Vitaly Harmash

Three new releases this week, all the way from Minsk to the Arctic coastline, look closely at some hidden sounds of the material world - and their sad, slow decline into silence

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...

I/Dex is the pseudonym of Vitaliy Harmash, a remarkable musician from the Belarusian town of Novopolotsk. Relatively small though that location may be, with perhaps 100,000 residents today, it has already provided us with another artist, namely DJ Letkoben, about whom we wrote in June 2009. As w...