The Chizhevsky Biotic Institute of Ecological Music welcomes us with its magnificent glass cases as the sun shines through them to illuminate the wide space inside. It’s decorated with various plants. Deciduous, coniferous, exotic—all of them have made themselves at home in the institute’s hall. A junior researcher we stumbled upon during the walk has assured us that the plants are in great shape. Along with the sun—the beacon of life—they are supported by the music researched at the institute by the composers Vladislav Dobrovolski and Vasiliy Stepanov.

Dobrovolski and Stepanov’s colleagues state that they are the leading specialists in biotic solar music—locally and worldwide. And the music itself is, first of all, a triumph of Russian science and thought. Long ques of researches, thirsting for knowledge of the extraordinary music that has healing properties and is able neglect the effects of time, would line up after the composers at numerous international exhibitions where they presented their findings.

Behold the fruit of Dobrovolski and Stepanov’s labour. These are their latest projects—the very recordings broadcasted continuously via the radio system in the corridors of the Biotic Institute of Ecological Music. Flowing into one another, they spread along the sun-scorched light spaces like a sonic carpet. Thanks to it, the institute’s staff don’t seem to experience any stress. The music, which primarily works with the body (“at a basic level,” as the composers note), paradoxically heals the soul.

GZC004: S A D "Children of The Sun"

Side A
Desert Wax (4:45)
Conkrelarods (4:18)
Lights of Pensero Volya (3:12)
Dust Form (4:23)
Crystal Lake (4:59)

Side B
Sneboro (4:42)
Mysterious Circulation of Sounds Over Time (4:39)
+ (2:58)
Tantra (5:20)
Enye's Mirages (3:54)

music – Vladislav Dobrovolski and Vasiliy Stepanov
mastering – Alexander Pustynsky
design – Ildar Zaynetdinov
executive producer – Ildar Zaynetdinov
photo – Ernest Yakovlev
words – Vladislav Dobrovolski and Oleg Sobolev

We express our gratitude to Johfra Museum for the permission to use the work "Lentemorgen" (1957) by Johfra in the album design.

© Stichting de Verbeelding
www.johfra.nl

March, 2021, Moscow, Russian Federation.
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GZC004: САД "Дети Солнца"

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

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wonder what the actual genre of this one is?

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Votkinsk-based producer Xan draws on the industrial backdrop of his hometown for the Russia-focused imprint, ABCD ('Any Body Can Dance').

'ABCD001' is out October 2nd.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2MVpuQz

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Premiere: Xan – A [ABCD]

Walking through the trees as the rain fell, he could hear little but for the tiny pitter patter of raindrops as they touched upon leaves and formed small puddles beneath his feet. It was cold out here in the wild, yet despite being lonely in the middle of nowhere he felt more at home than ever before. Perhaps he was made for the wild places, the wild spaces in the great beyond. He was looking for a mythical creature, a great beast. Blacksiris was his name and they told tall tales of his wicked trips in the murky mountains. 

OL is a producer on whom we have been keeping a close eye. With appearances on the likes of Muscut, FIT Sound and Motion Ward he is well versed in abstract electronics and has a distinctive 'out there' sound which offers as many questions as it does answers. His latest release is for gost zvuk, a label with which he is close.

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Loopdad is a cryptic young producer from Saratov and we couldn’t refuse his proposal to release a "loopdad tribute", as he’s moving to the next stage of his musical endeavour. He defines his genre as a "new school crib music". And what he’s trying to convey is a feeling of "dark jazz playing in the distance". To each his own, but obviously, there’s a touch of obscure, post-beat vibration, melted with spoken word and if you’re into new rap territories – "Dramadayz Navigator" is here for you.

GZD001 loopdad "Dramadayz Navigator"

1. pah still (05:14)
2. dreamydayz navigator (05:38)
3. goodrf (03:54)
4. imbadunot (05:45)
5. drama princess (05:50)
6. backtokali (05:57)
7. 22asf (06:27)
8. pahstill (tribute) (05:55)

music – loopdad
mastering – loopdad
cover – loopdad
executive producer – Ildar Zaynetdinov

Limited edition of 50 CDs.
December 04, 2020, Moscow, Russian Federation.
© «ГОСТ ЗВУК»

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GZD001: loopdad "Dramadayz Navigator"

Track from "Number One Record" mixtape.
Created from previously unreleased material, recorded in 2018-20. 
Released Dec 26, 2020 [CD + Digital]

https://olegbuyanov.bandcamp.com/album/number-one-record

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