Мамонов И Алексей - Автобус МОА (Koyil Edit)

There is a fine line between day and night that seems visible on Fama87’s (@fama-87) debut cassette on Gost Zvuk, aptly named День, ночь (Day, Night). There is no difference between “daytime” and “nighttime” tracks. They are always somewhere in between. Fama87 is no stranger to the label family. He has frequently played at our parties, has collaborated with Flaty and Nocow as part of Wax Paper Cup and has done a few releases with Flaty alone (as Underwraps and FFAA). Both of them featured as guests on this tape. rforest seems like a dialogue between Flaty and Fama87, with a melancholic melody and a persistent beat. Nocow’s gentle voice enriches both Останься со Мной (Stay with Me) and Проснуться на Восходе (Awaken at Dawn).

Despite Fama87’s background in the world of instrumental hip-hop, it’s definitely not a beat tape. He just seamlessly glides back and forth between genres in a continuous stream. On the album you can feel the echoes of ambient, electro, house, hip-hop, R&B, IDM, field recordings and old film music. The hidden plot of the album reveals itself after a few listens. It’s all about the eternal cycle of time: day follows night and night follows day, and so on and so forth.

GZC005: Fama87 "Day, Night"

Side A
Airport Fog (2:47)
Chords Power Soul (3:06)
Stay With Me ft. @nocow (1:31)
Dub Gait (3:49)
rforest ft. @producedbyflaty (02:55)
Kak Son (4:23)
Tec Tes (4:05)

Side B
Raise On The Sun ft. Nocow (3:22)
Lirica (2:11)
Skazka (2:19)
Thank you (2:51)
Kalimba (1:53)
Itchi (1:57)
Chrome (3:39)
Den, Noch (1:04)
Ashes (3:25)

Music – Oleg Fomenko 
Mastering – Aleksei Nikitin
Word – Artem Makarskiy
Cover – "Kosogor" by N. Bisti, 1980
Executive Producer – Ildar Zaynetdinov

October 1st, 2021 
Lebyazhye, Russian Federation
© «ГОСТ ЗВУК»

GZC005: Фама87 "День, Ночь"

Son acido

@ranishe

Recorded at Enthusiast Moscow.

Tracklist: 
1. Nexda — Sixfiftyseven
2. Fingerptintz — Wet Job
3. Marc Barreca — Music Works For Industry
4. Maximum Joy — Silent street / Silent Dub 
5. M.Bryo — Show Me Your Hands
6. The Mainstream — Infrafni (infra) 
7. Shriekback — Feelers
8. The Good Missionaries — Call To Arms
9. Mu — Metal To Metal
10. Wat?Sanitär! — Except Me And My Monkey
11. Dead Sea Apes — The Map Is Not The Territory
12. Musique Mecanique — Good Ideas Must Not Fall In The Hands Of The Enemy
13. Electric Eels — Bunnies 
14. The Plastic People Of The Universe — Okolo Okna
15. Little Debbie — Shines
16. We Be Echo — I Dance In Circles

No Sound Wave #5: Ranishe Niyaak

Bryozone — Eye Of Delirious 
@gannabryzhata

“Eye Of Delirious” is a long-awaited debut Muscut's release of Chillera’s band bass player Ganna Bryzhata — an Odesa-based sound artist. An ambient LP is a smoothy-flow sub-nautical journey with the songs of Black sea sirens glowing under the moon.

Format: C40, cassette / Digital
Edition: 100, hand-numbered
File under: ambient, dub, experimental

Face A:
Smoothy Flow 
Sub Nautica 
Sequence One 
Glowing Sirens 
Ghost Tribe

Face B:
Ambiency 
Liminal Tribe
Eye Of Delirious 
Fateful Torment 
Ground Floor

Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko 
Artwork by Volodymyr Pavlov 
Graphic design by (DN) daynight.info 
Neu Medieval and Heymland typefaces by KTF 
Riso print by Hands on Press 
Muscut, 2023

Eye Of Delirious

Order

Bryozone - Smoothy Flow (Muscut 27), March 2023

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"

Track from "Spade" LP
Released Jan 2016
https://oblastrec.bandcamp.com/album/spade

Spade. 93

⚠️Physical release only ⚠️

VA Test Pressing II
Muscut 10
12" LP
Release date: 10 Nov 2018

Ukrainian label Muscut celebrates its anniversary - Muscut X (10) Test Pressign II - is the tenth record in a row. The first release was published in 2012 on 7 inches and was called simply Test Pressing. Like six years ago, the current vinyl is a compilation of Muscut's “residents”, as well as  new friends of the label. Test Pressing II is 12 inches on which there are exactly ten tracks.
Both sides are significantly different in color of mood. Party A starts with dub-drone sketches of key figures of the Odessa underground - Wildstyle Crew and Bryozone. Then we hear the mantra-like  M2 - the work of the creative union of Nicola Ratti, Mads Emil Nielsen together with Nikolaenko. The Canadian sound-artist Mark Templeton continues the line of rhythmic textures crowned with unhurried percussion - it is in all senses of Soft Education at number four. The first part is completed by an exquisite curtsy from the Andrew Pekler label frequenter called Underwater Nocturne as a soundtrack for the perfect tea ceremony.
The second side confidently sets a completely different compilation rhythm from the very start - the tribal tribal dance from the Berlin project Native Instrument instantly introduces into a trance. It is followed by a warm, enveloping minimal synth track from the Ukrainian trio Nisantashi Primary School. The middle of the second side is decorated with the pensive house-ballad of St. Petersburg producer Fadeev known as AEM Rhythm Cascade. Another Russian settled next to him - Muscovite Oleg Buyanov, aka OL, with a massive broken dub Nutmeg. The final composition consists of burning afrosint motifs from luminary Odessan Vakula.

Tracklist:

A1 Wildstyle Crew - Intro (edit)
A2 Bryozone - Juicy Quiddity
A3 Ratti Nielsen Nikolaienko - M2
A4 Mark Templeton - Soft Education
A5 Andrew Pekler - Underwater Nocturne

B1 Native Instrument - Thud
B2 Nisantashi Primary School - Flaneur 
B3 AEM Rhythm Cascade - Biruza
B4 OL - Nutmeg
B5 Vakula - Afromadness

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Graphic design by Jugoceania

VA Test Pressing II, Muscut 10 (12'', 2018)

Trimitas

Asyncro founder and Serwed member OL returns to Gost Zvuk with a gorgeous piece of stripped-back dubtronica.

'SORM' is out May 8th on Gost Zvuk.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2W5GYfQ

@moneyisagas
@gost-zvuk-records

Premiere: OL – Skepsys [Gost Zvuk]

From the V/A Test Pressing III
https://soundcloud.com/muscut/va-test-pressing-iii-muscut-xx-12-2020-excerpts
Format: 12” LP, 300 copies, numbered, hand-stamped / Digital
Release date: December 11, 2020

Tracklist:
A1. G.E.S. - hipinterval 1&2
A2. Andrew Pekler - Early Bird (Loose)
A3. Hanno Leichtmann - offest 23
A4. S A D - Akpai Song
A5. Nikolaienko - Jazz Tape
B1. Koyil - Vāɡ
B2. Mårble - LESBEE (Shaggy Bumblebee)
B3. KWJAZ - Passing Saints
B4. uon duh - Under
B5. Ahnnu - Wandering

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi

Jazz Tape

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@noodsradio 3-4pm BST every 2nd Friday of the month

Premiere: OL – Skepsys [Gost Zvuk]

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