@stanislavtolkachev - To You
Format: 7”
Release date: November 12th 2021
Catalogue: Muscut 21

Stanislav is a well-known techno musician and a passionate analogue photo and synth enthusiast constantly experimenting with his visual and audio outputs. As a result, Stan brought us three timeless electronic pieces wonderfully fitting and at the same time complementing the Muscut soundscape.


Tracklist:
A1 Young Planet
B1 Etude I
B2 Etude II

Cover artwork by Stanislav Tolkachev
Mastered by Flaty
© 2021

To You

Stanislav Tolkachev - Young Planet

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica by Nikolaienko

Format: 12"LP
Catalogue number: Muscut 16LP
Release date: May 6, 2022
Limited to 300 copies

Format: Cassette
Catalogue number: Muscut 16C
Release date: May 6, 2022
Limited to 50 copies

“Nostalgia Por Mesozóica” is an exploration of "experimental exotica" consisted of synthesized tropical attributes — an artificial landscape isolated behind the glass frame. Reminiscent of recording techniques and sonorities ubiquitous in the 60’s and 70’s, it could conceivably have been intended as a soundtrack for the Mesozoic Era exhibition at your favorite Natural History museum. Limited to 1OO copies. Includes hand-numbered and stamped postcard.


Tracklist:
A1 Muzak For Mesozoic Showreel (feat. Arthur Mine)
A2 Troglodytes (feat. Arthur Mine)
A3 The Ancient Musical Complex Of Mammoth Bones
A4 Glass Flowers
A5 Sacrifice I
B1 Misantropicalia
B2 Dark Archeo
B3 Sacrifice II (Curse of Snakes Valley)
B4 ExotiCon
B5 Yalta (feat. Amphibian Man II)


Nikolaienko: modular synth percussion, tape manipulations, processing, effects.
Arthur Mine: Arp Odyssey (track A1), Venta synth-organ (track B2)
Composed by Nikolaienko and Arthur Mine and recorded at Labyrint Of Echoes Studio in Kyiv during 2017—2019.
Mastering by Flaty
Photos by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Muscut 16, 2020/2022

Reviews:
Nikolaienko has described Muscut’s mission as a kind of “audio archaeology”—perhaps in reference to the dusty, cryptic air of the label’s music, which takes inspiration from the abstracted sounds that Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire were creating with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the ’60s. On the label founder’s upcoming record, due out in May, he extends his archaeological obsession to the natural history museum. Nostalgia por Mesozócia is framed as an imaginary soundtrack for fossil exhibitions and dinosaur dioramas. Its nostalgia is many-layered: Analog chirps and liquid gurgles summon images of 200-million-year-old rainforests, while wheezing organs and clanking marimbas evoke the easy-listening exotica made popular in the ’50s by artists like Arthur Lyman. Mingling kitsch with surrealism, it makes for a fanciful and engrossing trip into the past. — Pitchfork (Philip Sherburne)﻿

'Nostalgia Por Mesozóica' is Nikolaienko's attempt to recreate an exotik mood while channeling the imagined world of the dinosaurs. He wanted to produce a Natural History museum soundtrack to the Mesozoic Era (the "Age of Reptiles" comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods), and has managed it by combining the quirky organ music and Fourth World-adjacent percussion that became the staples of the exotica genre. In Nikolaienko's hands, it's approached with love and care - his sound sources are familiar and funny - with clearly a lot of genuine love for the subject matter.
'The Ancient Musical Complex Of Mammoth Bones' deploys bargain basement plastic rhythms offset by Nikolaienko's odd electronic treatments and hypnotic synths. 'Misantropicalia' is a swampy approximation of a distant era, using nostalgic memories of the past to connect the dots between aesthetic oldness, archaic global musical traditions and a collapsing culture. At its best, the album sounds like the high points of ex-Skater Spencer Clark's varied catalog (think Vodka Soap or Monopoly Child Star Searchers) and harmonizes with Christina Vantzou's bizarre and brilliant "Multi Natural" full-length. — Boomkat

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica (LP)

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica (LP) by Nikolaienko (Muscut 16LP, 12"/Cass, 2022) Excerpts

Taken from Nikolajev's "Transplant Rejection" LP

Artist: Nikolajev @nkljv
Title: Transplant Rejection
Format: C35 cassette, DL
Catalog: Muscut 24C
Release date: October 14, 2022
File under: Electronica, Ambient

Tracklist
A1 Remorse
A2 Gafs
A3 Stifled
A4 Immicible
B1 Rip Lota
B2 Believer
B3 DDM

Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko
Artwork by Broshuda
Riso print by Hands on press
Muscut, 2022

Transplant Rejection

Pre-order

Nikolajev - Remorse (Muscut 24C, Cass, 2022)

Radiant Futur – Hypersensitive

Artist: Radiant Futur @radiantfutur
Title: Hypersensitive
Format: C35 cassette, DL
Catalog: Muscut 25C
Release date: October 14, 2022
File under: Electronica, Ambient, New Age

Tracklist
A1 Journey In The Deepest Of The Eyes
A2 Unspoken Loneliness
A3 Etiam Transeat
A4 Life Amplifier’s Modulation 
B1 Pipe Dreams
B2 Hypersensitive
B3 When I Touched The Sky
B4 Transistor Love
B5 Forgiveness

Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko
Artwork by ai.vava
Riso print by Hands on press
Muscut, 2022

Hypersensitive

Radiant Futur - Journey In The Deepest Of The Eyes (Muscut 25C, Cass, 2022)

Eyot Tapes – Paradise Lost
(Debut release)

Artist: Eyot Tapes @eyottapes
Title: Paradise Lost
Format: C45 cassette / 7" single, DL
Catalog: Muscut 26C
Release date: January 6, 2023
File under: Electronica, Experimental

Inspired by films he grew up watching and a passion for vintage recording equipment, Eyot Tapes has crafted ten pieces of music recording only to cassettes, using cassette loops, spring reverbs, tape delays and a modular synthesiser. Weaving in and out of different moods, with ‘Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories never far from his mind, he takes you on a trip through an off world, tropical fantasy.


Tracklist
1. Open The Book
2. Jungle Tapes
3. Rock Shelter
4. Mama Gone
5. Grog
6. Geothermal
7. Path of Snakes
8. Ajor
9. Lagoon 
10. Volcano S 
11. Labyrinth (tape only)

All tracks written, mixed and recorded throughout the Summer of 2022 by Alexander Green
Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko
Artwork by (DN) daynight.info
Muscut, 2023

Paradise Lost

Ajor

Buy / Pre-order 7"

Eyot Tapes - Ajor (Muscut 26, 2023)

Bryozone — Eye Of Delirious 
@gannabryzhata

“Eye Of Delirious” is a long-awaited debut Muscut's release of Chillera’s band bass player Ganna Bryzhata — an Odesa-based sound artist. An ambient LP is a smoothy-flow sub-nautical journey with the songs of Black sea sirens glowing under the moon.

Format: C40, cassette / Digital
Edition: 100, hand-numbered
File under: ambient, dub, experimental

Face A:
Smoothy Flow 
Sub Nautica 
Sequence One 
Glowing Sirens 
Ghost Tribe

Face B:
Ambiency 
Liminal Tribe
Eye Of Delirious 
Fateful Torment 
Ground Floor

Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko 
Artwork by Volodymyr Pavlov 
Graphic design by (DN) daynight.info 
Neu Medieval and Heymland typefaces by KTF 
Riso print by Hands on Press 
Muscut, 2023

Eye Of Delirious

Order

Bryozone - Smoothy Flow (Muscut 27), March 2023

Rezo Glonti — Subtropics 
@auxfield

Georgian artist Rezo Glonti's debut on Muscut is the label's first take on far Eastern Europe. “Subtropics” was made during sea voyages between subtropical ports. Delicate sound design and ambient experimentations manifest themselves as an audio excursion of the Black Sea region. Currently, Tbilisi-based Glonti has several albums and EPs under the name and the moniker “Aux Field".

Format: C40 Cassette / Digital
Catalog: Muscut 28C 
Release date: March 10, 2023
File under: Ambient, Electronica

Tracklist:
A
1. Good Road 3:12
2. Regata Kon 98 4:43
3. Plants of Ain Sukhna 1:28
4. Many Days 3:57
5. Sesostris 4:31
B
6. Mosaic 4:48
7. Mount Bay 5:05
8. In Red Weather 3:12
9. Caveman 5:05
10. No Gaps Allowed 2:11


Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko 
Graphic design by (DN) daynight.info
Riso print by Hands on Press 
Muscut, 2023

Subtropics

Good Road

Rezo Glonti - Good Road (Muscut 28), March 2023

Pre-order is open!
Oleksandr Yurchenko - Recordings Vol. 1, 1991—2001
Format: 12” LP / Digital
Catalog: Shukai 7
Release date: June/July, 2023 (TBA)
File under: Ambient, Electroacoustics 
A1: Count to 100. Symphony #1 (edit 2001)
B1: Intro
B2: Merta Zara #3
B3: Playback #1
B4: Playback #2
Composed and arranged by 
Oleksandr Yurchenko in 1991—2001
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Compiled by Dima Nikolaienko,
Dmytro Prutkin and Sasha Tsapenko
Liner notes by Vlad  Yakovlev
Graphic design by Day Night
Artist photos by Ivan Moskalenko
Tape photos by Vlad Yakovlev

Recordings Vol.1, 1991-2001

Intro

Oleksandr Yurchenko - Intro (Recordings Vol.1, 1991-2001, Shukai 7)

Svitlana Nianio — Transilvania Smile, 1994

Release title: Transilvania Smile, 1994
Release subtitle: Original Soundtrack For The Dance-Theatre Performance
Release artist: Svitlana Nianio
Release date: 2023-08-04
Label: Shukai
Catalog: Shukai 8
Formats: 12” LP / Digital
File under: Folk, Classical

Linear notes:
Svitlana Okhrimenko (artist name: Svitlana Nianio) is a Ukrainian artist, musician, and signer. She is one of the most prominent representatives of the independent music scene of Kyiv in the late 1980s — early 90s. She has repeatedly recorded and performed in collaboration with other musicians and bands, such as Oleksandr Yurchenko, Sugar White Death (Cukor Bila Smert’), Ivanov Down, GeeNerve & Taran, and Blemish. Svitlana still performs and publishes new recordings today.
“Transilvania Smile” is one of the first solo works recorded in 1994. During this time, Svitlana repeatedly visited Germany, where she had the experience of playing in parks and on the streets, gathering contacts of the local art scene. Her cooperation with the international choreographic group Pentamonia, based in Cologne and consisting of several girls who performed in theaters, took part in various performances, and were engaged in music. They met in the 1990s during joint performances with "Sugar-White Death." After that, they corresponded, and the idea of doing something together arose. Svitlana attended several of their performances, which inspired her to write music for a new project, and the band members helped to realize their creative ideas. Later, they started rehearsing together.
The name “Transilvania Smile” was invented by the project participants, and it symbolized the mold on the mirror and the reflection of a smiling vampire. However, shortly before the premiere, they changed it to “Firefox”, as the participants actively used flashlights and the play of light and shadows in the scenography.
The premiere occurred in the local Urania theater, previously a gallery. Isabel Bartensein directed the choreography, and Svitlana played, sang, and improvised. She said it was an excellent experience for her and the band. Besides Cologne, they also performed in Aachen.
Later, Michael Springer offered Svitlana to record this material in his "Phanton" studio. They had already worked together and recorded music for their project (Svitlana Okhrimenko / Phanton). Michael was also interested in the Ukrainian independent scene and participated in the creation of several compilations that featured bands from Kyiv and Kharkiv. Svetlana played the piano and harmonium in the studio and also sang. After the recording, the material was never released in its entirety. Two compositions appeared on the cassette compilation “Shovaisia” (Hide) in 1995, some episodes were re-recorded for the “Kytytsi” album in 1999, but for a long time, the full version of this recording remained practically unknown to listeners and was kept in Svitlana's and Michael’s archives.
This album is one of the most personal and insightful works of Svitlana Nianio from the 90s, which you can now get to know in its original form and sound.
Tracklist:
Side A (45RPM)
Episode III
Side B (33RPM)
Episode I
Episode II
Episode III
Episode IV
Episode V
Episode VI
Episode VII


Credits:
Original Soundtrack for the Dance-Theatre Performance “Transilvania Smile” by Svitlana Nianio
Recorded in phantonstudio, Cologne, 1994—1995
Mastered by Michael Springer (phantonstudio)
Shukai team: Dmytro Nikolaienko, Dmytro Prutkin and Sasha Tsapenko
Liner notes by Vlad Yakovlev
Graphic design by (DN)
Svitlana’s stage photo by Christiane Bowinkelmann
Pentamonia Dance Group photos by Olav Faustmann
Special thanks to Michael Springer (phantonstudio) and Guido Erfen

Shukai 8
www.shukai.org
© ℗ Shukai / Svitlana Nianio
2023

Transilvania Smile

Episode III

Svitlana Nianio - Episode III (Transilvania Smile, 1994)

Taken from Roma Vjazemski — Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily
@photoindustries
Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily is a debut LP by Estonian musician Roma Vjazemski. Roma is a co-founder of the lovely SAD FUN record label and the duo Fruit Express. Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily first appeared as a two-track 8” dubplate single with an edition of 85 copies (SAD FUN, 2020).

Format: C40, cassette / Digital
Catalog: Muscut 29C / Muscut 29
Edition: 50, hand-numbered
File under: ambient, dub, experimental
Release day: 26 May 2023

Side A: 
Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily Pt.1 
Waiting For Her To Get Ready
Bluesman`s Blues 
Horses of Uhum 
Science And Alchemy in Uraniborg

Side B: 
Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily Pt.2 
Sammal 
I Used To Have (feat. Tapes) 
Suurupis 
Car to L.A (Gone Forever)

Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko 
Artwork by Anna Makarchuk
Photo by Kristopher Luigend
Graphic design by (DN) daynight.info 
Riso print by Hands on Press 
Muscut, 2023

Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily

Waiting For Her To Get Ready

Roma Vjazemski - Waiting For Her To Get Ready (Muscut 29 Cass, 2023)

Muscut Show on @lyl_radio 1 June 23

Latest finds, favorites and unreleased material of the label and its friends and colleagues:

Roméo Poirier - Haut Lieu (forthcoming on Muscut Test Pressing IV)
Mads Emil Nielsen - Untitled (Branches)
Jan Jelinek - On the quay (version)
Magnétophonique - Moist Jungle Mist II / Driftwood
Roma Vjazemski - Horses of Uhum
You Can Can - Infinity of Loose Ends
Nikolaienko - Ambianta VII
Woo - Love on Other Planets / Spaces We Breathe
Martyna Basta - Lullaby (for Iwo)
Natela Svanidze - Epitaphium (Live Performance)
4th World Magazine - Exact Sensorial Fantasy in Tempio D'Iside
Les Halles - Thresholds
Loto Retina - Leçon De Spéléologie
Mondoriviera - Compax
Tapes - Circulation Desk / Geo Print / Spiral Catalog (forthcoming on Mida)
Fruit Express - No Secret

Show Lyl 1 June 23

The fourth episode of the Test Pressing series compilations includes tracks from such artists as Memotone, Giuseppe Ielasi, Andrew Pekler, Roméo Poirier, Nikolaienko, Felix Kubin, Jake Muir, Felicity Mangan, Star Searchers, and Tarotplane. 
The first episode was released in 2012 as a debut Muscut record named so and intended to become a label trial, a test of the audience to check whether the world needs one more label with the following episodes in 2018 (Test Pressing II) and 2020 (Test Pressing III). 

Format: 12” LP / DL
Cat. No.: Muscut 30
Series: Test Pressing
Edition: 300 (hand-stamped, hand-numbered)
File under: Ambient, Experimental, Electronic
Release date: August 4, 2023

Tracklist:

(Side A)
01 Memotone - False Cobra
02 Giuseppe Ielasi - Untitled, February 2023
03 Andrew Pekler - Neon Nocturne 
04 Roméo Poirier - Haut Lieu
05 Nikolaienko - Ambianta VI
06 Felix Kubin - Spukflattern

(Side B)
07 Jake Muir - Spindle
08 Felicity Mangan - Wings
09 Star Searchers - Previsual Stingray Motion FX
10 Tarotplane - We Stutter Between


Mastering by: Giuseppe Ielasi 
Graphic design by: (DN) daynight.info
Distribution by: N.E.W.S. (BE) 
Website: www.muscut.org

Test Pressing IV

VA Test Pressing IV (Muscut 30, 12" comp) excerpts

Pre-order: Shukai 9

Cukor Bila Smert’ - Recordings 1990—1993
Release Date: 15.04.2024
Format: 2xLP vinyl 

Cukor Bila Smerť (Ukrainian: Цукор — біла смерть, IPA: [ˈt͡sukɔr ˈbʲiɫɐ smɛrtʲ]; lit. Sugar — White Death) was a Ukrainian rock band formed in Kyiv, Ukraine. The band was active from 1988, until its dissolution in 1993. It was one of the first bands that initiated the creation of the ethno-gothic scene in Ukraine. Considered to be one of the most prominent music bands of Ukrainian underground.
The main figure of this project was Svitlana Nianio. After graduating from music school with a degree in piano, she began composing music. At first, she played with cellist Tamila Mazur. Sugar - White Death was formed when they were joined by guitarist Jevhen Taran and pianist Oleksandr Kochanovskyj.[3] The band significantly differed from the music of that time by high female vocals, non-sensical lyrics, and, previously unknown, instrumental-gothic performance.

Liner notes:
https://muscut.bandcamp.com/album/recordings-1990-1993

Recordings 1990-1993

The Great Hen-Yuan’ River

Cukor Bila Smert’ - The Great Hen-Yuan’ River

Taken from the forthcoming "Sea Songs" single by ex-Indirect band member Hennadii Boichenko. Pre-order 7" vinyl record.

This is the 3rd appearance of Odesa-based Hennadii Boichenko (ex-Indirect) on Muscut, after his contribution as a part of the Indirect band (Ab Pharmacy / Waltz - 2014, Ode To The Sea - 2016 with Nikolaienko). 7” single, “Sea Songs,” - is a record mixed and tape mastered by Dmytro Nikolaienko. This is also the first episode of a newly started series of analog production chain releases with master reel tape transfer to lathe cut (the label has only been sending digital master files to the record plant before that). This year, Muscut twists from electronic music to instrumental and eclectic ones with more similar releases in the queue - Cukor Bila Smert's recordings from 1990-1993, Nikolaienko's "Meta" (exploration of metallophone on tape loopings), Fleischesmarkt's - disbanded Odesan punk/kraut band from the late 2000s.

Credits:
Composed and arranged by Hennadii Boichenko
Vocalese (A1) by Mila Solovyova
Saxophones and flute (A2) by Mike levtushenko
Mix, processing, master tape by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Graphic design, visuals, and video by Day Night
Muscut 32,2024
Direct tape to vinyl transfer, MONO, 33RPM

Sea Songs

Detouch

Hennadii Boichenko - Detouch (Muscut 32)

Meta is a syllabic abbreviation of two words: "Metallophone" and "Tape."
Metallophone and tape music by Nikolaienko.

"It’s an album where I’ve limited myself to using only two instruments – a metallophone and a four-track tape recorder. Explorations of the metallophone and tape sounds, deconstructed and reintegrated into tracks with cassette loops. This release is part of this year’s series, dedicated not to electronic but to electro-acoustic music with a focus on analog recording and production"
Taken from the Shape platform interview (March 2024)

Side A:
1. Meta VI 
2. Meta IV 
3. Meta V

Side B:
1. Meta III 
2. Meta II 
3. Meta VII 
4. Meta I

Recorded at Telemaja, Tallinn, Summer 2023
Composed, produced, metallophone, tape loops, artwork: Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Saxophone on A3 by Mykola Lebed
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Design by Day Night 
Typeface by KTF

Catalogue: Muscut 33C
Format: Cassette, C40, Digital
File under: ambient, experimental, acoustic
Release date: June 24, 2024

Meta VI

Nikolaienko - Meta VI

GRAPHICAL RECORDINGS and Muscut have teamed up to co-publish Nikolaienko's "The Sounds of Pseudoscience" (12", LP). Nikolaienko's upcoming full length is a playful and intriguing archive of sounds influenced by the works of electronic music pioneers and experimenters. The album acts as a tribute to early-electronics' golden era, playing out as a requiem, pondering the theme of nostalgia through warm analogue, space-aged sounds. For the artist, it’s an odd and ironically funny sound document, which he hopes declares some other way that electronic music can be today. Watch for it this June.

Catalogue: Muscut 3 / GRAPHICAL 003
Format: 12", LP
Edition: limited, 300
Release date: June 2015

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Tracklist:
A1 Curious Casus
A2 Under The Integral
A3 Saturday On Saturn
A4 Weird Signal
A5 Solo For A
B1 Wir Bauen Eine Neue Welt
B2 Matter Meets Antimatter
B3 Time Safari
B4 Physics At Half-Past Nine
B5 Gusev Effect

The Sounds Of Pseudoscience Organised By Nikolaienko (12", 2015) Excerpts

Taken from the album Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye (Muscut, 2025)

Love-Fidelity

http://thisispaper.com/mix-016-muscut-plays-records/

Artemiev & Bogdanov - Summer Canon
Patrick Cowley - Cats Eye
KWJAZ - Untitled
Unknown Artist - Skolko Lits U Diskoteki OST (edit)
Sven Grünberg - Nimetu
Leon Lowman - Open
Papiro - In Viaggio Con Te
Marc Chantereau & Pierre-Alan Dahan - Quartz System
Harald Grosskopf - So Weit, So Gut
Cluster - Oh Odessa
Harmonia & Eno '76 - When Shade Was Born
Cecil Leuter - Pop Electronique №2
Piero Umiliani - Momento Ritmico
Patrice Sciortino - Exercices Avec Massues №9
Broadcast & The Focus Group - How Do You Get Along Sir?
Sun Araw - Crown Shell
Nino Nardini & Roger Roger - Jungle Mistery
Tarzana - Private Scarab Reserve Club
Jean-Pierre Mirouze - Karin On The Ryke
Gato Barbieri - Why Did She Choose You
Indirect & Nikolaienko - Miracle (almost final mix)
Kollezhskiy Asessor - Shine
Gray - Drum Mode
Savant - Stationary Dance
Bernard Bonnier - I Can't Sing
Broadcast & The Focus Group - To Be Colony, Dashing Home, What On Earth Took You?
Stereolab - Les Yper-Sound

Thisispaper mix 016: Muscut Plays Records

Catalogue: Muscut 6 
Format: 12", LP 
Edition: limited, 300 

Odesan kraut band Indirect teamed up with Nikolaienko's tape loops from Kyiv to play homage to french library music and Soviet soundtracks.

Tracklist 
A1 Afternoon On Leski 6:34 
A2 Miracle (feat. Bryozone) 4:19 
A3 Everybody Wants To Live By The Sea 5:19 
A4 Arcus Formula (Circles) 2:44 
A5 Assez D'eau! 3:13 
B1 Calming Waves 2:36 
B2 Red Tent 5:20 
B3 Blink 5:54 
B4 Crimea 5:21 
B5 Dazed Night (feat. Mads Emil Nielsen) 2:10 

Video 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohlukPf2Ye8

Credits
Gennadiy Boychenko: comp., programming, keyboards, organs, synths, electric guitar 
Anton Ostrometsky: comp., drums (A1—A3, B2—B4) 
Emil Asadov: bass guitar (A2, B3) 
Alexey Volusunov: comp., electric guitar (A1—A5, B1, B5), saxophone (A2) 
Ganna Brizhata: vocalese (A2, B2) 
Dmytro Nikolaienko: comp., programming, synths, tape loops and manipulations, sound effects, percussions 

Recorded in Odesa and Kyiv 
Additional mix and mastering by Kassian Troyer in Berlin 
Produced by Dmytro Nikolaienko and Gennadiy Boychenko 

Artwork: 
Mosaic work "Blink" (2011) by Anatoly Gankevich 
Photo collage, graphic design by Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Background photo by Natasha Masharova

Ode To The Sea

Indirect Meets Nikolaienko: Ode To The Sea (12", Nov 2016) Excerpts

Indirect Meets Nikolaienko - Blink

Papiro (@marcopapiro)
Automare
12" LP (Muscut 7)
Release date: TBA 2017
http://muscut.org/Papiro-Automare

A 
Rhenus Rebus

B
Automare 
Polmonella*  
Incom  
Latana Supurea

Performed by Marco Papiro with* 
Anthony Glass: Casio vibes 
Markus Stähli: Q-Chord 
Mastered by Alex Buess

From the city that brought you LSD comes a new album by Marco Papiro, a Swiss-Italian musician and graphic designer who has gained some notoriety with his album covers for the likes of Panda Bear and Sun Araw. "Automare" is Papiro's seventh solo album, recorded on 4-track cassette, on hard-disk, in public and in private, entirely self-produced and now released on Nikolaienko's Muscut label.

The five hauntingly evocative tracks offer a variety of atmospheres from surreal to arcane, from celestial to subaqueous. Synthetic sounds (some mature EMS, Moog and Roland) are combined with other assorted instruments (organ, shehnai, electric guitar and bass,) and emulsified through various time-and-space-bending devices. There are no percussions, with one surprisingly groovy exception, in which a drum machine is being generously treated with phaser and envelope filters – think of early Cabaret Voltaire with a North Saharan touch.

Papiro's handcrafted artificial vocals are anything but human, but all the more compelling: out of the fluorescent Plankton of the side-long opening track "Rhenus Rebus" rises a siren's voice, reminiscent of Alide Maria Salvetta in Battiato's "Campane", joined in a final mantra by an oboe borrowed from an inebriated Third Ear Band. Entering a chimeric karaoke bar, the title track "Automare" makes the album even more bizarre by introducing a distinctive pop feel. Back to the abstract world, the following "Polmonella" – a live recording with additional musicians Anthony Glass (aka Antenna Tony Monorail) and Markus Stähli (of Roy & the Devil's Motorcycle) – is a fevery exploration of cosmic territories in the manner of Harmonia, while the alien articulation of "Incom" sounds unlike anything else ever recorded.

Automare_2017_04_Masters01

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Papiro - Automare

Papiro (@marcopapiro)
Automare
12" LP (Muscut 7)
Release date: TBA 2017
muscut.org/Papiro-Automare

A 
Rhenus Rebus

B
Automare 
Polmonella* 
Incom 
Latana Supurea

Performed by Marco Papiro with* 
Anthony Glass: Casio vibes 
Markus Stähli: Q-Chord 
Mastered by Alex Buess

From the city that brought you LSD comes a new album by Marco Papiro, a Swiss-Italian musician and graphic designer who has gained some notoriety with his album covers for the likes of Panda Bear and Sun Araw. "Automare" is Papiro's seventh solo album, recorded on 4-track cassette, on hard-disk, in public and in private, entirely self-produced and now released on Nikolaienko's Muscut label.

The five hauntingly evocative tracks offer a variety of atmospheres from surreal to arcane, from celestial to subaqueous. Synthetic sounds (some mature EMS, Moog and Roland) are combined with other assorted instruments (organ, shehnai, electric guitar and bass,) and emulsified through various time-and-space-bending devices. There are no percussions, with one surprisingly groovy exception, in which a drum machine is being generously treated with phaser and envelope filters – think of early Cabaret Voltaire with a North Saharan touch.

Papiro's handcrafted artificial vocals are anything but human, but all the more compelling: out of the fluorescent Plankton of the side-long opening track "Rhenus Rebus" rises a siren's voice, reminiscent of Alide Maria Salvetta in Battiato's "Campane", joined in a final mantra by an oboe borrowed from an inebriated Third Ear Band. Entering a chimeric karaoke bar, the title track "Automare" makes the album even more bizarre by introducing a distinctive pop feel. Back to the abstract world, the following "Polmonella" – a live recording with additional musicians Anthony Glass (aka Antenna Tony Monorail) and Markus Stähli (of Roy & the Devil's Motorcycle) – is a fevery exploration of cosmic territories in the manner of Harmonia, while the alien articulation of "Incom" sounds unlike anything else ever recorded.

Papiro - Automare (12", 2017) Excerpts

"The eighth record of the Ukrainian label Muscut bursts into consciousness like a psychedelic van which is flying at all pairs, leaving behind a sultry cloud. Meet the Chillera - new girl-band from Odessa. Three young witches mixed together the berries of surf rock, dub-rhythms ripened on the southern soil and greens of funky ornaments. It sounds juicy, naturalistic, relaxed and, most importantly, fresh. Heady maiden trio plays bluntly, from the heart, unexpurgated spicy dub music without a single synthesizer, only a duo of bass and electric guitars in a company with percussion. The very title of the headline track - SCHAX, sounds simultaneously as a spell and as an order. SCHAX - and you bud something went to the Californian beach in the late 60's, SCHAX - and tailwind carried you by canoe to the harbor of Kawaiha in the first half of the 80's, SCHAX - and you dive into the sparkling Black Sea sand. The composition of the gang also stupefies the imagination: Ganna Brizhata, known of her solo project Bryozone and collabs with Vakula and Indirect, Polina Matskevich, working in the field of experimental electronics under the moniker p.m. And a real girl-vamp in the style of technopunk, Ira Lupu. Take care of your hearts, for they will be melted inevitably!" - Artem Ikra, Krossfingers.com

7" record coming this fall:

Chillera "SCHAX" 

Face A:
SCHAX

Face B:
Ostrova Bezi
Volna

Bass: Ganna Brizhata
Electric Guitar: Polina Matskevich
Drums: Ira Lupu

Illustration by Giorgi Gangalove
Graphic design by Lesha Mykhailov
Produced by Dmytro Nikolaienko & Sasha Tsapenko

Recorded at "Rehearsal Studio Slooh” (Odesa), "Labyrinths of Echo Studio” (Kyiv)
Mastering & cut by Kassian Troyer at “KTM" (Berlin)

Muscut 8, 2017
muscut.org

Chillera - SCHAX (7", 2017) Excerpts

⚠️Physical release only ⚠️

VA Test Pressing II
Muscut 10
12" LP
Release date: 10 Nov 2018

Ukrainian label Muscut celebrates its anniversary - Muscut X (10) Test Pressign II - is the tenth record in a row. The first release was published in 2012 on 7 inches and was called simply Test Pressing. Like six years ago, the current vinyl is a compilation of Muscut's “residents”, as well as  new friends of the label. Test Pressing II is 12 inches on which there are exactly ten tracks.
Both sides are significantly different in color of mood. Party A starts with dub-drone sketches of key figures of the Odessa underground - Wildstyle Crew and Bryozone. Then we hear the mantra-like  M2 - the work of the creative union of Nicola Ratti, Mads Emil Nielsen together with Nikolaenko. The Canadian sound-artist Mark Templeton continues the line of rhythmic textures crowned with unhurried percussion - it is in all senses of Soft Education at number four. The first part is completed by an exquisite curtsy from the Andrew Pekler label frequenter called Underwater Nocturne as a soundtrack for the perfect tea ceremony.
The second side confidently sets a completely different compilation rhythm from the very start - the tribal tribal dance from the Berlin project Native Instrument instantly introduces into a trance. It is followed by a warm, enveloping minimal synth track from the Ukrainian trio Nisantashi Primary School. The middle of the second side is decorated with the pensive house-ballad of St. Petersburg producer Fadeev known as AEM Rhythm Cascade. Another Russian settled next to him - Muscovite Oleg Buyanov, aka OL, with a massive broken dub Nutmeg. The final composition consists of burning afrosint motifs from luminary Odessan Vakula.

Tracklist:

A1 Wildstyle Crew - Intro (edit)
A2 Bryozone - Juicy Quiddity
A3 Ratti Nielsen Nikolaienko - M2
A4 Mark Templeton - Soft Education
A5 Andrew Pekler - Underwater Nocturne

B1 Native Instrument - Thud
B2 Nisantashi Primary School - Flaneur 
B3 AEM Rhythm Cascade - Biruza
B4 OL - Nutmeg
B5 Vakula - Afromadness

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Graphic design by Jugoceania

VA Test Pressing II, Muscut 10 (12'', 2018)

OL (aka @olegbuyanov)
Saigon Special Room
7", Muscut 11
Release date: 15.03.2019

On a hot summer day, you enter the main hall of a well-known local Vietnamese restaurant. The noise of the visitors' voices merges with the national music playing in the background. All seats are occupied in the hall and the polite staff takes you to a separate room where the atmosphere of calm and comfort prevails. Beautiful interior, cool air and soft light conducive to relaxation. Exotic dishes and drinks allow you to fully enjoy the authenticity. Far away in the distance voices from the main hall are now barely audible, you are in anticipation of a great evening.

Tracklist:
A Saigon Special Room
B1 Band Krait 
B2 Wrap Critics

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Illustration by Anna Makarchuk

OL - Saigon Special Room (7", 2019) Excerpts

Chillera
Pro Fun
10" (45rpm), Muscut 14
Release date: 24.08.2019

Tracklist:
A - Koblevska A.R.
B1 - Pro Fun
B2 - Spielc

Bass: Ganna Brizhata (@gannabryzhata)
Electric Guitar: Polina Matskevich (@mlinpatz)
Drums: Anastasiia Marykutsa
Photo by: Christina Chigrinova
Stamp: Vitia Prohorov
Mastered by: Flaty (@producedbyflaty)
Sound engineer and producer: Dmytro @Nikolaienko (Labyrinth Of Echoes Studio)
Recorded in Odesa at Studio Slooh by Igor Neduzhiy and Sasha Tsapenko

Chillera - Pro Fun (10", 2019) Excerpts

@Nikolaienko Meets Arthur Mine: Nostalgia Por Mesozóica
Format: 7", limited to 100
Release date: March 6th 2020


After four years of silence that have elapsed since the release of “Ode To The Sea” LP back in 2016, Muscut is bringing out Nikolaienko’s next collaboration, a duo with Arthur Mine, a Kyiv-based keyboard maestro and an ex-member of the ‘Blacklazer’ band. 

“Nostalgia Por Mesozóica” is an exploration of "experimental exotica" consisted of synthesized tropical attributes — an artificial landscape isolated behind the glass frame. Reminiscent of recording techniques and sonorities ubiquitous in the 60’s and 70’s, it could conceivably have been intended as a soundtrack for the Mesozoic Era exhibition at your favorite Natural History museum.


Face A
A1 Troglodytes

Face B
B1 The Ancient Musical Complex Of Mammoth Bones
B2 Muzak For Mesozoic Showreel


Limited to 1OO copies.
Includes hand-numbered and stamped postcard.

Arthur Mine: Arp Odyssey (track A), Venta synth-organ (track B2)
Nikolaienko: modular synth percussion, tape manipulations, processing, effects.

Composed by Nikolaienko and Arthur Mine and recorded at Labyrint Of Echoes Studio in Kyiv during 2017—2019.

Mastering by Flaty (@producedbyflaty)
Photos by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Muscut 16, 2020

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica by Nikolaienko Meets Arthur Mine (7", 2020) Excerpts

@Nikolaienko - Blue Soup №2, 2010
Format: 7"
Release date: TBA

The first time on vinyl reissue of Nikolaienko's four tracks from his debut album "Loops & Cuts Soup" originally releases as digital download on Nexsound records in 2010.
Restored from the single copy dubplate record (digital files survived through time only as mp3)

Tracklist:
A1 Cut Up
A2 Blue Soup №2
B1 Singing Loop
B2 Loop Up

Credits:
Drums - Oleg Books
Bass - Anton Coky
Remastered by @producedbyflaty

Nikolaienko - Blue Soup №2, 2010 (7" Reissue) Excerpts

Martin Jõela (@froteerecords) B2B Nikolaienko (Muscut)
Melodia Label Favourites mix recorded At Biit Me Record store, Tallinn on 6.03.2020 - Muscut 8 Years party.

Martin Jõela B2B Nikolaienko - Мелодия (Melodia Favourites Muscut 8 Years At Biit Me 6.03.2020)

Pavel Milyakov (@buttechno) — “Odessia”
Format: 12” LP, limited to 200, numbered
Catalogue number: Muscut 18
Release date: November 13, 2020

After four years since his debut 7-inches "Neumond" (2016) Pavel Milyakov is back with new 12" LP "Odessia" — hauntological research dedicated to Ukrainian Odesa city.

Tracklist:
A1 Odessian dub, 10:28
A2 Odessian deep, 5:32
B1 Wave dance, 4:18
B2 Odessian night sea, 9:24

Composed, recorded and mastered by Pavel Milyakov
Lettering by Pavel Milyakov
Cover artwork by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Composition sketch, 1907)

Odessia

Pavel Milyakov — “Odessia” (12" LP, 2020) Excerpts

V/A Test Pressing III
Catalogue number: Muscut 20
Format: 12” LP, 300 copies, numbered, hand-stamped / Digital
Release date: December 11, 2020

Tracklist:
A1. G.E.S. - hipinterval 1&2
A2. Andrew Pekler - Early Bird (Loose)
A3. Hanno Leichtmann - offest 23
A4. S A D - Akpai Song
A5. Nikolaienko - Jazz Tape
B1. Koyil - Vāɡ
B2. Mårble - LESBEE (Shaggy Bumblebee)
B3. KWJAZ - Passing Saints
B4. uon duh - Under
B5. Ahnnu - Wandering

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

In 2012 Muscut records debuted with a compilation called Test Pressing. The idea behind the title was to “test” audience with a new label. To test and analyse the reaction and then decide what to do next - either continue releasing records or not.

So this is the year 2020 and Muscut celebrates its twentieth release in a row with it’s third “Test Pressing” compilation which includes label’s residents, guests and beloved "similar artists" such as G.E.S. (aka Jan Jelinek, Faitiche @user-749010250), Andrew Pekler @pekler (Faitiche, @kranky), Hanno Leichtmann @hannoleichtmann (@dekorder, @entracte), S A D @5ad5ad5ad (@udacha), Nikolaienko @nikolaienko(Muscut), Koyil @koyil (@digrecs), Mårble @m-rble (@naturalselectionsrecords), KWJAZ @kaywjazz (@not-not-fun-1), uon duh (Muscut) and Ahnnu @ahnnu (@leavingrecords)

Test Pressing III

V/A Test Pressing III (Muscut XX, 12", 2020) Excerpts

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Est. 2012
Muscút (Ukr. Мускáт) — etymologically is a syllabic abbreviation of two words: Music and Cutting. 

"Muscut releases mostly new music, while its sublabel Shukai tends to concentrate on archival releases, but without looking at the logo stamped on the sleeve, you’d often be hard pressed to know which category a given release belongs to" - Philip Sherburne

Founder: @nikolaienko
Sub-label: Shukai (@shukai-reel)
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