00:00 @cottonpills - landscape-012 
01:04 @cottonpills - landscape-arp2 
03:19 @41_30 - gate 13 
16:19 @ccntrr - passage of time 
20:17 @atoraye - kaleidoscope 
25:00 @celte_music - exospheric beetle

Space is a territory of unpredictable landscapes, in which it is unthinkable to find a person without external protection from the harsh natural conditions. The spacesuit separates the person from the dangerous environment, thereby ensuring their coexistence.
In the “Landscape” collection, Kappa and Kruzhok form a futuristic idea of a utilitarian spacesuit that allows one to be in the inner space of a person.

The “Landscape” collection coexists in three natural spaces - in the mountains, forest and sea. Each being a separate ecosystem, once again points us to the infinity of the world, to how individual phenomena are repeated in all its parts.
Kappa and Kruzhok go beyond conventional boundaries in an attempt to overcome space-time constraints.

released October 23, 2021

mixed and mastered with alexey litovchenko (false blusher)

144 rec. / cotton tapes / kruzhok

Landscape

Kruzhok x Kappa: Landscape (full album) // [KR002]

На этих кассетах с пожелтевшим пластиком записана музыка, сопровождавшая романтические переживания людей, родившихся в 80-х. Эта была записана в июле 2002 года  в Тбилиси.

«Тбилиси 30.07.2002»

(live version)

‘And where should we go’ — live-recorded album by Homeless dog, the psychedelic electro-acoustic duo consisting of a screech of saxophone and electric guitar, vocals, synthesizers and ethnic instruments, in which Vladimir Sidorov and Ilya Sheyman study various forms of absurdity and chaos, scream and freeze, uprooting everything that is dug into the depths of thoughts and feelings. 

The musicians of the duo speak about the album as follows: 

“The war has come, which we did not want, were afraid of, which we are fighting against and which we hate. Up to this day, it keeps us awake at night, haunts us on the way to school or work, guards nearby grocery stores and on the subway, seeps into people's faces and rots, infecting their internal organs. Others lose their homes and loved ones, migrating all over the world in search of space and safety and do not know where to go. 

We don't know where we should go either. This live recording is our hour-long story about the feeling of being lost and empty, when there is nothing you can grab onto and everything disappears: the former world that you loved and tried to protect, but could not save, because there are people vaster than you and more terrible” 

The release is already available on digital platforms, a little later in audio cassette format. 

Track list: 

1. jam number Zero (03:41) 
2. inquiry (2:02) 
3. hang on a sec, they are killing me (2:19) 
4. red-blue day obscurity (3:37) 
5. crawling home (6:14) 
6. bastards live (5:18) 
7. fever of a hundred (4:43) 
8. lullaby (3:57) 
9. improv (4:59) 
10. slug’s destiny (3:57) 
11. butterfly death (5:58) 
12. he will surely die (5:05) 
13. entertaining mathematics (3:01) 
14. we're still dancing (3:42) 

--- [rus] 

"И куда нам деваться" — live-альбом Бродячей собаки, психоделического электроакустического дуэта в составе скрежета саксофона и электрической гитары, вокала, синтезаторов и этнических инструментов. Участники проекта Владимир Сидоров и Илья Шейман изучают различные формы абсурда и хаоса, кричат и замирают, выкорчёвывают всё, что врыто в глубину мыслей и чувств. 

Авторы рассказывают о содержимом альбома так: 

“Наступила война, которую мы не хотели, боялись, против которой мы боремся и которую ненавидим. Она по сей день не даёт нам спать по ночам, преследует нас по пути на учёбу и работу, караулит у продуктовых магазинов и в метро, просачивается в лица людей и гниёт, заражая их внутренние органы. Другие теряют дома и близких, разлетаются по миру в поисках воздуха и безопасности и не знают куда им деться. 

Мы тоже не знаем куда нам деться. Этот лайв — наш часовой рассказ об ощущении потерянности и пустоты, когда не за что хвататься и все пропадает: тот прежний мир, который ты любил и оберегал, но не смог сохранить, потому что есть люди выше и страшнее”. 

Альбом складывался весной и летом 2022-го года, был записан живьём для TESTFM в сентябре. 
credits
released December 20, 2022 

Написано и исполнено: Владимир Сидоров и Илья Шейман 
Мастеринг: Сергей Подлужный 
Фото на обложке: pillside 
Дизайн кассеты: Ирина Добромыслова

Buy: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/-

TSTFM010: Бродячая Собака — И Куда Нам Деваться (live version)

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"

Part of the St. Petersburg underground for more than a decade now, @hoavi-music(Kirill Vasin) has released on labels around the world since debuting with Cyclones in 2013. With Phases, he joins the Gost Zvuk roster and builds on his previous ventures into ambient and dub inspired house with a six track mini-album that channels elements of his Phobia Airlines LP. The general atmosphere is built through industrial sound design, moving from quick-fire broken beat and woozy downtempo into rhythmic noise and abstract reductivism. The whole thing collides to form a sort of futurist, machinic statement that relies more on rhythm and percussive synth work than the balancing of melody, seeing the artist hone in further on physical modelling synthesis and computer-generated textures. This mission statement only adds to the inescapable sci-fi aura at work, with Hoavi providing a fresh take on the kind of zones explored by luminaries such as Best Available Technology, Vainqueur / Hallucinator and odd moments of The Flashbulb.

– Fergus Clark

GIN013: Hoavi "Phases"

A1: Phase 7
A2: Phase 10
A3: Phase 9 
B1: Phase 5
B2: Phase 2
B3: Phase 8

10" yellow vinyl, hand stamped. 

Produced by – Hoavi
Executive-Producer – Ildar Zaynetdinov
Mastered By – Flaty
Stamp design – Adel Saleh

GIN013: Hoavi "Phases"

Paita is a project of musician and sound producer Kolya Dolgov, currently living in Moscow.

In 2021 the album "What is not" was released, which became the starting point in the formation of the young artist's style and sound.
Experiments with dub and ambient, explorations of "raw" electronics and new-age, participation in punk bands as a bass-guitarist, moves, travelling, meetings and breakups, love and hate. The line of changes through which both the musician and his lyrical hero passes stretches to the new release "Southern Man".

"Southern Man" is an album-metamorphosis, it is a story or better to say a notebook, about the changes that a young guy goes through. Accustomed to seeing the emptiness of the horizon, he is met with monolithic granite structures, and instead of the great water of the sea, there is now a river winding subtly in channels. 'It's what's inside, but you can listen to it' says Пайта (Paita).

The album features collaborations with label residents FMSAO, Shoom Berez, X.Y.R. , NWIII, as well as guest artists 8luetic and Молох. Here you can hear gentle pop ambient, uncomplicated balearic house, juke and dub.

Artist: Paita / @user-251557634
Label: Fuselab / @fuselab
Pre-order/order: fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/--7

PREMIERE: Пайта — Надо вглядываться в даль (feat. FMSAO) (Fuselab, 2024)

Dj HeadSick @user-251557634 – это музыкант Коля Долгов, участник проектов Пайта и Проделки Больной Головы.

Его новый альбом New Life выйдет на Местности 2 августа в диджитал и на кассетах, а сейчас предлагаем послушать трек 
Kotenok po Imeni Gav на нашем Bandcamp
https://mestnost.bandcamp.com/album/new-life

DJ HeadSick — Kotenok Po Imeni Gav

Треклист:
Провинция - письмо
Вершинин - когда же Солнце
Белая земля - морская утка
Юлька (Московская запись 1992) - что тебе до нас
Оркестровая Яма - камень
Владимир Краснощеков - мне безразлично
Миссия:Антициклон - и стрела не летит
Небесная Канцелярия - танец вязальных спиц
Ясный-Svetly - за стеклом
Айрат Нарышкин - снегопад
Доктор - мухи замрите, тише...
Павел Фоуди - стал неугоден

Любимые Песни Новых Крепостных (Часть2)

Vladimir Kuzmin - Pristan Tvoey Nadezhdy (edit)

A6 — East

Stop War in Ukraine

mix "Sanatorium Druzhba", 2018

Кружок x Cotton Pills

Kruzhok Radio mix I >> Sanatorium "Дружба"

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PREMIERE: Пайта — Надо вглядываться в даль (feat. FMSAO) (Fuselab, 2024)

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