A range of nu-rave and breakbeat releases look back to the Russian music scene of the late 1980s. Combined with the endless romance of the Soviet space program, a fruitful nostalgia takes shape.
Four recordings from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Kiev turn to the subject of disorientation. Both love and life online cause enormous headaches. Slowly, however, a picture of gratitude transpires.
Any music that invokes the style of late '80s synth-pop will have a special resonance in the Russian context. Put mildly, a lot was happening in the country. That same sense of heady expectation is now handled with mild irony.
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...?
New recordings from Dolphin, Sansara, and Chaos In Heathrow all use the symbolism of correspondence or "dialogs" as a thematic constant. Love, in other words, is faced with a geographic and communicative challenge.
All three of these projects toy with elements of nostalgia or even tawdry, overtly commercial music-making. Nonetheless, somewhere beneath the irony, self-mockery, and sarcasm, a lyrical sprit endures.
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