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.
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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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