Shtukk / Denis Davidov

56 Stuff and Subwise are St. Petersburg netlabels. They share a common outlook in that both projects use irony and unpredictability in order to counter the goal-driven pragmatism of commercial music.

"7x8" is a new collective recording made by several members of St Petersburg's 56 Stuff project. It hands traditions of authorship over to social enterprise in ways that epitomize the appeal of digital creativity

Maintaining their usual high standards, the people at netlabel 56 Stuff have this week released a new compilation of 11 different artists.  Entitled "Takeaway," it is designed to accompany a series of events around St Petersburg at which, perhaps not surprisingly, guests are invited to take awa...

A couple of years ago on Russia's Channel One, a drama series entitled Kazaroza (above) played to loud applause from one small element of Russian society: speakers of Esperanto.  The drama, set in 1920, concerned Esperanto enthusiasts after WWI and their insistent belief that the Revolution would...