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The electronica that thrives in the Siberian expanse | Musique Non Stop

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The electronica that thrives in the Siberian expanse

Labels in the vast ‘blank slate’ of Russia are releasing some of the country’s most exciting and experimental electronic music. The Calvert Journal travels to hear it, in -20C


Having worked our way out of our winter clothes we proceed a darkened space and sit on the floor by the stage, backlit with quirky video art. Pools of light reveal modular synths, samplers, cables and FX pedals arranged on a table.


We’re in the Siberian town of Novosibirsk for the Echotourist party – the best place to hear experimental music, perhaps the coldest too: outside, it’s -20 and snowing.


You need balls of steel to do arts


On the one hand the lack of a music industry complicates things. On the other, it allows them to play by their own rules


I tried to give prominence to the ‘audio-dust’ – all the sounds dear to the hearts of lo-fi fans


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by Alexandra Vorobiova for The Calvert Journal, part of the New East network via Electronic music | The Guardian

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