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Love playing the tiny DJ booth behind the bar at Bordello Aperitivo. With so much happening around you, it's the perfect place to keep you in the flow state and stress-test your selection and transitions game.

Bordello Aperitivo – February 2024

Since we left home two years ago, I’ve had many waves of homesickness that led to pretty amazing musical discoveries. I also noticed that digging for new tracks and piecing them together into a mix is really therapeutic — so after a couple of particularly shitty weeks, I went neck deep into the depths of Russian pop, wave, trip-hop and avant-garde, and recorded my ultimate hymn to homesickness: The Antology of the Prikamian Stump.

Before we jump in, let’s not forget that Russia is still waging a horrible war in Ukraine. I really miss my home and hope to return someday — but many others have had their homes and lives completely destroyed. I hope we all know whose kleptocratic old ass is to blame. 

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So, what’s so cool about this mix? There’s nothing overly obscure or unshazamable here, and “soviet darkwave” has been thoroughly researched by many other talented folks.

For starters, the first track is made by a 90’s post-rock band from my home town! Muab-Galsh (for the dutchies — it’s “slagboom” in reverse) recorded two noteworthy albums between 1991-1998 , but remained widely unknown to the new generations of scene kids like myself.

Cool fact: the toms at 8:30 come from a Yamaha RX-11, which Igor Len borrowed from Eduard Artemyev — one of the most cherished Soviet electronic music composers, who wrote film scores for Tarkovsky’s Solaris, Mirror and Stalker.

This mix is not all doom and gloom. How about some poorly remixed Otpetye Moshenniki into Svin Khin-Khin? The former were one of Russia’s biggest boy bands of the 90’s, and the latter.. had an album called Rubber Woman.

On a more serious note, many of the tracks in this selection are in stark contrast to each other, which makes for some weirdly organic moments. At one point you’re listening to a horrible tale of a drowning boy, and the next moment it changes into a cheesy pop ballad that now sounds way darker than it normally would.

And you can’t have a homesick mix without some “blatnyak” — Russian depictions of criminal culture full of romance and cheap rompler sounds. The second to last track is particularly special, because the singer Sergey Nagovitsin is painted as a mural on the side of the house we used to live in. I’m not kidding. His widow came by to collect signatures for it, and my girlfriend couldn't resist.

If you liked this, check out my other mix of mostly unknown Russian Rap: https://soundcloud.com/00137/zloi-dobryi-rep?in=00137/sets/mixes

Tracklist:
1. Муаб-галш – Белая Индия (1991)
2. Спутник – Электропоезд (1998)
3. Николай Коперник – Дымки (1985)
4. Ночной Проспект – Гуманитарная Жизнь (1996)
5. Оберманекен – СНЕГУРКИ 2000 (2000)
6. Отпетые Мошенники – Девушки (Electro Mix) (2000)
7. Свин Хин-Хин – Я Здесь (1992)
8. Нежное Это – 6 pm – 9 am (2002)
9. Игорь Лень – Голос (1990)
10. Рок-Острова – Что Же Делать (1997)
11. Братья По Разуму – Кафе (1985)
12. Империя – Вспомни Обо Мне (1992)
13. А2 – Окно (1997)
14. Закрытое Предприятие – Я Пьян (1993)
15. Малюта Скуратов – Мальчик (1996)
16. Татьяна Овсиенко – Я Не Буду Гадать (1993)
17. Юка – Туман (2000)
18. LSD – Левостороннее Движение – А Я Хочу Знать (Ремикс) (1988)
19. Александр В. Чулков – Untitled 003/2 (1999)
20. Электроклуб – Ваза (1990)
21. Рок-Острова – Одиночество (1991)
22. LSD – Левостороннее Движение – Скорпион (1989)
23. Игры – Москва (1994)
24. Анжелика Варум – Белая Песня (1998)
25. ВИА “Цветы” – Все Как Прежде (1980)
26. Оберманекен – Космический Гость (1987)
27. Сергей Наговицын – Полная Луна (1991)
28. Спутник – Олимпийская (Звездокиада) (1998)

Антология Прикамского Пня (Микс)

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