Winter hasn't left yet and spring hasn't come. The sun is shining brighter, ice started to thaw but in the evening it's still quite cold. At the end of February net label INQB8R prepared and released the album of project Oaksowe Sxunqame - Faam Dusk and it's as if it has fixed in time and space the feeling of ambient reshuffle by winter-spring duet...
From time to time Citadel records makes efforts to acquaint Russian listeners with interesting foreign musical projects. Among musical items released by Moscow label in Russia with foreign colleges' license is the album of French American team Spontane. God Is Dead In Good Luck City was released in 2005 by the French label Dad Records, in Russia it saw the light two years later...
UnReal Time is the second album of Russian musician Arkady Marto who uses here the pseudonym Eject Project. This work became the continuation or, I would even say, development of the first solo CD Real Time first released at the beginning of the century...
I'll mention at once that this release could be easily found in the catalogue of any European label releasing music close to this one. But due to the circumstances that it appeared in the heart of the German breakcore label Ad Noiseam. That's not understandable how it happened as all compositions of this release are the fine modern synthesis of micro-techno and clicks'n'cuts and all is done at the very high level...
A month ago in Riga our good friend and talented Russian musician Alexander Matrosov passed away under unknown circumstances. A member of such projects as Alexandroid, Flexkiks, Gods Delusion etc. Due to this fact we prepared much informational material about Alexandroid (Russian) and posted the interview with Alex Matrosov, earlier placed on site Lagunamuch.com. Read it, touch the musicians’ creativity, feel the breath of spring.
We grieve. Mourn. Listen.
In February, 22 in Krasnoyarsk club Era took place the presentation of compilation called Fedor Konyukhov Tribute, it gathered much performers from Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk who took part in album's creation. By the way, the compilation is already available to download on the site heavymental.ru...
Lately I got by chance a CD of a young team Chimidoro. Guys play rollicking mixture of Japanese pop music (so-called j-pop), sometimes hip-hop and even techno. They don't even play but break the door into your flat, rush inside and start singing, making fun and screaming. At once when I started listening to them, there appeared a smile on my face...
Not quite ordinary release is brought to our attention by the team Goatika. This DVD includes the joint work of musicians and an artist Alexey Zagorodnyh. As a result of their creative symbiosis appeared this disc Artsound and two wonderful pictures sold by auction at the performance...
Young, but challenging American label Tympanik Audio more and more often attracts attention. Its list of performers already includes such names as Flint Glass, Autoclav1.1, Pneumatic Detach, Displacer etc. And after the 17th release this list will be supplemented by not unknown German team Zentriert Ins Antlitz...
We started Ant-zen in early 1993: together with my friend A. Pickar. Actually the label was born in an opera house in Munich after a concert of Diamanda Galas (still quite impressive btw). Our own label did allow us to release the music we wanted to get released - music and impressions we'll never forget. The music of the first releases was from friends, who had no opportunity to release their music on any other label. In that time we started with tape releases and became pretty active in the tape scene, which was a great existing network around the world.