In exploring 21st-century Russian culture since the Soviet Union's dissolution, one confronts a complex evolution marked by significant change and uncertainty. The period saw Russia grappling with defining itself amidst global influences, particularly from the West, which reshaped its cultural landscape.

From the 2000s onward, Russian culture increasingly leaned towards Westernization, influencing everything from fashion to entertainment and business practices. This mimicry, initially seen as a path to modernity, raised concerns about authenticity and identity loss, as Russia risked diluting its unique heritage.

Amidst this cultural assimilation, figures like Pasha Technique and Pasha Buttechno emerged as influential voices. Pasha Technique, celebrated for his lyrical prowess in rap and hip-hop, fused linguistic skill with social commentary, resonating deeply with a disillusioned generation. Meanwhile, Pasha Buttechno pushed boundaries in electronic music, blending techno with ambient and industrial sounds, asserting a Russian voice in a genre dominated by the West.

Despite differing styles, both embody authenticity and challenge societal norms, reflecting a broader cultural shift towards self-expression in Russia. Their journeys underscore the tension between global influence and local identity, shaping contemporary Russian cultural discourse.

Ultimately, figures like Technique and Buttechno serve as cultural touchstones, inspiring dialogue and redefining Russian cultural expression in a globalized world, illuminating pathways towards a nuanced understanding of Russia's place on the world stage.

*This project stands against Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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Premiere of the track "Liquid Dimension" by LostSoundBytes, @vastechoses Records creator, taken from his upcoming album "Parallel Intrusion" on Big Science Records.
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Artist: @lostsoundbytes
Track: "Liquid Dimension"
Album: "Parallel Intrusion"
Label: @bigscience
Format: Cassette + Digital
Release date: October 25, 2022
Pre-order: https://bigsciencerecords.bandcamp.com/album/parallel-intrusion

Written and produced by Lostsoundbytes
Mastering by Catriel Naife
Design by Warzou

Premiere: LostSoundBytes - Liquid Dimension [BGSC2208]

After three years of deep work, Stas Karpenkov's debut album is released on Gost Zvuk in the form of an abstract, free-form study. The album is saturated with the Black Sea breeze and the natural beauty of the peninsula, a land associated with the life of the author. It’s a musical representation of its surrounding reliefs, an ode to the cyclicity of the waves, and a journey through soundscapes. These manifestations of maritime romance also include the experience of co-producing with Terrence Dixon and Kuzma Palkin on a couple of tracks that play an important role in the idea of the record.

GOST019 Stas Karpenkov "EvpaTrans"

Side 1

A1: EvpaTrans+
A2: Reefs Flower
A3: ET+
A4: Background Data feat. @terrencedixon
A5: 1.1

Side 2

B1: SA-1-rp-5
B2: Telpher
B3: Jet Ski Max feat. Kuzma Palkin
B4: Last Wave
B5: New Keyboard

Music — Stas Karpenkov
Mastering — Flaty
Cover — Stas Karpenkov
Executive producer — Ildar Zaynetdinov

12" LP full-color sleeve.
March 24, 2023

© «ГОСТ ЗВУК»

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GOST019: Стас Карпенков "Евпатранс"

slowkoka

prikop

ne nado xnx

808 kolesa

aquadnb

rzotish

Somewhere between the ears and the eyes is a bridge of imaginary light. Somewhere in a dark room a bright cone of photons connects a slide projector to a wall. Dust motes drift like plankton in the glow. One thought overtakes another as the carousel clicks forward, shuffles; a new piece of celluloid drops into the projection slot, a new image illuminates the wall — visions of a recent past, filtered through what Mark Templeton calls the 'pink hue of mystery...' The ten compositions on Templeton's INNER LIGHT are reel-to-reel tape loop arrangements based on some 70s- and 80s-era meditation cassettes (found in a church library, with an archive of photographic slides which reappear in Templeton's supplementary photobook, A GUIDE TO INNER LIGHT).

Originally made to foster relaxation and well-being in a liturgical setting, the recordings now have a lysergic skew, as if heard underwater during the immersion of a baptism — a sonic lustration... An electric fan blows air onto an incandescent bulb hidden inside the machine. We hum along as the filament burns and we puzzle together a fantasy. We hear the inner light before we see it. The ears tell the eyes where to look, and the eyes look inward.”

- Mike Slack

Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist and the founder of Graphical, an audiovisual label dedicated to publishing his own musical and image based experiments. Mark’s audio compositions are constructed from reel-to-reel tape loops and sampled cassettes that are contrasted with contemporary sound techniques. In his published photobooks, he incorporates his own 35mm pictures and found images, focusing on intangible fantasies and realities. During his audiovisual performances, he utilizes digital instruments while projecting his own photographs, VHS footage, Super 8 film, and other sampled video.

Since 2007, he has released material on various international record labels and photobook publishers, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other artists.

Templeton has performed live and exhibited his work at art galleries, festivals and alternative spaces throughout North America, Europe, United Kingdom and China. 

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Written and produced by Mark Templeton 2020-2023
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Photographs found and edited by Mark Templeton
Essay by Mike Slack
Design by Joe Bastardo

Inner Light

Mark Templeton - Languages (ENXEVP03)

Stoic beat

AFTERWORLD

nezinu kāpēc

Exhausted Modern - Liberating Stimuli

As a small token of my massive appreciation for everyone who listened to, bought or otherwise supported my music in 2017 and in honour of all the kind accolades granted to the records by the @bleep_bot crew, here is a free download of a track I made especially for the mix I did for the Bleep store (PS I made it because I really wanted to include that Lanark Artefax track and it was literally impossible to mix it with anything else).

You can listen to that mix here, if you missed it:
https://soundcloud.com/bleep_bot/bleep-mix-brainwaltzera

Happy 2018!

duȸious d^v^y [only4bleep_mix]

A digital release on Superpang Label: https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/groups-articulations-of-the-real

The work derives from a study of the group theory and sonification model of physical objects interacting with each other according to various forces such as attraction, repulsion and gravity. In the context of music composition, the group theory was developed by Iannis Xenakis as a method organizing musical objects into so-called “sound complexes” (Xenakis prominently used the method in Nomos Alpha (1965) for solo cello). “Sound complexes” are highly structured musical objects which - alike Gestalten in perception theory - can be easily recognized from a perceptual point of view.

Fundamental for the emergence of ‘Groups: Articulations of the Real’ was a computer simulation of physical force fields. A force field is a mathematical expression describing the dependence of the energy of a system on the coordinates of its particles. It consists of an analytical form of the interatomic potential energy and a set of parameters entering into this form. The parameters are obtained by fitting to experimental data.

The iterative form of the composition moves from a global perspective of objects gradually attracting each other, oscillating, merging and colliding with its elastic boundaries, towards a close-up view of a rupture. In a way, the work attempts to articulate the real physical processes through computer-generated sound.

slowkoka

pasha buttechnique

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