Somatik Sound System, founded by Perforated Cerebral Party finds its origins in 2011. Somatik’s first tracks were recorded as cover versions in tribute to John Balance from "Coil" (2004) & Klaus Nomi (2006). 
The idea of this music genre was to make dark and slow techno that will resemble a funeral march. These two so-called requiems have begun bearing in the form of Somatik Techno that flourished some time after both of its founders had a near-death experience: one from a heart attack as a result of a lasting rave lifestyle, while the other spent a week in coma because of a tranquilizers overdose after a bad trip. As a result, Vovapcp & Tsaritsa Logiki aka PCP, the creators of Somatik Techno, had to slow down and their music automatically decelerated together with them. 
More and more artists started to find this music experiment appealing with its heavy and “rusty” groove, dark melodics and rasping bass lines. Being originated in Saint-Petersburg, Somatik Techno started gaining followers across the Russian Federation and in Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and Ireland.
                     
Shortly after the Perforated Cerebral Party and Hertzman met in 2012, the idea to craft a new music label that will reach more people with its idiosyncratic concept emerged. 
Hertzman is a co-founder and a boss of the Somatik Sounds. From the beginning, he along with more than 30 artists from abroad have been popularizing Somatik Techno. He is also one of the biggest adepts of this music genre, constantly producing solo-releases and establishing collaborations. In general, the achievements of the label this is one the merits of Hertzman’s efforts.
Slow and dark minimal ambient, analog electronic music impending to downtempo or psychedelic dub with IDM elements to name a few, but the significant and driving essence for every release of this kind are hypnotic 90 BPM, techno beat and heavy bass tones. The main goal conceptualized by Hertzman is to achieve the best composition’s significance in its semantic origin and qualitative arrangement. Consequently, less and less releases by outsider artists are considered as they have no key tones of Somatik style recognized in their music.      
The creation of the cover’s design is another important aspect in this system of musical magic. The similarity with the chemical elements of the Mendeleev’s periodic table is easily recognized in the production. Currently, the artwork’s design was transformed a little to showcase the deeper theme of the music with the label logo as a trademark accompanying the release. In the last several years, the design reflects people whose faces are hidden by the Somatik Sounds label logo, with the opposing image of each of them conveying a psychedelic meaning for each record.  
Stay tuned and follow our news, whilst fresh concentrate of Somatik Sounds will continue to stir its listeners no matter what.

THEODOR BASTARD is one of the most successful contemporary Russian music collectives. The band works between genres that can be defined as world music, ethnoronica, experimental and trip-hop. The trademark of the band is the unique voice of Yana Veva and unimprovable sound-producing by Fedor Svolotch.

Yana Veva has a rare vocal timbre and she uses a special vocal technique that refers to Arabic and Indian vocal tradition. Besides singing in THEODOR BASTARD Yana recorded an album with Stefan Hertrich (Shiva in Exile, Darkseed, Betray my secrets) “Nour” in which all vocals were sung by Yana.

To support the album THEODOR BASTARD went on tour around Russia, Belgium, Germany and visited several festivals in Europe and Russia. Live performance is the strongest aspect of THEODOR BASTARD (totally there’ve been more than 300 concerts in band’s history). There are six musicians in the band who use plenty of electronic devices and special acoustic instruments like various ethnic percussions, kazu, saz and others.

Apart of recording their albums, THEODOR BASTARD are always keeping in touch with musicians from other countries: collaboration with Martin Attkins from Pigface who released a track by THEODOR BASTARDat his label Invisible/Underground Inc.; with Peter Christopherson of Coil – the band recorded a version of “Love’s Secret Domain”; with Ethan Jordan, American saxophonist, playing live together in Brussel; and also THEODOR BASTARD was the support band for the Nine Inch Nails gig in St.Petersburg, August 2007.

In June 2011 the band successfully performed at the largest German festival WGT in Leipzig. The concert took place on one of the main stages of the festival, in Central Theater of Leipzig. Also, during the tour, the band gave solo concerts in Poland and Lithuania.

Recently, in November 2011 the release of “Remixed” on CD – the collection of remixes of THEODOR BASTARD’s songs – has taken place. Such artists from all over Europe as Neotropic, Animals on Wheels, Up,Bustle&Out (all three of them has signed on the label Ninja Tune), Scanner, State of Bengal, Geomatic, Flint Glass, and others took part in the work on the collection.

During all the fall and winter of 2011 THEODOR BASTARD are occupied with the recording of the new album which, as the musicians themselves admit, has become the most complicated and tedious in their career. The musicians had recorded the material in several studios at the same time. Many invited guests took part in the recording. On the album one can hear such instruments as udo, mbira, marimba, reco-reco, caxixi, ashiko, and spring drum. Fedor also used the instruments that he had invented and contrived with his own hand of improvised material such as coconuts, door springs, empty bottles, and plastic. The album will be the most lively and diverse in its contents in the entire history of the band. Also famous British band Fun-Da-Mental (in the collaboration with the Africans The Mighty Zulu Nation) and unique French singer Julien Jacob took part in the recording of the compositions for the album.

In February 2012 the main representatives of world music in Russia THEODOR BASTARD, after a break that lasted a year and a half, have returned on stage with the presentations of the new album “Oikoumene” in Russia and abroad. Conerts in Moscow and Saint Petersburg were sold out.

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