Releases

The long awaited split release from electro ninjas Cyan85 and Greenwald. Six fat tracks that will launch any dance floor to the space.

Cassette & Digital

Written and produced by Cyan85, Greenwald 
Mastered for digital by Anunak 
Mastered for tape by Aleksey Letko at Rollex records 
Manufactured at Go Tape 
Artwork by Irina Dobromyslova 
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin 
Thanks to urwaxx crew

@cyan85 @greenwald32 @urwaxx

Buy: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/cyan85-greenwald-east-2-east

EAST 2 EAST

TSTFM005: CYAN85 / GREENWALD — EAST 2 EAST EP (sampler)

Участники группы Электрическая Собака составили компиляцию записей со своих лайв-выступлений. Год назад музыканты осознанно отказались от совместных репетиций, поэтому всё их взаимодействие происходит во время сетов. Именно оно задокументировано в миксе – электроакустические завихрения, рассыпающиеся и тонущие ритмы, щекотание ушей электронным звуком.


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The Elektricheskaya Sobaka band members have compiled recordings from their live performances. A year ago, the musicians deliberately refused to rehearse together, so all their interaction takes place during live sets. It was documented in the mix – electroacoustic swirls, crumbling and sinking rhythms, tickling the ears with electronic sound.

023 – Elektricheskaya Sobaka

46th Gost Zvuk episode on NTS w/ Roma Zuckerman @roma-zuckerman

SOUL PASSPORT
SEISMIC ACTIVITY
SPACE X STAGE 2 PART 1
SOVIET JOURNALIST
SOMNUS M
SOVIET JOURNALIST(CREATOR VERSION)

All tracks are mixed and produced by Roma Zuckerman.

GOST ZVUK x NTS monthly show #46 w/ Roma Zuckerman

With the belief that the underground music scene should always be a place of safety, mutual support, peace and equality, artists from the Russian underground music scene have united to raise attention and money for those who have suffered from military actions in Ukraine.
We think that everyone has to be heard, and the modern Russian youth has a lot of things to say. We’re glad that despite unprecedented pressure, they decided to come together and speak out to support those whose lives are in danger.

With the support of @malcolmaudio, London based DJ and Global Warming Records founder, and curation of @yssue, previously Moscow-based producer and member of Russian collective Esthetic Joys; this release brings together 22 artists, bands, producers and graphic designers with a broad genre palette and from all over the country.

100% of the sales will be sent directly to War Child’s emergency aid in Ukraine. War Child’s actions are: Supporting refugees in accommodation centers; Providing life-saving emergency psychosocial support and vital protection to vulnerable refugee children; Working with anti-trafficking organizations to prevent refugees from falling into the hands of traffickers; Ensure safeguarding of highly vulnerable children such as those with disabilities; and much more.

НЕТ МОЛЧАНИЮ (No Silence) - Russian Music for Peace 

Support ✌️🕊️

Koyil - Myrrh

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Hit & Run w/ Zaletny @ TESTFM — 14/08/2022

For Oleg Azelitskiy, known as DJ Slon, the nineties and the first half of the aughts were an era of “firsts”. First squat parties on the banks of the Obvodny Canal and more legitimate ones at Tunnel, first proper techno club in Russia. First DJ sets, first vinyl records in his collection, first radio shows at Port FM. He is a true veteran of the Russian techno movement, who carried his love for the genre through three decades and inspired more than one generation of musicians. Album №1 is the first edition of his music on vinyl. It comprises the music that Azelitskiy made during 1995 – 2005, except for the track My 40th Vesna, produced in 2010.

Azelitskiy’s love for techno was born out of contradictions. Thanks to the Soviet synth band Zodiac and the French pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, he had loved electronic music since his childhood. When he grew up, he got into the dark, introspective pieces by Einstürzende Neubauten and Bauhaus. Not only does the wide-ranging palette on Album №1 reflect its creator’s taste, it echoes the changing times of the Russian nineties. It was the time when confrontations with criminals were inseparable from the parties and get-togethers bustling with local artists.

His affection for various genres led to many monikers and projects, all represented here on Album №1. He recorded most of his music as DJ Slon. Then there was a project Zhutkiy Lazer (Scary Laser), where Azelitskiy made music that was more experimental but still techno-oriented, with the occasional help of his friend Aleksey Gaponenko (Lazer became a proper solo project of DJ Slon in 1999). There are also tracks under the aliases Mass Fatality, which combined techno and synth-pop, and Razrushiteli Mozgovych Uliev (Brain Hive’ Destroyers), with its more direct tight techno tracks.

The music of DJ Slon sounds fresher and more alive on Album №1 than ever before. Noticeably, this record, first and foremost, is dance music. As a voice on one of the album tracks boldly states, we came to dance.

GAR004: DJ Slon и Жуткий Лазер "Album №1"


Side 1
A1: Jenny (6:27)
A2: Dance In The Shadow (6:15)
A3: Bassline On Rimsky-Korsakov (4:03)

Side 2
B1: We Came To Dance (3:42)
B2: Vesna (3:24)
B3: Disturbance (4:28)
B4: Palahuni (5:17)

Side 3
C1: Pop (5:29)
C2: My 40th Vesna (5:36)
C3: Lunatic (5:09)

Side 4
D1: RMU 02 (7:49)
D2: Z80 (4:12)

Music – O. Azelitskiy
Tracks "Jenny" and "Z80" were recorded together with A. Gaponenko
Mastering – Flaty
Text – A. Makarskiy
Executive Producer – I. Zaynetdinov
Photo from the personal archive of O. Azelitskiy

© «ГОСТ АРХИВ», Moscow, Russia, 2022

GAR004: DJ Slon и Жуткий Лазер "Album №1"

Kiosk Radio is an online community radio streaming 24/7 from a wooden shack in the heart of Brussels’ historic “Parc Royal”. More info and music: https://kioskradio.com

Roma Nemov @ Kiosk Radio 12.10.2022

A short-lived avantgarde band from 1991. 

Artist: Елена Эфемерная
Title: "Selected"
Label: TESTFM
Release date: September 2022 (original produced in 1990 — 1991)
Format: digital
Buy: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/elena-efemernaya-selected
Remastered by Alexey Letko

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Группа Елена Эфемерная — это экспериментальный проект рождённый в стенах Московского Института Тонких Химических Технологий (МИТХТ) и просуществовавщий с 1990 по 1991 год. В группу входили Дмитрий Малкин, Илья Киселев и Виктория Качур. Познакомил участников и придумал название Олег Говядовский. К слову, пленку со всем материалом мы получили от него. Вся музыка записывалась в общежитии МИТХТ при помощи двух микшеров и бобинного магнитофона. 

Записав первый альбом, ребята послали его в журнал «Аврора». На письмо ответил Пётр Сытенков и пригласил ребят в гости. Вскоре в журнале появилась рецензия. Приводим ее ниже: 

«Внимание, любители крутого авангарда! Сегодня на наших страницах представляем первый альбом трио альтернативной музыки "ЕЭ", вынесенный на суд широких меломанских масс. Поклонники Кейджа и Штокхаузена, смело экспериментируют с саундом и музыкальными формами, выдавливая из своих синтезаторов безумные и нечеловеческие звуки. И в то же время их эксперименты не приобретают ту запредельность, которая порой лишает произведения мэтров какой-либо возможности для понимания. Вне всякого сомнения - это музыка для немногих, но тем не менее она имеет полное право на существование. Она расширяет горизонты музыкальных представлений, заставляет по-иному взглянуть на тенденцию развития современного рок-н-ролла». 

В этот релиз вошли некоторые треки из альбома «Воспитание» и наиболее интересные фрагменты из неизданных пленок. 

~~~

PREMIERE: Elena Efemernaya (Елена Эфемерная) — Golos (Голос) (TESTFM, 2022)

A short-lived band from 1991. 

Группа Елена Эфемерная — это экспериментальный проект рождённый в стенах Московского Института Тонких Химических Технологий (МИТХТ) и просуществовавщий с 1990 по 1991 год. В группу входили Дмитрий Малкин, Илья Киселев и Виктория Качур. Познакомил участников и придумал название Олег Говядовский. К слову, пленку со всем материалом мы получили от него. Вся музыка записывалась в общежитии МИТХТ при помощи двух микшеров и бобинного магнитофона. 

Записав первый альбом, ребята послали его в журнал «Аврора». На письмо ответил Пётр Сытенков и пригласил ребят в гости. Вскоре в журнале появилась рецензия. Приводим ее ниже: 

«Внимание, любители крутого авангарда! Сегодня на наших страницах представляем первый альбом трио альтернативной музыки "ЕЭ", вынесенный на суд широких меломанских масс. Поклонники Кейджа и Штокхаузена, смело экспериментируют с саундом и музыкальными формами, выдавливая из своих синтезаторов безумные и нечеловеческие звуки. И в то же время их эксперименты не приобретают ту запредельность, которая порой лишает произведения мэтров какой-либо возможности для понимания. Вне всякого сомнения - это музыка для немногих, но тем не менее она имеет полное право на существование. Она расширяет горизонты музыкальных представлений, заставляет по-иному взглянуть на тенденцию развития современного рок-н-ролла». 

В этот релиз вошли некоторые треки из альбома «Воспитание» и наиболее интересные фрагменты из неизданных пленок. 

Buy: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/elena-efemernaya-selected

Buy via Bandcamp

TSTFM009: Elena Efemernaya — Selected (1990—91)(excerpts)

[Please scroll down for English version & tracklist]

Автор о подкасте:

«Я составил этот микс из своих самых любимых треков, которые сопровождали меня в последнее время — те аудионаркотики, которые я употреблял весь последний год. Я хочу ими поделиться for free, for fun! Музыки набралось аж на два часа — зато какой! 

Эти треки я включал и мечтаю включить всем своим друзьям, и вот благодаря подкастам Fields у меня это получилось. За последнее время я понял, что очень люблю российскую музыку, несмотря ни на что! За её самобытность, невероятное чувство юмора, сердечность, сложность и простоту одновременно. 

В микс попали композиции самых разных жанров. Первый час изобилует угаром — тут вам аутсайдерская репчина, девиантный поп, кислотный рок, индустриальное громыхание и наэлектризованный фри-джаз. Второй час наполнен красотой и нежностью — вы услышите дип-фьюжн от Слава Трио, гениальный лоуфайный хаус от Максима Елизарова, перегруженный басами этнойз от ташкентского музыканта Psy-Factor, пландерфонику от Богом забытого проекта Gapon и гимн любви от Новых Композиторов. 

Большинство треков не ещё не выпускались публично — что-то выйдет в ближайшее время на ТОПОТе, что-то так и останется ждать своего времени на рабочем столе самих исполнителей. Желаю вам глубоко погружения и весёлого музыкального путешествия!»

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Author about the podcast:

«I compiled this mix of my favorite tracks that have been accompanying me lately – the audio drugs that I’ve been using for the whole year. And now I want to share them with you for free, for fun! Ultimately I scooped up 2 hours worth of music. Some incredible stuff here!

I have played these tracks to many friends of mine and I want the rest of them to hear these sounds in their turn, so I'm thankful to the Fields podcast for this opportunity. Recently I realized that I love Russian music very much, despite all the circumstances. I love it for its originality, incredible sense of humor, heartiness, its balance of complexity and simplicity.

This mix covers many different genres. The first hour is full of wild and crazy stuff: outsider rap, deviant pop, acid rock, industrial rumble and electrified free jazz. The second one is more about beauty and delicacy: you can hear deep fusion from Слава Трио, genial lo-fi house by Maxim Elizarov, overdrived with basses enthno-noise from Tashkent-based musician Psy-Factor, plunderphonics from the Godforsaken artist Gapon and a love theme from New Composers.

Most of the tracks haven’t been released publicly yet – some of them will be released on ТОПОТ in the near future, while others will have to marinade, biding their time on the computers of their respective authors. I wish you a deep dive and a fun musical journey!»

 Tracklist:
1. Finno-Ugric Shaman Orchestra UMPU — The Another Udmurt
2. Calabi-Yau — Horovod
3. Igor Maximilian — Greeting
4. ZGA — Downcast Miserable
5. ZGA — Icefloating
6. ZGA — Time To Change The Climate
7. Ривущие Струны — АС Пушкин
8. ВЕЧНЫЙ ОГОНЬ — mysoncannotbekira
9. ВЕЧНЫЙ ОГОНЬ — emo
10. sweetteenkilla — мультика (prod. by sahaa)
11. Рафаэль Кусто & DrTikov & 15`Sutok — Планчик-тёлочки
12. Ансамбль Бати — ???
13. Spoiling Of Property — Raag-S
14. レø-テi  ムIシ — Hihanki
15. レø-テi  ムIシ — Karate
16. Новые Композиторы — Вижу
17. Igor Maximilian — How Are You There
18. Spoiling Of Property — Let's Go To Bed
19. Matu Zaur — Жэпуэгъуэ
20. Spoiling Of Property — Granovskogo 35
21. Coalman — "?"
22. Coalman — Князь Хихикало
23. Slava Trio — 47to7
24. Air Krew — Нам Пора
25. cop_porn — friday 13
26. Psy-Factor — Ethnoise
27. DJ Pneumophonik feat. Vered Yeriho - Seascape
28. Gapon — Радиолето
29. Новые Композиторы — Люблю

Fields Podcast 022: Евгений Галочкин «Аудионаркотики»

(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)

AC05

«snatches of memory covered by a warm blanket of yesteryear 
we idealise the past and remember what we wish we could remember 
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones 
i know i'm just filthy water, impure, i'm trash 
you will never sorry me and that’s alright» 

scraps of memories from the sick summer of 2020 and many personal revelations mixed in with dub and analogue experiments by lutin

full release: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/lutin-gradual-change-of-pleasure

Written & produced by lutin (@losthelmet)
Mastering by Alexey Letko

released April 16, 2023

Bandcamp

TSTFM012: lutin "gradual change of pleasure" (excerpts)

1. Sa — Spiny / @levmas00
2. X.Y.R. — Lost Cities / @x-y-r
3. Ayan Joy — spa / @ayanjoy
4. qwqwqwqwa — emergency loop / @qwqwqwqwa
5. Denis Riabov — Macadami / @denisriabov
6. X.Y.R. — Despair / @x-y-r
7. Digital Je — Fio Digital / @user-451619367
8. Luch — Change (You Need That) 
9. Dear Stream, — a manerie de Focualt / @dearstream
10. Krayeved — Gatechoir / @krayeved
11. ft x Tsyo x Victoria Gorskaya — Jam#0 / @tsyo

A part of the earnings will go to charity. We can't name the fund because of some participated artists are still in Russia and that's really dangerous for their freedom.

Buy: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/various-artist-2

TSTFM013: Various Artists vol. 2 (excerpts)

The cassette "clay tablets" was produced by the resident of the radio Thelonious Bong, the author of the program "The Evening Bong", which some of you may remember thanks to the beautiful artworks and music.

The album includes 10 tracks collected around some metaphysical images in art — Andrey refers to the movies of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky and very clearly describes his feelings from the references as "longing for the immense and mysterious and a huge interest that grows into desire to speak out."

This desire, familiar to many people, was sublimated into atmospheric and cinematic music, recorded in a happy period, when the consciousness is pure, and creativity is given easily and naturally.

The title of the album refers to the era when people were just learning to write and sharing the most basic messages with each other through the simple drawings on clay — without losing the sense behind the form.  Simplicity and reality as it is is the world that the author of the release got into while writing the album, and the world that is easy to get into as a listener as well.

Recorded with Roland SP-404SX, Critter & Guitari Organelle, guitar and bass.  If you listen carefully, you will hear Vangelis and Eduard Artemyev are sitting by the fire and writing their new soundtrack to Stalker.

The release is available digital on Bandcamp TESTFM Records and on cassettes, which can be purchased via private messages: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/thelonious-bong-clay-tablets


Written and produced by Thelonious Bong
Mastered by Aleksey Letko at Rollex Records
Manufactured at Go Tape
Artwork by Vitalic Ten @herblstempls
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin

TSTFM002: THELONIOUS BONG "clay tablets" (excerpts)

"I have always loved the unfamiliar places. I was once in a desert, it made a deep impression on me. When I started my solo project and got down to the album, I decided to create a soundtrack about a lost oasis city called Zerzura. The legend goes that once upon a time a camel rider lost his camel in a desert and while searching for it, he got lost himself. Tall people with fair hair and blue eyes found him and brought him to an oasis city. A city as white as a dove, guarded by black giants, abound with unusual birds, plants and springs, a queen and a king. No one knows what had happened in between, only that the camel rider ran away stealing the royal’s ring. 
The lost city of Zerzura has never been found since." — Andra Ljos 

Tracklist:

1. black giants 
2. the key in the beak
3. the oasis of little birds
4. white as dove
5. sleeping king and queen 
6. elusive paradise (in palms with spring)

Written and produced by Andra Evseeva @andra-ljos
Mastered by Aleksey Letko at Rollex Records
Manufactured at Go Tape
Artwork by Oksana Svitova
Co-executive producer — Dmitry Zvezdin
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin


Will be released web and cassettes on December 18,  2020.  
Pre-order on Bandcamp is now: https://testfm.bandcamp.com/album/andra-ljos-the-oasis-of-little-birds

the oasis of little birds

TSTFM003: Andra Ljos "the oasis of little birds"  (excerpts)

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TSTFM009: Elena Efemernaya — Selected (1990—91)(excerpts)

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