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What is the sound of the Russian dub? There is a storied history of attempts to adapt roots music to Russian soil, but most of them can be attributed to reggae (the so-called ‘northern’ variety) rather than dub. Gost has a history with the town of Smolensk. It’s home to Gamayun, whose great album Filterealism was released on our label last year. Now Anton, one of Gamayun’s members, presents his new duo Dubovaya Kolesnitsa (The Oaken Chariot). In his words, it has no connection to his other band at all and is an attempt to go back to the roots of a genre that doesn’t truly exist.

The Russian word for oak, ‘dub,’ looks exactly like the genre, and the chariot emerged from the name for the group’s jams – ‘telega’ – which can be translated as a cart. All the music here is the result of live improvisations: no samples, just instruments (notably Vasiliy Shilov's bass). These recordings have been slightly edited, and even the almost indecipherable texts are freestyle. There’s no place for real riddims in Russian dub: sometimes this record sounds like something akin to dub variations on underground Russian hip hop (and we mean that in the best possible way).

We should also remember that dub and reggae (and hip hop as well) all started as the voice of people. The voice of those who are always in the minority and try not to be silent. The most prominent dub producers and reggae performers were against hierarchy, imperialism, and colonialism — and their music was born out of the desire to protest against it. As Anton puts it, Oaken Chariot, the “Russian mutation of dub,” is an attempt of voicing the concern. And he links this attempt to a historic Russian tradition of Foolishness for Christ, also known as yurodstvo. The “fool” in question is not naïve at all; he’s trying to seem lunatic on purpose. For Anton, the music of Oaken Chariot is a rebellion with a cut-off tongue. Here, illegible speech, full of inarticulate sounds, is a sign of the inability of the statement. But this inability represents a statement itself that is inevitable.

Yet, the music of Oaken Chariot is genuinely fun, free, and mesmerizing (like the happenings of holy “fools”), but we could also approach it more conceptually. Theoretician Michael E. Veal describes dub as a ‘postsong’, taking the form of “linguistic, formal and symbolic indeterminacy.” The duo’s faintly eerie compositions call back to the notion of musical hauntology. There is an attempt, without any direct references, to reconstruct the feeling of something that was never there at all. A little nostalgic and very forward-thinking at the same time, the music of Oaken Chariot is best described in its own words. In the opening track, a voice can be heard saying “eto delo v lob,” which means something like “it’s a straight-on thing.” This is very direct, almost in the vein of folk music. This is a great – and, it must be said, successful – experiment in searching for the soul of Russian dub. Simple as that.

GOST018 Oaken Chariot "Biznes Time"

Side 1

A1: They are looking at us from above
A2: BIZNES TIME 08:39
A3: Free Poetry 01:51

Side 2
B1: Splendor of Wasteland
B2: Purer Than Love
B3: Volchok
B4: Random Regularities

Music and recording — Anton Dvoenko, Vasiliy Shilov
Mix — Anton Dvoenko
Mastering — @poducedbyflaty
Executive producer — Ildar Zaynetdinov
Cover – Eduard Kulemin "Field" 1988

12" LP full-color sleeve.
October 7, 2022

© «ГОСТ ЗВУК»

GOST018: Дубовая Колесница "Biznes Time"

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Listen to "All My Ambient (Love Mix) " by DJ HeadSick taken from “New Life” out on 2nd August via @mestnost-records

Dj HeadSick is a musician Kolya Dolgov, a member of projects "Payta" and "Prodelki Bolnoy Golovy". His new album New Life is a formatted and pressed cube of great lot of experiences, memories, pain, and placidity. But it's beautiful because only poets can simply make any picture pause and contemplate on any moment, no matter what it’s like.

"It doesn't matter why something changes in life – what's important is finding the strength to accept any outcome, both good and bad," says Kolya.

The album New Life is about life, big changes, relationships, and about different places, of course. It covers wide geography – being born in Murmansk, spending childhood in Sevastopol, studying in Krasnodar and then moving to Moscow due to a glowing interest in music and its language.

"This album is packed with light and hope, pain and offences, and immense love," says the author. Listening to the album is like reading Tolstoy's "Childhood," but it's all about Kolya. Here he is watching the cartoon "Kotenok po imeni Gav", here he is falling in love, here he is listening to jungle music for the first time, here he is losing his life's foundations and finding them again in deep broken beats. 

"Maybe there's too much poetry in my words, but that's just my truth as it is"
 The rest about Kolya will be told by his melodies and rhythms.

Artist: DJ HeadSick / @user-251557634 
Label: @mestnost-records
Purchase: https://mestnost.bandcamp.com/album/new-life

PREMIERE: DJ HeadSick — All My Ambient (Love Mix)

Только представь: жаркий июльский день, ты сидишь в любимом кабаке, вальяжно раскинувшись на старом стуле – тебе никуда не нужно. Планов на завтра нет (да и есть ли оно – завтра?), привычные тревога и беспокойство бесследно растворились, периодически возникающие на экране телефона уведомления совершенно тебя не волнуют, даже не хочется проверять, что там. Все, что сейчас по-настоящему важно – это запотевший бокальчик лагера в твоей изящной руке. Пышная шапка пены медленно тает, капли конденсата приятно холодят кончики твоих пальцев. Вот бы каждый день был таким. Ах, мечты-мечты.

Красиво уходим в короткий отпуск под ритмы грандиозного микса Миши Политковского, записанного для недавнего фестиваля «Ветерок» в баре «Ровесник». Целый час аудиального блаженства про вторую самую важную вещь для нас всех (помимо музыки, конечно же) – пивко, пивасик, пивчик, пивандрий.

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