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Common Effort and a Single Goal: Highway Records' "Milestone Two"

Moscow's Highway Records has published a new compilation, entitled "Milestone Two." Incorporating tech-house artists from the capital, the Black Sea, and southern Siberia, it shows the vital importance of collaboration.

Mixing Melodies: Wunderblock, OffBeatKiD, Monomo, and PLEE!

New instrumental releases linked to Moscow, Penza, Kimry, and Kiev all view themselves through the prism of cinema. The reference points involved become less romantic over time. Comfort turns into anxiety.

Daydreams: Playone, Griboedoff, Andrey Burtaev, SCSI-9, and Yarikimoto

A number of new house tracks from Moscow, Kiev, and Perm show well the romance associated with that style. Not everybody, however, can imagine themselves in a TV commercial or a Spanish club...

Three Southern Views of House: Minianimal, Joss, and Alla Farmer

These house DJs and producers have either worked or published together. What separates them, though, are the ways in which they view their workplace - either as a realm of competition or as a happier sphere of collaboration.

Intrepid Teamwork: Highway Records, High-Jack, and Stas Simonov

A number of remixes, compilations, and samplers this month show the power of collaboration. Not only from a creative point of view, but also as a way of overcoming commercial and cultural disparities.

Secret Romance of the South: Modul, Yaha Zveroboy, and Highway Records

New tech-house recordings from Zaporozhye and Krasnodar lead to some questions regarding "provincial" dance music. Offering one of the most pleasant and optimistic outlooks is Mike Spirit, owner of Moscow's Highway Records.

SCSI-9 and Nooncat (Alex Meshkov): New Champions of Enthusiasm Over Elitism

The techno label Pro-Tez appears on this site with relative frequency, since their roster makes a clear and enduring distinction between issues of quantity and quality. As we noted back in 2008, "Pro-Tez operates between Moscow and Los Angeles. That’s the pedestrian description. The more elab...

Plantae: A New EP & Interview on "the Cosmos... plus Other Things"

Last month, for the first time, we drew attention to the work of a young musician known as Plantae, operating from the industrial city of Izhevsk. Although his real/quotidian identity remains a mystery, we were able to unearth a reasonable context from various online sources. As we noted, "a littl...

Modul: "Again, Truly Yours and Bright"

Time to announce the publication of another fine work from Modul, the minimal techno stars from Krasnodar. It comes to us as a 55-minute podcast via the Highsessions netlabel that's operated from the same city by Sergei Zarin (below). Typically these podcasts are given over to work by Zarin...

Pro-Tez Records: The Morality of Minimalism

In this third and final report on Moscow's MIGZ festival of Modern Music and Media Arts, we'll say a few words about Pro-Tez, who will be presenting a showcase of their artists. More precisely, this will consist of Mujuice, B-Voice & KHz, and DJ Korablove, among others. Pro-Tez is...