Dza's 2010 release "Five-Finger Discount." A limited number of copies will appear on cassette - for locally specific reasons

Looking for Friends: Modul, Anton Zap, Lay-Far, and Mars Needs Lovers

Various EPs and remixes this week touch upon the role of friendship, networking, and collaborative culture in an environment where the role of profit is diminished. Today's trust can form tomorrow's institutions, perhaps

A Siberian View of Absence: New Recordings from Fish Brain and Tsunadem

Several of the musicians who attended Moscow's recent Red Bull Bass Camp are from towns in Siberia. Given that common bond, it's interesting to see how they interpret the role of distance - or total absence, even

Safety in Numbers: Red Bull Music Academy, Bass Camp Moscow 2011

The Red Bull Academy just held its "Bass Camp" in Moscow. Twenty promising young artists were offered master-classes, roundtable discussions, and some pearls of wisdom from UK lecturers

Alien Hipsters and Other Outsiders: Lokiboi, Yolki, Push'n'Pull, and Glaz

New songs, texts, and instrumentals by these artists all concern an interplay of anonymity and elitism. They investigate the thin line between standoffishness and the public's total unawareness...

Pixelord and RJB: Stories of Magical Fish and an Indian Goddess

Pixelord and RJB both offer new recordings that draw upon the dreams of childhood. Just as important are the tools that kick-start fantasy: Nintendo toys, Soviet TVs, and the occasional VCR

Eleven Forms of Deconstruction: The Russian Beatmaker Compilation

The German label Mooncircle is about to publish a collection of eleven beatmakers from across Russia and Ukraine. How will the CD unify some very disparate tracks?

Reactions to the Pitchfork Mixes: Dza, 813, Mujuice, Lapti, and Pixelord

The magazine Pitchfork recently published an impressive survey Moscow's most promising beatmakers. After that flurry of interest from abroad, though, what's the level of interest at home?

"Fly Russia": The Social Benefits of a Wonky Worldview

Fifteen new wonky tracks from all over Russia, brought together in celebration both of the genre and its philosophical underpinnings.

Pixelord and the "Wonky" Evolution of Siberian Abstract Hip-Hop

A little over one month ago, we found ourselves with a copy of Pixelord's super new EP, "Lucid Freaks" and paid it due attention. A couple of weeks later, another recording popped up from Pixelord's alter ego, Gultskra Artikler: that, too, was showcased on this site. And now, with almost startli...

Gultskra Artikler and Slow: Radical Downtempo from Sea and Space

Earlier this month we focused on two new dancefloor releases by Sergey Suokas and Pixelord (aka Aleksei Devianin). Both were appealing because of their use of dub techno, in the former case, and crunch- or glitch-hop, in the latter. Both of these musicians were using either echo/reverb or broken...

The Pixelord Remixes: All Kinds of Bleeps, Boops, Twists, and Spasms

The central figure amid the various projects listed in this article is Siberia-born DJ Aleksei Devianin, aka Pixelord, who's perhaps best known under the pseudonym of Gultskra Artikler. That strange moniker is used to encapsulate a long-lived project described to Russian audiences as “melodic,...