Мох (pronounced Mokh) is a project of Moscow’s Anton Krivulya, founder of the Solntsetsvety collective (whom Stylus profiled last year). Continue reading “Мох – 5”
Мох – 5
Arabian Horses / Glina – split EP
It’s no shock that one of the best drone releases of 2012 was also a tape I spent half the year struggling to describe. Continue reading “Arabian Horses / Glina – split EP”
.RU :: Underground tweenoise masters in the post-USSR
By Kristel Jax
In mid 2010, I started billing myself as a DJ who played Solntsetsvety. Solntsetsvety – or Солнцецветы, a Russian word that translates to Sun Flowers (abbreviated СЦ in Cyrillic) – is an artist network which has been spawning lo-fi tracks and albums ranging from harsh noise and pure experimental to transcendental kraut jams and lo-fi reggaes since the late ’90s. Solntsetsvety is based – sort of – in cities Minsk, Belarus and Moscow, Russia, and sort of on their website, lesom.ru. The groups belonging to Solntsetsvety were hard to penetrate, even armed with digital translation and English articles on David MacFadyen’s Far From Moscow blog. Solntsetsvety was magic – and a mystery too intense to shrug off. Continue reading “.RU :: Underground tweenoise masters in the post-USSR”