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8bit. Three old noisy 8-bits drum-machines, which were not commuted and hard to synchronize. All data was stored in operating memory and was deleted after the machines were unplugged. Retro futuristic stories about robots and computers recorded in the soviet times played on the turntables.
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Booka Dehuk. Booka Dehuk began to make music approximately in 1991, when he and Yellowhead founded a band called Stinky. Later, after experiments with live sound he switched to experiments with electronic music, focusing more attention to techno and IDM.
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Cemtex. At first he preffered to make fast, energetic music, a kind of electro-influenced techno. But gradually the speed of his tunes decreased to 70–90 bpm and Cemtex's sound became not-so-aggressive and best described as absctract hip-hop and downtempo.
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Custo. Not only a musical, but also a visual component of art work is important for Custo as it is an audiovisual project. The sound and the picture are two parts of a single whole.
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Cycle Hiccups.
The solo project of Alexandr Velikoselsky keeps a short charade of personal kind inside its name, and unites electronic sound, interesting vocal exercises and improvisation in its music.
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Denis Davidov.
The man who produces and performs electronic music—for himself and for us, and prefers a blank page to all wordy press releases.
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Digital One is known to general public as composer, performer, DJ, promoter, as well as the leader of 8bit and a part of Echo Depth Finders post-hip-hop duo. One of his most positive features is a sincere interest in wide variety of music.
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Few began to create under a distinctive slogan “The stupider it is—the better it is”. Then his music became more lyrical and melodic. Combining this work with a career as a drummer in a heavy metal band he released several records, one of them was pure acid jazz.
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Foolk.
Dusan Vanco is a music producer from Slovak Republic, who started his own official production in 1999. Under the artist name Foolk, he makes a mixture of samples, beats, synths and live instruments.
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Idiosync.
The name of Daniil Alexandrov's project comes from the term “idiosyncrasy”, which refers to an individualizing characteristic or reaction. Idiosync stands for sample-based music that pursues unpredictability and ambiguity of interpretations.
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Jazzy Puzzles. The program that they used for realizing their first music ideas was “Magic Music Maker”. In its friendly interface all the tracks was presented in the shape of colored bricks—so, two hip-hop listeners who used jazz samples very actively got the name for their project.
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Jeune homme. This French expression that means no more or less than “young man” was used as a pseudonym by actually young Gleb Kalinin. His creative work under this alias was an experiment in its initial meaning—formulated goals didn't give a clear view of the final result.
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Math Geek. To define the genre of his music this man constructs word combinations like “Frisky Braindance”, “Fairytale Punk”, “Melodic Heavy Mental Childish Happy Hardcore“ and so on.
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Mombus. One of the most interesting electronic music producers in Russia of 2000's from Murmansk, northwestern Russia. After releasing of six albums and appearing on dozens of compilations, quitted music-making.
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Moonscape himself claims that he is trying to find a boundary between experimental music and easy listening/lounge/downtempo, since this area still has a lot of space for the search of new ideas.
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Raumskaya.
Having started making music back in 1998 with an intention of self-actualization, Raumskaya nowadays can't help but go on putting together a map or a guide of his life stages out of music tracks.
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Scaly Whale.
The brainchild of Pavel Doronin is oriented to live performances—with the spectacular setup of electronic music devices and a video art. Aside from entertaining presentation, gives to an audience the rhythmic music full of melodies.
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Sensiva. Artem Galukhin describes his music as “atmospheric beat”—the music for city dwellers who on one hand live in a fast pace of a megalopolis but who keep their inner connection with the nature on the other.
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Shtukk imbibed music with mother's milk—she's a composer, and her son studied at a music school with piano classes for three years in his childhood. As he says his head is like a big mixing table with unlimited memory capacity, so compositions get stored there for a long time and with all the details.
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Skarednov Roman (ABC Galaxy, Snow Slow Party).
In his creative work the composer from Izhevsk tries to develop a number of different directions simultaneously under different titles. Previously known as 0:28. In present time there are ABC Galaxy and Snow Slow Party.
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Stereo Modus. The historical roots of Stereo Modus can be traced back to the seventeenth century, when gloomy Siberian men, after frightening away few aboriginals, founded the first settlements on the shore of the river Tom'.
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Strike. This man's music career started in the band called The Ale, where he sang (using someone else's voice) lyrical songs like “I would like to be a bug, so I could get into your bed…”. Later he named himself Strike, got a synthesizer and a computer, and began to compose nice and melodic hip-hop.
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The Great Mundane. This guy's music absorbed many things from hip-hop, some things from jazz, and something from classics. All these influences were mixed and now we can see the result.
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The Inay is the project of a musician and an artist from Minsk, Belarus, who calls himself Dany and Mr. Bad Ears. The sound is related to lo-fi and art-electronica styles.
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The Pillow People. One of the projects of Yuri Melnikov, active and fertile composer, DJ and producer from Obninsk, near Moscow. The sound described by the author as “depressive trip”—something sad, thoughtful, and gloomy at times.
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Velure is a provocative bouquet of vocals, accordion, analogue synthesizers, guitars, bass, and live programming. Electronica in song form; downtempo and dub style beats.
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Vikhornov began to compose music when he was 5 years old. He recorded many analog albums and recently came up with several digital ones. Since the piano has always been his favorite instrument, almost all his music has a melodic and harmonic feel.
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Yadi. This band from Rostov-on-Don was formed in 2000 by Elchin Akperov and Aleksey Rybalko. The sound of this currently non-existent musical project was pure easy listening, with some retro-USSR motives.
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Yellowhead.
Intended to get a posthumous fame, Yellowhead does the following: makes music, produces videoart, occasionally performs at different places, writes texts, draws pictures, and so on. Prefers to perform not at night clubs but at cinema theatres, museums and book stores.
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Zimmer-G is a mysterious bedroom filled with tender melodies, soft taps and remote voices. It's a solo project of DJ and musician Ivan Voltanov from Obninsk. Music style can be described as lounge, it doesn't suit dancefloor but fits chill-out and home parties perfectly.
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